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Time for a random info dump about a special interest from 20 years ago. My favourite band, Poor Old Lu.

Poor Old Lu was a band in Seattle in the early 90s. Three of the members, Aaron Sprinkle, Jesse Sprinkle, and Scott Hunter, lived on Vashon Island. The bass player, Nick Barber, lived in Seattle, and they knew him because they all went to the same church.

Nick grew up next door to Jeremy Enigk, who was known later as the lead singer of Sunny Day Real Estate. They were childhood best friends. So Nick and Jeremy made music together up in Seattle and sometimes went down to Vashon and played with Scott and the Sprinkle bros.

They started playing gigs together, and Scott and Jeremy would kind of take turns doing lead vocals. Eventually they decided that they needed to make a choice and just have one vocalist, and Jeremy amicably left and put together his own band, the aforementioned Sunny Day Real Estate.

Nick stayed behind with Poor Old Lu. They recorded several albums to moderate success in the genre of "Christian alternative that doesn't sound too constantly preachy." They broke up in 1996, but released another album in 2002. (Personal note: in 2002 I was living in Seattle and attending the same church as the whole band. I know all of them at least in passing. I joke that I moved to Seattle just to get them to record another album and then left after I accomplished that.)

Anyway, back in the 90s, Jeremy did very well with Sunny Day Real Estate. They broke up in the mid 90s as well, after a couple critically acclaimed albums. Then, after Kurt Cobain's death, Dave Grohl was looking for bandmates to become the Foo Fighters. He hired 2 former members of Sunny Day Real Estate: the drummer and the bass player. Dave had a falling out with the drummer after their first album, but the bass player from SDRE is still with the Foo Fighters to this day.

So if Nick had stuck with his childhood best friend and joined Sunny Day Real Estate instead of staying with Poor Old Lu, there's a chance that he would have been a Foo Fighter now. Instead, he works in commercial real estate.

Anyway, here's the one song that Poor Old Lu recorded as a duet with both Scott and Jeremy.

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“Nirvana had a big influence on this generation musically, but lyrically it definitely rubs me the wrong way”- TobyMac (DC Talk, The Gotee B

Robert McParland and Alex DiBlasi conclude that the emergence of Christian punk during the early 1980s and the first term of the Reagan presidency, was ‘‘likely in response to the candidate`s courtship of the Religious Right’’(McParland and DiBlasi, 2019,p.69). Christian punk challenged self-appointed authority.

Poor Old Lu : ‘‘No less energetic than their fellow Seattleites Pearl Jam and Soundgarden, and nearly as melodic and accessible as Nirvana, the Lu gang used their talents to encourage hope rather than frustration.''

Labeled – Breaking Up is Hard to Do: Beloved, Dead Poetic, Terminal, Poor Old Lu (S1 Ep10) It’s easy to find information about a band's origin story, but what about their break up? Coverage of a band's unfolding is rare, and that’s usually because they’re either too exhausted to deal with the attention, or there's heightened sensitivity around why they broke up in the first place.

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