Spluii Numa

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Name = Spluii Numa


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Origin = Seattle
Genre = Punk rock
Grunge
Years_active = 1983–1984
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Associated_acts = Limp Richerds
Green River
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Past_members = Spluii Numa was a pre-grunge Seattle punk band from the early 1980s. Its members consisted of Erik Aasen (vocals), Charles Quain (guitar), Keith Strobel (bass), briefly Harold Hollingsworth(vocals), and Alex Shumway - better known as Alex Vincent (drummer). (Quain was also a member of the band Limp Richerds that also had at times consisted of Mudhoney's Mark Arm and Steve Turner. Shumway had also played one show with Limp Richerds, playing a Band Aid container.)

The origin of the name "Spluii Numa" comes from graffiti written on a locker at Shumway's highschool. A person had written "John Lennon lives!" on a school locker. Someone later crossed out the word 'lives' and wrote "is spluii numa!"

Upon the band's demise in 1984, Shumway went on to link up with Mark Arm, Steve Turner, Jeff Ament, and Stone Gossard to form the influential grunge band Green River.

After Green River broke up in 1987, Arm and Turner later went on to form the band Mudhoney. Ament and Gossard went on to form Mother Love Bone and later Pearl Jam. Shumway attended university in Japan, and went on to work in politics. Shumway still plays music with the band [http://www.myspace.com/thezackstaticsect The Zack Static Sect] . After the end of Green River, Spluii Numa bassist, Strobel, went on to be the accountant for Mudhoney. [1] He has since moved on to an illustrious career in finance for The Boeing Company, where he handles multi-million dollar business transactions. He is also a member of the Seattle Skateboard Park Advisory Committee. He lives in Seattle and drives a Toyota Prius.

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References: "Intrigue and Incest: Pearl Jam and the Secret History of Seattle" Jo-Ann Greene, Goldmine 8/20/93 [http://www.fivehorizons.com/archive/articles/gm082093.shtml]