NOTES
Introduction
xii “there was, and perhaps”: Hansen, “Northwest Rock Scene,” 44.
xii “The story of rock ’n’ roll”: Shipper, “Explosives,” 4.
xiii “All over the country”: Barnes, “Sonics: Explosives,” 39–40.
xiii “As a tried and true East Coaster”: Miller, History of Northwest Rock.
xiii “Not every region of the United States”: Shaw, “Northwest Sound.”
xiii “In regions as disparate as Texas”: Palao, “Spanish Castle Magic.”
xiii “The Pacific Northwest”: Joynson, Fuzz, Acid and Flowers, 6.
xiv “The thang in the Northwest”: Chris Morris, “Seattle, 30 Years B.G. (Before Grunge),” Los Angeles Reader, April 8, 1994.
xiv “Take a loud, sloppy”: Shaw, “Northwest Sound.”
xiv “There’s a tradition of”: Morrell, Nirvana and the Sound of Seattle, 11.
xiv “The biggest reason Seattle”: Marsh, Louie Louie, 70–71.
xv “the rhythm-and-blues-based”: Gill, “Region, Agency and Popular Music,” 120.
1. Alone in This City
1 “I thought that I had gone”: “Seattle to Stardom.”
3 “investigate all complaints”: Seattle City Ordinance 44785 (Council Bill 3427). Office of the City Clerk (Seattle), March 7, 1923. http://clerk.seattle.gov/~legislativeItems/Ordinances/Ord_44785.pdf.
3 “dances given by responsible”: Seattle City Ordinance 44785.
19. The Girl Can’t Help It
134 “I remember one time”: Ormsby interview.
135 “We were inspired”: Dangel interview with the author.
135 “I started singing”: Palao, “Spanish Castle Magic,” 4.
135 “She was this”: Dangel interview with the author.
136 “The Wailers were the band”: Mike Mitchell, interview with the author, 1983, recording and transcript, NWMA.
136 “I saw the Frantics”: Neil Rush, interview with the author, 1988, recording and transcript, NWMA.
137 “Lynn Vrooman brought”: Rush interview.
137 “the Aztecs ground”: Rush interview.
137 “We basically had”: Merrilee Gunst, interview with the author, March 1987, recording and transcript, NWMA.
138 “At 10:30 that night”: Rush interview.
138 “Tony got thrown”: Rush interview.
140 “The next thing”: Palao, “Spanish Castle Magic,” 14.
20. Jimmy’s Blues
142 “I was upstairs while the grownups”: Rolling Stone.
142 “I ran away from home”: James, “Wild, Man!”
142 “School wasn’t for me”: Brown, Jimi Hendrix, 21.
143 “We had one room there”: Al Hendrix, interview with the author, 1983, video recording, MoPOP, transcript in author’s possession.
143 “We were friends”: Pernell Alexander, interview with the author, 1983, recording and transcript, NWMA.
143 “My dad danced”: Welch, Hendrix, 15.
143 “I learned all the riffs”: Hendrix, Starting at Zero, 20.
143 “The Grand Ole Opry used to”: Joe Bosso, “Rare Jimi Hendrix Interview: Songwriting, Dylan, Guitar Destruction,” Music Radar, September 24, 2012, www.musicradar.com.
144 “I learned to play on a guitar”: Beat Instrumental.
144 “He played the blues”: Alexander interview.
145 “I came out to Seattle”: Mark Dalton, “L. V. Parr Interview,” Jet City Blues (blog), October 8, 2005, www.jetcityblues.blogspot.com.
145 “Jimmy Hendrix used to”: Dalton, “L. V. Parr Interview.”
146 “One of the songs we’d”: Willix, Jimi Hendrix, 16.
146 “we’d sneak in”: Willix, Jimi Hendrix, 64.
146 “I formed this group”: Brown, Jimi Hendrix, 20.
146 “I got a few dollars ahead”: Hopkins, Hit and Run, 29.
146 “Jimmy and I both started”: Alexander interview.
147 “My father was a preacher”: Willix, Jimi Hendrix, 68.
147 “Oh, primitive wasn’t the word”: Alexander interview.
147 “I remember my first gig”: Melody Maker.
147 “Well, it was so very hard”: Melody Maker.
148 “We started messing ’round”: Joe Gray, interview with the author, 1983, transcript, NWMA.
148 “My brother Jimmy”: Holden interview.
148 “Butch Snipes: he’s the one”: Alexander interview.
149 “At first we were hesitant”: Willix, Jimi Hendrix, 76–77.
150 “I know how good he was”: Terry Johnson, interview with the author, 1993, recording and transcript, NWMA.
150 “We all knew Jimmy was good”: Willix, Jimi Hendrix, 91.
150 “He used to come into the Carpenters Hall”: Holden interview.
151 “Jimmy used to come to Birdland”: Lewis interview.
151 “The Dynamics turned him down”: Ron Woods, interview with the author, 1983, recording and transcript, NWMA.
152 “There was this disc jockey”: Roby, Black Gold, 10–11.