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| | c o m m u n i c a t i o n s | |
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...presents... Mudhoney Interview
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by G.A. Ellsworth
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>>> a cDc publication.......1990 <<<
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-cDc- CULT OF THE DEAD COW -cDc-
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Interview with Mark Arm of Mudhoney with appearances by Steve and Dan
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(of Mudhoney) and Blag Jesus (of the Dwarves) on July 17th, 1990 in San
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Francisco. Interviewed by G.A. Ellsworth.
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Me: Are the rumors true? Are you breaking up after this tour?
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Mark: Ask Steve.
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Me: Steve?
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Steve: Why's everyone asking me, man?
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Dan: Not after this tour....
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Steve: (cutting off Dan) Yeah we are ok? Ok? Ok? Dan's the new drummer for
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oops sorry there Dan. Dan's the new drummer for Nirvana, and I'm in a band
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called Sad & Lonelies, and I'm going to be paid a LOT of money to do it.
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Mark: And I'm helping to revive Catbutt.
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Steve: Sad and Lonelies is like this band like it's like this kind of studio
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thing, but they got fucking like signed to Epic. And like I'm on a fucking
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payroll starting January 1st, fucking $5000 a month, fucking figure that out
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huh? Jesus Christ I'll do it. Fucking LATER MUDHONEY, bunch of LOSERS.
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Me: I was just going to ask you for some dirt on Catbutt knowing how they
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fucked over Subpop, but if you are going to be working with them, I guess you
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don't wanna give me any dirt.
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Mark: Uh, no.
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Me: Where's the last Mudhoney show gonna be?
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Mark: Probably in somewhere in Australia or maybe Seattle or something I don't
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know.
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Steve: There is no last show as such.
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Mark: Yeah, there probably may never be a last show.
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Steve: We're gonna keep getting back together once a year because the money
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will be good enough. It really all comes down to dollars and cents. That's
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the way I like to put it. Rock n Roll is dollars and common sense. If you
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play it right, you fucking got it.
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Me: Is that Subpop philosophy?
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Mark: No. That's ours. It's probably a lot more than just ours too.
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Me: How much stuff did Green River release?
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Mark: Apparently not enough because I'd be a lot richer if we did. And the DRY
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AS A BONE thing and the REHAB DOLL thing and there was the single we did
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ourselves.
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Groupie: Address go..
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Mark: 600 East Dollan St #307, Seattle, Washington...(turning to me) You're not
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going to start sending me weird packages are you?
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Me: Tell me about Bruce Pavitt of Subpop. Did he really blow all those people?
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Mark: Oh yeah, those T-shirts that say BRUCE PAVITT GAVE ME HEAD. Well, he
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gave some of us head. Once you get a T-shirt out there's a couple people who
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are gonna be wearing it for the show aspect of it. Bunch of posers and shit.
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People posing as like Bruce Pavitt penile desires. But, he has given a lot of
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people head. But not as many people as there are T-shirts. In fact, I don't
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have a T-shirt and he's given me head.
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Me: Do you know anything about computers or hacking?
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Mark: The only thing I know about computers is that when we started, Bruce and
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Jonathan and us like all went together and we figured out what would sell in
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the underground market. We were thinking like Stooges, a little Blue Cheer, a
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little Discharge here and there, Minor Threat you know. Stuff that's gonna be
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cool. We plugged it into the computer and it started writing songs for us.
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And that's how we came about really. Also, in terms of like personnel of this
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band, after Green River broke up we plugged in a bunch of names and we figured
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out who would be best to play what instrument and we asked them and...
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Me: So Subpop started out as a magazine right?
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Mark: Yeah, it originally started out as like a fanzine in the early '80s. And
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every few issues it would do this cassette issue with all these bands from
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different areas of the United States, like it had Wipers and Pel Mel(sp) like
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Boston, different scenes.
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Me: How many were there?
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Mark: I think there were 9 or 11 of them.
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Me: Are you aware of all the Mudhoney bootlegs that are circulating?
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Mark: Yeah, I've seen a couple. I'll bet they suck.
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Me: Have anything to say about Barry Hensler? (From Big Chief/Necros)
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Mark: Barry Hensler likes Anna. She's originally from Ann Arbor.
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Steve (talking to Mark): Ok check this out, tomorrow night, the Dwarves can
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make it back in time to cameo appear onstage while we're onstage. We stop
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playing a song, give them all our instruments-
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Mark: OH NO! They're gonna break everything!
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Steve: Without any kind of announcement they play two songs, they get off, no
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announcement, nothing is said about it, we just then resume our set.
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Mark: In the middle of it? That'd be great.
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Dan: If you guys fuck our equipment up you'll never play Portland!
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Blag Jesus: We wanted to open the show anyway... so you want to do that?
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Mark: We should do it right in the middle where I change guitars!
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Steve: Yeah, that'd be great! The cue will be, "Go!"
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Me: Thanks.
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Mark: Yeah, see ya later.
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.ooM |(c)1990 cDc communications by G.A. Ellsworth. 07/23/90-#146|
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\_______/|All Rights Pissed Away. |
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