Steve Fisk, not unlike Jack Endino, is a figure in the Seattle rock universe who has had an enormous influence on the sounds coming out of this city, despite not being a household name to those who don't often peruse album credits. As a producer and engineer he's worked with everyone from Screaming Trees to Negativland to Unwound (and Survival Knife!) to Gabriel Mintz. As a performer and composer he's played with Pell Mell, The Halo Benders, and Pigeonhed, and released a handful of solo recordings. 1991's 448 Deathless Days, today's subject, was Fisk's solo debut LP. It appears it was so well-loved and -played at KCMU that the station's first copy had to be replaced due to poor handling.
"Interesting, innovative, swell use of tapes and samplers. From Ellensburg. Puts the carts to shame!""What Negativland does to popular culture Mr. Fisk does to popular song."
"STEVE! STEVE! Let me watch TV with you."
"This is as good as his first LP should be, by golly buy it."
"'Tongues' was incredible. The rest is wondeful too."
"Tragedy at Sea was cool and as nifty as this whole album."
"You can also find Steve on the 'Life Elsewhere.'"
"I expect you all to overplay this."
"Oooooh YES!!!!"
"Now it's a M and I'm sad . . . can it go back to H some more?"
"Hey - LOOK. New album inside now - smile"
"1st person to fuck this up with fingerprints gets their fingers chopped off . . . [graphic drawing of hand with chopped-off fingers]"
This Shimmy Disc compilation, featuring '80s avant rock heroes such as Jad Fair, Kramer, and Eugene Chadbourne, has such a compelling origin story that I'm just going to let the back cover speak for itself.
Every Monday through Friday, we deliver a different song as part our Song of the Day podcast subscription. This podcast features exclusive KEXP in-studio performances, unreleased songs, and recordings from independent artists that our DJs think you should hear. Today’s song, featured on the Afterno…
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I last wrote about founding grungefathers Green River in this space over six years ago, if you can believe that. At the time Seattle was buzzing with gossip that they might be playing the Sub Pop 20th birthday celebrations that summer. I can now tell you that they did indeed play that weekend, and …
