Nirvana - Rock And Roll Hall of Fame (Legendado)

[Applause] [Music] [Music] the momentum and excitement at the time was so great because it was just like this new thing happening and no one could quite pinpoint it but we knew that we were a part of it there are some bands that are pretty good every night and then there are bands that can either be the greatest band in the world or a total [ __ ] train wreck and Nirvana was kind of one of those bands they're not MTV and there we were almost like the Beatles you know like Nirvana mania I was in pain too and that really adds to anger and our music really does kind of grateful for well trying to put too much meaning into my lyrics people would take it too literally they think we're being serious because no one sees the funny side of us so I decided to give really want both tell the mainstream and see there's one thing you have to remember about Nirvana nirvana didn't go to the mainstream the mainstream came in Nirvana and that was our big crisis and I want to change our style of music I want to do something different and I want to have enough guts to do that if it alienates people that's too bad [Music] good evening I'm Michael Stipe I'm here to induct nirvana [Applause] when an artist offers an idea a perspective it helps us all to see who we are it wakes us up and it pushes us forward towards our collective and individual potential it makes us each of us able to see who we are more clearly its progression and progressive movement it is the future staring us down in the present and saying come on let's get on with it here we are now I'm purposely using the word artist rather than musician because the band Nirvana were artists in every sense of the word it is the highest calling for an artist as well as the greatest possible privilege to capture a moment to find the zeitgeist to expose our struggles our aspirations our desires to embrace and define their time that is my definition of an artist Nirvana captured lightning in a bottle and now I will quote urban dictionary off the Internet into finding lightning in a bottle as capturing something powerful and elusive and then being able to hold it and show it to the world Kurt Cobain Krist Novoselic and Dave Grohl were nearby the potency and the power of their defining moment has become for us indelible like my band REM Nirvana came from a most unlikely place not a cultural city center like London San Francisco Los Angeles or even New York or Brooklyn but from Aberdeen Washington in the Pacific Northwest a largely blue-collar town just outside of Seattle Krist Novoselic said Nirvana came out of the American hardcore scene of the 1980s this was a true underground it was punk rock but the mini bands and musical styles were eclectic we were a product of a community of youth looking for a connection away from the mainstream Dave Grohl said we were dropouts making minimum wage listening to vinyl emulating our heroes in Makai Little Richard getting high sleeping in vans never expecting the world to notice solo artists almost have it easier than bands bands are not easy you find yourself in a group of people who rub each other the wrong way in exactly the right way and you have chemistry zeitgeist lightning in a bottle and a collective voice to help pinpoint a moment to understand what it is that we're going through Nirvana tapped into a voice that was yearning to be heard keep in mind the times this was the late 80s early 90s America the idea of a hopeful democratic country had been practically dismantled by iran-contra by AIDS by the Reagan Bush Senior administrations but with their music their attitude their voice nirvana blasted through all that with crystalline nuclear rage and fury Nirvana were kicking against the system bringing complete disdain for the music industry and their definition of corporate mainstream America to show a sweet and beautiful but fed-up fury coupled with howling vulnerability lyrically exposing our frailty our frustrations our shortcomings singing of retreat and acceptance our triumphs of an outsider community with such immense possibility sigh meet or ignored but not held down or held back by the stupidity and political pettiness of the times they spoke truth and a lot of people listened they picked up the mantle in that particular battle but they were singular and loud and melodic and deeply original and that voice that voice Kurt we miss you I miss you Nirvana defined a moment a movement for outsiders for the [ __ ] and the fat girls and the broken toys and the shy nerds and the goth kids from Tennessee and Kentucky for the rockers and the awkward and the fed up and the two smart kids and the bullied we were a community a generation in Nirvana's case several generations and the echo chamber of that collective how an Allen Ginsberg would have been very proud here that moment and that voice reverberating into music and film into politics into worldview and so many fields in so many ways and in our lives and this is not just pop music this is something much greater than that these are a few artists who rubbed each other the wrong way in exactly the right way at the right time nirvana it is my honor to call to the stage Krist Novoselic and Dave Grohl [Applause] you thank you very much I was the quiet one in nirvana I was the drummer but most of you don't know that I was the fifth drummer of Nirvana for whatever reason I got to be the luckiest person in the world and also be in Nirvana but I have to give credit to all of the other drummers that came before me Aaron Burkhardt thank you very much Dale Grover from The Melvins who is my absolute drumming hero Dan Peters from Mudhoney Chad Shannon who is the drummer of Nirvana guess what Chad's responsible for if you listen to a song like in bloom the ban ant-man cuckoo cuckoo that's Chad we came from this underground punk rock scene where there really were no Awards or ceremonies or trophies it was all about doing it for real and the reward was doing it right and sharing the community of music helping other musicians and inspiring people and so I got really lucky to grow up in the Washington DC punk rock scene where I was inspired by all of these amazing people too many to list I'm also lucky that when we first started out we didn't know anything about business we were in a [ __ ] van you know buying corn dogs from t-shirts that we had sold and we were lucky that we met a manager named John Silva and we met a accountant named Lee Johnson and I'm happy to say that I've never ever strayed from those two people in my life that's like 25 years John Cutcliffe and michal mazel and i mean it's a long list of people that I'm gonna forget most of them but most of all I have to thank my family because I was lucky enough to grow up in a musical family in an environment that encouraged music parents that never told me not to listen to [ __ ] Slayer you know what I mean I listened to some really really [ __ ] up [ __ ] but my parents never told me not to because I was finding myself so mom thanks thanks for letting me drop out of high school kids stay in school don't do drugs it's not a deal I have to thank my beautiful wife Jordan and my two daughters that I hope grow up to inspire people just like every musician I grew up inspired by because I think that's the deal is that you look up to your heroes and you shouldn't be intimidated by them you should be inspired by them don't look at the poster on your wall and think [ __ ] I could never do that look at the poster on the wall and think [ __ ] I'm gonna do that and then you do this thank you Michael for that great induction and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and I want to thank all the Nirvana fans rabona fans walk up to me every day and say thank you for the music and when I hear when I hear that and that reminds me of Kurt Cobain okay so I want to say thank you Kurt Cobain and I wish Kurt was here tonight okay and that music means so much to so many people and it's in there's new generations and new fans coming up and it's really powerful and Kurt was a was an intense artist and he really connected with a lot of people and I want to end when Nirvana we did our we started in Aberdeen Washington and in Washington State and we had an infrastructure there to support us there was a music community I want to thank Sub Pop Records the music community in Seattle in Washington State I'm going to thank buzz Osborne Thank You buzz for turning us on to punk rock music Steve Albini and Butch Vig the party is twice Thank You Susan silver for introducing us to the music industry properly and thank you all again I'm probably gonna cry I'm already crying because he'd be so proud he'd say it wasn't Betty would be I just miss him so much he was such an angel thank you you know I have a big speech but I'm not gonna say it hi we all start bands when we're kids and this is my family I'm looking at right now all of you brother Michael brother Chris grandma when Z mr. growl [Applause] that's it I just wish the Kerr was here to heat feel this and be this 20 years ago the Rockland Hall of Fame maybe wasn't but tonight he really would have appreciated it he would appreciate it Chris and Dave and Michael and his mother and his sisters being here and I just want to give this to Francis our daughter who's not here because she's ill that's it that's all I have to say thank you so very much on and the committee [Applause] we're gonna have a few ladies joining us tonight so here is a lady but I can't believe is not in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame who should be ladies and gentlemen Joan Jett [Applause]

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Keywords: michael stipe, future music, how to start a band, nirvana kurt, instrumentals, guitar, bassplayer, drums, vocals, memoria

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Length: 15min 35sec (935 seconds)

Published: Sat Nov 24 2018