![]() Besides Sheehan, it included Racer X’s Paul Gilbert, a nimble-fingered guitar god drummer Pat Torpey, whose résumé at the time included skinsmanship for Ted Nugent and Eric Martin, a well-respected and mega-piped vocalist, who’d been a mainstay on the West Coast club scene for decades. ![]() Big to sneak in a few final morsels like “To Be With You.”įormed by bass virtuoso Billy Sheehan in 1988, fresh off backing up ex–Van Halen lead singer David Lee Roth, Mr. Big releasing the single, a little-known band from Seattle named Nirvana had dropped its second album, Nevermind, and first single “Smells Like Teen Spirit,” which all but changed the face of recorded music.īut Nirvana’s album and single weren’t an immediate success, and it allowed hair metal holdovers like Mr. It all went down at a particularly fortuitous two years in rock history. Big released its single “To Be With You.”īy 1992, the love song would hit No. ![]() That December, in the twilight of the hair metal era, Mr. According to Merriam-Webster, the term “earworm” dates back to 1802-but it might as well have been coined in 1991. ![]()
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