When we moved to Seattle, everybody kind of disappeared into different corners of the city and it was a very difficult time for the band.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I listened to all types of music, and obviously when I got to Seattle I was very much aware of the music scene there.
I wanted to be as far away from everybody as I could be. I found it difficult to be close to anybody, not just the guys in the band.
In the late summer of 1986, the band I had been in for five years stopped playing. Suddenly, I was on my own. This new state of bandlessness was, at first, traumatic. When your group breaks up, a lot of broken parts hit the ground.
After about a year or so, I was in L.A.; I'd decided to try to get a band together out there.
Seattle isn't known for a particular production sound, so that leaves a lot of great producers in Seattle doing kind of their own thing. And I think, for me, I was probably enough removed from hip-hop that my style was even a little bit weirder than that.
Me and Jerry left because we felt we weren't getting anywhere playing our old songs in tiny clubs. The group was getting stale and staying behind the times.
I really liked the Seattle movement.
I broke up the band in the office in Gerrard Street.
Nirvana was like that- Nirvana was like the only band to come out of that- it was like the same thing, Seattle was like this whole scene and it was like this big scene that was thrust upon America.
When I moved to New York, I had to let my band know that I couldn't play anymore, and that was difficult to leave that behind.