Ten Minute Warning - We're Not Living - 1983 Demos

Ten Minute Warning - We're Not Living - 1983 Demos
Vocals - Steve "Swad" Verwolf
Lead Guitar - Paul "Solger" Dana
Rhythm Guitar - Duff McKagan
Drums - Greg Gilmore
Bass - David Garrigues

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The Post-Punk Missing Link between Hardcore and Grunge, featuring past members of Solger and the Fartz, and future members of Mother Love Bone and Guns N' Roses. Stone Gossard has said that seeing Ten Minute Warning play live inspired him to become a musician. Paul Solger went on to play with the Fags and Jayne County, and wrote songs for Grunge pioneers Green River (Rehab Doll) and Mark Lanegan (Because of This). For a brief two-year period from the end of 1982 to the end of 1984 Ten Minute Warning were the kings of the Seattle music scene. The lineup with Swad on vocals went into the studio several times and recorded enough material for at least one full album and an E.P., but the expected record deal fell through and for 32 years these have never been released. The 1998 Sub-Pop LP "reunion" lineup featured a different singer and for some reason chose not to re-record or release any of the material from their 1983-1984 demos, opting instead for mostly new material and one throw back to the much more hardcore November 1982 Survival of the Fittest demo/cassette only release that still featured Blaine Cook of the Fartz on vocals. So these great 1983-1984 recordings are still gathering dust. The unheard music. Before the post-Nirvana Gold Rush.