and i think the band and kurt cobain in particular reflect that angst. ♪ yeah, yeah ♪ >> kurt cobainm almost in tune. it just gave an intensity that was really unique. ♪ i kill you, i'm not gonna crack ♪ >> nirvana gave the record industry a wake-up call and said, here is your new audience. so start looking for the people with the clothes with the holes in the knees. and you better run to those clubs to buy up the next one. >> i would go to the clubs and see bands like cat butt and bands like screaming trees. it was such a refreshing change from the competitive sort of l.a. hollywood '80s. and it was just suddenly so cool to be from seattle. >> one of the biggest music biz stories these days is the so-called rain city renaissance with the emergence of noisy punk metal grunge rock. bands like soundgarden, nirvana, alice in chains, and pearl jam from seattle, washington. ♪ i'm feeling i'm feeling outshined outshined outshined outshined ♪ >> why don't you tell me what the biggest misconception about the so-called seattle music scene is? >> everybody's a grunge band. >> all these bands t

and as i was pulling up close to him, i noticed that he was wearing a kurt cobain t-shirt and i just ack at me and i thought, okay, i need to go home, and pick up my instruments and start to play again because that's what's going to save my life now. so i did. >> wonderful. it is wonderful and spiritual and even more so hearing you describe that. you talk about how music in some way helped heal you then as painful as it was. what about now? how can music fix this stuff now? what can we do to bring us all together? >> well, you know, one thing that i love about being in the foo fighters is over the years our audience has grown. and when i look out at the audience, you know, there are so many different types of people. but they all come together to sing the chorus of a song. so i look out and i see people from different walks of life, and if we play a song like my hero, or best of you, or everlong, and everyone sings together, in that moment they come together and forget about their differences and sing in chorus together, and i feel like music is one of the few things that can really d

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. >> i also would wear only flannel, i was like i wanted to look like kurt cobain. need a witch to come use the powers of satan to murder my classmates. >> one thing i did see about the commercial was the first person to critique them and this them was a black girl, a lot of times they generate this thing, black people hate the most homophobic, you're dressed like a woman, let's cast a black girl. >> if you sell candy, you don't have to weigh into these touchy topics. >> greg: this is all bleeding in from academia, they are all human resources now. the hypocrisy is that sugar is worse for kids than anything -- it's worse for adults. diabetes, its obesity, it makes them very sleepy and they wake up and they are very obnoxious. you know what i'm getting at. it's meant as a diversionary tactic from critiquing what they actually do. >> there's no doubt what is going on there is you are selling poison to children in a way that will be entertaining, there are a million ways to do that. the candy is good to make you popular, to tell you the truth in the world i live in the

>>> first on cbs mornings, sharing stories from his life on the road and his relationship with kurt cobainre coming up at 7:00. >>> good monday morning. we have an air quality advisory in effect for today, maybe a little bit haze inland but still looking at good to moderate argue quality. we'll see sunshine and warm temperatures. in fact today is the warmest day of the week. i will have the forecast where you live, coming up. >> thank you. >>> new, a physiology professor from uc san francisco has won nobel prize for medicine. julius received the prize for their work on pane sensation. he used a pungent compound from chili peppers to induce a sensation to identify that responds to heat. cool. >> very interesting. >>> diane king hall is joining us live from the new york stock exchange. good morning, diane. >>> good morning. trading has been underway for a little more than ten minutes. you have mixed market in the early action. blue chips have turned a little bit lower, down three points, four points. they're flip-flopping. in the tech sector you will see bigger losses. nasdaq is down 164. in

and nirvana and kurt cobain in particular reflect the angst. >> i learned how to write for myself, and