 Although they never found the success of their peers, Room Nine was one of the early pre-grunge era Seattle bands that helped lay the groundwork for much of the later scene.Room Nine was formed in the early 1980s by Sammamish high school friends Ron Rudzitis (a.k.a.Ron Nine), Scott Boggan and Scott Vanderpool with light design guru Michael Laton added as the band's de facto light designer.