Nirvana Bassist Reveals Next Grunge Band That Should Go In Rock Hall of Fame

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Nirvana bassist Krist Novoselic wrote on Twitter and Facebook about last Friday’s Rock and Roll Hall of Fame ceremony. He wrote, “Just watched Pearl Jam at Hall Of Fame. What an awesome time! Congratulations! I am proud to know you!!!”

He also tweeted, “Matt Cameron should be on the Rock Hall of Fame again. Soundgarden.”

Eddie Vedder said at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, “Matt Cameron’s really been the one. At a time when we didn’t know if – we weren’t sure what was going to happen – he had been able not just to survive, but to thrive.

I mean, he’s been one of my brothers. And he was going to end up receiving this happily with us or his other group. So he’ll be back. He’s a great drummer. You are a great drummer!”

Soundgarden guitarist Kim Thayil revealed why he thinks Pearl Jam should have gone in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame before Nirvana in a December 2016 Billboard article.

“I would imagine if you had to think of all the bands that came out of Seattle, out of our scene, the first band I would think of would be Pearl Jam, and the next one I would’ve said should be Nirvana,” Soundgarden guitarist Kim Thayil tells Billboard. “Now, of course, rock ‘n’ roll journalists have a different perspective; they put Nirvana in first because of the cultural impact. But I’d put Pearl Jam on top of that list. They’re certainly one of the hugest bands in the world, most successful bands, very influential. And obviously Pearl Jam has the greater body of work and greater longevity.”

He also discussed Soundgarden’s Hall of Fame chances.

“I almost never think about the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame,” Thayil says. “It wasn’t part of my experience growing up. There wasn’t one, so I didn’t think of the bands that I loved in terms of a Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. And it’s an odd thing, because it doesn’t measure some quantifiable attribute of, say, a baseball hall of fame or a basketball hall of fame.”