Hey, I'm Brian Hyatt, and this is Rolling Stone Music Now.

I have Corey Grown in the studio.

And Corey wrote a really amazing oral history of Green River,

which is also essentially an oral history of the birth of Grunge.

Green River obviously spawned both mud honey and mother lovebone and then of of course Pearl Jam and you talk to everybody.

We're not going to replicate the oral history format today but we are going to play big chunks

of Cori Groes interviews with Stone Gossard, Jeff Ament, and Mark Arm.

And it's an overabundance.

We're barely going to be able to fit it into the show.

Maybe we'll put more into the podcast.

But I just wanted to start by having Corey preface it all a little bit

and just explain why Green River was important and maybe very briefly like sort of where they came from.

Sure. First off, thanks for having me on here. And second, like Green River was this band that they're very emblematic of Grunge they were the very first

band to put out a record that people called Grunge that came out in 1985 the record was

come on down they formed in 1984 they were all just 20 yearyear-olds, 21-year-olds, and they all had sort of diverse

interests in music. They'd all kind of grown up together, some of them had gone to

high school together, some of them just knew each other from seeing each other at shows, but

they had these influences that ranged from Aerosmith to Black Flag, and basically it's one of these things where they put together this fusion of hard rock and punk and metal and sort of just found their way into this sound and that's

the sound that basically laid the groundwork for Grunge.

They were one of the bands that was on the Deep Six compilation which was sort of ground zero for Grunge.

They were alongside Sound Garden and Melvins and Skinyard which had Jack and Dino on it who went on to

record all the great you know like the early nirvana stuff.

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