It seemed unreal a small-time band from a minor US city could cause such a riot on the other side of the world. Guitarist Steve Turner, a bespectacled student at Western Washington University, thought: ‘I'm not going back to school for a while.' Here they were, thirteen thousand kilometres from home, on their first Australian tour playing to a packed crowd who were going chi-chi bananas, throwing themselves with furious abandon in a swirling, heaving mosh-pit that spanned the club's sloping bottom floor and resembled a human washing machine. It was on-stage, looking out across a packed Old Greek Theatre, in the Melbourne suburb of Richmond, that Seattle band Mudhoney knew something extraordinary was happening. ![]() Chapter 1 When Tomorrow Hits: The First Wave
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