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little gifset i made bc he looks really pretty in this video :))

Screaming Trees interview

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"Nirvana" Posters and Canvas Prints

#kristnovoselic #bonafideband w #pickerel & the #peyote3 @the.motor.co #wallawalla july 27 - as imagined and realized by the artistic eye of @laylavladi

Barrett Martin Says Screaming Trees “Almost” Regrouped in 2015

- Drummer to tell story in forthcoming band bio, due Nov. 3

The Screaming Trees “almost” got back together in 2015, Barrett Martin says.

The group’s former drummer will address this revelation and more in “The Greatest Band that Ever Wasn’t: The Story of the Roughest, Toughest, Most Hell-Raising Band to Ever Come Out of the Pacific Northwest, The Screaming Trees.”

Saying the book flows “like a Greek comedy in three acts,” Martin uses 33 “mostly humorous” short stories to chronicle the Trees “and all the insane stuff that happened to us during the 1990s, including our short revival in 2012 with the Last Words album, and our almost-reunion in 2015.

“I wrote the book as a tribute to my bandmates, especially with the passing of Mark Lanegan and Van Conner in the last couple (of) years.”

Out Nov. 3, “The Greatest Band that Ever Wasn’t” is Martin’s fourth book.

“Those who know me also know my sense of humor, so that’s the angle I took on the book,” he said. “Because in order to tell a great story, you have to live it first, which is what the Trees did, to the fullest.”

Krist Novoselic's new band The Bona Fide Band

Last week saw the live debut of Krist Novoselic's new band The Bona Fide Band in Aberdeen, WA, the birthplace of Krist and Kurt Cobain's band Nirvana.

To back up for a minute, Krist is running for President of his new political party the Cascade Party (another story altogether, but he's trying to get a legit third party going and he's running for president in order to do so...even though he doesn't want to be president). The party needs to get the word out as being a bona fide party, so to do so, he formed a band to play around WA state, The Bona Fide Band featuring Krist on bass and accordion. Also featured in the band is drummer Mark Pickerel (Screaming Trees and some of the recordings he did with Cobain and Screaming Trees' Mark Lanegan appeared on Nirvana's With the Lights Out box set), Seattle guitarist Kathy Moore, and vocalists Jillian Raye and Jennifer Johnson (both of whom performed with Krist in Giants In The Trees and the supergroup 3rd Secret).

The Bona Fide Band

At this particular show, they performed mostly Giants In The Trees and 3rd Secret songs, but they also did a covers of David Bowie's "The Man Who Sold the World" (which Nirvana covered on MTV Unplugged) and Shocking Blue's "Love Buzz", which Nirvana covered on their debut album Bleach. The song was dedicated to Cobain's sister Kimberly, who was in the audience. I hope the band releases a new track or two on Bandcamp.