Mudhoney frontman Mark Arm called My Sister’s Machine a ‘fake Alice In Chains/Soundgarden band’ in a recent Talkhouse article
“Then I got a job at a place called Seattle FilmWorks, which was this local company that used its own brand of film. The only place that you could take this film to be developed was back to Seattle FilmWorks, so they had this built-in developing thing. The main thing I did was quality control—consistency, making sure everything matched up with the negatives. Sometimes, really weird shit would come through, and people would take prints for their own amusement. So you had to make sure that everything was there.
I worked there with Bruce Fairweather, who was also in Green River, and Kim Thayil, who was in Soundgarden, and a couple of other local metal musicians who played in a band called Mistrust. At lunch, those guys would give Kim, Bruce, and I shit for playing the kind of music we did. They’d started this band with the singer from Culprit who was sort of on par with Queensryche, before Queensryche really got big. ‘We got Jeff L’Heureux on vocals, man! In a couple months our record will be coming out and we’ll be touring the world. Later to this place!’ Of course, Mistrust never went anywhere. By the early ’90s they were in a band called My Sister’s Machine, which was basically a fake Alice In Chains/Soundgarden band.”
