Reviews
"Goes straight to the cow's craw for this enlightening oral history of the scene from the people actually involved, and no stone is unturned . . . the final word on an exciting musical mutiny, and triumphs as a potently honest view of the perhaps the last punk rock revival." -Synthesis, "Goes straight to the cow's craw for this enlightening oral history of the scene from the people actually involved, and no stone is unturned . . . the final word on an exciting musical mutiny, and triumphs as a potently honest view of the perhaps the last punk rock revival." --Synthesis, "A complete, exhaustive and authoritative account of Music 1.0's last successful marketing experiment . . . an invaluable record." — Eye Weekly, "An enlightening chronological history of the Seattle rock scene from the 1960s through the mid-90s, as told by the folks who lived it." —YuppiePunk.org, "Goes straight to the cow's craw for this enlightening oral history of the scene from the people actually involved, and no stone is unturned . . . the final word on an exciting musical mutiny, and triumphs as a potently honest view of the perhaps the last punk rock revival." —Synthesis, "By approaching the subject as an oral rather than a written account, [Prato] gives the story back to Seattle . . . a multifaceted portrait of the music that pretty much defined the decade." —Blurt Magazine, "This tome is heavy and honorable, like a tombstone. If grunge is dead now (and by all accounts it is, despite its ongoing impact on rock music today) it was most certainly was alive." —Popdose.com, "By approaching the subject as an oral rather than a written account, [Prato] gives the story back to Seattle . . . a multifaceted portrait of the music that pretty much defined the decade." --Blurt Magazine, "Probably the most complete time capsule of a particular era in music history that has been penned to date." --Popmatters.com, "An enlightening chronological history of the Seattle rock scene from the 1960s through the mid-90s, as told by the folks who lived it." --YuppiePunk.org, "The book is remarkably comprehensive, nearly 500 pages long, and filled with rarely seen photographs, astute analyses of popular culture, insider gossip and interesting, funny and painful stories." — Express , Washington, DC, "Fifteen years after Kurt Cobain's suicide comes an exhaustive tome (nearly 500 pages) . . . if you're still embracing the plaid button-ups of yesteryear, you might actually feel like you've died and gone to heaven." — Filter, "[Grunge is Dead] is an accomplishment that will find fans as long as the music does. The book is remarkably comprehensive, nearly 500 pages long, and filled with rarely seen photographs, astute analyses of popular culture, insider gossip and interesting, funny and painful stories. Prato keeps the editorializing to a minimum, letting the players (Eddie Vedder, Slim Moon, Kim Thayil, Jerry Cantrell, Kathleen Hanna, Allison Wolfe, Blag Dahlia, Charles Petterson, Riki Rachtman, Chad Channing, et al) speak for themselves." -- Washington Post Express, "By approaching the subject as an oral rather than a written account, [Prato] gives the story back to Seattle... a multifaceted portrait of the music that pretty much defined the decade." -- Blurt Magazine, "Fifteen years after Kurt Cobain's suicide comes an exhaustive tome (nearly 500 pages) . . . if you're still embracing the plaid button-ups of yesteryear, you might actually feel like you've died and gone to heaven." -Filter, "This tome is heavy and honorable, like a tombstone. If grunge is dead now (and by all accounts it is, despite its ongoing impact on rock music today) it was most certainly was alive." -Popdose.com, "A complete, exhaustive and authoritative account of Music 1.0's last successful marketing experiment . . . an invaluable record." -- Eye Weekly, "A complete, exhaustive and authoritative account of Music 1.0's last successful marketing experiment . . . an invaluable record." -Eye Weekly, "Probably the most complete time capsule of a particular era in music history that has been penned to date." —Popmatters.com, "Probably the most complete time capsule of a particular era in music history that has been penned to date." -Popmatters.com, "This tome is heavy and honorable, like a tombstone. If grunge is dead now (and by all accounts it is, despite its ongoing impact on rock music today) it was most certainly was alive." --Popdose.com, "The book is remarkably comprehensive, nearly 500 pages long, and filled with rarely seen photographs, astute analyses of popular culture, insider gossip and interesting, funny and painful stories." -- Express , Washington, DC, "By approaching the subject as an oral rather than a written account, [Prato] gives the story back to Seattle . . . a multifaceted portrait of the music that pretty much defined the decade." -Blurt Magazine, "Fifteen years after Kurt Cobain's suicide comes an exhaustive tome (nearly 500 pages) . . . if you're still embracing the plaid button-ups of yesteryear, you might actually feel like you've died and gone to heaven." -- Filter, "Prato really earns his stripes when he gets his hands dirty tracing the roots of this sound to the mid-'60s Northwest, with the Sonics and the Wailers, and up to the punk rock and post-punk years of the U Men, the Fartz and undeniable outside influences like Black Flag, DOA, Flipper, Butthole Surfers, Sonic Youth and Redd Kross." -- Montreal Mirror, "Grunge Is Dead offers a definitive oral history of grunge ... Prato, a contributor to All Music Guide and Billboard.com, offers accounts from more than 125 musicians (with the exception of Nirvana), record label owners, and scenesters. The book traces grunge's meteoric rise out of the 1980s hard-core punk scene-and its decline owing to the growing prevalence of heroin use." -- Library Journal Express, "The book is remarkably comprehensive, nearly 500 pages long, and filled with rarely seen photographs, astute analyses of popular culture, insider gossip and interesting, funny and painful stories." -Express, Washington, DC, "A complete, exhaustive and authoritative account of Music 1.0's last successful marketing experiment ... Grunge Is Dead is an invaluable record." -- Eye Weekly, "An enlightening chronological history of the Seattle rock scene from the 1960s through the mid-90s, as told by the folks who lived it." -YuppiePunk.org
