“Woodstock ’94 was overwhelming… I was in awe at how many famous people were in one place”: From touring with Aerosmith and Metallica, to filling Geddy Lee’s shoes, they were the ’90s Seattle band that did it all –without taking the grunge tag

Peter Klett performs onstage with Candlebox.

Peter Klett rose to prominence with the Seattle-based Candlebox during the grunge era, but the genre didn’t affect his guitar playing. “I don’t think the scene in Seattle had anything to do with my style,” he says. “I had developed what I wanted to do long before the 90s thing happened.”

His aim was feed his devotion to ‘70s hard rock and rock – but hit songs like You and Far Behind from Candlebox’s 1993 self-titled debut prove that’s not how things shook out.