I never really followed grunge.
I was 12 in '55 when rock and roll hit. It just completely transformed me.
Meanwhile after failing the bar twice, I knew some people in New York and moved here in August '71.
By many peoples' standards, my playing is very primitive but by punk standards, I'm a virtuoso.
From '69 til '76, I never played in public. I would play by myself at home.
By then I was in Brooklyn and drank my way through that summer. I stopped when I got sick of that and got a job at the Strand bookstore, which was a little better than the tax job.