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===''New Disaster'' and lineup changes (1996β1998)=== 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"/>
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