The 1980s power-pop group Cheap Trick could never have been named “Macho Plus”. That’s why four high school kids from the rough and tumble neighborhoods of Waukesha, Wisconsin USA – dejected, strung out and downright incensed after finishing last in the school air band contest – decided to form their own band and make their own brand of melodic noise. What transpired over the next two decades can only be described as a musical mega-trend. In the mid-1980s, Macho Plus was playing the backyard parties and Bar Mitzfas around Waukesha, grinding away at their skills and their sound and writing original pieces like “Devil Dog”, “LSD”, “I Don’t Wanna Get a Job” and “Kill Your Prom Date” (later remixed and released by pop superstar Moby on “Play B-Sides” and the tangential inspiration for the Pearl Jam's mega-hit "Once").Like fine wine, these originals just got better with time and are today undisputed classics. Very few recordings of Macho Plus from these early years were known to exist at the time, but Tim carried one or two out to Seattle when he relocated, playing them for friends and acquaintances in the clubs and coffee houses there. The rest, as they say, is musical history. The Macho Plus sound took off, later becoming more commonly known as the “Seattle Sound” of grunge rock, made famous by the likes of Mother Love Bone, Nirvana, Pearl Jam and Soundgarden in the late 1980's and 1990’s.