What was it about Mudhoney that it stuck, whereas the bands you were in before didn’t?
ST: Things had been building. Green River was putting out records and was fairly known. It was just kind of the next band, and we got a lucky combination of what we wanted to do and the people that joined up. MA: And the record label, too. ST: We had two tastemakers in our back pocket: AmRep and Sub Pop. MA: In our back packet? In our front pocket! Yeah, we had an incredible amount of support. ST: People were really excited that we were forming even before they heard us. MA: If we were doing it in Missoula, Montana or something, we probably would’ve only lasted six months. Yeah, could Mudhoney have sprung out of any other time or place? ST: If we had been there maybe. MA: That’s a pretty big hypothetical. ST: Yeah, it sprung where it sprung. It was a pretty unique scene going on in Seattle at the time. It was very cloistered, and the same people had been in a bunch of bands in various line-ups for the last four or five years and influencing each other. I don’t think it could have happe
