[TheGoodTexan]

I remember when I was in 10th grade....circa 1988. I was really into Hendrix. The "weird guy" in class gave me a copy of a band that no one had heard of.....Soundgarden: Screaming Life. I LOVED THAT ALBUM. It was so different from anything else that was out at the time.

I tried to turn my friends on to it, but they were too busy learning GnR and Motley Crue licks.

So I really started paying attention to the Seattle music scene and pretty much giving anything out of that area a chance.

Fast forward to August 1991. Pearl Jam: Ten was released. I bought it on street date and began learning every song off of it. Again, I tried to turn my friends on to it, but no one cared.

September 1991, Nirvana: Nevermind was released. I bought it on street date too, becuase I already had their first album Bleach, and was a fan of the music. Again, no one cared.

A few months later, the videos for Alive and Smells Like Teen Spirit went into heavy rotation on MTV and all of the sudden all of my friends were telling me about these bands! I'm like, yeah dude, remember when I .....

But it was all cool. I already had the Pearl Jam album learned by the summer of 1992, so I was teaching the licks to all my friends....which were really just rehased Hendrix licks to begin with.

By the way, that weird guy in class in 10th grade....he was "weird" because he wore Doc Martin boots and plaid shirts. :) Really.