missed indeed, but love rock still awaits me in my cd changer

Awesome. I have this album on vinyl somewhere...

Excellent.

Thanks for the memories, Subby.

Tragedy indeed.
His death spawned Pearl Jam.
That alone is tragic.

King Buzzo once admitted stealing a riff from a Jeff Ament bass line
from either Green River or Mother Love Bone.
Jeff said "go ahead and take it,it is too redundant for me anyway"
Years later Buzzo said "I find it ironic that a guy who started Pearl Jam can call anything redundant"

Anyway--I think the original "grunge" bands are quite good.
Melvins and Tad especially. "Grunge' was originally meant as a description of a specific guitar sound. It was about ten years later that it became associated with a mode of clothing style.

Great song. Tragic ending.

/Chloe Dancer FTW
//Loved Temple of the Dog

btw--Andrew Wood was 14 when he started the band Malfunkshun and was in rehab by the time he was 19.

Talk about candle burning too brightly.
Dead at 24 and never had a clue to the legacy he left.

My teen years in Seattle relived for a few brief moments.

Thanks subby.

/Back to my middle aged comfy existence
//still live in the Emerald City
///Beautiful locale

craigdamage:

Anyway--I think the original "grunge" bands are quite good.
Melvins and Tad especially. "Grunge' was originally meant as a description of a specific guitar sound. It was about ten years later that it became associated with a mode of clothing style.


Forsooth! Verily the Apex of this most Christian and Melodious Sound cometh in the year of our Lord 1632!

If it ever comes out on DVD there is a amazing documentary about him called Malfunkshun by Scott Barbour.

I remember soon after his death, people were saying that he'd been murdered. It was either Eddie Vedder or Stone Gossard that pointed to the incontrovertible evidence that Wood's favorite t-shirt was in the dryer...apparently, he never washed his favorite t-shirt.

Mother Love Bone was a decent group, but not particularly impressed.

/Maybe Wood was Courtney Love's practice run for offing an angsty singer

piercer310: If it ever comes out on DVD there is a amazing documentary about him called Malfunkshun by Scott Barbour.

This video totally put me in documentary mode. I'm downloading Streetwise. I haven't seen it since about 1988 or so.

I always thought MLB was a good band and were actually a good illustration of the evolution from L.A. metal to Seattle grunge.

Another example...

Alice In Chains.

Forgot how much I liked that song

skippytheferret: Another example...Alice In Chains.

Jesus Jerry, hide your shame!

Must have took his fashion sense from Bon "My Balls Hurt" Scott.

I had totally forgotten about that song, and I own that album. Now that I've heard it again I know why - it's not that good.

The guitar work is pretty good, as to be expected from Gossard. The lyrics on the other hand are juvenile and uninspired, and the vocals are a whole big fat ball of "meh" - at BEST. Overall, calling it mediocre is being a tiny bit generous. Sorry, but Mother Love Bone was totally overrated. The best thing Andrew Wood did for music was OD so that Pearl Jam would end up being formed.

Saw them a couple of times at the Satyricon. Does anyone know if the graffiti of "MOTHER LOVE BONE" still lives on outside the Vogue?

mongbiohazard: The lyrics on the other hand are juvenile and uninspired, and the vocals are a whole big fat ball of "meh" - at BEST.

Pretty much nails my main MLB critique.

I always thought the ending riff of this song was ripped off my Velvet Revolver "Fall to Pieces"

Listening to MLB makes me forget the last 18 years.

Miss you, Andrew.

"Dreams like this must die."

mongbiohazard: I had totally forgotten about that song, and I own that album. Now that I've heard it again I know why - it's not that good.

The guitar work is pretty good, as to be expected from Gossard. The lyrics on the other hand are juvenile and uninspired, and the vocals are a whole big fat ball of "meh" - at BEST. Overall, calling it mediocre is being a tiny bit generous. Sorry, but Mother Love Bone was totally overrated. The best thing Andrew Wood did for music was OD so that Pearl Jam would end up being formed.

The do nothing critic has spoken. Where's your album?

Glenlivid: Saw them a couple of times at the Satyricon. Does anyone know if the graffiti of "MOTHER LOVE BONE" still lives on outside the Vogue?

The Vogue was torn down years ago to make room for condos.

mongbiohazard: I had totally forgotten about that song, and I own that album. Now that I've heard it again I know why - it's not that good.

The guitar work is pretty good, as to be expected from Gossard. The lyrics on the other hand are juvenile and uninspired, and the vocals are a whole big fat ball of "meh" - at BEST. Overall, calling it mediocre is being a tiny bit generous. Sorry, but Mother Love Bone was totally overrated. The best thing Andrew Wood did for music was OD so that Pearl Jam would end up being formed.

I'll wager that Andrew Wood will be remembered fondly by more people than you, when your miserable life comes to an end.

/Subby

craigdamage: Tragedy indeed.
His death spawned Pearl Jam.
That alone is tragic.

King Buzzo once admitted stealing a riff from a Jeff Ament bass line
from either Green River or Mother Love Bone.
Jeff said "go ahead and take it,it is too redundant for me anyway"
Years later Buzzo said "I find it ironic that a guy who started Pearl Jam can call anything redundant"

Anyway--I think the original "grunge" bands are quite good.
Melvins and Tad especially. "Grunge' was originally meant as a description of a specific guitar sound. It was about ten years later that it became associated with a mode of clothing style.


Someone from the melvins making fun of pearl jam for being redundant? That's rich! Sounds like a case of someone being jealous that they couldn't ride the seattle wave.

Sounds like a case of someone being jealous that they couldn't ride the seattle wave.

The Melvins moved away from Seattle in 1988. They basically wanted to abandon that entire "scene" there.

The Melvins are regarded as the "originators" of grunge and as a primary influence on those that later got big in the early 90s.
(along with Green River and Malfunkshun)

Cobain and Thayil (Soundgargen) cited Buzzo/Melvins as their "primary influence"

Melvins are about as un-redundant as any artist in music history.
The records they have released in the 21st century are utterly unlike what they did in the late 90s which are completely dissimilar to the early 90s which are greatly unlike their late 80s albums which is nothing like what they did back in 1984.

Punk-->"grunge"-->Ambient/experimental-->"sludge metal"...etc

craigdamage: Tragedy indeed.
His death spawned Pearl Jam.
That alone is tragic.

King Buzzo once admitted stealing a riff from a Jeff Ament bass line
from either Green River or Mother Love Bone.
Jeff said "go ahead and take it,it is too redundant for me anyway"
Years later Buzzo said "I find it ironic that a guy who started Pearl Jam can call anything redundant"

Anyway--I think the original "grunge" bands are quite good.
Melvins and Tad especially. "Grunge' was originally meant as a description of a specific guitar sound. It was about ten years later that it became associated with a mode of clothing style.

Lighten Up, Francis.

I can't believe that was 20 years ago.

God I'm old.

Temple Of The Dog, the AW tribute album, was very inspired. I'd put it in my Top 5 GOAT albums, but that's just me.

Isn't the Alice in Chains song "Would" dedicated to Wood?
So I heard.