Mudhoney in Q Magazine Grunge Special

[Smallstone]

this has just been published in the UK - a Q magazine special on 'Grunge' - ack the dreaded G word!! But... despite having features on Alice In Chains etc etc it's really pretty damn good. For those of you who don't know, Q is a pretty straight laced major label stylee music mag, published by Emap who also do vastly superior mag Mojo. In what looks like a piece originally intended for Mojo Keith Cameron has written a really really amazing Mudhoney piece. Shame it wasn't in Mojo as more people would read it, but there you go.

Again for those of you who don't know your grunge history Keith Cameron was one of the 1st journalists to ever write about Sub Pop/Mudhone/Nirvana etc etc , not just in the UK but pretty much the world (out side of Seattle I guess).
Cameron was at a LOT of the early shows - again both in the UK and US whilst he wrote for orginally Sounds then the NME. He knows the bands (he wrote a piece on Nirvana for the NME back in the day which rightly or wrongly lifted the lid on the whole 'Nirvana-drugs-they're really fucking' up issue - for which he was pretty much publicly cut off from the band - another story....). But the Mudhoney piece is great. Lots of first hand interviews with Steve , Mark and Dan (no Matt sadly) and Jon Poneman from Sub Pop.
So anyways I don't wanna spoil yer fun by relaying all thats in the piece - but folks outside UK have fun trying to track this down! But I suggest anyone with an interest in Mudhoney trys to get a copy. It's a great read, better than the This Band Could Be Your Life chapter on Mudhoney. The bands insight into the whole Nirvana success issue is dipped into alongside the Pearl Jam success 'feud' style thang. WELL WORTH READING - all you Nirvana worshippers will be kinda shocked I think.... It's really balanced and has some total 'Wow I didn't know that moments'.

I think people are already selling this on Ebay. Seems anything with Kurt C's face still sells out pretty quick!!

Anyone else read it - got a copy? What do folks think if they have?

Oh and the photo's are beautiful!! Some great new Charles Peterson shots!!

[I love Kim Deal]

wow I must look out for that.

[greesyrice]

sounds good

[brandnewface]

yea ! When I met Mark I asked him, between a other things, about Keith Cameron and Everett True. He reveled to me that he had just recently made an interview with Keith C. about "music in the early 90s", as he said, obviously skipping the G word hah. Anyway, he told me that K. Cameron is a great guy, though they relationship in the mid/late 90s wasnt happening, but now is all good !

I Have to track that number ! any UK ppl that may help ?

[Thurston_Whore]

I shall be keeping an eye out for this one. thx for th info folks! ;D

[thorn]

hmmmmmm........ intresting indeed!!!!!!!!!!!!

[h8kurdt]

I got it yesterday, a good magazine overall. The mudhoney section was really cool. I learnt alot of stuff that I didn't know previously (Mark was a heroin addict?!?). The Nirvana sections had nothing new to add to the many times the story has been told. Theirs a section about the melvins with an interview with Buzz all I can say is, he is one angry guy.

[greesyrice]

h8kurdt said:

I didn't know previously (Mark was a heroin addict?!?).

Woah WTF i never knew that when was this?

[brandnewface]

Guess during the early 90s, circa 91/92. As far as I know, he overdosed on 1992 New Year's eve, at kurt & courtney home or something like that. In interview he said that on 1993 he hardly saw Kurt, because, you know, Markus wanted to be clean.

[h8kurdt]

Didn't know he overdosed at there home. Their was a sad moment when I read it. Kurt askeed Mark how he got over the addiction. Mark told him to actually want to quit and want to get over the addiction. Then in the interview he says "And the one thing I held back from saying, which I really wished I'd said, was I'd stopped hanging around with my friends who were junkies and I'd broke up with my junie girlfriend". Now whenever I read something with Mark about Kurt it always seemed like he hated Kurt but that made realis ethat he did have a friendship with him and that he is sad that he's dead.