Best band named after a Russ Meyer film.

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1. Faster Pussycat sucked but Mudhoney...

..was super overrated I thought. I didn't even think they were that good a garage rock band. But everyone and their brother thinking that Mudhoney was going to be the "next big thing" after Nirvana broke must have been smoking crack.

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2. They went rapidly downhill after their first LP.

I loved Mudhoney, especially their early 45s, Superfuzz Bigmuff, and their first long-player, but I think they tried too hard to steer clear of the "grunge" thing. Actually, their more recent material is actually pretty good.

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3. I think they were a prime case of...

..the parts being better than the whole. They had a lot of good elements to them but I don't think they ever congealed into a cohesive enough unit for my taste.

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4. The PNW was rife with great '60s revivalists in the late-'80s/early-'90s.

Mudhoney was the one who got "big" (-ish, anyway, at least in comparison to the others). I don't dislike Mudhoney, but there were far better bands in Washington and Oregon.

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5. See, I loved Mudhoney, they were the only band

truly deserving of the label "grunge." They weren't some hair-metal posers that jumped on the Seattle gravy train (*AHEM* aliceinchains *AHEM*)

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6. Thank you...

People get mad at me when I point out that Alice In Chains was a hair metal band who jumped on the grunge gravy train. Even when I show them pictures.

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10. Hey...lookie what I found!

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11. Formerly "SLEZE"

:rofl:

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12. Yep..good old Metal Sludge Exposed.....

Good stuff. The only band I'm surprised they weren't able to get a hold of anything on was Stone Temple Pilots. They were also a hair band. Which is why when they were first coming out and trying to sell the story that they all met at a Black Flag show, I was rolling on the floor laughing.

The early Pantera pics are also priceless.

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14. Did you see the pic of Rivers Cuomo?

Priceless. :rofl: At least Matt Sharp was into Voivod.

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15. You say that like being into Voivod is a good thing.

:scared:

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16. Indeed it is.

They were like, um, the King Crimson of speed metal. :shrug:

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17. The Klaatu of speed metal, maybe.

:eyes:

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18. Yeah, that's another one I like to use...

...to burst people's bubbles. Especially since most of them fall for his horribly contrived faux nerd shtick.

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7. I agree.....

As discussed in another thread, many of the bands on Estrus fit that bill.

They were later and not from the PNW but were you ever into the New Bomb Turks or Gaunt at all?

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8. I used to do all my record shopping at Used Kids in Columbus.

Where Jerry Wick and the Turks' guitar player (Matt? shit, I forget) worked.

I fuckin' loved Jerry, and was completely heartbroken when he died. Of course, I did get his copy of the first Great Plains EP, but still....

So, in other words, yes.

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9. I think his name was Jim....

If I'm not mistaken "Jim Motherfucker" by Gaunt was written for and about him.

They were both great bands that deserved to be more successful then they were especially when compared to similar bands mining the same territory that got big (The Hives, White Stripes, etc.).

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13. There was a Jim and a Matt and an Eric and another guy.

I don't know which was which, as I was often intoxicated.

I'm talking about the fat one. :P

Between Shepard hanging himself in '98 and Wick getting run over by a drunk driver in '01, it was a rough few years to be a Columbus hanger-on.