The Showbox

There wasn't anything really happening like that.

So we like somehow got ourselves a meeting with the Booker of the Showbox, which is like one of the biggest venues in Seattle.

Got ourselves a meeting with them.

Didn't have a troupe at all, but pitched everything.

This is what, it's the vibe.

And we like, you know, showed some photos from our career thus far.

And he booked us to open for Dita Von Teese as our very first show at the Showbox.

First show

And we still do the mint and we still and, you know, we still do all that stuff in L.A. and everywhere.

We still do Showbox and Nectar Lounge and El Corazon in Seattle.

And in Portland, we do Dante's and Star and Crystal and Wonder and all that stuff.

So we do a little bit of everything everywhere.

We're in all these Live Nation rooms.

We're in AEG rooms.

We just did Showbox.

We have all of those rooms.

Even though the band only released one full album before disbanding, The Green River EP in 1988, the tracks influenced an entire generation of musicians who saw punk’s DIY ethic merge with heavy riffage as legitimate.

They were also pioneers in the concept of touring through the West Coast underground circuits, using van rides and handmade flyers printed on a copier to get shows at clubs like The Vortex and the early versions of The Showbox.

And their recording techniques involved simple takes recorded on an eight-track tape machine with minimal overdubs, preserving the raw energy that other grunge bands later mimicked.

Mudhoney released a series of seven-inch singles, Mudhoney, I Like Fun, that captured the DIY punk aesthetic with a lo-fi mix that was almost a direct challenge to polished rock productions.