eggwheat wrote: ↑Sat Oct 21, 2023 9:07 am
Crazy…I saw them play that year with Soundgarden supporting!
Woah! I'd have thought
they'd be supporting Soundgarden who seemed to be the biggest fish back then.
I guess my most endearing memory will be seeing them at the Reading festival in 1990 - a rainless, sunny one which made all the difference! I'd only heard about the festival about 2 months before it was happening, being very new to the scene at that point. I shared a tent with a guy I'd only known for a few months, Simon, who's now my dearest friend & soulmate.
There were 4 of us who went down from Leeds on a National Express double-decker coach. We wangled a fantastic table seat downstairs & played Shithead (a card game) all the way down.
When we were on our way to watch Mudhoney I bought one of those woven hippy wristbands & had just about got it securely fastened by the time we started squeezing through the crowd towards the front. This was by far the biggest, moodiest crowd I'd ever been in & I vividly remember the swell of anticipation as they started the feedback & drum laden intro to
In 'N' Out of Grace. Then it dropped...."Jesus take me to a higher place!...." I was literally swept off my feet by the surge of crusties, hippies & punks & dumped 10 rows closer to the stage, then immediately swept up again & thrown back to where I started. Such a rush!!
The wristband was long gone, as was my head & my festival moshpit virginity!
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You think you can't, you wish you could, I know you can, I wish you would. Slip inside this house as you pass by.