Matt Cameron & Stone Gossard join tribute to Tina Bell and Bam Bam in Seattle

demetrios

https://youtu.be/VYyyMQe9P8I

Pap

So, no link for the opening set?...

demetrios

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Some of my favorite photos from the Bam Bam tribute in Seattle. What an experience! These amazing women pictured here: Om Johari, Eva Walker, DEJHA, D’mitra Smith, and Shaina Shepard. Plus Matt Cameron, Stone Gossard, Ayron Jones, and Kendall Rey Jones holding it down! @themattcameron @ayronjonesmusic @omjohari @therealdejha @evawalker13 @shainashepherdmusic @stone_gossardofficial #bambam #bass #rock #grunge #getdown #pearljam #soundgarden #fishbone

demetrios

https://pleasekillme.com/bam-bam-tina-bell/

Matt Cameron in Bam Bam

1ThoughtKnown

1ThoughtKnown

^^^^ available on pre-order from Amazon - limited to 1000 copies

demetrios

1ThoughtKnown said:

^^^^ available on pre-order from Amazon - limited to 1000 copies

Cool!

Pap

Not in CD format?...

1ThoughtKnown

Pap said:

Not in CD format?...

I don’t know… didn’t see anything on Amazon 

demetrios

1ThoughtKnown said:

Pap said:

Not in CD format?...

I don’t know… didn’t see anything on Amazon 

Haven't seen it on CD yet, just vinyl. 

demetrios

“Villains” - Bam Bam

In commemoration of grunge trailblazer Tina Bell’s birthday (Feb 5.), Bam Bam is releasing their 1984 12” vinyl, “Villains (Also Wear White)” featuring three tracks from their original 7”, as well as three previously unreleased demos.  The purchase of each vinyl also receives unlimited streaming of the record through the free Bandcamp app!

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Pap

Bam Bam
Influenced: Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, Green River
As many critics have pointed out lately, Seattle band Bam Bam predated bands like Nirvana and Mudhoney in the same music scene, only to fade into a criminal state of obscurity.

Bam Bam is considered by these thinkpieces to be one of the first grunge bands for this reason, but “grunge” is a stupid label insofar as its use in the context of the Seattle punk scene essentially denotes “bands who shared a scene with Kurt Cobain.” (Metal Church was in that scene and inspired Dale Crover, who was a fill-in drummer for Nirvana, so they must have been a grunge band!)

Anyhow, Matt Cameron of Pearl Jam was a drummer for Bam Bam before he moved on to more commercially successful pastures, and legend has it that Cobain occasionally roadied for Bam Bam back when the Melvins were playing shows with them.

People have also been quick to point out that Bam Bam’s vocalist, the late Tina Bell, went through the common Black experience of pioneering something in music only for white artists to experiment with it to far more success.

Instead of expounding on that assertion, we’ll instead refer you to a well-written feature on Bam Bam that by Bandcamp Daily back in November, and you can judge for yourself.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IZcq1xGixAQ

1ThoughtKnown

Pap said:

Bam Bam
Influenced: Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, Green River
As many critics have pointed out lately, Seattle band Bam Bam predated bands like Nirvana and Mudhoney in the same music scene, only to fade into a criminal state of obscurity.

Bam Bam is considered by these thinkpieces to be one of the first grunge bands for this reason, but “grunge” is a stupid label insofar as its use in the context of the Seattle punk scene essentially denotes “bands who shared a scene with Kurt Cobain.” (Metal Church was in that scene and inspired Dale Crover, who was a fill-in drummer for Nirvana, so they must have been a grunge band!)

Anyhow, Matt Cameron of Pearl Jam was a drummer for Bam Bam before he moved on to more commercially successful pastures, and legend has it that Cobain occasionally roadied for Bam Bam back when the Melvins were playing shows with them.

People have also been quick to point out that Bam Bam’s vocalist, the late Tina Bell, went through the common Black experience of pioneering something in music only for white artists to experiment with it to far more success.

Instead of expounding on that assertion, we’ll instead refer you to a well-written feature on Bam Bam that by Bandcamp Daily back in November, and you can judge for yourself.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IZcq1xGixAQ

Thanks for sharing. I think we can put to rest (after over 30 years) that we can’t call this music grunge. Even Matt Cameron who was in this band for a brief stint said in an interview on YouTube this year he likes the term. 

In essence, grunge is any no more stupid of a label than punk, proto-punk, alternative, Emo-punk, skate-punk, pop-punk, hardcore, post-hardcore, EDM, house music, industrial, nu-metal, post-rock, on and on and on. 

demetrios

Pap said:

Bam Bam
Influenced: Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, Green River
As many critics have pointed out lately, Seattle band Bam Bam predated bands like Nirvana and Mudhoney in the same music scene, only to fade into a criminal state of obscurity.

Bam Bam is considered by these thinkpieces to be one of the first grunge bands for this reason, but “grunge” is a stupid label insofar as its use in the context of the Seattle punk scene essentially denotes “bands who shared a scene with Kurt Cobain.” (Metal Church was in that scene and inspired Dale Crover, who was a fill-in drummer for Nirvana, so they must have been a grunge band!)

Anyhow, Matt Cameron of Pearl Jam was a drummer for Bam Bam before he moved on to more commercially successful pastures, and legend has it that Cobain occasionally roadied for Bam Bam back when the Melvins were playing shows with them.

People have also been quick to point out that Bam Bam’s vocalist, the late Tina Bell, went through the common Black experience of pioneering something in music only for white artists to experiment with it to far more success.

Instead of expounding on that assertion, we’ll instead refer you to a well-written feature on Bam Bam that by Bandcamp Daily back in November, and you can judge for yourself.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IZcq1xGixAQ

Thanks!

demetrios

Still available over @ https://bambam.bandcamp.com/album/villains-also-wear-white-ep

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