Apple
A recent music download spree brings Krude to this blog. Everything
from The Almighty to Zappa was pushed into my mp3 player from
cyberwhoknowswhere. One particular musical download opened the Krude Kranium up
for a little reminiscing session: the stellar Mother Love Bone album Apple.
Mother Love Bone. Great name for a rock band. 1990 was the
year that could've been the year of Mother Love Bone. They were a band from the
ever romanticized Seattle music scene of the late 1980's. Bands such as Alice
In Chains,Nirvana,and Soundgarden were all part of that Grunge scene.
MLB were the best of that bunch. Largely in part to having a talented frontman
named Andrew Wood.
Andrew Wood was a combination of Freddie Mercury,Elton
John,and Vince Neil. He had songwriting and musical talent along with a
flamboyant stage presence. Add heroin addiction to that list. That is what
killed Wood on March 19,1990. Just weeks before the scheduled release of MLB's
debut album Apple.
Crushing loss for popular music,in my book.
Apple is an amazing album that still sounds great after over
25 years.
The other musicians in MLB,namely Stone Gossard and Jeff Ament
went on to form Pearl Jam. The same Pearl Jam whose singer sings the ridiculous
tune Daughter. Singer Eddie Vedder's mic privileges should've been revoked
after writing and singing that dumb song. Vedder should be relegated to singing
classic rock covers in dive bars and sexwaxing surfboards for tourists in So
Cal for a living these days,as punishment for that song.Pearl Jam suck. Always
have. I know. I saw PJ at Wetlands NYC in the summer of 1991. What a letdown...
Though I regret not buying the PJ t-shirt they had for sale that night (in the
hippie VW van inside of Wetlands) It had NBA star Mookie Blaylock on it - the
original name for PJ. That shirt fetches nice coin on Ebay these days.
Here's a quick story about the summer of 1990 and hanging
out on Sunday nights at the Limelight NYC:
Krude standing by an upstairs bar at Limelight,drinking a
Rolling Rock beer. Donnie Vie and Chip Z'Nuff from the band Enuff Z'Nuff ( of
Fly High Michelle and New Thing fame at the time) walk up to the bar and order
drinks. I toast my beer to them. They say hi and life goes on.
Then on a television that was above the bar,footage of the
late Andrew Wood comes on the tv. Donnie Vie looks up at the screen,then leans
over to Chip and says "Isn't that the guy who died of heroin?". Chip
nods yes. Vie's face from that point turned sad and fearful at the same time.
I've never forgotten that look on his face. What I didn't know then was that
Vie himself was an heroin addict at that time. Luckily,Vie is still alive
today. But the Limelight has become a shopping mall. Life goes on.
Back to Apple.... After downloading it from Amazon,I
listened to it nonstop for a few days. The songs I remembered from the early
90's sounded even better in the present day. Thank you
Andy,Stone,Jeff,Bruce,and Greg. You five caught lightning in a bottle with
Apple. And the world is a better place cuz of it.
Can I get a Hallelujah, people?
KK
@kapn_krude
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