I lived in Olympia WA in the early '90s being a riOt grrl in a couple bands and what not, hung out at Evergreen State - used to come down here a lot and ended up liking it way better than Oly so I (eventually) moved here after a hiatus back in Michigan to get my degree.
what bands? who knows, i might have played with you...
'The irrelevant' (lol) was the biggest one that played a bunch of shows - mainly in Michigan. The band broke up and most of the members moved to Oly where we were in several 'jam-bands' where the members kinda came and went. We played parties/mini-raves at Evergreen and in Tumwater at a big 'communal' house and out at this place in Little Rock I think, called 'Rainbow Valley'.
Some of these jams would have like 20 people in a drum circle and then a dozen people with various instruments with singing and dancing - pretty intense tribal kinda music almost - kinda psychedelic punk-funk-grunge stuff? lol. I remember 'Flat Black Cat' being one of the bands that we played with. A lot of the same people that hung with 'Fits of Depression" hung around the same circles, too. There were other weird hippy-named bands I don't recall - "avant garde" type weirdness.
A lot of the more specific details were ummm clouded by the influences of the time? lol To paraphrase Honda man "If you remember the [early '90s in Olympia], you weren't there!!!"
