My Life In The Seattle Grunge Music Scene
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- Опубліковано 18 бер 2021
- In 1996 I moved to Seattle to pursue my music career in the band Severna Park. This is my story.
Everything from working for Sub Pop, playing shows with Modest Mouse, Death Cab For Cutie & Harvey Danger, to being in the epicenter of the cultural phenomenon known as "Grunge", hear the story firsthand from someone who was there during this historical era of alternative music.
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So very cool. I saw you guys play a couple times. Was always blown away.. Grew up in Seattle, played in several bands. Still playing with my main one 34 years later.
I’m so glad to hear you are still at it! Those were pretty amazing times, I’m just so grateful we got to be a part of it. Loved playing shows, and I loved seeing the all those bands.
Im still at it too (haha) my new single just came out today. Let me know what you think my brother! open.spotify.com/album/47ND7kTJksmbr9W35vN3pU?si=hHSroVRZQJ6OSdginS1Y4A&dl_branch=1
I have been searching off and on for years, online, for anything to do with Severna Park. I saw Severna Park open for Harvey Danger in Auburn, WA in 1998. It was the beginning of my junior year in high school and my best friend and I were huge fans! Thank you so much for providing music for the soundtrack of my youth. Your songs have stuck with me and still pop into my head from time to time. THANK YOU!!!!
Hi Sarah! Wow, it’s so great to hear from old friends, it made my day! Yes that Harvey Danger show was crazy, that was right when their song was blowing up. It was an amazing time to be in Seattle. So glad I was part of your teen memories, I’ll never forget those times if I live to be 100.
You might like my new band Mia Mera, you check us out here:
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It’s a little heavier than Severna Park, but still the same power pop influence. Hope your doing great & thanks again for the memories.
@@miameramusic I listened as soon as I found this video! It's great to hear your voice again!!
@@sarahmartin2430 Great to hear from old friends again🤘
Love your openness, positivity, and stories Jack!
Damn Jack. I had know idea. You have lived quite a life up to now. Sadly the past may have been opportunities lost but moving foreword you are armed with so much more knowledge and experience to accomplish your life long dreams. I love how unafraid you are to speak from the heart and put yourself out there to strangers (UA-cam community) it truly shows how fearless, honest and true you are as a human being. You are incredibly inspiring my brotha. Most importantly I Now know where the Jobber theme song came from! Love from The Bay. - Kirk
I appreciate the words of encouragement Kirk. At this point, we don’t have much else, so means a lot and I feel the support all the way from Northern Cali 🤘❤️🤘
Love this! Fascinating…
Thanks GenXJen! I’m working on another video soon about post-grunge Seattle and the bands that came afterwards. I appreciate your kind words it means a lot 🎶🤘 -Gen X Jack
5:27 if you’re from Baltimore, get familiar with Lungfish
I’ve been listening to Lungfish for 3 decades. Amazing band.
What is the opening song? I like it
Thanks man! That’s my old band Severna Park. It’s called “Give My Regards”
Are you familiar with Positive Greed? They were punk but had ties with the likes of Modest Mouse and SDRE
No I haven't, and that is pretty rare 😆. My bass player went to HS with Jeremy Enigk and Carrie Brownstein, I'm sure he has. When did they form/break up?
Cool man
Thank you my brother, rock on!🤘
What do you think of when you hear the word "Seattle"? Coffee? Space Needle? Bill Gates? For me it's music...
Saverna Park is most excellent.
That was like a hundred years ago, the fact that anyone still appreciates those songs warms my soul. Thanks so much E-Z 🖤
Tbh by 1996 grunge was dead. Nirvana gone AiC Soundgarden disbanded Pearl Jam on hiatus .
You are 💯 %. If you even said that word in Seattle in the late 90’s you were shunned. It was like saying Voldemort. But there was still tons of music being made and plenty of good bands.
That was my first thought as well.....moving to Seattle in '96 is sort of like a hair metal guy showing up to the West LA strip in 1990. With that said there was definitely life to Alternative/Grunge music in 1996(i mean take a band like Bush who was huge then playing 15,000 arenas into 1997). It's just that Nu-Metal/Pop punk was right aright around the corner.
By 96? I feel like by 92 people were over it.
@@miameramusicright. Karp and Unwound come to mind.
@@fogpumas While bands like Karp & Unwound were certainly amazing & influential, the label “grunge” was much more associated with mainstream media and reserved for the bigger acts that had either disappeared or moved on by 1996.
96 was the end of grunge
It was dead long before that, I got to Seattle in ‘96 it was was dead by ‘94. You weren’t allowed to say the word “grunge”, it was forbidden. It was a joke by then. My video is about the Seattle scene that existed post-grunge and the great music that continued to flow.
@@miameramusic I even remember there was an interview with Nirvana and they said by 1993 the energy at the Crocodile was gone and the audience looked bored, and that club was owned by their friend Peter Buck’s wife. So that’s saying something.
@@GnomeChomsky9999 The crowds in Seattle were spoiled, by the mid 90’s they were too cool for school. Pete Buck was part owner of the Croc & his wife Stephanie also booked RKCNDY where my band got to open for Rocket From The Crypt, she was very good to us.
92, actually. It was all posers from then on. Hot topic teens.
The smithereens are from carteret New Jersey and that’s actually my hometown the only reason I even know that little factoid..
They are one my favorite bands of all time. I remember Pat DiNizio had an unsuccessful run for the senate in New Jersey, I wish I could have voted for him.
Ah, sorry never heard of ya. Lol got your guitar amp in the background to prove it or something? I’ve been to concerts too bro, congratulations… NEXT!
Woah you saw NEXT in concert? I’m so envious, I love that song “Too Close, feel a little poke”, probably not as much as you though, you saw them live!