Grunge Grunge music is a name that brings together a group of native bands in Seattle that started playing in Rock garages and clubs in the mid 80's. Unlike Rock currents prevailing at the time (Hair Rock, Metal), music not based on virtuosity or guitar solos, but in a more primitive rescue Rock with Punk influences of 70's Hard Rock (with bands like Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath as a reference) and others such as The Who and Neil Young.
Seattle has the curiosity of being the birthplace of Jimi Hendrix, Queensryche conceptual Metal in the early 80's and be a place where bands like AC / DC always filled stadiums, even when the rock was removed from the charts.
All this speaks of a city with a strong appreciation for the Rock, which fosters a breeding ground that is catalyzed by a sentence of legendary producer Jack Endino (who recorded with Nirvana some songs for her album Bleach ) to explain the phenomenon of Seattle, one of the rainiest cities and more to North America: "when the weather is shit and not give you like going out, go down to the basement and start to get a lot of noise to get you off your frustration. " The Early
The Melvins was one of the first bands to gain respect within the local scene. They began playing in 1983 and had a dirty and dense sound that would influence strongly Kurt Cobain who had even auditioned for the band, without success. In those years began to form other bands or Malfunkshun Green River.
In 1986 the independent label C / Z pulls out a compilation called Deep Six which included songs from all 6 bands most striking of the local scene at that moment: Malfunkshun, Green River, Melvins, U-Men , Soundgarden and Skin Yard (where he played the aforementioned Jack Endino).
Malfunkshun was a trio that mixed with Glam Metal, led by Andrew Wood Landrew who called himself "The Love Child" and autocatalogando his style of music like Rock Love. Andrew accompanied him on guitar his brother Kevin Wood and drummer Regan Haggar.
Green River, on the other hand cultivated a Garage Rock harder. The internal reference was another band from Seattle with Mark Arm on vocals, Stone Gossard and Steve Turner on guitars, Jeff Ament on bass and Alex Vincent on drums. In 1985 Turner was replaced by Bruce Fairweather and the band their first EP scarlet Come on Down and then record a second in 1987, Dry As A Bone, and his long-term Rehab Doll in 1988. other bands were also cultivating different styles like Screaming Trees that mixed psychedelic rock with pop or Tad with his trademark heavy and dense that rescues influenced by Black Sabbath.
Back then everything was limited to local independent labels like Sub Pop , broadcast on local radio singles, many gigs in clubs and essentially underground movement. In 1988
begin to occur the first landmarks that lead to rearrange the local musical map and build the foundation for future exhibition of motion. That year, Green River is dissolved.
The story goes that Mark Arm not stand Jeff Ament who was obsessed with obtaining a contract with a major label for which exerted pressure on the band's musical direction. The result is that Mark Arm Steve Turner joins to form Mudhoney making the single "Touch Me I'm Sick " that same year became a local anthem, only to be parodied in the movie Singles by Matt Band Dilon as "Touch Me I'm Dick." The original version of Mudhoney with other singles released by the band on Sub Pop would be collected along with his first album in 1990, a compilation entitled Plus Early Singles Superfuzz Bigmuff .
Moreover Jeff Ament, Bruce Fairweather, Stone Gossard thirst join the recently disbanded Malfunkshun vocalist Andrew Wood. They give life to one of the key bands in the genealogy Seattle Music: Mother Love Bone characterized by a refined melodic sense Glam still bring charges, but has become more sophisticated.
The First Survey and the Road to Success
In 1989, Soundgarden Louder Than Love with is the first grunge band release an album under a major label and even get some rotation its video for "Hands All Over" , A & M. Nirvana recorded with a budget of $ 600 their debut album Bleach for Sub Pop released his Mother Love Bone Shine EP and become the great promise of Seattle getting a record deal. Some critics and journalists are beginning to look closely at what is brewing in Seattle.
Mother Love Bone works hard in the recording sessions for his album Apple , But once completed and before going on sale, Andrew Wood died of heroin overdose. The band achieved some popularity in the U.S. but lost his front-man. Jeff Ament and Stone Gossard decided to form a new band with guitarist Mike McCready, owner of a style influenced by Hendrix. For a brief period called themselves Lords of the Wasteland and tested with Shawn Smith (Satchel and vocalist Brad ). The equation seems to curdle and the musicians recorded some demos, sending the tape to several friends and acquaintances from around the country to record their voices on vocal tracks. Dozens of imitators arrive Andrew Wood, but also a tape of a Californian surfer named Eddie Vedder, who joined the fledgling band that later became known as Pearl Jam . Chris Cornell, former roommate of Andrew Wood, a set of songs written in the form of tribute and recorded with Soundgarden drummer Matt Cameron and musicians who would later form Pearl Jam. This project was titled Temple of the Dog and is a beautiful album that alternates ballads and Rock, featuring a spectacular duet with Eddie Vedder Cornell "Hunger Strike ." While in Seattle
remained a strong music scene and bands like appeared Love Battery (which would play Bruce Fairweather) with its excellent album Between the Eyes , released by Sub Pop, My Sister's Machine which contains the ex-Alice in Chains Nick Pollock and Hiro Yamamoto stops playing bass for Soundgarden reuniting with Robert Roth to form Truly , the labels are fixed Grunge.
Sony Music (which owns Columbia and Epic) was the seal that was spent recruiting more Seatlte bands and released in 1990, the debut of Alice in Chains where video of "Man in the Box" was one of Rock's most popular music videos of the year. The Screaming Trees are also hired in January 1991 and released their album Uncle Anesthesia to without much success.
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successful debut of Alice in Chains and contracts made by some bands, in early 1991 have not spent a great deal. However, that year would go on sale two albums that would change the face of 90 Rock. Read
"Grunge History: Changing the Rock of the 90 (Part 2 of 3)"
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