The bassist of grunge fore-fathers Green River, Jeff Ament, has been talking to Billboard about the band's reunion as part of Sub Pop's twentieth anniversary celebrations. Their performance at the label's birthday bash on Sunday will also be their first full show together for twenty years - their Sub Pop releases coming after the band had split.
Ament said that he, his Pearl Jam bandmate Stone Gossard, Mudhoney's Mark Arm and Steve Turner and drummer Alex Vincent have rehearsed a number of times since April, and have even gone so far as to re-learn a couple of songs from their original demo tape, 'Baby, Help Me Forget' and 'Leech'. He said: "In a weird way, those are probably some of the best songs we have. It's funny how it works. At the time, we thought they were way too simple or not challenging enough. But in retrospect, they're really great pop songs. We re-learned those two, but there are five or six songs that never got released".
Ament also said that he wouldn't rule out further Green River activity, concluding: "It would be fun to write a couple of new songs with those guys".