‘Everybody Loves Our Town: An Oral History of Grunge’ by Mark Yarm (Crown Archetype/Crown Archetype) And Buzz Osborne of the Melvins remembers that “when I drank, I’d break out in felonies or break out in bandages, one of the two.” Matt Lukin of Mudhoney says, “There’s nothing funnier than a drunk naked guy, if you’re the drunk guy,” which he often was. The different bands were united in their desire to sound like a band they liked or, more often, to not sound like one they hated.Įxcess was always in good taste. Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, Nirvana and Alice in Chains were part of grunge, but so were Coffin Break, Cat Butt and Spluii Numa. And when you got kicked out, you formed what Jason Everman, an early member of Nirvana, calls a “revenge band.” No wonder so many sprang up so quickly. You didn’t have to play an instrument to be in a band, just own one. People in their mid-20s were already old. The scene Mark Yarm describes sounds a lot like what high school would be like if there were no classes and everybody smoked pot all day. Its subjects are youth, drugs - way too many drugs - and the enticements and perils of show biz. Grunge, a type of music that emerged in the ’80s in and around Seattle, came from what film director Cameron Crowe calls “the whole coffee-culture, ‘two or three jobs, one of which is your band’ lifestyle.” Actually, “ Everybody Loves Our Town” has a lot more to say about the lifestyle than it does about the music.
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