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Originally Posted by TheDoc
I'm pretty sure 99% of the kids in my area, had no idea who in hell he was until after he offed himself.
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In my school, which was very average white America, they had reached the level of being a very big deal with a certain group of people but most people were just slightly aware of them. Also, the people in my school that were big time into them were generally the artsy weird kids (I was on the fringe of that group so I knew them pretty well) that the jocks made fun of regularly. It wasn't until after he killed himself that football players and stuff had heard of him as more than just an occasional name on MTV. Then they became obsessed by them. It is fair to say though that at the time he killed himself they were on the up anyway and probably would have broken through that barrier anyway but just not with as much as a sudden impact.
Oh and I agree that Pearl Jam was a better band but they were also pretty different bands that just happen to be around at the same time. The jocks and stuff loved Pearl Jam at the same time they artsy kids were into Nirvana.