The Left-Handed Guitar Players That Changed Music By John Engel
KURT COBAIN


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Plays Guitar Left Handed with default stringing.


Kurt Cobain’s Nirvana has become known as the group that started grunge, a form of punk-pop-metal that seized the rock music world by storm in the early 1990s.  One of several bands to develop a similar sound and attitude in the Seattle area, Nirvana was the first to emerge from the underground scene into the mainstream with its epochal second album Nevermind in late 1991.

Rage and catharsis, two seemingly incompatible states of being, collided in Kurt Cobain’s music.  An unresolved clash of strong emotions propelled his creativity and the wild eloquence with which he manifested it – whether lyrically, musically, or physically.  Yet, emotionally direct as his songs were, cathartic as his performing may have been, they did not manage to release Cobain from the inner turmoil that drove his creativity in the first place.  The young man who came to express the angst of a whole generation could not verbalize his own torment effectively enough to diffuse its destructive force.

An in-depth essay on this important artist, with many quotes, can be found in the book Uncommon Sound.

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