When Andrew died did you feel your chance was gone? He died a few days later from a cerebral haemorrhage. Days before the release of the bands debut album, Apple, Wood took a heroin overdose. The band was fronted by the charismatic Andrew Wood and was signed to a major label. Q: In early 1990 the future of the Seattle rock scene appeared to be Mother Love Bone, in which Stone and Jeff wrote many of the songs. I guess thats what ended up being grunge so we probably owe Iggy and Lemmy and Greg Ginn some royalties from that era.

Jeff Ament: (chuckles) In the last year weve played four shows with Green River and while its been great to go back weve come to the conclusion that we were really just ripping off Black Flag and Motorhead and The Stooges. Q: It is sometimes claimed that Green River invented grunge . Motorhead was the ultimate Seattle band, the lynchpin memories of how much you loved Black Sabbath when you were 8 years old. I missed British punk I never really understood it until I started listening to the Sex Pistols in 84 and I went whoa, this is a rock band. Even if you werent at the time in love with disco it was everywhere. You couldnt help but be affected by disco. Stone: my influences were a lot of FM rock and pop on the radio. Q: Jeff and Stone you started playing together in Green River back in 1984. What our music scene really plugged into was that do it yourself spirit. At the time the 80s underground in the US was definitely getting a lot more organised with bands like Black Flag and Husker Du, Minor Threat, Butthole Surfers they were able to create a circuit that had nothing to do with major labels and the known music industry at that time. That forced the North West music scene to look inward and create stuff on our own turf, play our own clubs. Matt Cameron: Seattle was isolated so a lot of national known big time rock acts wouldnt necessarily come up to Seattle and Portland. A lot of us couldnt play! Whatever we had we tried to bring to the table and that made some weird combinations of people playing together so everybody was going for broke in the sense of what have you got to lose? There wasnt a lot of trying to do anything other than that nobody was getting signed.

Stone Gossard: Everyone just got in bands. All that’s left is the longing.Q: Seattle has always been out of the mainstream American rock circuit, so how did the scene develop in the 1980s?

A chasm, sleepless for day and days, rootless, unsettled and alone. And now? Suddenly it all feels very much of the moment. Our resident visual interpreter David Dalglish picked up on that feeling for a video that connected hauntingly to that feeling of distance and memory. You think you know where it’s at? The longing is stronger than that. This section of music - that followed in real time the part that became “The Regulator” - felt so mournful and lost and adrift and confused, much like longing itself. “This was a few years back but it stuck with me and when I was listening to minutes 20 through 28 of the improvisation that became The Universe Inside I knew that the suggestion had finally found its proper home. “A friend of mine once said, ‘You ought to write a song about longing,’” says frontman Steve Wynn. 'The Longing' is heavy on groove, stretching out over a skipping beat and liquid guitar lines. Psych greats The Dream Syndicate release their new improvisational new album, The Universe Inside, on April 10 and here's a second section the flowing record.

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