at first, cornell played drums while singing, but in 1985 the band hired scott sundquist so that cornell could just sing. the band's first recordings were three songs on a compilation album for c/z records named "deep six". also appearing on the album were early grunge artists green river, skin yard, malfunkshun, the u-men and the melvins. in 1986, sundquist left the band. he was replaced by matt cameron, who had been the drummer for skin yard.