10 Minute Warning

Most local music scenes start innocently enough, at least they did before the existence of the internet. Case-in-point, Seattle, a small city that was often skipped by touring bands in the early ’80s. If you lived there then, you would often have to drive to either Portland or Vancouver B.C. to see your favorite band play live. Living there, I would have never expected to play a small part in a history that would end up being the subject of countless books, articles and documentary films. I arrived in Seattle from California in June of 1981, with no sense of what my life would eventually become. I ended up playing in bands for almost a decade and stumbled rather fortuitously into the role of president for Seattle-based C/Z Records, a label that released music from loads of Pacific Northwes...