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They put me in the back room re-sealing records that customers had returned.That was my job because nobody else wanted to do it”. (Jeff Gilbert had worked there previously).
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“I was working at Tower Records by then” says Penta. So of course I fell in love with The Pretenders right then and there. “One day Jeff Humphrey, the drummer from The Moving Parts came in while we were recording and said ‘You guys should hear this single that just came out, because you guys sound a lot like this! It was The Pretenders‘ ‘Kid’. It’s complaining set to a drop D tuning”. In short, Jeff has more Heavy Metal cred than many of the musicians he writes about. It should be noted that Almost Live! also launched the career of Bill Nye, the Science Guy. Almost Live! was later re-edited to remove ‘local place-names, and broadcast on Comedy Central. Local comedian John Keister’s hosted the show from 1988 to 1999, which is the era the show is best known for. Jeff might be best known for the ongoing appearance on the ‘Lame List’, self-deprecating sketches on Almost Live!,a local show that aired between 19 on Seattle’s KING TV. The bar lasted from 2009 to 2015 and was a “must visit” for music fans, and tourists taking in the Seattle music scene. He was one of the co-owners of Seattle’s rock hangout/bar The Feedback Lounge. He was a long-time disc jockey for Seattle’s KZOK radio and introduced his listeners to unknown metal bands that would go on to be stars. In fact, Gilbert has plenty of serious journalism under his belt. Jeff is also the author of ‘ Trick or Shriek’ and ‘Camp Vampires’ two schlocky booksfull of horror movie clichés and teen-age terror…on purpose. Jeff Gilbert outside The Feedback Lounge in West Seattle. 1.’ According to Viral Recordings blog ‘.the reviews are offbeat, darkly humorous and wickedly insightful”. He was manager of Seattle’s Mansplat Record Store and managing editor of their magazine, Mansplat! He compiled a series of ‘ fanboy’ movie reviews from Mansplat! Magazine called ‘ Drinkin’ & Drive-in: Horror, Sci-Fi, Beer Vol. Jeff wrote about metal bands for The Rocket, Playboy, Spin, Britain’s Kerrang! and as a contributing editor for Guitar World. John Nay who’d go on to play in The Lewd and The Frazz also recorded with us.Īs improbable as it may seem the Jeff Gilbert that Penta mentions is the same Jeff Gilbert of Seattle heavy-metal fame. It was really cute, really sweet music Jeff Humphrey from the Seattle band The Moving Parts drummed with us sometimes. even though he was a big Rolling Stones fan. I think Jeff was trying to go for a Beatle-esque kind of thing. I actually have cassette copies of the tapes. He and I wrote songs together and I did my first recording with him when I was just barely 16 at a studio on Queen Anne Hill called ‘Big and Famous Studio’ We recorded about 6 or 7 songs. He was really cute back then, and quite a bit older than me. “When I was 15 I had a boyfriend named Jeff Gilbert. When Richard was in my band we used to call him ‘Dickie’. He played with The Fastbacks for awhile in the 1980s. One of the bands I played in was with Richard Stuverud. I got asked to be in other bands over the next few years, and sang in a couple of them. I don’t even remember the name of the band, but I was hooked. “I started in my first band when I was 13” says Penta, who was still known as Leslee to her friends and family. My mom raised me and two of my brothers as a single parent. It was just something that I loved all my life. So I grew up listening to popular music… especially the Beatles. I grew up in a household with a sister who was 11 years older and she was a big Beatles fan. I always knew that was what I wanted to do. “I knew from the time I was a child that I was a singer. Although she went by the name Leslee growing up and in the early stages of career, let’s dispense with the earlier name and use ‘Penta’ just to keep things clear. That first long trip was a prologue to the peripatetic life of the girl born Leslee Swanson. The Deaconess Hospital in Wenatchee Washington That was the closest hospital…That’s where I was born.
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At the time there was no hospital in Moses Lake so they had to drive almost 70 miles to Wenatchee. My parents were visiting my grandmother in Moses Lake. “Instead I was born in Wenatchee Washington on September 14, 1962, though I never lived there. “I should have been born in Seattle” Penta Leslee Swanson tells me.