Exploring the Birth of Grunge: A Fascinating Look with Steve Turner of Mudhoney

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🗓️ 14 June 2023

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

Steve Turner is a world-renowned guitarist, most known as the cofounder of groudbreaking Seattle Punk and Grunge bands Green River and Mudhoney. Even after 35 years in the music scene, he's continued to propoagae the grunge genre he helped build into the twnety-first century with tour performances and new music. Steve recently sat down with me to discuss this illustrious career and his new book, Mud Ride.

Highlights from our conversation:

Background context on the grunge scene and how it came to be
Steve's place in grunge and original goals when getting into music
Exploring grunge culture and what it means for those who lived its early days first-hand
Where the genre is headed and what Steve hopes for the future of music

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0:00.0	If you want to play music, play music with your friends.
0:02.5	Music is so much about connecting with the people that you're playing with.
0:05.4	And if you're already buddies, then you're halfway there, in my mind,
0:09.5	as far as finding some way to communicate with each other.
0:14.5	And that's kind of what playing music together is, right?
0:17.4	And even that transcends music, right?
0:19.3	That could be true with any creative act.
0:21.1	Yeah, yeah, I would think. And so, you know, to me, I, maybe I got lucky. You know, my friends were,
0:29.5	you know, as inept as I was when we started playing in bands. And like, we were inept,
0:35.1	me and Mark.
0:41.1	That chunk of wisdom was from Steve Turner.
0:48.1	Now, again, I'm going to reveal my age here, but you all know that the 90s were big for music,
0:49.4	specifically Grunge.
0:53.6	And as a person who grew up in Seattle, Grunge had a huge impact on me. And it's fair to say that it had a huge
0:56.1	impact on music worldwide. Whether you like it or not, not dissimilar to the Beatles,
1:00.4	they changed the sound of music for decades to come. And the same is true for Grunge. And if you
1:07.4	ask the people who are the names that you know in Grunge, they all point in some
1:13.0	way, shape, or form to mud honey, to Green River, to a handful of bands.
1:18.7	And if you look at who are in those bands, Steve Turner is a huge piece of this puzzle.
1:26.2	And Steve is our guest today.
1:28.5	He's got a new book out called Mud Ride, A Messy Trip
1:31.7	Through the Grunge Explosion,
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