Jack Endino

Jack Endino, who made his humble start in 1985 with a five-dollar-an-hour basement studio and a band named Skin Yard, would go on to produce records for some of rock's rawest and most influential bands. By the mid-'90s -- having worked with Nirvana, Mudhoney, Soundgarden, and Tad -- Endino had become synonymous with loud, unpolished, underground rock -- what the media labeled grunge.



Skin Yard, for which Endino played guitar, was formed in 1985 and featured Matt Cameron (drums), Daniel House (bass), and Ben McMillan (vocals). Their self-titled debut, recorded fall 1985 to winter 1986, served as Endino's first step into recording albums for commercial release (C/Z Records 1987). Before the group ended all activities in 1992, they managed to go through a half-dozen noteworthy drummers: Matt Cameron (who later joined Soundgarden), Jason Finn (Presidents of the United States of America/Love Battery), Steve Wied (Tad), Greg Gilmore (Mother Love Bone), Norman Scott (Gruntruck), and finally Barrett Martin (Screaming Trees), who stayed with the group until the end.

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