Every few years l pull this book out and forget how awesome it it, defo in the running with 'get in the van' for my favourite music-related book.
It exhaustively documents the seattle grunge scene over 50 years up until the mid 90's , it a slog to get through it but it's worth it, being on a total 90's grunge trip at the moment it inspired me to listen to bands l'd not listened to in 10 years, l remember hearing Nirvana on the radio when l was getting ready for school around 1992 (god, that makes me feel old) and embarrisingly trying to sing along in the mirror with a hairbrush for a microphone until my mum came in and gave me the ' what on earth are you doing' look. ha, although l ended up trading the hairbrush for a real microphone years later l still miss the excitement and mystery of when l first got into music.
On a better note , today l am going to sign on for the first time ever. signing on at 27 makes me feel somewhat demeaned but everyones got their own hard times these days, right?.
