Total Fucking Godhead / The Soundgarden Thread

[Wendy Carlos's Twin]

Yeah, it's incredible they sat on that recording at the time.

And it's one of only two Kim Thayil songs from those sessions. Maybe he was pissed off for some reason and wouldn't include it.

[zeb]

Word was that they weren't happy with the vocal take.

[bada]

Chris is pretty tentative on the studio cut. You can hear him figuring it out as he goes. He's much more confident on the live version. Don't get me wrong I love the studio take I listen to it all the time but I can see why Chris thought he could do better.

[Wendy Carlos's Twin]

Chris is pretty tentative on the studio cut. You can hear him figuring it out as he goes.

Really? I don't hear that at all. His vocal sounds fine to me. Maybe it's the "sneakiness" of his delivery that I'm misinterpreting.

[UglyRedHonda]

What's the deal with the Echo of Miles boxset (on CD)?

I still haven't picked it up but it seems it's unavailable anywhere online (except for inflated prices). Did it really go out of print that quickly?

I think they only pressed so many copies and used that as an excuse to charge really high prices. The 3 CD set was going for $60 on their website when they released it. This is why I didn't buy it. I wish I had, but I figured the price would come down.

I was wrong.

Old topic, but if you do want this on CD, the Spain edition is US$60 (shipping included) from Amazon.es.

http://www.amazon.es/Echo-Miles-Scatter ... B00OXWB2X0

[joostone]

Never seen this one:

[zeb]

Chris Cornell on Secret Folk Influences, Why He Feels Like Neil Young

"In this case, I feel more is more," says singer Chris Cornell of Seattle hard-rock veterans Soundgarden, referring to the recent reissue of his 1999 solo debut, Euphoria Mourning, and his new, mostly acoustic album, Higher Truth. The latter was inspired by Cornell's Songbook tour — a one-man show launched in 2011 with "25 years of songs I've written for different bands. I distilled what I do down to me and a guitar and arrived at a singer-songwriter identity." Cornell takes Songbook back on the road this fall. He has also started work on Soundgarden's next album. "I spent the last week and a half doing demos. We're going to meet in four days and spend a week together. By the end, we'll have a lot of stuff."

Your new album opens with you playing mandolin in "Nearly Forgot My Broken Heart." Do you have any secret folk influences you've been hiding all these years?
I rejected most of the folk I was exposed to in the Seventies. I came around later to Tom Waits, some parts of Jim Croce and a lot of Cat Stevens. One of the Robinson brothers from the Black Crowes turned me on to Nick Drake. I found a box set on vinyl and pretty much hated it — until I got to [1972's] Pink Moon. His guitar playing and the compositions are phenomenal.

Are there Soundgarden songs that you play on the Songbook tour that have surprised you — that don't need all of the band's heavy hullabaloo?
"Outshined." I had written an instrumental part in the middle, an interlude, on electric guitar. On acoustic guitar, it turned out to have a nice Led Zeppelin-y feel. And the vocals flipped into a dirty-blues thing.

You have always resisted comparisons between Soundgarden and Zeppelin. But the contrast of folk guitar and hard-rock vocal dynamics on Higher Truth reminds me of Led Zeppelin III.
It makes sense to me if you look at the range I have as a singer and how I sing over a guitar arrangement. There's only so far in a British-folk direction I can go, being an American. But there are a handful of bands — Zeppelin, the Beatles, Pink Floyd, Killing Joke — where if I'm writing a song and it reminds me of them, I'll steer into it, rather than run in the other direction.

You made your 2009 solo album, Scream, with the hip-hop producer Timbaland. It went Top 10, but the reviews were brutal. Was it a success or a failure?
It was absolutely a noble failure. A family friend was good friends with Timbaland's cousin. He said, "Timbaland wants to make a song with you." I said, "Awesome, let's make an album." I figured it would take two weeks, and I would have this crazy fucking record. That's what happened. For me, it was a success. The failure in it was the record company trying to figure out what to do with it. The radio stations who had been playing my songs since 1990 — they were like, "We don't want to play this. We can't play this."

How did you cope with the Nineties nostalgia that came with Soundgarden's tour last year with Nine Inch Nails?
There's no way to be a 30-year-old band, go on tour and pretend the nostalgia isn't happening. It was also important that young rock fans were discovering both bands at the same time. If you talk to Trent Reznor, you don't get the sense of a guy living in the past. I would hope he would say the same thing about me. It was that attitude that kept it from being like Whitesnake going on tour with Styx.

Is there new rock out there that excites you?
I get a sense of healthy revivalism, in a way that will spawn new rock that is interesting and exciting. That comes from guys like Jack White and [the Black Keys'] Dan Auerbach. Unfortunately, when terms like "rock" and "alternative rock" get thrown out there, it's as genres with rules. I always looked at rock & roll as the voice of regular people, of an economic group not in charge. Look at a film like Straight Outta Compton, the origins of it —rock is in hip-hop now.

Speaking of films, did you see the Kurt Cobain documentary Montage of Heck?
Uh-uh. It wasn't something I was going out of my way to see. I will at some point.

But you were in the Seattle episode of Dave Grohl's Sonic Highways series. Did he catch the city and scene you knew?
It's impossible to capture what I saw. But what I experienced goes further back — years before anybody gave a fuck about what Seattle was. Seattle itself didn't give a shit about its own music. No matter how many fans you had, if a worse band with less following came from out of town, you opened for them. It's never been my inclination to see what other people have put together to describe it.

You've got this solo tour coming up and a new Soundgarden album. Do you feel a little schizophrenic?
It's hugely refreshing. Now I kind of get Neil Young. He goes on tour with Crazy Horse, then he's out with Booker T. & the MGs. Then he's on tour by himself with seven guitars. It makes sense to me now. He's not trying to find who he is.

He is all of those things.
And all of these things are me.

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/featu ... g-20150915

[VinylGuy]

The super deluxe edition of SuperUnknown is fuckin great.

And that album hasnt age a bit. Its a masterpiece.

[96583UP]

Chris is pretty tentative on the studio cut. You can hear him figuring it out as he goes. He's much more confident on the live version. Don't get me wrong I love the studio take I listen to it all the time but I can see why Chris thought he could do better.

Is there a higher(er) quality recording of that live one out there somewhere? The crispness of the studio release ruined me for the youtube of that live one ... but the live one has great vocals. and I like the guitar (wammy ?) pedal effect kim uses in the beginning of the live version... same sound Tom Morello uses before Fistful of steel

[bada]

Chris is pretty tentative on the studio cut. You can hear him figuring it out as he goes. He's much more confident on the live version. Don't get me wrong I love the studio take I listen to it all the time but I can see why Chris thought he could do better.

Is there a higher(er) quality recording of that live one out there somewhere? The crispness of the studio release ruined me for the youtube of that live one ... but the live one has great vocals. and I like the guitar (wammy ?) pedal effect kim uses in the beginning of the live version... same sound Tom Morello uses before Fistful of steel

Just the one I think. Matt Reeder would know. Its entirely possible I just listened to that live one so many times that any other take sounds a little off to me.

[96583UP]

It's definitely got that "swirling chaotic quality" that Cornell described in that interview on the previous page... Maybe on their 2016 album tour it will be "ready"

Is it just me or did the official SG website pull down their message board? Not that it was that good (so many weirdos), but it had pretty regular links to interviews.

[VinylGuy]

It's definitely got that "swirling chaotic quality" that Cornell described in that interview on the previous page... Maybe on their 2016 album tour it will be "ready"

Is it just me or did the official SG website pull down their message board? Not that it was that good (so many weirdos), but it had pretty regular links to interviews.

I noticed the same thing yesterday.

[EJ]

"Kristi" totally lived up to the expectations.

Wow, never knew about this one. Really digging it. Seems very Badmotorfinger-ish.

[Kevin Davis]

I really like the first disc of "Echo of Miles" -- without "Live to Rise" it would be perfect.

[zeb]

http://www.thestranger.com/music/featur ... -relate-to

[zeb]

Chris Cornell revealed in a new interview with Acoustic Magazine that he threw out songs he had spent six months working on for a Soundgarden album in 1991.

“I can write songs for three days in a row, but on day four, I’m in a different mood, and it suddenly feels to me like I’ve completely gone in in the wrong direction and I wasn’t aware of it. I don’t know what creates that. You know when you hear your own voice on an answering machine? It’s whatever that phenomenon is. There’s something I’m hearing in me, something inherent that I hate. It’s unpredictable, and I’ve never been able to figure out a way to get past it.”

He added, “I remember writing songs for a Soundgarden album in 1991, where I spent six months writing about eight songs, and I threw them all out, and it was right that I did because they weren’t good. I just went down the wrong road.”

Cornell revealed that he actually dumped songs from Higher Truth, but then changed his mind and decided to use them. “The first songs I wrote, ‘Nearly Forgot My Broken Heart,’ ‘Dead Wishes’ and ‘Murderer Of Blues Skies’, I wrote a couple of years ago, and I dumped them at one point. I didn’t think I was gonna use any of those songs – but then, having time away and doing other things and coming back, I had a different perspective. I thought, ‘No, these are great, I’m gonna record these’.”

[DeLima]

Here's a SG-related page from my comic

[VinylGuy]

Night Surf is freakin awesome.

[zeb]

Here's a SG-related page from my comic

This is cool, DL.

[blackholesun85]

Hey what do you guys think are the best post reunion Soundgarden shows/bootlegs to check out? Thanks in advance.