Y no se donde he leído que Kim dice que el drop-D lo tomó prestado de Buzz Ousborne.

Kim Thayil: ‘Nirvana Originally Kind Of Sounded Like Junior Soundgarden or Junior Melvins’
Published On November 6, 2013 | By Brett Buchanan | 90’s Rock, Alice In Chains, Featured, Nirvana, Soundgarden

Soundgarden guitarist Kim Thayil discussed Nirvana and Alice In Chains’ early days in a new interview with Radio.com:

“I remember being at a DOA show in Seattle with Jerry and Ben Shepherd, who wasn’t in the band yet [Shepherd would join Soundgarden as a bassist in 1990]. And Jerry told me he was trying to figure out “Nothing to Say.” He said, “What do you do there? It sounds really heavy and low.” And I said, “Oh, I use a tuning called drop-D. You take the E string and drop it down a whole step…” And he goes, “You’re kidding!” [laughs] And it’s common knowledge that at the time, Alice in Chains were more of a boogie-slash-glam-pop band in the vein of what was going on in LA, like a Poison or early Bon Jovi or Motley Crue-ish thing. Our manager also managed them, and the next time she handed us a demo of theirs, it was highly different than what they had done half-a-year earlier. Like, “Holy shit! This sounds like they wrote a whole bunch of ‘Nothing to Say’s!” Then they did Facelift, and, god, there’s some amazing songs on that.

And Nirvana, later on they started doing more pop stuff like “About a Girl,” but originally Nirvana kind of sounded like a junior Melvins or a junior Soundgarden. They were certainly fans of the Melvins and they were fans of us. Primarily because of the singing. Like, hey, you can have melodic lead vocals over these distorted, slowed-down punk rock grooves! So those were the primary influences. The drop-D thing and the melodic vocals.”

Pd. Chicos de Portal Alternativo: colgar la noticia de Grunge Report(ahora Alternative Nation) donde el guitarra de Soundgarden habla de la influencia de Buzz Osborne en su forma de tocar y a su vez, el efecto dominó que ello produjo en bandas como Nirvana y Alice in Chains.