Live Concert: Mudhoney

This last Sunday (11/19/2023) night, I had the opportunity of watching a live concert of one of the bands that started this whole Grunge thing: Mudhoney. As you may imagine, the band was formed in Seattle around the 80's, and pioneered the kind of sound that later would be labeled as Grunge. In fact, a number of the more famous bands that came later, such as Nirvana and Pearl Jam, stated that they were inspired by what Mudhoney was doing. Differently than those bands, though, Mudhoney remained a small independent band and never had the kind of globe spanning success that those rock bands reached. All those years later they continue to perform in (almost) their original formation, and they continue to put out the kind of noisy loud sound that characterized that music style. Mudhoney and many of the other Grunge bands had their start at the old Crocodile in Seattle, so it was just proper that this concert was at the new (and improved) Crocodile. The crowd was wild, so much so that there were some crowd surfers, which I hadn't seen in a long time (some crowd surfers were a tad too enthusiastic and just jumped on an empty space on the floor). It was a wild show and I'm very glad that I was there.