Gr8 job w/ this doc! I always kinda felt like ‘grunge’ music was because the drummers were stoned, the guitars had single coil pickups, old fuzz pedals. Oh - the facial hair as well! In the late 80’s @ our little skatepark in Yakima, we called those Seattle, PDX, Wenatchee dudes ‘heshers’. I loved the Accused & Fallout records/skateboards was the coolest place in the world, to me back then🖤
3:24 The Mad recorded their song Fried Egg in 1979 and it is as slow as the Black Flag song from My War, and the Replacements included a KISS song on Let It Be.
So Henry Rollins supposedly called 10 Minute Warning "punk rock Hawkwind" but my band was much more influenced by Hawkwind, but their cover of The Nile Song is pretty much in the zone. If you want to hear my band, which has a grunge sound in 1986-87 let me know. We never heard any Seattle bands because we were in Atlanta, but we heard the Stooges and Hawkwind, of course, and Black Sabbath and Alice Cooper and so on...I think the influence of LSD (more than any bands) on punk is what produced grunge even more than marijuana, and then heroin killed it, obviously.
And the first Dinosaur album on Homestead records, before they signed Sonic Youth, that is the ground zero of grunge. Nobody else in 'punk' or 'college rock' was playing long guitar solos.
There is a lot of repeat footage in these 5 parts. Some sort of discography of early local music would be helpful for people who weren't around back then. Radio stations were a major source of new music. KZAM, KJET, KAOS (Olympia). KRAB radio in 1979 had a program at midnight on Thursday called 'Penguins In Bondage' hosted by Jim Anderson and later 'Life Elsewhere' hosted by Norman Batley (aka Norman B). They played music you couldn't hear anywhere else. People mentioned the Blackouts, but you didn't really cover them. That's a shame.
@@TurnerRecordsTRS Thanks very much for making them. I enjoyed the videos very much. I am a similar age to many of the folks you interviewed, and there is some common ground, even though I wasn't in Seattle or even on the west coast. In about 1979-1980 I went to my very first shows. The first was Rock Against Racism in New York Central Park. It was a free concert with the Bad Brains and Gang of Four. It seemed like about 500 people were there or more. In 79 and 80 there was no slam dancing or 'mosh pit' and shows felt very safe for women, people of color, and for queer people. I saw the Mad and the Stimulators at Max's Kansas City all ages shows, and they had women and queer people and people of color in the bands, and the audiences were small, maybe 30-40 people. By 1982 I was in a band. I moved to Atlanta in 1984, and was in a couple of bands, nobody was getting signed, it wasn't even anything anyone cared about until the Black Crows hit the big time. Money ruins music, and hard drugs.
Gr8 job w/ this doc! I always kinda felt like ‘grunge’ music was because the drummers were stoned, the guitars had single coil pickups, old fuzz pedals. Oh - the facial hair as well! In the late 80’s @ our little skatepark in Yakima, we called those Seattle, PDX, Wenatchee dudes ‘heshers’. I loved the Accused & Fallout records/skateboards was the coolest place in the world, to me back then🖤
@@slimchance7748 thanks for the support!
An amazing amount of heart and work put into this!!! Thank you!!!😉🤘🏻
Thanks for your support!
3:24 The Mad recorded their song Fried Egg in 1979 and it is as slow as the Black Flag song from My War, and the Replacements included a KISS song on Let It Be.
So Henry Rollins supposedly called 10 Minute Warning "punk rock Hawkwind" but my band was much more influenced by Hawkwind, but their cover of The Nile Song is pretty much in the zone. If you want to hear my band, which has a grunge sound in 1986-87 let me know. We never heard any Seattle bands because we were in Atlanta, but we heard the Stooges and Hawkwind, of course, and Black Sabbath and Alice Cooper and so on...I think the influence of LSD (more than any bands) on punk is what produced grunge even more than marijuana, and then heroin killed it, obviously.
I mailed a tape to Michael Stipe in 1987
listening to Minor Threat on acid leads to a re- interpretation
the psychedelic influence of Jimi, but also Amon Duul, Butthole Surfers, combined with the Crucifucks
And the first Dinosaur album on Homestead records, before they signed Sonic Youth, that is the ground zero of grunge. Nobody else in 'punk' or 'college rock' was playing long guitar solos.
There is a lot of repeat footage in these 5 parts. Some sort of discography of early local music would be helpful for people who weren't around back then. Radio stations were a major source of new music. KZAM, KJET, KAOS (Olympia). KRAB radio in 1979 had a program at midnight on Thursday called 'Penguins In Bondage' hosted by Jim Anderson and later 'Life Elsewhere' hosted by Norman Batley (aka Norman B). They played music you couldn't hear anywhere else. People mentioned the Blackouts, but you didn't really cover them. That's a shame.
What repeats? Blackouts are covered during a section when No Wave is discussed
@@TurnerRecordsTRS I agree, there are repeats, if you rewatch the whole thing (and it took me days to watch it all) you will find them.
@@TurnerRecordsTRS also, there are moments when two sound recordings play at the same time, for example, 4:33
@@sderoski1 thanks for watching and the notes. It took me thousands of hours to put together so that you actually watched all of it means a lot.
@@TurnerRecordsTRS Thanks very much for making them. I enjoyed the videos very much. I am a similar age to many of the folks you interviewed, and there is some common ground, even though I wasn't in Seattle or even on the west coast. In about 1979-1980 I went to my very first shows. The first was Rock Against Racism in New York Central Park. It was a free concert with the Bad Brains and Gang of Four. It seemed like about 500 people were there or more. In 79 and 80 there was no slam dancing or 'mosh pit' and shows felt very safe for women, people of color, and for queer people. I saw the Mad and the Stimulators at Max's Kansas City all ages shows, and they had women and queer people and people of color in the bands, and the audiences were small, maybe 30-40 people. By 1982 I was in a band. I moved to Atlanta in 1984, and was in a couple of bands, nobody was getting signed, it wasn't even anything anyone cared about until the Black Crows hit the big time. Money ruins music, and hard drugs.