By 1986, Jack and Daniel turned their attentions more to producing music. As 1985 progressed C/Z Records would release a seminal album of local Seattle bands, Deep Six. They recruited drummer Matt Cameron (noted drummer of 12 different bands) and started writing songs. In 1985, Jack and Daniel House started a band called Skin Yard. Now, 460 records later, the man is a legend. Jack Endino bounced around odd jobs until he started focusing on recording music in 1984. Over the next six months they’d play under the names Skid Row, Pen Cap Chew, and Bliss in community centers and on local public radio in Tacoma, Olympia and Aberdeen. In March of 1987 Kurt, Krist and interim drummer Aaron Burckhard, played a “show” at their friend’s house in Raymond, Wash. Finally, Krist agreed to join forces with Kurt and Dale Crover to form a new band. Besides recording a tape demo at Kurt’s aunt’s house in Burien, it really didn’t go much beyond playing behind grocery stores and in friends’ rooms. He worked with Buzz, Mike, Dale Crover (the Melvins drummer after Mike Dillard), and Greg Hockanson on his first band Fecal Matter. on several occasions, but nothing came of the collaborations besides hangovers and an aesthete lesson in what music was to these guys. Too tall and lanky, Buzz called him Shaggy (of Scooby-Doo fame). He would help them load and unload and to get sh*tfaced in between. He would drive the Melvins over to Seattle for gigs. Krist, noted Taco Bell employee, had an old zebra-striped van back in those days. They played faster than I ever imagined music could be played and with more energy than my Iron Maiden records could provide. Montesano was the home to high school buddies Matt Lukin, Mike Dillard, and Buzz Osborne - the Melvins. It was behind this average looking grocery store that Krist Novoselic and Kurt Cobain gathered one night for The Them Festival to hear their friends play some loud music. Montesano has a Thriftway grocery store on the corner of Pioneer Ave. The Wynoochee River spews out into the Chehalis River in a little town called Montesano. Same muddy stream splitting deeply green misty firs and cedars as it rushes down from the Olympic Mountains. It’s not really perceptibly different than the Wishkah. One valley east of the Wishkah is the Wynoochee Valley. Logs still float down the murky Chehalis River. Little three room mill houses line the streets.
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