Mudhoney
Mudhoney is a grunge band from Seattle. The name refers to the eponymous film of 1965 by Russ Meyer, the band members had not seen at the time of the band's formation.
Band History
Mudhoney was founded on Halloween in 1987 by friends Mark Arm and Steve Turner, who had, among other things already made in the bands Mr. Epp & The Calculations, Green River and the project The Thrown Ups music together. Mark Arm had left by Steve Turner Green River, as unbridgeable musical and career -related differences to the other band members had opened. This then founded Mother Love Bone. The band was completed by bassist Matt Lukin ( ex- Melvins ) and Dan Peters, who played as a sought-after drummer in numerous bands, including Bundle of Hiss and Feast.
Published in 1989, the Mudhoney EP Superfuzz Bigmuff album that defined the sound that was later called grunge at Sub Pop. Before the success of Nirvana Mudhoney was the flagship of Sub Pop. Titles such as Touch Me I'm Sick, You Got It and If I Think were played frequently in clubs and college radio stations. Due to their partially distorted, punk -heavy sounds Mudhoney was commercially but never as successful as Nirvana and Pearl Jam. Their first album, Mudhoney appeared in 1989, the second album Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge 1991.
From dissatisfaction with Sub Pops payment difficulties and the policy label Mudhoney eventually switched to the major label Reprise Records. The first album with this label was Piece of Cake. After the commercially unsuccessful successors Five Dollar Bob's Mock Cooter Stew (one EP, the variety of genres treating them ), My Brother the Cow and Tomorrow Hit Today demanded Reprise demo recordings for other LPs to produce not more " flop ". 2001 Reprise separated by Mudhoney.
The appearance of the retrospective March to Fuzz (2000 ) and the exit Matt Lukin gave the impression that Mudhoney will dissolve. Arm and Turner focused on The Monkeywrench and toured with them, but after Guy Maddison had replaced the tired music Matt Lukin on bass, Mudhoney returned to Sub Pop and released back in 2002 Since We've Become Translucent. This album is clearly influenced by Mark Arms penchant for Hawkwind and other psychedelic rock bands.
The band members are now married, some have started families and keep music as a hobby in addition to their jobs for a living. After a long pause, she published in 2006 Under a Billion Suns and 2007 Live Mud.
In May 2008 the album The Lucky Ones, does not play guitar on the Mark Arm first appeared. Also in May, the 20 - year anniversary of the Superfuzz Bigmuff -EP, released a new deluxe version of this EP, in addition to Sub Pop Archive newly discovered live recordings of a concert in Berlin 1988 contains.
Influence
The music of Mudhoney is strongly influenced by the so-called proto punk bands MC5 and The Stooges. This is most evident in 1995 (My Brother the Cow) audible, and the musical content stands in the tradition of the Stooges songs in 1969 and 1970. MC5 guitarist Wayne Kramer made a guest appearance on the published 2002 album Since We've Become Translucent, where he took over the part for the track Inside Job on bass. Conversely, acts Mark Arm in the U.S. appearances of DKT/MC5-Projekts as a singer and has recorded as a guest singer in the Stoner rock band Nebula I Need Somebody by the Stooges. As a further influences called Mark Arm in various interviews Can, Amon Düül and The Beatles.
Your models pay homage to Mudhoney like in the form of cover versions. Examples include, without limitation Fix Me by Black Flag, Magnolia Caboose Baby Shit ( in the original: Magnolia Caboose Baby Finger ) by Blue Cheer, Motorhead Over The Top or Urban Guerrilla by Hawkwind to name; the latter song covers Mudhoney for a John Peel session in 2002.
Mudhoney influenced many musicians such as Kurt Cobain. Mudhoney was the band that took Hole on a tour to Europe.