Re-working the intro script

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Some see Seattle as the launch pad for great rock and roll icons like legendary lates Janice Joplin, Jimi Hendrix and Nirvana's Kurt Cobain. Just down the road Tacoma gave us the Ventures. “Hype” about Grunge and ROCKRGRL are also rooted in the greater Puget Sound.

We’ve got the Experience Music Project at the foot of the Space Needle… Elvis slept here. Bands like Pearl Jam, Nirvana, the Foo Fighters, Heart, Modest Mouse, Queensryche and Alice and Chains come from here.

Jazz singer Diane Schuur and Robert Cray come from Tacoma and saxophone ace Kenny G also calls the Puget Sound home.

Throw icons like Sir Mix-A-Lot, Quincy Jones and Ray Charles into this area’s music scene, and you start to see the robust flavor we enjoy. Even everyone’s favorite Idol: Sanjaya once lived here, too.

Classically: the Seattle Symphony is over 100 years-old. The largest youth symphony organization in the US is the Seattle Youth Symphony Orchestra. And Seattle Opera is one of the leading opera companies in the US, and one of the only ones in the world to perform the entire Wagnerian Ring cycle in one week.

No matter what your taste in music, chances are the Pacific Northwesterners were there first, holding a fancy coffee drink in one hand and tickets to Bumbershoot in the other.

It seems pop culture and cutting edge music have always found a home in the Puget Sound. Back before the digital age, rock and roll, even before TV… there were motion pictures.

Here at 1st and Pike in 1914, the Liberty Theater was being built. It was one of the first theaters built just for movies. Up till this time movies were shown in remodeled vaudeville theaters which would have had a stage and orchestra pit. Movies of these days were silent and needed music to help the plot. The versatility and many voices of pipe organs meant that you only had to hire one person, the organist, to get a symphony of music.