I may be mistaken, But...

Hi. I 've recently gotten turned on to a web site that's basically
a mammoth library of guitar music. I dunno if I can plug it,
but I learned of it here in these forums and I'm pretty sure most of you know of it already :)

Anyways, It has all kinds of music and from different time periods
as well. That's what I want to type about :)
I just started playing again last year or a year and a half or something....
after not playing for like 9 (?) so I naturally tore thru this site :)
...
OK to the point. I noticed that alot of the music from the 1990's,
there seemed to be alot of off the wall tunings - at least that's what
described in postings of these songs.

At first, I thought - yeah right (remember I didn't play in the 90's)
this guys a nut case and I better scan for viruses.
But I started seeing more and more.
In the old days, the only people that did that was Ron Wood &
Kieth Ritchards and I only thought they did that cause thay were so
whacked, they couldn't operate the machine heads :)
(Yeah, I know...more did that than the Stones)

Oh yeah, let me clarify this a little better, the music I was looking up
was the grunge/alternative type stuff.
LOL all the nineties was was Grunge, the theme from the Lion King and Celine Dion LOL

Am I right in assuming this was a trend in playing styles back then?
My serious playing days were over by '91 in the '80's, things were
more techincal and it seemed everthing stayed in E and timing was kept
with a tachometer :)

I know for a decade defining style of music, it takes a couple of years
to kick in. I wonder what the defining thing for this decade will be?