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Originally Posted by Mike33
If Nirvana didn't exist to break Seattle onto the national stage, we may never have heard about the Smashing Pumpkins or Pearl Jam and their lead singers.
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It's hard for me to have perspective on the national level when talking about grunge because it was a local scene to me and I don't know who made the biggest noise outside of Seattle first but I'm pretty sure bands like Pearl Jam and Soundgarden would have become known even if Nirvana had never existed.
Green River is the band that deserves a lot of the credit for pioneering the Seattle scene, more than Mudhoney now that I think about it. When they broke up Stone and Jeff formed Mother Love Bone/Pearl Jam and Mark went on to form Mudhoney. Wonder what might have been if they had stayed together?