Deep Six Compilation - *Soundgarden *Green River *Melvins 1986 Pressing NM vinyl
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This is your chance to own a piece of Seattle's music history!
For fans of Soundgarden, Mudhoney & Pearl Jam - this album documents the beginning of a movement!
Deep Six is a 1986 compilation album featuring six Seattle-based rock bands. It was the first release by C/Z Records, with a catalogue number of CZ01 for 2,000 copies. This is one of those original copies.
The album was compiled by Seattle locals Chris Hanzsek and Tina Casale of C/Z Records to showcase what was going on in the Seattle rock community at this time by drawing on the talents of six like-minded bands. The album was primarily a document of Seattle’s local music scene and became vital to the history of grunge. It represents the early recordings of a handful of bands that would later become key figures in grunge, and helped establish its concepts and sound.
In the early 1980s, the Seattle branch of the indie movement was influenced by punk rock; however, it removed its speed and its structure and added elements of metal. The Melvins slowed down punk rock to develop their own slow, heavy, sludgy sound. When they contributed four tracks to Deep Six they were regarded as one of Seattle's top bands. Soundgarden provided the most abrasive sound on the album after having formed only a year before. The U-Men contributed minimalist punk with "Sabbath" style metal. Skin Yard's guitarist, Jack Endino, would go on to record and produce many of the grunge bands, and helped to establish Soundgarden, Mudhoney, and Nirvana. He was able to bring a similar sonic quality to some of the tracks recorded by bands who had diverse sounds.
Green River had released its debut EP Come On Down several months before Deep Six; therefore, Come On Down is considered the first grunge record. Members from this band would later form Pearl Jam and Mudhoney, two bands that would become internationally famous. However, Deep Six featured several other bands' first appearance on record and is regarded as the first grunge compilation.
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