![]() ![]() The double-guitar assault of Paul Solger and McKagan provided a riff-driven immediacy that was raw and insistent. Greg had a sense of rhythm that was clearly rooted in a punk rock aesthetic but with an approach that embodied the freedom of a jazz player. Gilmore was already the stuff of local legend The Living was a band invariably mentioned with a tone of reverence (their 1982 record was recently released on Stone Gossard’s Loosegroove Records). David was a furtive lanky skater kid who channeled his best Dennis Dunaway. But before long, Paul Solger and Blaine Cook of The Fartz joined forces with Duff McKagan and Greg Gilmore from The Living and brought in David Garrigues as their new bass player. The band’s beginning was initially just a name-change for hardcore legends The Fartz. I saw them several times in 1983, initially when singer Blaine Cook was still in the band. The band that completely nailed me to the wall? The relatively short-lived 10 Minute Warning. Big acts like Gun Club, Butthole Surfers, Bad Brains, Violent Femmes and The Replacements, but equally exhilarating were regional bands, the Wipers, U-Men, the Blackouts, the Altered, the Fastbacks, Poison Idea, Deranged Diction, the Accused and Room Nine. I ended up playing in bands for almost a decade and stumbled rather fortuitously into the role of president for Seattle-based C/Z Records, a label that released music from loads of Pacific Northwest bands, including Soundgarden, Melvins, Built to Spill, 7 Year Bitch, The Gits, Green River, Hammerbox, Love Battery, the Presidents of the United States of America.īetween the spring of 1983 and into 1984, during the brief but remarkable 11-month period that the now-legendary venue Metropolis was in existence, I saw a number of shows that changed my life. I arrived in Seattle from California in June of 1981, with no sense of what my life would eventually become. Living there, I would have never expected to play a small part in a history that would end up being the subject of countless books, articles and documentary films. If you lived there then, you would often have to drive to either Portland or Vancouver B.C. Case-in-point, Seattle, a small city that was often skipped by touring bands in the early ’80s. ![]() Happy Hate Me Nots The Happy Hate Me Nots were an Australian band that formed in Sydney in 1983.Most local music scenes start innocently enough, at least they did before the existence of the internet.Avengers, The This Brisbane-based Australian combo initially plied their wares on the club and discotheque circuit, mainly performing cover versions of the….Originally called The Playmates, they were forced… Rivieras, The The Rivieras formed in 1962 at South Bend Central High School in Indiana. ![]()
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