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Book SynopsisThroughout the 1990s, Dave Thompson was the Seattle-based contributing editor to Alternative Press magazineAmerica''s biggest-selling and most influential alternative rock monthlyand a regular contributor to other publications both nationally and internationally.
Throughout this decade, grunge music ruled the world and Seattle was its birthplace and focal point. Thompson was an eyewitness to it all. His writings and interviews chronicled the entire history of grungefrom its roots in the earliest explosion of punk in the mid-1970s to its rise and ultimate fall from grace in the late 1990s.
Drawing from Thompson''s extensive experience and researchfrom personal files and journals and hours of interviews with both musicians and fans, other music industry figures, and a wealth of characters from the Seattle sceneThe Grunge Diaries is an exhaustive account of this unique era.
Featured are all of the major actsNirvana, Pearl Jam, Mudhoney, Soundgardenand many lesser know
