Somehow in my head I updated this Journal last night... dumb me. Anywho...
So I just got my tickets bought for the one night Hammerbox reunion show.
You wouldn't believe how important this show is to me.
It all started way back in 1991. I was looking through a magazine and ran into a small one inch add for a Seattle Label called C/Z, which was touting a band I had never heard of called Hammerbox.
On a whim I ordered the disc, and fell in love with it. I was living in Kingman Arizona at the time and the Seattle Scene explosion was still about six months away from exploding accross MTV and making it's way to me.
So in the mean time I had this amazing sounding band, that didn't quite sound like anyone else I had ever heard. They were my discovery, I owned them. Do you ever remember what it was like to discover a band that no one else got?
Of course six months later when Nirvana when bolistic, everyone started to like my Hammerbox and wanted me to make them a copy.
Fast forward to about 1994, I'm a newly wed, and looking to move back to Seattle to start my adult life (read- See Hammerbox before they break up). Only to find myself about three months too late.
So I keep my ear out for the next Carrie Akre project and eventually start catching Goodness shows, eventually I was around often enough to be mistaken for a photographer and became a backstage guest of the band for quite a few shows. The highlight of which was kissing Carrie.
Once Goodness broke up I've been out to see Carrie sing solo, once accapella, then accoustic.
Which just leaves me with two projects of hers I've never seen. The Rockfords (Carrie and Jeff Ament) who play about once every other year. And then the one I was screwed out of Hammerbox, oh but wait... One night only at EMP this May.. The Fucking Reunion
So I just got my tickets bought for the one night Hammerbox reunion show.
You wouldn't believe how important this show is to me.
It all started way back in 1991. I was looking through a magazine and ran into a small one inch add for a Seattle Label called C/Z, which was touting a band I had never heard of called Hammerbox.
On a whim I ordered the disc, and fell in love with it. I was living in Kingman Arizona at the time and the Seattle Scene explosion was still about six months away from exploding accross MTV and making it's way to me.
So in the mean time I had this amazing sounding band, that didn't quite sound like anyone else I had ever heard. They were my discovery, I owned them. Do you ever remember what it was like to discover a band that no one else got?
Of course six months later when Nirvana when bolistic, everyone started to like my Hammerbox and wanted me to make them a copy.
Fast forward to about 1994, I'm a newly wed, and looking to move back to Seattle to start my adult life (read- See Hammerbox before they break up). Only to find myself about three months too late.
So I keep my ear out for the next Carrie Akre project and eventually start catching Goodness shows, eventually I was around often enough to be mistaken for a photographer and became a backstage guest of the band for quite a few shows. The highlight of which was kissing Carrie.
Once Goodness broke up I've been out to see Carrie sing solo, once accapella, then accoustic.
Which just leaves me with two projects of hers I've never seen. The Rockfords (Carrie and Jeff Ament) who play about once every other year. And then the one I was screwed out of Hammerbox, oh but wait... One night only at EMP this May.. The Fucking Reunion
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[Edited on Feb 28, 2004 1:51AM]