The Biggest Disgrace In Music History

I said nothing about the Pixies and Soundgarden.  It's my impression, from the music I've heard and discussions I've had with other musicians, that Nirvana had a negative influence in that they inspired many bands after them with similar not-too-special songwriting and limited instrumental skills.  I'm not anything approaching a popular music expert, though, so I could be wrong.  In my above post I meant to point out that it wasn't like popular music was that much better before Nirvana came along.  Sure, hair metal guitarists had technical ability, but there's no use for that if there's a deficiency of emotion and songwriting skills.  I haven't been too impressed with Cobain's songwriting from what I've heard, but at least he had a point to his music, unlike many hair bands.  The argument could also be made that Nirvana did a good thing in influencing thousands of kids to play guitar, because they realized that they could play for fun without having to be virtuosos.

He auditioned to play bass for The Melvins, but was not kept. He remained however friend with them and contributed some guitar and percussion on their album 'Houdini'.

All I know is that he's an hero that played the guitar in a famous band.

This simply does not compute - *fans* make all kinds of vainglorious claims about their favourites, and you and I are not immune from that. It does not make it a universal truth or an undeniable fact.