Quote:Nirvana (even though Nirvana was mostly influenced by the melvins)

Quote:The Melvins
Pavement
Kyuss

Quote:all of the present bands are all derivitive of bands from 20-30 years ago

Quote:Completely untrue. Go be old somewhere else

Quote:maybe influential in your book. i have never heard of them. all of the present bands are all derivitive of bands from 20-30 years ago

Quote:you say that because the only music you listened to 20 years ago was teddy bears picnic and your favorite Barney album

Quote:All three bands have been listed NUMEROUS times by other bands as being their influence

Quote:Sorry Luna, I love ya, but I don't think Dylan was an influence on ANYONE in the 90's

Quote:how can you say that?!?!?! he is probably one of the most influential artists ever. he influenced alot of songwriters , who themselves influenced artists, etc.

Quote:Hailing from Palm Desert, CA, Kyuss (pronounced "kai-us") has become a heavy metal Velvet Underground of sorts. <span style='font-size:10pt;line-height:100%'>Though they are widely acknowledged as pioneers of the booming underground "stoner rock" scene, the band enjoyed little commercial success during their brief existence. Still, their combination of sludgy, down-tuned guitars (often played through a bass amp for maximum earth-shaking intensity), galloping thrash metal rhythms, and organic drum sound has become the blueprint — often copied but never replicated — by countless underground metal bands.</span>

Formed in 1990 by vocalist John Garcia, guitarist Josh Homme, bassist Nick Oliveri, and drummer Brant Bjork, Kyuss began jamming at "desert parties," in and around the isolated towns of the southern California desert. The band eventually built a local following, signed with tiny independent label Dali Records, and released their first album, Wretch, in 1991. Underproduced and financed, the album failed to capture the band's live sound and went completely unnoticed, but constant touring earned them a reputation as a ferocious live unit as well as the respect of many fellow musicians. One of those, Masters of Reality singer/guitarist Chris Goss, decided to produce the band's next effort, 1992's stunning Blues for the Red Sun, eventually hailed as a landmark album by critics and fans alike. The Kyuss sound takes the heaviness of Black Sabbath, the feedback fuzziness of Blue Cheer, plus other '70s influences, and infuses them with psychedelic flashes, massive grooves, and a sensibility for '90s metal and thrash.

The band was signed to Elektra Records just as their label was about to go bankrupt, and despite the loss of bassist Oliveri (he was replaced by Scott Reeder), the band continued to build momentum. Also recorded under Goss' guidance, 1994's Sky Valley saw Kyuss taking the novel approach of grouping the songs into three extended suites, and nearly matched the brilliance of its predecessor. But despite their creative promise and growing fan base, personal strife began tearing the band apart, and drummer Brant Bjork departed by tour's end. After recruiting Alfredo Hernandez to replace him on 1995's less-inspired ...And the Circus Leaves Town, a final rift between Homme and Garcia finally brought the band to a halt. Homme, Reeder, and Hernandez reappeared as Queens of the Stone Age in 1998, and Garcia is currently a member of Unida. — Ed Rivadavia

Quote:Luckily in ‘86/’87 things started heading in the right direction again with The Seattle Scene and early “Grunge” start-ups Green River and Melvins. Again some people prefer to consider “Grunge” and “Stoner Rock” to be one-in-the-same and cite ’86/’87 as the beginning of “Stoner Rock”. Not me. I consider true-Grunge like Green River, Melvins, Mudhoney, Nirvana and TAD as being the beginning of a re-evolution of Stoner Rock but with a much broader influence base to feed off. Also, still riding hard for Doom in these years was the mighty St. Vitus. The creativity was back, the passion for the music was back and it was all underground, where it was safe! Music was finally being made for the sake of the music and at the grassroots level again and not for image and fame alone. The dark years were essentially over, except, not very many people knew about The Seattle Scene – until “Teen Spirit” – but we won’t talk about that or about Grunge after that. Grunge was just a media-fabricated image anyways, it had nothing to do with the music and poser-rock bands like Bush and Creed prove that with every song and every video they make.

In the early ‘90s things got even better with the epic “Stoner Rock” bands Monster Magnet and Kyuss reinventing the wheel again but with much more ooomph and raw psychedelic rock ‘n’ roll energy than ever before! Many uninformed people claim that Stoner Rock is a homogonous form of music derived only from the sounds of Kyuss and Monster Magnet. Of course some bands follow this ideology but the majority do not. Also, in the early ‘90s, enter stage left with hardcore nihilistic sludge rock like “Eyehategod” and Stoner/Doom hybrids “Sleep” – arguably the heaviest, most evil rock music ever! Then enter stage right with the jazzy-soul-core-rap-metal outfit “Clutch” and their unlimited creativity and soulful grooves to throw a wrench in the works once again!