Grunge Is Dead: The Oral History of Seattle Rock Music by Greg Prato
By Greg Prato
Weaving jointly the definitive tale of the Seattle song scene via a sequence of interviews with the folk who have been there, this ebook includes greater than a hundred thirty interviews, besides crucial history details. Digging deeper than different money owed, this heritage starts off within the early Nineteen Sixties, tracing the chain of occasions that spawned the various maximum rock acts of all time within the Nineteen Nineties, together with Pearl Jam, Nirvana, Alice in Chains, and Soundgarden. First-ever interviews contain Eddie Vedder's tackle Pearl Jam’s heritage, a dialogue one of the individuals of Alice in Chains, and Layne Staley’s mother’s reviews on her son's drug dependancy and loss of life. there's additionally lots of details on much less famous facets of the grunge scene, together with the insurrection Grrrl flow and the oft-overlooked yet hugely influential Seattle bands reminiscent of mom Love Bone/Andy wooden, the Melvins, Screaming timber, and Mudhoney. the outcome is a finished advisor that features a wealth of formerly untold tales and provides a clean and fast method of tune history.
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Once in a while, sucker some tavern into putting on a show, that would inevitably turn into a one-off calamity. ” JOHN CONTE: [University Avenue] — the place to be. If you had something to say, if you were trying to promote your band, that was the place to hang out. It was the place to get seen, and the place to start rumors. JIM TILLMAN: The audience was pretty much every kid that was a weirdo. There weren’t too many people from the suburbs. You’d see the same people at every show, and half the people in the crowd were in bands.
At the time, the liquor laws were such that if you were going to serve hard liquor, then fifty or sixty percent of your income had to come from food. So you’d play at a place that was a fucking restaurant — or the owner would separate the restaurant from the bar area — but they would still be connected. I don’t remember the name of the band that we were opening for — it was one of the more popular bar bands. We felt that we were not connected to that bar bands scene, we were [part of the] punk rock scene.
TOM NIEMEYER: It was the first gig by the Accüsed in Seattle that my mother decided to come out to. Beer bottles were flying around the cabin of the boat, and skateboarders were trying to bust their friend out from a broom closet that the ferry workers made into an impromptu jail cell. ” My mom asked if this was how all our shows ended. 36 GRUNGE IS DEAD JOE KEITHLEY: Vancouver and Seattle are pretty close — there’s only the stupid border in the way that stops people from going to see shows back and forth.