Green Apple Quick Step

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Green Apple Quick Step is a now-defunct Seattle, Washington grunge band that released a few albums in the mid-1990s and reached modest popularity.

The original Tacoma, Washington neo-punk band called Inspector Luv and the Ride Me Babys included Tyler Willman (guitar, vocals), Steve Ross (guitar), Dan Kempthorne (guitar) and Bob Martin. They released a numbered limited edition (700 copies) EP called Another World on purple vinyl.

GAQS included frontman Willman; Mari Ann Braeden, bass and vocals; Martin, Ross, Eric Munday (bass 1991-1992), and others.

The band's 1993 debut album Wonderful Virus was released on Medicine Records (a sub-label of Reprise Records). Then the band apparently lost its record deal.

1995 saw the release of Reloaded, with production help from Stone Gossard of Pearl Jam. (In exchange, Willman provided lead vocals on the first single from Gossard's first solo album, Bayleaf ).

Green Apple Quick Step released one final album with Columbia Records, and appeared on the soundtracks of Basketball Diaries (with "Dizzy"), and I Know What You Did Last Summer (with "Kid") before disbanding. Willman and Braeden later worked with Mike McCready in $10,000 Gold Chain. Willman went on with Devilhead and a solo project, Calm Down Juanita.

The band name is a Byrds title, and is a southern (US) phrase referring to the gastric distress that often follows eating green apples.