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Green River were formed in Seattle in 1984, taking their name from the area's notorious, then-recent serial killer (who wasn't brought to justice until around two decades later). Lead vocalist/guitarist Mark Arm and guitarist Steve Turner had previously played together in two local bands, the geek punk Mr. Epp and the more hardcore oriented Limp Richerds. Before joining those bands, Steve had played for a while with drummer Alex Vincent (aka Alex Shumway) in a band called Spluii Numa. When all of the aforementioned bands broke up, Mark, Steve and Alex started looking around for a bass player and found one in Jeff Ament from Deranged Diction. Late in the year, second guitarist Stone Gossard -- Turner's onetime bandmate in yet another band from the early '80s, the Ducky Boys -- came onboard, allowing Arm to concentrate exclusively on singing. Green River started playing local clubs, and in 1985 they recorded two tracks for the compilation album Deep Six, the inaugural release on local...