and i think the band and kurt cobain in particular reflect that angst. ♪ yeah, yeah >> kurt cobain was scream 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, alice in chains, and pearl jam from seattle, washington. ♪ 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 of these bands sound pretty different from each ot

night because i must go i wanted you to hang on in there go i knew that was coming at you and kurt cobain's could touch the twenty fifth anniversary just apollo's of his death something that stunned a generation your generation really really everywhere talk about this before the show i remember so clearly hearing about his his death i mean at the fact of my generation i think that probably the generation before with john lennon his death had and i remember just going on the street to one when the when that happened and people hear people crying and were distraught. it's strange to think about it now but i think it's something about his and his music and his lyrics really spoke to spoke to me and spoke to basically all the people i knew at the at the time and it wasn't just with the sort of i know the angsty teenage expression that he gave it's something about the way he captured irony and the irony of our generation and how we use both ironic and authentic at the same time and had some of the like the beatles kick ass lyrics in history and that actually i have to say had a kickass voice as

his old manags finally ready to share his story through his . ♪ >> reporter: kurt cobain was ge voices a foundational figure. >> reporter: this morning on the 25th anniversary of cobain's suicide at 27 yearsold, a new book by nirvana's manager danny goldberg sheds new light on the rock star. >> i believed he wass. i loved him. and i understood his point of view. be of he best i could t help to him. >> reporter: goldberg managed nirvana forhrhe final and a half years of bain's fe. love, e married courtney had baby francis bean, and achieved stardom. theirlbum never mind hails as one of the best rock albums ever. but along with massive fame came internal struggle. >> he was a master of the craft of rock and roll, but he also was comingrom a place that was very deep havinadto do with olescent pain and loneliness in a way that seems to speak to people. >>eporter: especially his young fans at the time. generation x. who idolized cobain. ♪ thr anthem was their biggest hit. "smells like teen spirit". >> it's a song that says everyone out there who feels the a way iry do, eone out there who f

too early death, his manager is finally willing to share cobain's stories through his eyes. ♪ >> kurt cobain, john lennon would have been to cobain. he is a foundational figure. >> reporter: this morning on the 25th anniversary of cobain's suicide at 27 years old, a new book by his manager danny goldberg sheds new light on the rock star. >> i believed he was a genius. i loved him. i understood his point of view. i did the best i could to be of help to him. >> reporter: goldberg managed nirvana for the final 3 1/2 years of cobain's life when he married courtney love, had baby frances bean. their album never mind hailed as one of the best rock albums ever, skyrocketed to the top of the charts. along with massive fame came internal struggle. >> he was a master of the craft of rock and roll, but he also was coming from a place that was very deep having do with adolescent pain and loneliness in a way that seems to speak to people. >> reporter: especially especially his young fans, generation x, who idolized cobain. ♪ >> reporter: their anthem was nirvana's biggest hit, "smells like teen spirit".

neutrogena® >>> kurt cobain, the lead singer of the popular rock band nirvana is dead. 27. ♪ >> he was among the most powerful voices of his generation, originator of a music style and fashion called grunge. the lead singer for the huge rock group nirvana, which sold 15 million albums worldwide. >> on this day in 1994, curt cobain was found dead. he was just 27 years old. >>> fire fighting has traditionally been male dominated. 7% of the 1.1 million firefighters are women. times are exchanging thanks to a camp in california. >> reporter: climbing the ladder at the l.a. fire department wasn't easy. women make up less than 1% of the force. >> i would hear stuff from people on the street, even now, oh, they let dwrou that? >> likewise for sheila. >> because i was a female, i had to prove myself doubly hard. >> reporter: veterans look for a way to attract women to fire fighting and launch girl's fire camp to spark interest in young women and bridge a gender gap. >> they are out there. itis showing them, this is how you get there. >> reporter: the annual one-day camp serves

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kurt cobain, tattered shirts, nobody cared, right?ld be further away from hair bands, grunge music. that is what came next. so i'm starting to wonder if it is swinging back. i think the insanity of the woke folks out there have forced sain people to push back and may be going from the hair band to the grunge movement. >> tucker: has the woke people pushed back against you? >> adam: the woke people will push back against anybody. >> tucker: but you don't seem bothered. you are the one person who seems totally disinterested and bothered by their attacks. >> adam: i know what's in my heart and i hate that statement, but i know who i am. you can't convince me that hate asexual pro -- hate a person, you couldn't convince me come i hated a neighbor or a friend or hispanic, blacks. you can't bestow that up on me. that is something that is inside me, and i'm aware of it and i know i don't. so you can't convince me of that. >> tucker: so you're not afraid because you know what they are saying is a lie? >> adam: yeah, and i'm an atheist and i r

through numerous brilliant collaborations with artists like queens of the stone age, pj harvey, kurt cobainer with mark and touring guitarist jeff fielder at ocho in ballard, where they serve up generous drinks and tasty spanish-influenced tapas. >> anthony: you grew up two hours outside of seattle? >> mark: yeah, in eastern washington, which is like the countryside, ranching, farming community. >> anthony: you don't live here anymore, you live in la now? >> mark: yeah. >> anthony: how long since you left? >> mark: it's been 20 years. >> anthony: oh wow. >> mark:but i come back here, you know, a couple times a year and play shows. i still have family in the city and i think of it as home still, you know, i always will. it's just uh, it's the home i don't live in anymore. ♪ would you put on that long white dress ♪ ♪ while i burn when there's no more tomorrows ♪ ♪ will you walk with me underground ♪ ♪ and forgive all my sadness and the sorrows ♪ ♪ ba dadada da badadadada ♪ >> anthony: so how long have you been playing music professionally? >> jeff: well, kind of the whole time, you know? i me