CHARLES PETERSON
“SCREAMING TREES ARE just too good to be huge, to be spread thin. You can see no earthly reason why they aren’t the biggest rock band on the planet; you realise how Chris Cornell or Eddie Vedder or even James Hetfield would kill to write anything that’s played tonight,” wrote Melody Maker critic Neil Kulkarni in 1996, the year the Ellensburg, WA group released their tumultuous seventh album, Dust – the album that should have swept all before it.