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	Podcast:		Other News
	Episode:		How Grunge Music Emerged From Seattle's Moribund 1980s Economy
	Category:		Government & Organizations
	Duration:		00:05:03
	Publish Date:		2018-06-16 12:05:00
	Description:		If you have a band in Seattle, good luck finding an affordable practice space. There aren't many to begin with, and if a band can find a place that doesn't mind the noise, it is often small, old and outrageously expensive. Seattle music journalist and author Charles R. Cross says things were noticably different in the early and mid-'80s. "There were many, many empty spaces, that were just empty forever. So the capacity for a band member to rent a room for a hundred dollars in Belltown and live, or rent a rehearsal space for 75 [dollars], was everywhere," says Cross. But though practice space was plentiful, venues for shows were rare, wIth Seattle's economy a far cry from the diversified and tech-driven scene it has now. Cross says what performance spaces that did exist were not a good selection. "Things were so bad, that the idea that you were going to be a band in Seattle and find a following ... everybody gave up on that." But Cross says that had some surprising consequences. "If you
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