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As we were finishing our morning swim commute yesterday, KBCS played a fantastically incongruous tune: Oh What a Beautiful Morning. And it was Oh What an Awesome Rendition by Ray Charles and the Count Basie Orchestra.

Seattlest was into Pearl Jam in the Ten and Vs. era as much as anyone else around the dorm in those days, which is to say, pretty into it. And after that they kind of fell off our map, save for a little news bite every now and then involving Ticket Master; a righteous fight that they lost, as evidenced by the lack of any public presence for the band in the past decade or so.