Green River was formed in 1984 when Arm and Turner recruited Alex Vincent as drummer, who had previously played with Turner in the short-lived Spluii Numa . Bassist Jeff Ament joined the band after arriving in Seattle with his band Deranged Diction. Stone Gossard , another of Turner’s former bandmates,…
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Imai named their band Hinan Go-Go ( 非難GO-GO ; “Criticism Go-Go”) in the spring of 1984. Once they had practiced enough to be able to play, they began to perform live at small, local events. They started out playing covers of songs by the famous Japanese punk band The Stalin…
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Soundgarden was formed in 1984 and included Chris Cornell (drums and vocals), Hiro Yamamoto (bass), and Kim Thayil (guitar). Yamamoto and Cornell had been jamming together, and after trying several guitarists, were joined by Thayil. The band named themselves after a wind-channeling pipe sculpture titled A Sound Garden , on…
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In 1984, singer and bassist Les Claypool and guitarist Todd Huth began playing together in El Sobrante, California , under the name Primate. The duo were initially accompanied by a LinnDrum drum machine as they had trouble finding a drummer, until Claypool’s friend Vince “Perm” Parker returned home from a…
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When Imai graduated high school, he moved to Tokyo with Araki and enrolled in a design school. Sakurai’s parents would not let him move to the capital. However, Imai and Araki returned home on weekends for band practice. During the summer of 1984, Hinan Go-Go changed their name to Buck-Tick,…
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As a testament to the band’s popularity at the time, a US Gallup poll in 1984 saw Def Leppard voted as favourite rock band over the Rolling Stones , AC/DC, and Journey .
The Conner brothers formed Screaming Trees with Mark Lanegan and Mark Pickerel in 1984 in Ellensburg, Washington , a small town a little over 100 miles from Seattle . The band was drawn together in high school by an interest in punk, garage, and classic rock.
The band performed their first live show at the Crystal Ballroom in St Kilda on 31 December 1983.
The success of the band began at a very peculiar time, related to the return of democracy to Argentina (10 December 1983), but also to increasing notions of postmodernism , particularly in the way the 1980s youth found their role in a newly democratic society that had just emerged from…
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In December 1983 Cave returned to Melbourne, Australia , where he formed a temporary line-up of his backing band, due to Bargeld’s absence, that included Pew and guitarist Hugo Race .