I hate to talk music during a football thread, but Cobain certainly was a musical genius. He shaped rock n' roll into something new, something that was desperately needed after 20 years of bland hair bands. He is Gen-X's John Lennon.
Don't get me wrong, Cobain was a musical genius, and I love Nirvana. I guess what I was trying to portray was that he threw it all away.
Is that a complement?
Well there was plenty of chatter about the Rolling Stones earlier in the thread so I guess it's on topic. Agree with you on Kurt Cobain. Rock music was a wasteland of hair bands when Nirvana came on the scene. Changed everything. All of a sudden we had Pearl Jam, Smashing Pumpkins, and lots of other decent bands to listen to for a while. Now rock music is back in a rut again and we need another trend-setting band like Nirvana to come along.
Back to the game, I'm hoping that Seattle can pull it off because Matt Hasselback is a local guy and I work with somebody who went to school with him. Don't have much love for the Steelers and I admit to being a tad bit annoyed with the cameras constantly panning to Jerome Bettis' family be-bopping in the stands everytime he makes a 2-yard run.