February 8, 2008
Jack Endino and the year 1989
Posted by ryan at 12:33 PM in music . | 0 Comments
I was flipping through my record collection today when I started thinking about how much impact Jack Endino has had on the music I listen to.
Jack Endino's greatest claim to fame was Nirvana's first album, 'Bleach'. Endino helped Nirvana to record and produce this album at Reciprocal Studios in Seattle in 1989. Interestingly enough, in that same year in the same studio, Endino recorded and produced the Treepeople's first album 'Time Whore'. While the Treepeople are (undeservingly) little more than a footnote in indie rock, lead singer and guitarist Doug Martsch moved on to form Built to Spill.
One more sidenote concerning the incestuous relationship of music in the northwest: before forming Built to Spill, Doug Martsch was in the Halo Benders with Calvin Johnson of Beat Happening and K Records. One of Kurt Cobain's favorite albums was Beat Happening's 'Jamboree' and Kurt's only tattoo, located on his forearm, was of the K Records logo. In 1989 Kurt played guitar on a 7" with Calvin Johnson and others at the K Records studio in Olympia. I've never heard it myself, and at $400 a song it is pretty expensive.
Here is a few tracks from the bands I've listed above, in chronological order.