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TRACEY ROWLAND co-owner of Roscoe Louie/Graven Image galleries; Larry Reid’s wife
RON RUDZITIS (a.k.a. Ron Nine) Love Battery/Room Nine singer/guitarist
CHARLIE RYAN U-Men/Cat Butt/the Crows drummer
SALTPETER bassist for Dwarves (San Francisco)
STEFANIE SARGENT (d. 1992) 7 Year Bitch guitarist
JOHN BAKER SAUNDERS (d. 1999) Mad Season/the Walkabouts bassist
PATTY SCHEMEL drummer for Hole (Los Angeles)
SARAH SHANNON singer for Velocity Girl (Washington, D.C., area)
GARRETT SHAVLIK drummer for the Fluid (Denver); Lilly Milic’s husband
BEN SHEPHERD Soundgarden bassist; Hater singer/guitarist; March of Crimes guitarist
ALEX SHUMWAY (a.k.a. Alex Vincent) Green River/Spluii Numa drummer
JOHN SILVA Nirvana/Sonic Youth manager; Gold Mountain Entertainment partner
SUSAN SILVER Soundgarden/Alice in Chains/Screaming Trees/U-Men manager; Chris Cornell’s ex-wife
TRACY SIMMONS (a.k.a. T-Man) Blood Circus bassist
JOSH SINDER TAD/Gruntruck/the Accüsed drummer
ROB SKINNER Coffin Break bassist/singer
SLASH guitarist for Guns N’ Roses (Los Angeles)
PAT SMEAR Nirvana/Foo Fighters/Germs guitarist
JEFF SMITH (a.k.a. Jo Smitty) Mr. Epp and the Calculations singer/guitarist
TABITHA SOREN MTV News reporter
EDDIE SPAGHETTI Supersuckers singer/bassist
DONITA SPARKS singer/guitarist for L7 (Los Angeles)
LAYNE STALEY (d. 2002) Alice in Chains/Mad Season/Alice N’ Chains singer; Demri Parrott’s boyfriend
MIKE STARR (d. 2011) Alice in Chains bassist
ANNA STATMAN Geffen Records/Slash Records A&R representative
AARON STAUFFER Seaweed singer
DAMON STEWART KISW DJ; Sony Music regional A&R scout
KEN STRINGFELLOW the Posies singer/guitarist
SCOTT SUNDQUIST Soundgarden drummer
JOSH TAFT video director
SUSIE TENNANT DGC Records Northwest promotion representative
NICK TERZO Columbia Records/Maverick Records A&R executive
KIM THAYIL Soundgarden guitarist
GARY THORSTENSEN TAD guitarist
JIM TILLMAN U-Men/Love Battery bassist
EVERETT TRUE Melody Maker newspaper writer; Nirvana biographer
MIKE TUCKER U-Men roadie
STEVE TURNER Mudhoney/Green River/Mr. Epp and the Calculations/the Thrown Ups guitarist
CONRAD UNO Popllama Records founder; Egg Studios owner; producer/engineer
CHRIS UTTING (a.k.a. Criss Crass) the Vains singer/guitarist; the Living drummer/guitarist
TOBI VAIL Bikini Kill drummer; Kurt Cobain’s ex-girlfriend
SCOTT VANDERPOOL KXRX/KCMU DJ; Room Nine drummer
MATT VAUGHAN Gruntruck manager; Easy Street Records stores owner
EDDIE VEDDER Pearl Jam/Temple of the Dog singer; Hovercraft drummer
BUTCH VIG producer; drummer for Garbage (Madison, Wis.)
SELENE VIGIL-WILK 7 Year Bitch singer
KIM WARNICK Fastbacks singer/bassist; Sub Pop Records receptionist
ALICE WHEELER photographer
DENNIS R. WHITE Pravda Productions partner; Desperate Times zine cofounder
KIM WHITE Screaming Trees manager
BOB WHITTAKER Mudhoney manager
KEVIN WHITWORTH Love Battery guitarist
STEVE WIEDERHOLD (a.k.a. Steve Wied) TAD drummer
RUSTY WILLOUGHBY Pure Joy/Flop singer/guitarist
ANN WILSON Heart/the Lovemongers singer; Nancy Wilson’s sister
NANCY WILSON Heart/the Lovemongers singer/guitarist; Ann Wilson’s sister; Cameron Crowe’s ex-wife
ANDREW WOOD (d. 1990) Mother Love Bone singer; Malfunkshun singer/bassist; brother of Brian and Kevin Wood; Xana La Fuente’s fiancé
BRIAN WOOD musician; brother of Andrew and Kevin Wood
KEVIN WOOD Malfunkshun guitarist; brother of Andrew and Brian Wood
REP. LYNN C. WOOLSEY Democratic congresswoman from California
ANNA WOOLVERTON Sub Pop Records receptionist
MATT WRIGHT Gas Huffer singer
TOBY WRIGHT producer/engineer
HIRO YAMAMOTO Soundgarden/Truly bassist
NEIL YOUNG Canadian singer-songwriter
MIA ZAPATA (d. 1993) the Gits singer
All interviews conducted by the author between 2008 and 2011, unless noted otherwise below.
CHAPTER 1: Something Crazy’s Gonna Happen
1 What were all the police cars doing at the recreation center “Vandalism at the Recreation Center,” Laurelhurst Community Club newsletter, January 1982.
CHAPTER 2: The Gospel According to Buzz
1 I remember