10 Minute Warning
| 10 Minute Warning | |
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left to right: Christopher Blue, Duff McKagan, Greg Gilmore, David Garrigues, Paul Solger
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| Background information | |
| Also known as | Ten Minute Warning |
| Origin | Seattle, Washington, US |
| Genres | Punk rock, hardcore punk |
| Years active | 1982–1984, 1997–1998 |
| Labels | Sub Pop |
| Associated acts | The Fartz, Solger, Fastbacks, Mother Love Bone, Skin Yard, Guns N' Roses |
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10 Minute Warning (also known as Ten Minute Warning) was a hardcore punk band from Seattle, Washington. They became famous locally as one of the first bands to adapt the popular punk sound to something slower and heavier, paving the way for grunge bands like Green River and Mother Love Bone before breaking up in 1984.
The group was formed in 1982, by The Fartz members Paul Solger and Duff McKagan, also of the Fastbacks, after original Fartz singer Blaine Cook quit due to musical differences. Filling out the band's line-up were vocalist Steve Verwolf, bassist David Garrigues, and future Mother Love Bone drummer, Greg Gilmore. David left the band in 83 due to personality clashes. Duff took over duties on bass for a single 8 track recording of Necropolitan Affair. Duff left the band in mid 84 due to - again - personality clashes. Jim Lightfoot, former partner in Modern Productions and member of Memory, joined as bass player, though stayed on only through a single performance. The final pre-Sub Pop line up was cemented by the addition of Daniel House on bass.
Despite gaining a lot of criticism from the punk rock purists of the area, the band's performances are generally regarded as legendary, with rumours of psychedelic elements which caused Black Flag's Henry Rollins to label them the "punk rock Hawkwind".Pearl Jam's Stone Gossard has credited them as the band that inspired him to learn guitar. It is perhaps not surprising then that the first of Gossard's bands to gain recognition - Green River - used the same grinding, slowed-down, punk rock riffage.
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