In a flurry, I drove north and raided my old bedroom closet, heaping old SPIN, Rolling Stone, and copies of the now defunct The Rocket - a piece of Seattle music history - into an overflowing box. I didn't know exactly what treasures were amidst that pile, but I felt this collection was something special. This box was heavy. I'd made out like a bandit.
Tonight, after all the hubbub of Christmas is over, I've finally had a chance to begin leafing through these dusty old magazines. There, amidst the stack, was my prized issue of The Rocket - July 1992. "Golden Throats" read the cover title - bookended by photos of Soundgarden's Chris Cornell and Pearl Jam's Eddie Vedder, both wailing into their mics.
I've been reading Chris' interview this evening and had to share this quote:
“I know some day, after this Seattle scene thing is just completely dead and buried and the most unhip thing in the world – which will happen – at some point in my forties, there’s gonna be resurgence and they’re going to start playing our old videos again. And it’ll look like something from the 50s. (laughs)
Then there’s gonna be some new band that sounds kind of like we did, like what the Black Crowes are to the Stones or the Faces. That will be cool. Then we’ll really know if we had any kind of impact. And what the Encyclopedia of Rock ‘n’ Roll says about us in the year 2010… are we even going to be mentioned or are we gonna be listed as one of the forerunners of this big, huge Seattle scene? Or will they just put Nirvana in? Or will they just blow the whole thing off and it will continue to be Jimi Hendrix, Heart and Queensryche?”
-Chris Cornell interviewed by Jeff Gilbert, The Rocket, July 1992
