I blogged previously about the first two albums put out by The Electronic Music Club Of Edmonds Community College and that post provides a bit of background into the town, the college, and the music club. The club continued putting out albums each year following those initial releases in 1984 and 1985, and EMC5 represents […]
Category: Seattle
Tad – “Wood Goblins” (1989) and “Jack Pepsi” (1991) 12″ Records
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 […]
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 […]
The Sonics – “Here Are The Sonics!!!” (1965 / 1980)
The Sonics are in their own way responsible for one of the more odd situations wherein I’ve run into someone I know in an almost totally improbable place. And The Sonics own involvement was also improbable, making the entire incident improbable2. For a little context, The Sonics are a garage rock band founded just down […]