Editing Green Apple Quick Step (section)

==History==

===Early years as Inspector Luv and the Ride Me Babys (1989–1992)===
Green Apple Quick Step started as the Tacoma-based band, Inspector Luv and the Ride Me Babys,<ref name=DriscollVolcano/><ref name=Humphrey>{{Cite book | last = Humphrey | first = Clark | title = Loser: The Real Seattle Music Story | publisher = [[Feral House]] | year = 1995 | isbn = 0-922915-27-X}}</ref><ref name="The Seattle Times">{{Cite web | last = Macdonald | first = Patrick | title = Sweet Water Will Stream Into The Moore Theatre | work = [[The Seattle Times]] | date = November 20, 1992 | accessdate = 2011-03-03 | url = http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/archive/?date=19921120&slug=1525696 | archive-date = 2012-10-01 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20121001212314/http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/archive/?date=19921120&slug=1525696 | url-status = dead }}</ref><ref name="Weekly Volcano Two">{{Cite web | last = Reading | first = Geoff | title = WEDNESDAY READING: Green Apple Quick Step redux | work = [[Weekly Volcano]] | date = December 16, 2009 | accessdate = 2011-03-03 | url = http://www.weeklyvolcano.com/music/columns/2009/12/tacoma-geoff-reading-Green-Apple-Quick-Step-showbox-wednesday-reading/ }}{{Dead link|date=June 2024 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> consisting of vocalist Tyler Willman, guitarists Steve Ross and Dan Kempthorne, drummer Bob Martin and bassist Eric Munday.<ref name=Humphrey/>  The band played a few shows locally<ref name="Weekly Volcano Two"/> and in 1989, [[Aroma Records]] released 700 copies of their numbered, limited edition purple vinyl EP,<ref name=AnotherWorld>{{cite AV media notes| title = Another World| others = Inspector Luv and the Ride Me Babys | year= 1989 | publisher = [[Aroma Records]]|type=vinyl}}</ref>''"Another World"'',<ref name=Tombstone/> which was recorded at [[Tombstone Records]]<ref name=Tombstone>{{cite web|title=Tombstone Records:Music Too Tough to Die|url=http://reocities.com/sunsetstrip/venue/7980/dmlabel.htm|access-date=2011-06-18|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110112065422/http://reocities.com/sunsetstrip/venue/7980/dmlabel.htm|archive-date=2011-01-12|url-status=dead}}</ref> and contained 4 songs: ''"Soul Step"'', ''"Seamonkeys"'', ''"Another World"'', and ''"Eleventeen"''.<ref name=AnotherWorld/>  Munday left the band in 1992.<ref name=Humphrey/><ref name=cmoore>{{cite web|first=Chris|last=Moore|title=Green Apple Quick Step (1991-98)|url=http://cmoore.com/peeps/chris/rantrave/gaqs.php}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://videos.wittysparks.com/id/2586719345 |title=DaveTV Live from the streets of Austin, Texas! : GREEN APPLE QUICKSTEP Live on rAw TiMe Video - WittySparks |accessdate=2011-06-18 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110724235255/http://videos.wittysparks.com/id/2586719345 |archive-date=2011-07-24 }}</ref> The band that would eventually become [[Pearl Jam]] played their first-ever show (when they were still called Mookie Blaylock) for Inspector Luv and the Ride Me Babys, on October 22, 1990 at the Off Ramp Cafe in [[Seattle]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://fivehorizons.com/tour/cc/t199091.shtml|title=Five Horizons: 1990/1991 Concert Chronology for Pearl Jam}}</ref>

===Reformation and ''Wonderful Virus'' (1992–1994)===
Later in 1992, the band reformed in Seattle, Washington as Green Apple Quick Step,<ref name=DriscollVolcano/><ref name="The Seattle Times"/><ref name="GAQS AMG">{{Cite web | last = DePasquale | first = Ron | title = Green Apple Quick Step Biography | publisher = [[Allmusic]] | accessdate = 2011-06-14 | url = http://www.allmusic.com/artist/green-apple-quick-step-p142844/biography}}</ref><ref name="Seattle Post-Intelligencer">{{Cite web | last = Stout | first = Gene | title = Green Apple Quick Step to trot out new tunes | work = [[Seattle Post-Intelligencer]] | date = January 9, 1998 | accessdate = 2011-03-03 | url = http://www.seattlepi.com/archives/1998/9801090152.asp}}</ref> with a new bassist, Mari Ann Braeden.<ref name="Wonderful Virus">{{cite AV media notes | title = Wonderful Virus | title-link = Wonderful Virus | others = Green Apple Quick Step | year= 1993 | publisher = The Medicine Label/[[Giant Records (Warner)|Giant Records]] | type = CD booklet}}</ref><ref name="Seattle Post-Intelligencer Two">{{Cite web | last = Stout | first = Gene | title = Green Apple Quick Step Reloads to take a second shot at fame | work = [[Seattle Post-Intelligencer]] | date = June 23, 1995 | accessdate = 2011-03-03 | url = http://www.seattlepi.com/archives/1995/9506230009.asp}}</ref> They performed locally, sharing bills with [[Sweet Water (band)|Sweet Water]], Meddaphysical and Best Kissers in the World,<ref name="The Seattle Times"/><ref name="The Seattle Times two">{{Cite web | last = Yoo | first = Paula | title = New Bands Seek The Road To Nirvana | work = [[The Seattle Times]] | date = November 23, 1992 | accessdate = 2011-03-03 | url = http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/archive/?date=19921123&slug=1526320 | archive-date = 2012-10-01 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20121001212318/http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/archive/?date=19921123&slug=1526320 | url-status = dead }}</ref> before recording their debut album, ''[[Wonderful Virus]]'', at [[Bad Animals Studio]] in Seattle<ref name="Wonderful Virus"/>  The album was produced by [[Daniel Rey]]<ref name="Wonderful Virus"/> and released in 1993<ref name="Billboard 1995">{{Citation | last = Newman | first = Melinda | title = Green Apple Quick Step 'Reloads' | volume = 107 | magazine = [[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]] | issue = 14 | pages = 12 | date = April 8, 1995 | accessdate = 2011-03-03 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=6AsEAAAAMBAJ&q=%22Green+Apple+Quick+Step%22&pg=PA16}}</ref> through The Medicine Label,<ref name="GAQS AMG"/> which was initially backed by [[Reprise Records]]<ref name="GAQS AMG"/> before switching to [[Giant Records (Warner)|Giant Records]].<ref name="Billboard 1995 two">{{Citation | last = Newman | first = Melinda | title = A 'Reloaded' Green Apple Quick Step | volume = 107 | magazine = [[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]] | issue = 14 | pages = 16 | date = April 8, 1995 | accessdate = 2011-03-03 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=6AsEAAAAMBAJ&q=%22Green+Apple+Quick+Step%22&pg=PA16}}</ref> They filmed a music video for the album track "Dirty Water Ocean" which depicted the band in a garbage sluice.<ref name="The Stranger">{{Cite web | last = Wilson | first = Kathleen | title = It's My Party | work = [[The Stranger (newspaper)|The Stranger]] | date = May 15–21, 2003 | accessdate = 2011-03-03 | url = http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/its-my-party/Content?oid=14271}}</ref> The band toured in support of the album, performing with bands that included The Pleasure Elite<ref name="Seattle Post-Intelligencer Three">{{Cite web | last = Stout | first = Gene | title = It's time for the big show – but which one do you choose? | work = [[Seattle Post-Intelligencer]] | date = August 6, 1993 | accessdate = 2011-03-03 | url = http://www.seattlepi.com/archives/1993/9308060101.asp}}</ref> [[Gruntruck]] and Sister Psychic.<ref name="Seattle Post-Intelligencer Four">{{Cite web | last = Stout | first = Gene | title = KPLU Extravaganza goes 'Coast to Coast' | work = [[Seattle Post-Intelligencer]] | date = December 31, 1993 | accessdate = 2011-03-03 | url = http://www.seattlepi.com/archives/1993/9312310093.asp}}</ref> In order to keep secret a [[Pearl Jam]] show at the Off Ramp in Seattle, it was billed as a Green Apple Quick Step show,<ref name="Seattle Post-Intelligencer Five">{{Cite web | last = Stout | first = Gene | title = Sales of Pearl Jam album go through the top | work = [[Seattle Post-Intelligencer]] | date = October 29, 1993 | accessdate = 2011-03-03 | url = http://www.seattlepi.com/archives/1993/9310290105.asp}}</ref><ref name="The Seattle Times three">{{Cite web | last = Ramirez | first = Marc | title = Sold Out -- When Your No.&nbsp;1 Band Becomes Everyone Else's No.&nbsp;1 Band | work = [[The Seattle Times]] | date = December 5, 1993 | accessdate = 2011-03-03 | url = http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/archive/?date=19931205&slug=1735271 | archive-date = 2012-10-01 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20121001212321/http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/archive/?date=19931205&slug=1735271 | url-status = dead }}</ref> though the band was touring Eastern Washington at the time.<ref name="The Seattle Times three"/> In the middle of their fourth US tour in support of ''Wonderful Virus'',<ref name="Billboard 1995"/> their van was stolen along with all of their equipment inside.<ref name="Billboard 1995"/> The band later packed up their remaining belongings and returned to Seattle to begin recording their second album.<ref name="Billboard 1995"/>

===''Reloaded'' (1994–1996)===
With [[Nick DiDia]] and Pearl Jam guitarist [[Stone Gossard]] producing,<ref name="Seattle Post-Intelligencer Two"/><ref name="Billboard 1995"/><ref name="Reloaded">{{cite AV media notes | title = Reloaded | title-link = Reloaded (Green Apple Quick Step album) | others = Green Apple Quick Step | year= 1995 | publisher = The Medicine Label/[[Giant Records (Warner)|Giant Records]] | type = CD booklet}}</ref> Green Apple Quick Step began recording their second album in October 1994.<ref name="Reloaded AMG">{{Cite web | author = Erlewine, Stephen Thomas | title = Reloaded Review | publisher = [[Allmusic]] | accessdate = 2011-03-03 | url = {{AllMusic|class=album|id=reloaded-r212771/review|pure_url=yes}} | author-link = Stephen Thomas Erlewine}}</ref> The band had befriended Gossard previously and asked if he would be interested in working with the band.<ref name="Seattle Post-Intelligencer Two"/>  The album was primarily recorded at Gossard's home studio,<ref name="GAQS AMG"/><ref name="Seattle Post-Intelligencer Two"/> though Gossard asked not to receive any royalties.<ref name="Seattle Post-Intelligencer Two"/><ref name="Billboard 1995"/> Unlike ''Wonderful Virus'', their second album featured Willman splitting vocal harmonies with Braeden.<ref name="Seattle Post-Intelligencer Two"/><ref name="Billboard 1995 two"/> Green Apple Quick Step's second album entitled ''[[Reloaded (Green Apple Quick Step album)|Reloaded]]'' was released on May 23, 1995,<ref name="Billboard 1995"/> through The Medicine Label and was distributed by [[Warner Music Group|WEA]].<ref name="Billboard 1995 two"/>

The song "Dizzy", which was featured on the [[The Basketball Diaries (soundtrack)|soundtrack]] to the film ''[[The Basketball Diaries (film)|The Basketball Diaries]]'',<ref name="GAQS AMG"/><ref name="Seattle Post-Intelligencer Two"/><ref name="Billboard 1995 two"/> was chosen as the band's first single from the album,<ref name="Billboard 1995 two"/> followed by "Los Vargos" as the second single,<ref name="Seattle Post-Intelligencer Two"/> while a three-song sampler of "Los Vargos", “Underwater" and "Ed No.&nbsp;5" was sent to metal and hard rock radio stations.<ref name="Billboard 1995 two"/> Although the songs failed to chart domestically, the single "Los Vargos" charted in Canada on [[RPM (magazine)|RPM]]'s [[Canadian rock music charts|Alternative 30]] chart, peaking at #23 in June 1995.<ref name="RPMChart">{{Cite web | title = RPM Charts Archive | work = [[RPM (magazine)|RPM]] | date = June 11, 1995 | accessdate = 2020-11-20 | url = https://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/films-videos-sound-recordings/rpm/Pages/item.aspx?IdNumber=8166&}}</ref>

In support of the album, they began a residency tour, during which the band played several shows each in the cities of Los Angeles, San Francisco, [[San Diego]], and [[Phoenix, Arizona|Phoenix]]<ref name="Seattle Post-Intelligencer Two"/><ref name="Billboard 1995 two"/> before a starting a second residency tour of [[New York City|New York]], [[Boston]], [[Philadelphia]] and Washington, D.C.<ref name="Billboard 1995 two"/>  They performed at the [[Bumbershoot]] arts and music festival at the Seattle Center Arena with [[The Presidents of the United States of America (band)|The Presidents of the United States of America]], [[Sky Cries Mary]], [[Love Battery]], [[Seaweed (band)|Seaweed]], [[The Spinanes]] and [[Supersuckers]]<ref>{{Cite web | last = Stout | first = Gene | title = Hendrix Fest tops an ambitious Bumbershoot lineup | work = [[Seattle Post-Intelligencer]] | date = July 18, 1995 | accessdate = 2011-03-03 | url = http://www.seattlepi.com/archives/1995/9507180046.asp}}</ref> and they also supported [[Candlebox]] at their New Year's show.<ref name="Seattle Post-Intelligencer Six">{{Cite web | last = Stout | first = Gene | title = Candlebox to rock the Arena in blockbuster eve concert | work = [[Seattle Post-Intelligencer]] | date = December 29, 1995 | accessdate = 2011-03-03 | url = http://www.seattlepi.com/archives/1995/9512290009.asp}}</ref>

Willman and Braeden contributed to the song "Oh! Sweet Nuthin'", by [[Mike McCready]]'s side-project $10,000 Gold Chain, which was featured on the [[The Cable Guy#Soundtrack|soundtrack]] to the 1996 film ''[[The Cable Guy]]''.<ref name="GAQS AMG"/><ref name="The Cable Guy">{{Cite web | title = The Cable Guy – Original Soundtrack credits | publisher = [[Allmusic]] | accessdate = 2011-03-03 | url = {{AllMusic|class=album|id=the-cable-guy-r234866/credits|pure_url=yes}}}}</ref>  Willman also sang with [[Devilhead]],<ref name="GAQS AMG"/> led by Kevin Wood and former members of [[Hater (band)|Hater]]; recording lead vocals for one song, ''Buying Milk'', on their album ''Pest Control'', released in 1996 on [[Loosegroove Records]].<ref name=DiscogsDevilheadPC>{{cite web|title=Discogs: Devilhead, Pest Control|date=May 1996 |url=http://www.discogs.com/Devilhead-Pest-Control/release/814601|publisher=[[Discogs]]}}</ref>

===''New Disaster'' and lineup changes (1996–1998)===
Green Apple Quick Step then signed with [[Columbia Records]]<ref name="GAQS AMG"/><ref name="Billboard 1998">{{Citation | last = Borzillo | first = Carrie | title = Green Apple Ripens on 'Disaster' | volume = 110 | magazine = [[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]] | issue = 5 | pages = 14 | date = January 31, 1998 | accessdate = 2011-03-03 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=iQ0EAAAAMBAJ&q=%22Green+Apple+Quick+Step%22&pg=PA14}}</ref> and spent over a year writing songs for their new album, prior to which, guitarist Ross left the band<ref name="Billboard 1998 two">{{Citation | last = Borzillo | first = Carrie | title = Green Apple Ripens on 'Disaster' | volume = 110 | magazine = [[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]] | issue = 5 | pages = 22 | date = January 31, 1998 | accessdate = 2011-03-03 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=iQ0EAAAAMBAJ&q=%22Green+Apple+Quick+Step%22&pg=PA14}}</ref> to later, along with Kempthorne, form [[The Briefs]], under the pseudonym Steve E. Nix and Daniel J. Travanti.  Guitarist Dana Turner<ref name=Flannel>{{cite web|title=''Green Apple Quick Step''|url=http://fadedflannel.com/greenapplequickstep/|accessdate=2011-06-20}}</ref> took Ross' place,<ref name="Seattle Post-Intelligencer"/><ref name="Billboard 1998"/> and they recorded their third album in Los Angeles at [[Ocean Way Recording|Ocean Way Studios]] with producer [[Matt Wallace (record producer)|Matt Wallace]].<ref name="Seattle Post-Intelligencer"/>  GAQS' drummer Geoff Reading noted in a March 2010 issue of his regular column in the Weekly Volcano that after ''[[New Disaster (album)|New Disaster]]''<!--New article for album? Tracks: Sleeper, Monkey Brains, Way Of The World, Stars, Kid, Bullet Proof, New Disaster, It's So Easy, Big Screen, To All The Lovers, Sixes And Sevens. http://fadedflannel.com/greenapplequickstep/--> was recorded, drummer Bob Martin was also replaced, by Dain Hudson who appeared on the recording and later Geoff Reading who played live shows.<ref name="Weekly Volcano Three">{{Cite web | last = Reading | first = Geoff | title = WEDNESDAY READING: Green Apple Quick Step and I | work = [[Weekly Volcano]] | date = March 24, 2010 | accessdate = 2011-03-03 | url = http://www.weeklyvolcano.com/music/columns/2010/03/green-apple-quick-step-drummer-geoff-reading-tacoma/ | archive-date = 2011-07-18 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110718023137/http://www.weeklyvolcano.com/music/columns/2010/03/green-apple-quick-step-drummer-geoff-reading-tacoma/ | url-status = dead }}</ref>  Reading joined the band in June 1997 following a successful tryout in May 1997<ref name="Weekly Volcano Three"/>  and they recorded a music video for the album song "Kid", which was later shown on [[MTV]]<ref name="Weekly Volcano Four">{{Cite web | last = Reading | first = Geoff | title = WEDNESDAY READING: The Loaded promise | work = [[Weekly Volcano]] | date = December 8, 2010 | accessdate = 2011-03-03 | url = http://www.weeklyvolcano.com/music/columns/2010/12/WEDNESDAY-READING-The-Loaded-promise/ | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110718023159/http://www.weeklyvolcano.com/music/columns/2010/12/WEDNESDAY-READING-The-Loaded-promise/ | archive-date = July 18, 2011 | url-status = dead }}</ref> and featured on the soundtrack to the 1997 film ''[[I Know What You Did Last Summer]]''.<ref name="Seattle Post-Intelligencer"/><ref name="Weekly Volcano Four"/>  The band performed at the premier of the film,<ref name="Weekly Volcano Four"/> receiving some radio airplay, which was later re-serviced to Seattle radio stations [[KNDD]], [[KISW]], Cleveland station [[WENZ]], and Boston station [[WBCN (FM)|WBCN]].<ref name="Billboard 1998 two"/>  Another song from the album, ''"Stars"'', was featured on the soundtrack for the 1998 comedy-thriller film ''[[Homegrown (film)|Homegrown]]''.<ref>{{cite web|title=The SoundtrackInfoProject: Homegrown (1998)|url=http://www.soundtrackinfo.com/title/tracks.asp?homegrown}}</ref>

Willman formed a side project, [[Calm Down Juanita]],<ref name="GAQS AMG"/><ref name="Billboard 1998 two"/> with drummer [[Kevtone|Kevin Guess]], that featured bassist [[Cole Peterson]], engineer & project catalyst [[Steve Wilmans]], and  contributions from several other notable "players", including Braeden, who also plays bass on one song, ''Girlfriend'',<ref name=CDJ>{{cite AV media notes|title=''Calm Down Juanita''|others=Calm Down Juanita|year = 1998 |at =inside front cover |type = CD Liner| publisher  = [[Echo Records (Seattle label)|Echo Records]]|location=Seattle }}</ref> on the five-song EP that band recorded during the summer of 1997.<ref name="cmoore"/>

Green Apple Quick Step continued to play shows in Seattle,<ref name="Weekly Volcano Two"/> and they played a show with [[10 Minute Warning]] in Portland.{{When|date=June 2011}}<!--"Ten Minute Warning played its last show on August 22, 1998 at the Roseland theater in Portland, Oregon" Citeable. Same show?--><ref name="Weekly Volcano Five">{{Cite web | last = Reading | first = Geoff | title = WEDNESDAY READING: Foot race of the damned | work = [[Weekly Volcano]] | date = October 13, 2010 | accessdate = 2011-03-03 | url = http://www.weeklyvolcano.com/music/columns/2010/10/WEDNESDAY-READING-Food-race-of-the-damned/}}</ref> Though a March 3, 1998<ref name="New Disaster AMG"/> release date was set for ''New Disaster'',<ref name=DriscollVolcano/><ref name="GAQS AMG"/><ref name="New Disaster AMG"/> Green Apple Quick Step's management was not satisfied with the label's efforts to promote the album, pulling it{{When|date=June 2011}} from the label with hopes of gaining another record deal.<ref name="Weekly Volcano Four"/> Green Apple Quick Step disbanded soon after.<ref name="GAQS AMG"/><ref name="Weekly Volcano Four"/>

===Post-breakup activities (1998–2009)===
Calm Down Juanita released their self-titled debut EP in 1998,  and then recorded a follow-up LP, ''Undertown'', which they released in 2002.<ref>{{cite AV media notes|title=Undertown | others= Calm Down Juanita  | year = 2002 |at = inside front booklet | type  = CD Booklet | publisher = Gizmo and Toony (Feasley & Guess)| location= [[Seattle, Washington]], US }}</ref><ref name=syffal>{{citation|title=Calm Down Juanita – Undertown|last=Asher|first=Justin|publisher=SYFFAL Album Reviews|url=http://www.syffal.com/album-review-calm-down-juanita-undertown|accessdate=2011-06-12|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110726114215/http://www.syffal.com/album-review-calm-down-juanita-undertown|archive-date=2011-07-26}}</ref>  Braeden also formed a female trio<!--with whom and when?--> called Celebrity Damage.<ref name="GAQS AMG"/>
Willman also recorded lead and backing vocals for some tracks on Stone Gossard's debut solo album, ''[[Bayleaf (album)|Bayleaf]]'', released in 2001.<ref name="Bayleaf">{{cite AV media notes | title = Bayleaf | title-link = Bayleaf (album) | others = Stone Gossard | year= 2001 | publisher = [[Epic Records]] | type = CD booklet}}</ref><ref name="Seattle Post-Intelligencer Seven">{{Cite web | last = Stout | first = Gene | title = Gossard picks up the mike on solo album | work = [[Seattle Post-Intelligencer]] | date = September 11, 2001 | accessdate = 2011-03-03 | url = http://www.seattlepi.com/pop/38379_stone11.shtml}}</ref> One of the tracks he sang, "Unhand Me", was chosen as the first single from the album.<ref name="Seattle Post-Intelligencer Seven"/>

Willman also performed with several other projects including Hula Bess in July 1999, with former [[Gigolo Aunts]]' [[Phil Hurley]]<ref name="The Stranger two">{{Cite web | title = Up & Coming | work = [[The Stranger (newspaper)|The Stranger]] | date = July 1–7, 1999 | accessdate = 2011-03-03 | url = http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/up--coming/Content?oid=1432}}</ref> and Mass Sugar<!--with whom?--> in 2007–2008.<ref name="The Stranger three">{{Cite web | last = Seling | first = Megan | title = Block Party Bands of the (Yester)Day: Speaker Speaker and Mass Sugar | work = [[The Stranger (newspaper)|The Stranger]] | date = July 25, 2007 | accessdate = 2011-03-03 | url = http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/special/blockparty?page=past}}</ref>

Reading joined [[New American Shame]], in 1999,<ref name="NAS AMG">{{Cite web | last = Anderson | first = Jason | title = New American Shame Biography | publisher = [[Allmusic]] | accessdate = 2011-03-03 | url = {{AllMusic|class=artist|id=new-american-shame-p365762/biography|pure_url=yes}}}}</ref> before joining [[Loaded (band)|Loaded]], with former [[Guns N' Roses]] bassist [[Duff McKagan]], the following year.<ref name="Reading Volcano">{{Cite web | last = Reading | first = Geoff | title = WEDNESDAY READING: Part Three of Tacoma, 2005-07 (Becoming an American Idiot) | work = [[Weekly Volcano]] | date = June 3, 2010 | accessdate = 2011-03-03 | url = http://www.weeklyvolcano.com/music/columns/2010/06/drummer-geoff-reading-sick-loaded/ | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110718023225/http://www.weeklyvolcano.com/music/columns/2010/06/drummer-geoff-reading-sick-loaded/ | archive-date = July 18, 2011 | url-status = dead }}</ref><ref name="LA Weekly">{{Cite web | last = Lecaro | first = Lina | title = Cocked and Loaded: Blowing away the music machine (p.1) | work = [[LA Weekly]] | date = June 19, 2002 | accessdate = 2011-03-03 | url = http://www.laweekly.com/2002-06-27/music/cocked-and-loaded/}}</ref> When Loaded went on hiatus in 2002, he formed The Disciples, that would later become [[The Chelsea Smiles]], with [[Christian Martucci]], [[Todd Youth]], and [[Howie Pyro]]<ref>{{Cite web | last = Reading | first = Geoff | title = Wednesday Reading: This dude named Tony | work = [[Weekly Volcano]] | date = January 20, 2010 | accessdate = 2011-03-03 | url = http://www.weeklyvolcano.com/music/columns/2010/01/Wednesday-Reading-This-dude-named-Tony | archive-date = 2011-07-18 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110718023241/http://www.weeklyvolcano.com/music/columns/2010/01/Wednesday-Reading-This-dude-named-Tony | url-status = dead }}</ref> before Loaded reunited in 2008.<ref>{{Cite web | title = DUFF MCKAGAN's LOADED To Release New Album This Summer | publisher = [[Blabbermouth.net]] | date = February 12, 2008 | url = http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=90599 | url-status = dead | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20080218011309/http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=90599 | archive-date = February 18, 2008 }}</ref>

===Tribute  Shows (2009–2010)===
A reconstituted Green Apple Quick Step performed at the Showbox at the Market in Seattle on December 20, 2009.<ref name="The Stranger four">{{Cite web | last = Grandy | first = Eric | title = Fucking in the Streets: A Two-Block-Hack Holiday Party at the Showbox | work = [[The Stranger (newspaper)|The Stranger]] | date = December 22, 2009 | accessdate = 2011-03-03 | url = http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/fucking-in-the-streets/Content?oid=3041687}}</ref> After speaking with Ken Connell at the Hell's Kitchen in Tacoma about performing another Green Apple Quick Step show,<ref name=DriscollVolcano/> they later performed there on March 26, 2010.<ref name=IzenmanVolcano/><ref>{{Cite web | last = Driscoll | first = Matt | title = Friday, March 26: Green Apple Quick Step | work = [[Weekly Volcano]] | date = March 17, 2010 | accessdate = 2011-03-03 | url = http://www.weeklyvolcano.com/events/werecommend/2010/03/green-apple-quick-step-hells-kitchen-tacoma/ | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110719022621/http://www.weeklyvolcano.com/events/werecommend/2010/03/green-apple-quick-step-hells-kitchen-tacoma/ | archive-date = July 19, 2011 | url-status = dead }}</ref> with a stage lineup consisting of Willman, Turner, and Reading, with guitarist Mike Squires of Reading's previous band, Loaded, and singer Christa Wells.  Willman has expressed hope of releasing the band's third album. The following May 20, they played at the Crocodile Café in Seattle.<ref name=DriscollVolcano/>

===Reunion (2018)===
Ty, MariAnn, Steve, Dan, and Geoff played two sold out shows with [[Candlebox]] at the [[Paramount Theatre (Seattle)|Paramount Theatre]] in Seattle July 21, and 22, 2018.  The original line up less Bob Martin (Geoff Reading on drums).  They also played the Crocodile on December 23, 2018.{{citation needed|date=April 2020}}