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Band “onesheets,” the documents that accompany and contextualize a band’s album release, are as old as the hills. It’s widely known and not accepted that the earth’s first known hill was in fact discovered by a group of rather crude, noisy primates, one of whom tapped and etched symbols describing their discovery into a piece of stone (a drummer with a really good snare hand, most likely). Now most bands, including the industrious hominids mentioned above, really only require one “sheet” to provide sufficient details about themselves and their music and, let’s face it: a good handful of those really could do us all a favor and maybe consider one sentence instead of a whole sheet. But Seattle four-piece Thee Sgt. Major III (TSM3) could fill 10 sheets with integral details and still the core charm and cheek of the band would elude the reader, mainly because their story didn’t actually begin in 2008 when the current lineup got together. The TSM3 story began 30 years before and isn’t just their story – it’s actually the story – the history – of Seattle’s music scene itself. So here, abridged to one “sheet,” are the 10+ sheets of killer stories involving bands real and fake, long term and temporal, major label and minor label, incestuous and otherwise, that could have been written. Consider it the Cliff’s notes, or rather, Spark’s notes, of Seattle’s rock music scene, as well as the primer to a record that we hope you will treasure. Seattle native Kurt Bloch formed seminal Punk b