Mike Inez: «My biggest fear is that the next Kurt Cobain is out there somewhere but he won’t get into music because there’s no money in it,»

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El bajista de Alice In Chains, Mike Inez, ha dado a Clevescene su visión de la escena de Seattle.

Espiritualmente, Seattle, es uno de mis centros. Hay algo en el agua. No hay nada por hacer cuando llueve que ir a casa de otro a tocar música. Soundgarden era una banda 10 años antes de lograr un contrato con una gran discográfica. Fueron arropados para filtrarse y marinar y definir su sonido antes de salir al público. Eso fue algo grande. Esto no eran esas bandas hechas por el mismo patrón de Los Angeles que estaban siendo fichadas. Si te fijas, todas esas bandas suenan diferentes unas de otras. Ya fuese Nirvana o Soundgarden o Alice o Pearl Jam – incluso Queensryche o Jimi Hendrix o Heart. Son diferentes cortes de la madera.

De cualquier modo, Inez asegura que en las actuales circunstancias es difícil que se repita un fenómeno como el ‘grunge’.

Mi gran miedo es que el próximo Kurt Cobain que esté por ahí en algún lado no se meta en la música porque no hay dinero. Andan quitando fondos del arte. Crecí tocando en una banda de música en el colegio y ver como eso desaparece es muy triste. Estoy más preocupado por la próxima generación. ¿De donde viene la buena música? Especialmente cuando viejos como nosotros se marchen, ¿quien va a tocar en los grandes estadios?

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IN ENGLISH

After original singer Layne Staley died in 2002, it wasn’t certain that grunge icons Alice in Chains would continue. But in 2005, the band regrouped for a benefit concert for the victims of the tsunami that struck South Asia. Guest vocalists such as Tool/A Perfect Circle’s Maynard James Keenan and Heart’s Nancy Wilson sang Staley’s parts. One of the guest singers who contributed was Comes the Fall’s William DuVall, who would eventually join the band on a permanent basis.

«Spiritually, it’s one of my centers,» he says of Seattle. «There’s something in the water there. There’s nothing to do up there when it’s raining but go to each other’s houses and jam. Soundgarden was a band for 10 years before they got a major label deal. They were tucked away up there where bands got to percolate and marinate and define their sound before they went public. That was such a big thing. It wasn’t this cookie cutter L.A. thing where bands were getting signed. If you notice, those bands all sound different from each other. Whether it’s Nirvana or Soundgarden or Alice or Pearl Jam — even Queensryche or Jimi Hendrix or Heart. It’s a different crosscut of the wood.»

That sense of commitment is hard to come by in today’s single-driven market that doesn’t encourage artist development and career-oriented musicians. Inez says the rock world is lacking the kind of creative personalities that existed back when Alice in Chains came together.

«My biggest fear is that the next Kurt Cobain is out there somewhere but he won’t get into music because there’s no money in it,» says Inez. «They’re pulling arts funding. I grew up playing in marching band at school and to see that go away is really sad. I’m more concerned with the next generation. Where’s the good music going to come from? Especially when us old guys go away, who is going to play the big venues?»

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