Green River to reunite next year
 

NEW YORK (Billboard) - Green River, the cult Seattle rock band that included future members of Pearl Jam and Mudhoney, will reunite in the summer of 2008, former guitarist Stone Gossard said.

Gossard, who went on to co-found Pearl Jam with Green River bass player Jeff Ament, confirmed rumours that the show would mark the 20th anniversary of their Sub Pop Records label.

"Pearl Jam has toured with Mudhoney, so we played with (former Green River members) Mark (Arm) and Steve (Turner)," Gossard told Billboard.com. "But we haven't played with Alex (Vincent) and Bruce (Fairweather) in quite a while. They're both excited about it, from everything I've heard."

Fairweather replaced Turner on guitar before the band's first album was released in 1985, because Turner was reportedly not happy with the musical tastes of Gossard and Ament. After Green River's demise in 1987, Turner and vocalist Arm reunited the following year to form Mudhoney.
Reuters/Billboard

of all the reunions that have been happening in the last few years, this is one i least thought would ever happen

me too!! i didn't even think it could happen.

could be interesting.

holy shit! i'm a closet pearl jam fan, so this is big to me!

this going to be a one off show like big black or are they going to do full tour ?

This will be great if they go through with it this time.

This is interesting, although i don't really like them but it might be good.

I wonder how the hell theyre gonna remember those songs.

i honestly couldnt even hum one of their songs.

never heard much of them unfortunatly. but i have always been a hige PJ fan.
so this is awesome!

I've been a Pearl Jam hater from the beginning, but I was a huge Green River fan back in my Seattle days. I guess I always figurred this might happen. No telling if it'll be good or not, but there is a lot of talent there.

If Fairweather is back in, does that mean Steve Turner is back out? I can't see Steve wanting to play those songs particularly, but he did write "Swallow My Pride" which is arguably their classic tune. I saw Steve getting coffee a few months ago down here in Portland. We went to school together in Bellingham, so it was great to catch up a little.

Crazy that Alex will be back on drums. He's the one who really disappeared, though he's got a garage rock band on My Space who's name I don't remember.

A lot of Pearl Jam fans are likely to be disappointed when they actually hear Green River! Mark's snarl in GR makes his Mudhoney stuff sound slick. As far from Vedder as possible.

Maybe they, like, wrote them down?

bands write down songs?

shit i'd rahter see a Live Skull reunion.

cool

Holy shit! I only hope I have enough money for tickets!