Blue Cadet-3, Do You Connect?

When Isaac Brock was a teenager, he was employed at a local family video store just outside Seattle, where he met bassist Eric Judy . Brock and Judy later discovered drummer Jeremiah Green , who also resided near Seattle, at a heavy metal show, at which point they decided to make music together. Brock says he made a point of the band being from Issaquah to avoid association with the music scenes of Seattle or Olympia and to keep with the band’s suburban lyrical themes. In 1994, at Calvin Johnson ‘s Dub Narcotic Studios, Modest Mouse recorded its first EP , Blue Cadet-3, Do You Connect? , which was released by K Records . This was followed by a single, ” Broke “, recorded by Steve Wold ( a.k.a. bluesman Seasick Steve ) under Sub Pop records at Moon Studios in Olympia, Washington . During this time, Modest Mouse also recorded what would have been its first album, Sad Sappy Sucker , but constant delays caused the album to be shelved and forgotten. It was not until 2001 that it was officially released. Before the band made its way into the pop music world in 2004, many of Modest Mouse’s tours included stops at DIY/punk venues such as Speak in Tongues in Cleveland, Ohio, where they continued to play even after becoming popular enough to fill larger venues. The band is named after a line in the short story The Mark on the Wall by Virginia Woolf that refers to “the minds of modest, mouse-colored people who believe genuinely that they dislike to hear their own praises.” and has no connection to Modest Mussorgsky .