Grunge Is Dead: The Oral History of Seattle Rock Music

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Weaves together the definitive story of the Seattle music scene through a series of interviews with the people who were there. Taking the form of an oral history, Grunge is Dead contains over 130 interviews along with essential background information from acclaimed music writer Greg Prato. Digging deeper than the average grunge history, Grunge is Dead starts in the early 60s to explain the path to the infamous grunge movement of the 90s. The end result is a book that includes a wealth of previously untold stories and insights for the long-time fan and newcomer alike.

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"[Grunge is Dead] is an accomplishment that will find fans as long as the music does. The book is remarkably comprehensive, nearly 500 pages long, and filled with rarely seen photographs, astute analyses of popular culture, insider gossip and interesting, funny and painful stories. Prato keeps the editorializing to a minimum, letting the players (Eddie Vedder, Slim Moon, Kim Thayil, Jerry Cantrell, Kathleen Hanna, Allison Wolfe, Blag Dahlia, Charles Petterson, Riki Rachtman, Chad Channing, et al) speak for themselves." -- Washington Post Express
"A complete, exhaustive and authoritative account of Music 1.0's last successful marketing experiment ... Grunge Is Dead is an invaluable record." -- Eye Weekly
"Grunge Is Dead offers a definitive oral history of grunge ... Prato, a contributor to All Music Guide and Billboard.com, offers accounts from more than 125 musicians (with the exception of Nirvana), record label owners, and scenesters. The book traces grunge's meteoric rise out of the 1980s hard-core punk scene-and its decline owing to the growing prevalence of heroin use." -- Library Journal Express
"Prato really earns his stripes when he gets his hands dirty tracing the roots of this sound to the mid-'60s Northwest, with the Sonics and the Wailers, and up to the punk rock and post-punk years of the U Men, the Fartz and undeniable outside influences like Black Flag, DOA, Flipper, Butthole Surfers, Sonic Youth and Redd Kross." -- Montreal Mirror
"By approaching the subject as an oral rather than a written account, [Prato] gives the story back to Seattle... a multifaceted portrait of the music that pretty much defined the decade." -- Blurt Magazine

Author Bio

Prato is a writer who contributes regularly to All Music Guide, Billboard.com, and Classic Rock magazine. He lives in Wantagh, New York.