Green River - Dry as a Bone [DARK GREEN VINYL] (LP)

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* INDIES ONLY *

The story of Seattle's rise to global rock supremacy in the late '80s and early '90s begins with Green River. Made up of Jeff Ament (bass), Mark Arm (guitar/vocals), Bruce Fairweather (guitar), Stone Gossard (guitar), and Alex Shumway (drums), the quintet put out three 12"€s and a 7"€ single during its brief existence. Green River's influence on Seattle's music scene spread far and wide thanks to the members' dispersion into bands including Pearl Jam, Mudhoney, and Love Battery, as well as the punk-glam-sludge-rock songs they left behind.

The mini-LP Dry as a Bone, which came out in 1987, and the band's lone full-length Rehab Doll, which came out in 1988, were released as a single CD with a new bonus cuts, including their sneering cover of David Bowie's Queen Bitch and their marauding version of Dead Boys' Ain't Nothin' to Do, in 1990 - but they've been unavailable on vinyl for years. Now, these slices of Seattle music history are not only back in print, they're accompanied by items from the vaults that had been forgotten about for decades.

Dry as a Bone was recorded at Jack Endino's Reciprocal Recording in 1986, and shows the band in furious form, with Arm's yowl battling Fairweather and Gossard's ferocious guitar playing on This Town and Unwind opening as a slow bluesy grind then jump-starting itself into a hyperactive chase.

This new deluxe edition includes Green River's cuts from the crucial Seattle-scene compilation Deep Six, as well as long-lost songs that were recorded to the now-archaic format Betamax.

This limited Loser Edition LP format is pressed on dark green vinyl, and is only available through independent shops such as ourselves.

- LP
- DARK GREEN VINYL