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- ↑ Prato, Greg (2009). Grunge is dead : the oral history of Seattle rock music. ECW Press. p. 199. ISBN 978-1-55022-877-9.
- ↑ Tow, Stephen (2001). The strangest tribe : how a group of Seattle rock bands invented grunge. Sasquatch Books. p. 168. ISBN 978-1570617430.