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Anyone who knows me knows I've never been one to revel in the past. I'm the last one to cast a misty-eyed glance back at the "good old days". In my experience the people who take this angle are usually the ones who weren't there. Whatever mistakes, false starts and missed opportunities I've had the pleasure of having, I was wherever I was for better or worse.

This blog is not meant to romanticize any choices I made or any particular era. It's simply a place where I share stories and take stock of where I've been as a way to figure out where I might want to go next. I'll celebrate some people along the way, some of them you'll know or know of, others will be new to you. I'm glad to have known every one of them.

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March 21, 2012

                             

DERANGED DICTION TACOMA 1983

Deranged Diction was an early 80’s hardcore band from Missoula, MT. I put out a compilation tape featuring these guys in 1983. I think I made about 15 copies of that tape of which I own exactly O copies. It was called “New Awareness”. The bassist Jeff Ament went on to fame with Pearl Jam. Before Pearl Jam he was in Green River  a band I talk about here.

 Oddly enough, without even meaning to I saw Pearl Jam’s first incarnation as Mookie Blaylock at the I-Beam on Haight Street about 8 years later. Soon after it seemed like everyone in SF was losing their s—t over PJ. You couldn’t turn on KUSF without hearing them.

Though I respect those guys a lot today, their stuff sounded way too much to me like the music I heard on KISW Seattle growing up for me to be down with it then. It was too soon. Too soon.


Tape cover from off the web. I had this one but it’s gone.

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