Artist description Bundle of Hiss, one of the lost Seattle God Bands hailing from the near-prehistoric days before Subpop and grunge, helped create what would come to be called the Seattle Sound, along with the likes of The U-Men, Green River, Soundgarden, Skinyard, Feast, The Melvins, Coffin Break, Malfunkshun, H-Hour, Chemistry Set, Mother Love Bone, Room Nine, Screaming Trees, 64 Spiders, Vexed, Pure Joy, and many others. When the Seattle hype machine tilted and flew into a manic phase, it produced propaganda at a staggering rate, influenced pop culture on a global scale, and catapulted some bands to the top of the charts. It was a great time to play in a band, especially if you were from Seattle. Many bands got the opportunity to document their songs on vinyl and/or CD, if not actually sell a lot of records. The "Seattle Sound" became a viable niche market. Bundle of Hiss recorded a lot of material, which was never released, except for a few isolated tracks included on obscure compilations. These unreleased recordings document the development of a heavy punk sound that many bands worldwide would later copy, not directly from Bundle of Hiss, but via their contemporaries, with whom BOH shared influences and musical elements.

Music Style Grunge

Similar Artists Soundgarden, Mudhoney

Artist History In the fall of '98 fabled engineer/producer Jack Endino called Jamie Lane, of Bundle of Hiss. Jack offered to remix and remaster the previously unreleased Bundle of Hiss tapes if they were still available. Jamie contacted Kurt Danielson and Dan Peters (Mudhoney); the three conducted intensive searches, coming up empty-handed. Then, Dan hit pay dirt. The BOH tapes had found their way into Dan's basement; Dan didn't know that until he stumbled onto them, much to BOH's collective delight, while shot gunning an icy cold 32 ounce can of malt liquor. This 15 song Bundle of Hiss CD represents the fruits of Jack Endino's salvage operations: the songs are fat, heavy, crunchy, clean, and true.

Group Members Dan Peters, Jamie Lane, Kurt Danielson, Russ Bartlett, Tad Doyle

Albums Sessions: 1986-1988

Press Reviews "Among the many band that constituted the Seattle 'Grunge Scene' of the late 1980's, a handful failed to publish recorded material during their time, for one reason or another. A few posthumous documents were released by some of these bands during the 90's. However, until now, one of the most prominent of these bands has been conspicuous in its absence from the record racks: Bundle of Hiss. I anticipate receiving a copy of this CD because my 12 year old cassette is wearing thin." - Kim Thayil "Vintage Seattle grunge from one of the original practitioners of the style... I always felt sad that this hard-working band never managed to get a record out, thus being "lost to history" almost. It was a pleasure (and a technical pain!) to finally resurrect all this stuff, for my own enjoyment, for the band, and for whomever else might care." -Jack Endino

Location Seattle, WA - USA

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