Peach in session to start the week – recorded in the studios at KCMU in Seattle on January 8, 1994.
With every new musical movement that explodes on the scene, there are a few who are acknowledged as the pioneers, the ones who broke through, the ones who made the genre what it was.
And then there are those bands that came along at the same time, were hanging around the same clubs, approached by the same record companies, had the same high praise and yet, for whatever reason, dissolved, succumbed to wretched excess, had bad management, better offers, clashing personalities – the list goes on.
Peach sadly lasted a little less than 2 years – getting started in 1992 and calling it quits by 1995 – the members went off to start other bands, join already established bands or otherwise put the first born to bed and went on with life doing or being something else.
This session showed up by accident – KCMU before it was re-christened KEXP was involved in running a lot of live music, much along the same lines as BBC 6 Music – Radio X Exposure – all the European session programs – with the change of call letters they kept doing it and have become something of a go-to destination for up-and-coming bands – artists showing up in town for club and concert dates and can always use the additional exposure – or in this case, providing an interesting glimpse of a band riding the crest of the Grunge wave but somehow getting lost in the shuffle.
If you forgot or never knew about them in the first place, here’s an excellent opportunity to take a brush-up course on early Grunge via Peach – the nicest part being it’s just a tad over 45 minutes – so you have a lot to chew on.
Get started.
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