Yes, we were in the home of grunge this week. Nice city, and home of some very famous rock and roll connections and stories, starting with the Beatles first trip there back in 1964. There was a very famous photo taken with them leaning out of their hotel room window, apparently fishing in Puget Sound - do you remember it?:
This was taken at the famous Edgewater Hotel, where, in later years, Led Zeppelin were banned after the famous shark incident - check out http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Edgewater and connections. Here's the photo I took this time:
There was also an exhibition on at the Experience Music Project, which is very close to the Space Needle, erected for the 1962 World Fair (remember Elvis' film the following year - It Happened at the World's Fair?). The primary feature at EMP was a Nirvana inspired exhibition - Taking Punk to the Masses:
The best part of the exhibition however, was the interactive History of the Guitar, which, at the end, showed 4 famous, but very different guitars (underneath a video of the great Son House):
CK would have enjoyed seeing the Rickenbackers:
There was a huge column of electric guitars at the entrance:
Seattle is also Jimi Hendrix's home town and the museum housing the exhibition is a weird shape and colours, supposedly inspired by Jimi's melted guitars:
Happy headbanging!
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