Original Montana Hardcore Featuring Jeff Ament and Bruce Fairweather of Gre… Read Full Bio ↴Original Montana Hardcore Featuring Jeff Ament and Bruce Fairweather of Green River.
Here's Jeff's account: Deranged Diction, Montana’s First Hardcore Band Missoula, Montana, 1981-83. Jon Donahue and I met Bruce Fairweather skateboarding the brick banks at the University of Montana in September of 1981. Within a month, we were rehearsing as Deranged Diction with Bill the drummer, playing songs by Black Flag, 999, the Dead Kennedys, the Ramones and the Clash. We played a half dozen shows that school year, mostly with new drummer Sergio Avenia, with a summer assignment to write some of our own songs. Fall quarter 1982, Jon moved back to California, so we needed a new singer. Tom Kipp approached us and we wrote and recorded our first batch of songs which included "Pruning" which ended up on a compilation called "We Got Power" and the Flipper-inspired "Periscope." Tim Healy took over vocals in March of 1983 and we wrote and recorded six new songs, including "Only" and "I'm an Amerikan." We put these songs on a cassette called "No Art, No Cowboys, No Rules" and sold and traded them through fanzines like Maximum Rock and Roll and Flipside. Deranged Diction, Seattle Era Seattle, Washington, 1983-84. Sergio, Bruce and I decided to move to Seattle in May of 1983 with the idea of finding a new singer for our band. We put a "singer wanted" ad in the Rocket and our first tryout with Rod Moody was a great fit, and he played guitar which gave us a bigger heavier sound. We wrote 10 new songs with Rod and played shows at the Metropolis with the Butthole Surfers, Husker Du, Ill Repute, Stalag 13 and local Seattle bands the Accused, Malfunkshun, the Rejectors and the Silly Killers. In early 1984, I quit the band to start Green River with Mark, Steve and Alex. Unfortunately, we never recorded a song. Seattle, Washington, 2008. I ran into Rod at Easy Street Records and reminisced about our days in Deranged Diction and he mentioned having a rehearsal tape of the songs we wrote together. I listened and we thought it was a shame that we never recorded them. Rod and I approached Bruce and Sergio about recording those songs. We went into Avast studios and recorded and mixed it in 4 days in the spirit of how we might have done it 24 years earlier. It was a blast playing with my old friends again and it’s sounds pretty damn good, if I say so myself. -- Jeff Ament, formerly Jeff Diction
Here's Jeff's account: Deranged Diction, Montana’s First Hardcore Band Missoula, Montana, 1981-83. Jon Donahue and I met Bruce Fairweather skateboarding the brick banks at the University of Montana in September of 1981. Within a month, we were rehearsing as Deranged Diction with Bill the drummer, playing songs by Black Flag, 999, the Dead Kennedys, the Ramones and the Clash. We played a half dozen shows that school year, mostly with new drummer Sergio Avenia, with a summer assignment to write some of our own songs. Fall quarter 1982, Jon moved back to California, so we needed a new singer. Tom Kipp approached us and we wrote and recorded our first batch of songs which included "Pruning" which ended up on a compilation called "We Got Power" and the Flipper-inspired "Periscope." Tim Healy took over vocals in March of 1983 and we wrote and recorded six new songs, including "Only" and "I'm an Amerikan." We put these songs on a cassette called "No Art, No Cowboys, No Rules" and sold and traded them through fanzines like Maximum Rock and Roll and Flipside. Deranged Diction, Seattle Era Seattle, Washington, 1983-84. Sergio, Bruce and I decided to move to Seattle in May of 1983 with the idea of finding a new singer for our band. We put a "singer wanted" ad in the Rocket and our first tryout with Rod Moody was a great fit, and he played guitar which gave us a bigger heavier sound. We wrote 10 new songs with Rod and played shows at the Metropolis with the Butthole Surfers, Husker Du, Ill Repute, Stalag 13 and local Seattle bands the Accused, Malfunkshun, the Rejectors and the Silly Killers. In early 1984, I quit the band to start Green River with Mark, Steve and Alex. Unfortunately, we never recorded a song. Seattle, Washington, 2008. I ran into Rod at Easy Street Records and reminisced about our days in Deranged Diction and he mentioned having a rehearsal tape of the songs we wrote together. I listened and we thought it was a shame that we never recorded them. Rod and I approached Bruce and Sergio about recording those songs. We went into Avast studios and recorded and mixed it in 4 days in the spirit of how we might have done it 24 years earlier. It was a blast playing with my old friends again and it’s sounds pretty damn good, if I say so myself. -- Jeff Ament, formerly Jeff Diction
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Deranged Diction Lyrics
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@Isabellaaskaan
01. 00:00 Kill or Be Killed
02. 00:58 Have a Nice Day
03. 01:50 Only
04. 03:41 Pruning
05. 04:22 So Bad
06. 05:26 Periscope
07. 08:30 Not Fair
08. 09:27 Aspirin
09. 10:21 I'm an Amerikan
10. 12:41 Letters
11. 13:00 What You See on TV
12. 14:45 Listen
@juliethebruce916
This is so great! And from Missoula....wow.....thanks for sharing...
@Davepacheco1986
Kill or be Killed is a hardcore master piece.
@damanlidison
Wow, almost forgot about this good band!
Thanks for the upload!
@primehunter45
Such great hardcore punk, very underrated
@ronlacer4090
I got a copy of this because of the strong review it received in MRR, loved it! Featured Jeff Ament, pre-Pearl Jam
@chrisfurius
Did you used to trade tapes in the 90's? Your name is familiar.
@ronlacer4090
@@chrisfurius yes, I traded tapes in the 80s and early 90s
@chrisfurius
@@ronlacer4090 From Boston or MA? If so, we used to trade.
@ronlacer4090
@@chrisfurius Yeah, that was me then
@alexmeyers5925
Ow that bass !!!!!