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So the other night, the surviving members of Nirvana, Chris, Dave, and Pat,
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received an award called the Vanguard Award at the Video Music Awards for their contribution to music video making
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and their enduring legacy, which is enormous.
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Nirvana is enormously popular still to this day.
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But one of the only things that people were talking about the next day is
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that Pat Smear lit up a cigarette on stage while they were accepting the award.
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To someone that grew up in the 1960s, you don't even notice those things or it didn't even occur to me because it's something I grew up with.
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In the 1960s, I looked it up, 42 % of adults smoked.
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So four in 10 people, which is astounding because today it's 9 .9%.
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That is a dramatic change.
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That's in the U .S.
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Smoking was so common.
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Both of my parents smoked.
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Pretty much every adult I knew smoked.
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People smoked in cars.
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They smoked in planes.
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The first plane ride I ever took in 1967 going from Rochester to Detroit, there was a smoking section on the plane.
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You never thought about it.
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Fast forward to last year at the NAMM show.
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Now there's like 150 ,000 people that come to the NAMM show
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and i remember seeing someone smoke like one person
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and walking by them and i was like whoa somebody's smoking now this is something
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that was so ubiquitous growing up that it never even occurred to you
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but it stuck in my mind and i get back home
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and i remember driving to dylan to school the next day
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and i was like hey dylan does anybody smoke at school
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he was a senior in high school last year he's like
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what do you mean does anyone smoke do the kids smoke
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stand outside smoke he goes nobody smokes i mean not only does nobody smoke
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but they all are on creatine and protein shakes
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and all this kind of stuff
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and they're all trying to you know be as fit as
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possible he's nobody smokes why would people smoke i said they had smoking sections
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when i was in in junior high
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or in high school 16 year olds could smoke and they would they'd stand outside and they would smoke before school.
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They'd smoke after school.
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They'd smoke on lunch, break, whatever.
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The teachers would also smoke.
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As a matter of fact, when I taught college, this is back in 1987, before they started outlawing it in New York State or inside,
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my old guitar teacher, Steve Brown, that I shared an office with, Steve smoked.
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And he would routinely smoke in our office.
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He had his ashtray on his desk and everything.
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He would smoke and i never thought about it he would open the window
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and stuff as a matter of fact going back to grad
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school my guitar teacher mick goodrick smoked in every single lesson chain smoked
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so at new england conservatory you'd go up to the second floor where the lesson rooms were
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and they'd have big glass doors on them
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and there was a massive window that sunlight would come in
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and you'd go there and i'd look in to see
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if mick was there and the smoke was so thick
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when he was teaching a lesson you could not see who was playing guitar with him in there it was
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so covered in smoke did i ever say anything about it
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no i never thought about it i played in a band with three smokers everyone smoked at every club
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that you went to when they were just hanging out every musician not me
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but every musician i knew smoked if you go back and look at videos go back to nirvana on MTV Unplugged.
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Go back in the 90s, in the 80s, in the 70s, in the 60s.
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If you watch Get Back, all four of the Beatles smoked and they smoke all the time.
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If you take a look at these pictures and videos, Aretha Franklin, Miles Davis smoking in the background while Coltrane's taking a solo on So What.
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Jimi Hendrix having a smoke here.
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Mick Jagger, Joni, they're doing it while they're playing, they're doing it while they're reading, when they're looking like badasses.
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The Clash, David Bowie, Jim Croce smoked cigars, Neil Schoen smoked, Edward, Bono, everybody smokes.
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Everybody smoked.
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Glenn Frey, Don Henley, Madonna, Kirk, and James both smoked. Who knew?
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Lane Staley, Josh Homme, Amy Winehouse, even Joe Dirt smoked.
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Every huge artist smoked.
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Many of them that I've interviewed i've asked them off camera how long did you smoke
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and why did you smoke
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and invariably they said they thought it helped their voice the ones
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that were singers and i said in what way it made it raspier i thought
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that it was uh helped my tone if you think of someone like frank sinatra
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or nat king cole they smoked all the time
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and you can actually hear it in the sound of their voice many smokers pay the price improving their voice
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when they're younger but completely hurting their voice as they age.
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It really destroyed their voices.
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If you hear Frank Sinatra later in life, he didn't have the flexibility to do vibrato anymore
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and just did not have that tone to his voice anymore because you lose your elasticity.
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I was being interviewed by my heart surgeon up in Cleveland
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and he told me that when he has a smoker that he's gonna do heart surgery on, that if they quit for 15 minutes, that your lungs begin to regenerate.
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And that just blew my mind.
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He's like, if I'm gonna operate on someone a month out, I tell them to stop smoking.
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And they're like, why should I stop smoking?
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I'm having the surgery in a month.
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He said, because your lungs will be dramatically better just in that short amount of time.
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If you watch TV shows like Johnny Carson, you can see his guests smoking.
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Dick Cavett, same thing.
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People smoked on talk shows all the time.
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It's really hard to fathom that people smoked so much and it was so prevalent.
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But the amazing thing is how few people smoke nowadays.
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It was really blowing my mind at NAMM.
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I saw one person smoke a cigarette and it just was like, wow.
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He happens to be a musician that I've actually interviewed on my channel
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and he's 75 years old and he was smoking a cigarette and he looks like he's in pretty good shape.
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But smoking here in the United States is something that has actually changed for the better.
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You know, I've always thought that there might be a correlation between people quitting smoking,
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musicians, and the decline of rock music because they seem to somehow go together.
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I'm not making a judgment either way on it, but I think it's fascinating.
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Love to know your thoughts.
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Vocabolario e note di pronuncia per questa lezione
Questo video contiene 98 frasi e 1160 parole da ripetere con lo shadowing. Il parlato dura 6:31. Chi parla ha un ritmo naturale di circa 178 parole al minuto, vicino a una conversazione quotidiana. Solo il 81% delle parole rientra nelle 3.000 più comuni dell’inglese, quindi il lessico è impegnativo.
Vocaboli chiave di questo video
15 parole del video che vale la pena imparare, con pronuncia e significato:
| Parola | Pronuncia | Significato |
|---|---|---|
| musician sostantivo | /mjuˈzɪʃən/ | musicista, musico |
| guitar sostantivo | /ɡɪˈtɑɹ/ | chitarra |
| lesson sostantivo | /ˈlɛs.ən/ | lezione |
| cigarette sostantivo | /ˈsɪɡəɹɛt/ | sigaretta |
| tone sostantivo | /ˈtəʊn/ | tono |
| occur verbo | /əˈkɜː/ | verificarsi |
| lung sostantivo | /ˈlʌŋ/ | polmone |
| thick aggettivo | /θɪk/ | spesso |
| desk sostantivo | /dɛsk/ | scrivania |
| dramatic aggettivo | /dɹəˈmætɪk/ | drammatico |
| decline verbo | /dɪˈklaɪn/ | declinare |
| legacy sostantivo | /ˈlɛɡəsi/ | eredità, lascito |
| contribution sostantivo | /ˌkɑntɹɪˈbjuʃən/ | contributo |
| shake verbo | /ˈʃeɪk/ | scuotere, agitare |
| judgment sostantivo | /ˈd͡ʒʌd͡ʒ.mənt/ | giudizio |
I phrasal verb che sentirai
| Parola | Significato |
|---|---|
| go back verbo | tornare |
| grow up verbo | crescere |
Pronuncia a cui fare attenzione
Chi parla usa 27 contrazioni e forme ridotte, come they're, I've, they'd. Pronunciale nella forma breve, così come le senti.
- I suoni “th”: thick /θɪk/, fathom /ˈfæðəm/
- I suoni “sh” e “zh”: musician /mjuˈzɪʃən/, contribution /ˌkɑntɹɪˈbjuʃən/, shake /ˈʃeɪk/, correlation /ˌkɔɹ.əˈleɪ.ʃən/, ashtray /ˈæʃ.tɹeɪ/
- Parole lunghe — attenzione all’accento: contribution /ˌkɑntɹɪˈbjuʃən/, flexibility /ˌflɛksɪˈbɪlɪti/, correlation /ˌkɔɹ.əˈleɪ.ʃən/, conservatory /kənˈsɝ.vəˌt(ɔ.)ɹi/, elasticity /ɪ.læsˈtɪs.ɪ.ti/
Come esercitarsi con questo video
- Ascolta tutto il video una volta senza parlare e annota le parole che non conosci.
- Inizia a velocità 0,75×, fai shadowing frase per frase e torna alla velocità normale quando diventa facile.
- Registrati e confronta con l’originale, facendo attenzione a parole come musician, guitar, lesson.
La grammatica di questo video
Le strutture che chi parla usa di più, con le parole esatte del video:
| Struttura | Nel video |
|---|---|
| Present perfect have/has + participio passato — un’azione passata che conta ancora adesso | I've interviewed · I've actually interviewed · has actually changed |
| Frasi relative who / which + frase — un’informazione in più su una persona o una cosa | legacy, which is · people, which is |
Cos'è la tecnica dello Shadowing?
Shadowing è una tecnica di apprendimento delle lingue supportata da studi scientifici, originariamente sviluppata per la formazione dei traduttori professionisti e resa popolare dal poliglotta Dr. Alexander Arguelles. Il metodo è semplice ma potente: ascolti un audio in inglese di madrelingua e lo ripeti immediatamente ad alta voce — come un'ombra che segue il parlante con un ritardo di solo 1–2 secondi. A differenza dell'ascolto passivo o degli esercizi di grammatica, lo shadowing costringe il tuo cervello e i muscoli della bocca a elaborare e riprodurre simultaneamente i modelli di discorso reale. La ricerca dimostra che migliora significativamente la precisione della pronuncia, l'intonazione, il ritmo, il discorso connesso, la comprensione dell'ascolto e la fluidità del parlato — rendendolo uno dei metodi più efficaci per la preparazione alla prova di speaking dell'IELTS e per la comunicazione reale in inglese.