Matt Lukin

Matt Lukin (b. August 16, 1964) was a founder and bassist for the Melvins, with whom he recorded Mangeled Demos, Six Songs (later 10 Songs and then 26 songs), and Gluey Porch Treatments. Following the band's dissolution, Lukin stayed in Washington to form the grunge band Mudhoney. (Of the other members of the Melvins, Buzz moved to San Francisco and Dale stayed in Aberdeen to help with the bands Nirvana and Really Soon. Later, when Buzz and Dale reconnected in California, Lorax became Lukin's replacement.) Lukin left Mudhoney in June 1999, but rejoined the band in December 2000 for a tour that lasted through January 2001. Currently he works as a carpenter in the Seattle area.

Lukin is featured with Kurt Cobain and Krist Novoselic in a home video shot on Novoselic's Super 8 camera.

He is the eponym of Pearl Jam's song "Lukin." Lead singer Eddie Vedder dedicated the band's 29 August 2006 performance of the song in De Gelredome, Arnhem to Lukin and his wife. In doing so, Vedder said that Lukin had married a Dutch woman, Manon, whom he met in the Tivoli Club in Utrecht, the Netherlands, and that the couple has been together in Seattle since. Vedder's dedication can be heard on that show's official bootleg recording.

Discography

With The Melvins

• Mangled Demos from 1983 (Recorded circa 1983/1984, Released 2005)
• Six Songs (Recorded 1986, Rereleased 2003)
• Gluey Porch Treatments (1987)

With Mudhoney

• Superfuzz Bigmuff (1988)
• Mudhoney (1989)
• Superfuzz Bigmuff Plus Early Singles (1990)
• Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge (1991)
• Piece Of Cake (1992)
• Five Dollar Bob's Mock Cooter Stew (1993)