I can remember when we played in Seattle, Kurt came to the show – he was in The Snakepit – and I remember the entire time we were playing he kept on waving his arms at me. His name was Kurt, and he said that one of his favourite albums was Ride The Lightning and one of his favourite Metallica songs was Whiplash. Kirk Hammett : When we were recording the Black album, I was listening to this band that was on this independent record label, and I was really into their first album. We play so hard that we can’t tune our guitars fast enough. Kurt Cobain : We’re just musically and rhythmically retarded. I got it all, saw it all and knew that he was right – we had to die.Įverett True: Unlike metal, which by the late 80s had degenerated into a bad LA parody coupled with dullard sexism, grunge had an impassioned urgency. I fell in love with Kurt Cobain straight away. Seb Hunter : They were ripe for the picking, for a cull, for death. They wouldn’t even listen to the shit, they’d just see the make-up. By wave 10 or 11 you’d passed Trixter, Hericane Alice and another 10 other bands with a bleach-blond singer.ĬC DeVille : Everyone would look at the image of the band and think we were poseurs. The next two or three waves were bands like Poison, White Lion and Cinderella. First come the big ones – Van Halen, Mötley Crüe, Bon Jovi and Def Leppard. Mike Tramp : To use surfing terminology, waves come in groups of 12. The insane amount of energy rising up through the boards of that town’s clubs. But I don’t think we anticipated the fallout.Įverett True : Seattle 1988 is where it all started. Grunge needed to happen, without a doubt – something was needed to turn the tide in rock. Geoff Barton: If you say that 1987 was the height of hair metal, then by the end of the late 80s, the whole scene needed a massive shake-up.
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