Mudhoney - Into Your Shtik - Rio De Janeiro, Brazil 2001
Into Your Shtik (My Brother The Cow, 1995)
From March To Fuzz (Sub Pop - 2000) Comp. liner notes.
Mark: My only regret is that I didn't use the names Steve, Matt and Dan in the 2nd half of the song.
Steve: I wish he used their real names.
Mark: Okay they're Eric (Erlandson), Layne (Staley) and Janet (Billig).
From an interview in 2005:
Q: Quit beatin around the bush, yer talking about Courtney Love on those songs, right?
Mark Arm: Sure, but I'm not beating around the bush when I say that the sentiments in those songs are equally applicable to dicks like Lenny Kravitz, Bono, Sting, those brothers in Oasis, Lars Ulrich, Axel Rose (although he just seems kinda sad and pathetic these days), Steve Albini, Ryan Adams and probably hundreds of others whose names I'd know if I read more entertainment publications.
The examples of Layne Staley and various people orbiting the Nirvana/Hole axis circa 1994 that I used in "Into Yer Shtik" are just those I was most familiar with. Things had gotten pretty ugly and had hit frighteningly close to home at that point. Usually that sort of ugliness congregates in far off media centers like NY, LA & London.
Mudhoney did not "invent" the term grunge. That was all Sub Pop's marketing.
association330 1 year ago 3
YEAAAAAAAH
Lemonhead86 1 year ago 2