{"id":793993,"date":"2019-03-20T11:10:30","date_gmt":"2019-03-20T17:10:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=810726"},"modified":"2019-03-20T11:10:30","modified_gmt":"2019-03-20T17:10:30","slug":"hear-pearl-jam-mudhoney-members-reflect-on-birth-of-grunge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/hear-pearl-jam-mudhoney-members-reflect-on-birth-of-grunge\/","title":{"rendered":"Hear Pearl Jam, Mudhoney Members Reflect on Birth of Grunge"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Three grunge luminaries who were once members of the band Green River<\/a> \u2014 Pearl Jam<\/a>\u2019s Stone Gossard<\/a> and Jeff Ament<\/a> and Mudhoney<\/a>\u2019s Mark Arm \u2014 break down the origins of the genre in the latest episode of our podcast, Rolling Stone Music Now<\/a><\/em>. Senior writer Kory Grow joins host Brian Hiatt to discuss the band\u2019s importance and play portions of his interviews, which were previously published as part of an in-depth oral history of Green River<\/a> and Seattle\u2019s nascent rock community in the mid Eighties.<\/p>\n

Reflecting on the group\u2019s earliest days, in the podcast, Gossard said, \u201cWhat we were doing was this spontaneous eruption of noise and energy, and if we drank enough beer and the crowd was right, we had these moments where suddenly we were in the middle of a sort of ecstatic punk chaos\/celebration, whatever, bacchanal and we just wanted more of that.\u201d<\/p>\n

Arm spoke to the influence of Iggy Pop and the Stooges on him and his friends in Seattle\u2019s music scene. \u201cI was just getting into punk rock and reading about what came before,\u201d he said. \u201cRaw Power<\/em> was a record you could find, because it was a cutout for four bucks. \u2026 I was just fuckin\u2019 blown away. I couldn\u2019t find anything else that sounded like the Stooges, especially Fun House<\/em>. I don\u2019t know anybody in Seattle who had Stooges records for a little while, except maybe Raw Power<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n

And Ament discussed how the group never really thought about what genre they were fitting into. \u201cI don\u2019t know if we were thinking much about what style of music we were playing in,\u201d he said. \u201cOur scene was the hardcore scene, and at the same time, the thing we loved about a lot of the hardcore bands was that they were all dramatically different. All the big bands on SST were really different; think of Black Flag, H\u00fcsker D\u00fc, Saccharine Trust and the Minutemen. It was cool if it nudged things a little bit. I think that\u2019s why the band even lasted as long as it did.\u201d<\/p>\n

The audio in the podcast includes thoughts and revelations that didn\u2019t make it into the printed version of the story. Meanwhile, the full oral history includes interviews with Green River\u2019s Steve Turner, Bruce Fairbone and Alex Shumway, as well as producers Jack Endino and Gordon Raphael, former Big Black frontman Steve Albini and former Sonic Youth bassist Kim Gordon.<\/p>\n

To hear the entire episode, press play below or download and subscribe on iTunes<\/a> or Spotify<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Download and subscribe to Rolling Stone Music Now<\/em>, hosted by Brian Hiatt, on iTunes<\/a> or Spotify<\/a>, and check out two years worth of episodes in the archive, including in-depth interviews with Bruce Springsteen, Ice Cube, Neil Young, the National, Julian Casablancas, Sheryl Crow, Johnny Marr, Fleetwood Mac, Donald Fagen, Phil Collins, Alicia Keys, Kelly Clarkson, Pete Townshend, Bob Seger, Gary Clark Jr. and many more \u2014 plus dozens of episodes featuring genre-spanning discussions and debates. Tune in Fridays at 1 p.m. ET to hear the show broadcast live on Sirius XM\u2019s Volume, channel 106.<\/p>\n

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Three grunge luminaries who were once members of the band Green River \u2014 Pearl Jam\u2019s Stone Gossard and Jeff Ament and Mudhoney\u2019s Mark Arm \u2014 break down the origins of the genre in the latest episode of our podcast, Rolling Stone Music Now. Senior writer Kory Grow joins host Brian Hiatt to discuss the band\u2019s importance and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-793993","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-15 18:56:50","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/793993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=793993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/793993\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=793993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=793993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=793993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}