dimejinky99 wrote:Yeah that's when they shoed in all the bands cos they were hip n happening at the time.
Eh? The whole film, bands included, was shot in 1990. Pearl Jam were (relative) nobodies at the time, Eddie Vedder could very well have gone on to be best remembered as a bit part actor in a Cameron Crowe film.
dimejinky99 wrote:That movie did more for the promotion of the whole grunge thing than anything else in many ways.
I doubt the film itself did much for the bands or the Seattle music scene, the "grunge" explosion was already well under way by the film's eventual release in late 1992. It was only a relatively modest success, Wikipedia states it made less than Crowe's directorial debut (Say Anything) and a whole truckload less than his subsequent films (Jerry Maguire, Almost Famous, etc.) The soundtrack CD was arguably a bigger comparative success than the film was, given that it went platinum and made it to the Billboard Top 10.
(As an aside, Tad Doyle's cameo rules.)