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Originally posted by garett
There were LOTS of groups from the grunge scene who had guitarists that new what they were doing.
Most of the guys in the grunge bands came directly out of the 80's hair metal groups .. so they could play.
Kim Thayle of Sound Garden, Jerri Cantrell of Alice In Chains, you already mentioned Stone Gossard (pearl jam).
Hell, Pearl Jam originally started out as Mother Love Bone who was basically trying to be the next big 80's "glam rock" band. They had a major deal and everything .. was about to record their first studio album when their lead singer OD'd and they regrouped with Eddie Vedder to start Pearl Jam.
And I like to argue that Cobain was a pretty decent guitarist himself. Nevermind wasn't exactly known for it's great licks, but as you pointed out yourself, their other albums had some decent chops on them.
Songs like Aero Zepplin, School, Serve The Servant, Radio Friendly Unit Shifter, Vs Chorus Vs etc. had some very decent riffs and solos in them.
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Garett, absolutely. The bands you mention (Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Alice In Chains, and Sound Garden) are virtually the only bands to come out of that "movement" worth listening to. What we hear on radio is suppose to be an extension of these bands but it's not, it's garbage. But Nirvana was a hard rock band and punk band, not a grunge band. Alice in Chains was a metal band, not a grunge band. Sound Garden was a hard rock band as was Pear Jam which was the best of them all as they could do hard and soft rock meticulously and beautifully. "Grunge" never meant anything to me then and doesn't today. It's a term used to describe bands that have nothing in common except for being around at the same time in music history.