This Could Be Heaven

10 Minute Warning is not a band that is typically mentioned when discussing the history of the Seattle rock in the 1980s and into the ‘90s. While short-lived, they were the band that bridged the transition between Seattle punk/hardcore scene in the early 1980s and the grunge explosion that eventually took the world by storm.Their earliest beginnings started as a name-change for the Fartz, but that was little more than a preliminary transition: Paul Solger and Blaine Cook (from the aforementioned Fartz) joined forces with Duff McKagan (later of Guns ‘n’ Roses) and Greg Gilmore (later of Mother Love Bone) from the 1982 punk band the Living and brought in a new bass player, David Garrigues to flesh out what would become the true first iteration of the band.A few months into 1983, 10 Minute Warning gave Cook the boot and brought in a new singer—Steve Verwolf—to better fit the direction that the band was consciously trying to move toward, a sound that was darker, more innovative and less pu