The Presidents Of the United States of America - The Band Behind Peaches & Kurt Cobain Connection

Whatever happened to the alternative rock band The Presidents of the Untied States of America (PUSA) from Seattle and their connection to Kurt Cobain

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I thought the most appropriate thing for me to do was to cover Seattle band The Presidents of the United States of America. To a lot of people they are a bit like garlic...either you love them or you really, really hate them. Some would call their music an insult to real musicianship. Or they might say their lyrics lack depth. So, what caught the world’s attention about this band? Stay tuned to find out.
Vocalist and bassist Chris Ballew would meet guitarist Dave Dedererin junior high while they were both attending a preppy school named Bush .They wouldn’t form a band until years later after the pair attended college, and returned to Seattle and jammed for the first time at a Bush alumni function.. Ballew had previously played in a punk-busker band named Egg who wrote a lot of songs that would eventually morph into Presidents songs most notably the track Naked and Famous.
And Chris Ballew would even live with alternative rock artist Beck in the early 90’s in Los Angeles. and would play live shows with him as an a multi-instrumentalist. It would be those gigs that helped shape his belief about live performances as he would tell Spin Magazine in 1996

I disliked the tone of the band. I like to reach out and take care of the audience and Beck was not interested in taking care of the audience at that point. So that didn’t work for me” he’d say
Lacking a drummer the duo initially played several shows in late 1993 under the monicker the The Lo Fi’s, The Dynamic Duo and Pure Frosting before landing on the name "The Presidents of the United States of America." It was after finally settling on a name the duo became a trio in December of 1993 when they added drummer Jason Finn. Finn for his part was also playing in another band at the time named Love Battery who was already signed to a recording label Atlas records. He would leave Love Battery in 1995 and would also play drums for another two big seattle bands including the fastbacks and skinyard..

In early 1994 The trio recorded a ten-song cassette named Froggystyle,in just one day. They would sell the record at live shows and Finn was selling cassette tapes from behind the bar at the Comet where he worked.
Unlike a lot of band’s from Seattle who used their difficult life experiences to shape their sound and music, Presidents weren’t full of angst as Ballew would tell Spin Magazine in 1996 “I Don’t Really Have Much To Say. I’ve Had a Really Good Life. I’ve Had the Room and Space and Freedom to Be Imaginative. I haven’t had anyone close to me die. I haven’t had any real hard times so I feel more productive to dwell on good things” he’d say.
.The band’s music was heavily influenced by bands like Boston, Nazareth, Cheap Trick, The Beatles and E.L.O while also harking back to the famous Seattle band’s of the 60’s includingThe Sonics, The Faboulous Wailers and The Kingsmen. Presidents' music was also notable because Ballew and Dederer would play a basitar and guitbass, which are regular, six-string guitars with special modifications: For example Ballew's instrument had two bass strings with which he would play bass parts on and Dederer's instrument has three guitar strings which he used to play guitar parts.

Presidents would be pretty much the antithesis of the so-called Seattle sound which was synonymous for being dark, moody and gloomy. The band’s music was much happier in comparison. Dederer would tell Spin Magazine in 1996 that the Seattle sound was misunderstood saying “The grunge thing is a total anomaly” claiming seattle is more closer to louie louie than i hate myself and i want to die. While many people think of Sub-Pop records when Seattle comes ot mind, in fact there was another record label, which was even older in the City named PopLlama which has been around 4 years longer. PopLlama would put out the band’s self titled debut album in 1995 and Presidents would eventually sign to Columbia the same year who would reissue their debut record later on in 1995. The band’s debut album would be certified triple platinum in America thanks to the strength of singles "Lump", "Peaches", and "Kitty",

The band’s songs were definitely light hearted compare to their seattle contemporaries with songs like
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The band’s most famous song, Peaches, has often been speculated about. Chris Ballew says the song is ab

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