Tad are the forgotten band of the nascent Seattle scene of the mid-to-late 1980s, the scene that eventually became known around the world as “grunge”, a word intended as a genre but really more a description of a time-place-attitude nexus centered around Seattle-Tacoma-Olympia but with a blast radius that encompassed most of Washington. How important […]
Category: Rock
The Dogmatics – “Everybody Does It” (1986)
Where could The Dogmatics have hoped to fit in during the mid-1980s? New wave had given way to pop and hair metal was still in the rising portion of its Icarus trajectory. Minneapolis was pumping out indie hits under the radar and a nascent grunge scene was bubbling under in Seattle, a revolution in the […]
Led Zeppelin – “Seattle 1972” (2023)
Without realizing it, over the years I ended up purchasing physical copies of most of Led Zeppelin’s recorded Seattle shows. As best I can tell the might Zep played here 11 times if you count an appearance in Woodinville in 1969 for the Seattle Pop Festival. Six of the shows, those from 1972 to 1977, […]
Led Zeppelin – “Kingdom Come: Seattle 1977 Definitive Edition” 3xCD (2023)
Led Zeppelin played 10 or 11 shows in my hometown of Seattle, including one played very close to my house in a town called Woodinville. The first was in 1968, the last was in 1977 at the massive concrete eyesore known as the Kingdome. I was just a kid when that last show happened and […]
David Bowie – “Stage” (1978)
My first encounter with David Bowie was 1983s Let’s Dance, an album widely derided by Bowie fans when it came out, and for a number of years after, for being a commercial sell out. James Hartley’s Advanced Genius Theory teaches us that one of the things required for an artist to AdvanceTM is they must […]