Really enjoy your posts, Alex. This is a comparatively trivial example, but someone once pointed out to me that Smells Like Teen Spirit quotes DOA by Van Halen--specifically the bended note that Kurt doubles with a kind of moan, which replicates the shitckicker bend that EVH builds the DOA riff on. I can’t unhear it!
I doubt it was super-intentional, but since virtually no one in that era wasn’t influenced by Eddie, including the Grunge folks who made a point of rejecting the cock rock approach, I regard it as an authentic quotation rather than an accident.
Really enjoy your posts, Alex. This is a comparatively trivial example, but someone once pointed out to me that Smells Like Teen Spirit quotes DOA by Van Halen--specifically the bended note that Kurt doubles with a kind of moan, which replicates the shitckicker bend that EVH builds the DOA riff on. I can’t unhear it!
I doubt it was super-intentional, but since virtually no one in that era wasn’t influenced by Eddie, including the Grunge folks who made a point of rejecting the cock rock approach, I regard it as an authentic quotation rather than an accident.