Kim Salmon - Lightning Scary (1990)
Kim Salmon is a bloody legend (and he’s from Perth):
Salmon’s work in the 1980s was influential in the development of grunge music, first recognised around Seattle, USA, before impacting on popular music in the early 1990s through bands such as Nirvana and Soundgarden. The Scientists relied on unorthodox bass-heavy rhythms and distorted guitars, the latter being a direct precursor for grunge. In fact the term itself was coined by Salmon in the mid 1980s to describe The Scientists’ sound, as noted in a documentary on Australian music, ‘Long Way to the Top’ (2001).
