Total Fucking Godhead / The Soundgarden Thread

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man listen to that thing on 1.5 speed and prepare to be

where the hell have you been, i mean hey there

someone called my name through the cream

youre missed.

sadly, this thread now seems as good as any for reminiscences

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Guys this really, really, really fucking sucks.

[VinylGuy]

This day has been so fuckin weird...listened to a lot of SG and i found the confort and the distress of Chris loss there.
The whole suicide thing is so unexpected at this point, so tragic, so weird.

Im still in shock.

[Kevin Davis]

The jazz thread sure could use you, ---

[Superblood Wolfmoon]

This day has been so fuckin weird...listened to a lot of SG and i found the confort and the distress of Chris loss there.
The whole suicide thing is so unexpected at this point, so tragic, so weird.

Im still in shock.

Listening to Euphoria Morning and hearing "When I'm Down" in a new light.

Well I know you're reaching out
And you need to feel my hand
You want to be understood, yeah well I understand
I know you hold precious little hope for me
And in your hapiness
I'm always drowning in my grief
And I only love you when I'm down
And I'm only near you when I'm gone
But one thing for you to keep in mind, you know
I'm down all the time
All the time, all the time, all the time

[Birds in Hell]

my favorite soundgarden song

The version of this I saw them play two years ago was just immense.

At a time when I could scarcely afford to do so, I sold some musical equipment and flew to Melbourne to see one of the two headlining shows they played on a run of what was otherwise a festival tour. I had to work the next day and came (having slept through my 4am alarm) perilously close to missing the first flight back to Adelaide the next morning. Not that I really did before, but I'll certainly never regret having done what seemed like a kind of indulgent thing now. It remains one of the most thrilling live musical performances I've been lucky enough to see, a band truly in full command of their powers.

Guys, it was intense.



Flower
Kickstand
Outshined
Attrition
Room a Thousand Years Wide
Jesus Christ Pose
Like Suicide
Superunknown
Mailman
Black Hole Sun
Spoonman
Hunted Down
Ty Cobb
Fell on Black Days
My Wave
The Day I Tried to Live
Been Away Too Long
Pretty Noose
Birth Ritual
A Thousand Days Before
Rusty Cage

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Limo Wreck
Slaves & Bulldozers

[VinylGuy]

This day has been so fuckin weird...listened to a lot of SG and i found the confort and the distress of Chris loss there.
The whole suicide thing is so unexpected at this point, so tragic, so weird.

Im still in shock.

Listening to Euphoria Morning and hearing "When I'm Down" in a new light.

Well I know you're reaching out
And you need to feel my hand
You want to be understood, yeah well I understand
I know you hold precious little hope for me
And in your hapiness
I'm always drowning in my grief
And I only love you when I'm down
And I'm only near you when I'm gone
But one thing for you to keep in mind, you know
I'm down all the time
All the time, all the time, all the time

Always thought that album was written in a very dark moment of his life....mainly about Susan too, and his need to break up with her. The first Audioslave album too.

[psychobain]

I started watching WESTWORLD this week, and this piano version of Black Hole Sun is sooo good.

[guestT]

[Dev]

I think this song epitomizes the truth of the situation. Do what you want. If you want to be happy, good. If you want to be sad that's fine too. If you want to kill yourself. That's your business. I think there is a dark philosophical undertone to this song and I think Cornell lived his philosophy. I don't despise him for it.

[PHATJ]

FYI, MTV Live is playing Soundgarden live from the Artist's Den right now.

[Kevin Davis]

[Kevin Davis]

In which former Five Horizons fangirl Caryn Rose authors a paragraph for Pitchfork on "Birth Ritual":
http://pitchfork.com/thepitch/1520-chri ... formances/

[verb_to_trust]

Joseph Arthur shared this on social media:

I met Chris during PJ 20. He was backstage and in Pearl Jam's dressing room commiserating with Ed about what they'd sing together. I had two big paintings back there and was lucky enough to be a fly on the wall for something historical. Chris was an intimidating character and I was star struck.

Soundgarden was a favorite band of mine for a time and Chris was the other worldly scary and beautiful singer. He bee lined for the paintings and went on about how great he thought they were. I was beside myself as he asked me questions about them, knowing quite a lot about art himself. Later on he said to me "I don't know that much about art but I recognize what's great and have a good record of being correct " or something to that effect. He was genuinely interested in the work and checking more out so we exchanged info. I wrote him a few days later explaining how nice it was to meet him. He wrote me back quickly and was unnervingly nice. Unnerving I guess cause Chris had this quality of intimidation, demanded a certain level of respect (at least to me) maybe his friendliness was a way to set people at ease. A learned skill. He invited me to a Soundgarden show and I went. Saw the great gig and texted him about ten mins after he finished from the Parking lot and thanking him for the passes. He texted back straight away "where are you, I'll come find you"

Firstly I was shocked he responded at all and ten minutes after ruling the world fronting Soundgarden. I spilt that night but we made a plan to hang in the next few days. And we did. He came and picked me up in a really amazing vintage car. Can't remember the exact make but it was the car you'd have wanted him to own. I mean this guy was beyond cool. We were in LA and we decided to goto Runyon and hike. Sort of an LA tradition.

I finally got passed being star struck and we had some nice conversations. Went hiking a few more times and a budding friendship began. Like all friendships they just appear like gifts, their origins are mysterious and yet something about them feels preordained. Like you were friends before you were friends. I'm sure you know the feeling.

I didn't know what he knew of my music. On my path I've learned to assume nothing. Usually people don't know my music or else they look at me like how could I imagine they don't know it. It's funny. With Chris it really never came up outside of just general talk about music and usually me asking him questions about Soundgarden and Audioslave. I'd ask him about what it was like working with Rick Rubin and Timbaland. I told him I thought that was cool that he stretched himself and challenged his audiences perception of him. I love it when artists do that. I think artist are often if not usually at their greatest when they are being hated most fiercely. That's when you can tell one of us. The ones not afraid to be hated. He was funny. Was still totally in shape. I asked him what he did for that. And told him I needed to step up my game showing him my fat gut. We talked about that lunatic stalker that was constantly fucking with him. What are these rodents that just try to drain people who are just trying to get by? These types of people need to be routed out quick. They are like mind cancer. But as I was saying...

I didn't know what Chris knew of my music. I respected him a great deal and I wanted him to know what I was about as an artist. At the time I was working on the Ballad of Boogie Christ. I thought about it for a bit which song I should play him. I only wanted to play him one. Didnt want to bombard him with a trip down memory lane of my greatest hits. I mean I wanted the guy to also like me.

I dialed up I Miss the Zoo and played it thru his vintage car stereo on our way back to Runyon. After it finished he said "man that's a tour de force" I'll never forget it.

It's weird how news of someone's death finds you. Always catches you unaware and it's always a shock in a case such as this. I had just arrived at the studio drenched in sweat having ridden in from Red Hook to Chelsea. Jesse said to Geoff "sad about Chris Cornell" I asked "what happened? " and then the darkness swarmed.

When someone dies reactions are funny things. Some people you react much stronger than you would have guessed. As was the case with Chris. We hung a few times that's it. I didn't know him all that well but we had other things in common. Things about family of origin. We had a connection and so when I found out he took his own life it hit me like a gut punch from way down.

Chris I don't know what happened but I need you to know that getting to know you to the degree that I did meant so much to me. You are certainly loved and missed from me dear sir. The honor was mine.

- JA

[PHATJ]

This is a surprisingly great article from nerdist. Well worth the read.

http://nerdist.com/chris-cornell-rip-in ... undgarden/

[PHATJ]

Thanks for posting that, verb. That was great to read.

[swan]

Short but sweet sentiments from Steven Hyden:

http://uproxx.com/music/chris-cornell-d ... tuary/amp/

[Ello Sailor]

I just hope zeb is okay.

[LetMeSleep]

I just hope zeb is okay.

He's lost and baffled and in shock. Much like all of us. And the way this thread has gone is what drove him away from here (from what I have interpreted).

[burl jam]

There have been a lot of musician deaths during my lifetime but this one and Weiland have hit the hardest, this one perhaps even more so just because it came as so much more of a shock. I always feel a vague twinge of sadness when a musician whose music means something to me passes away, but these guys who were there as I was really discovering the art form -- I dunno, it's like someone came into my house with a big stick of dynamite and blew out the foundation. Now how's the thing supposed to stand? This would become the music against which all other music would be measured -- not in a raw quality sense, necessarily, an "is this as good as that?" thing, but rather "does it take me to the kinds of far-flung places that I know this stuff can take me? does it tell me something about the world that I don't already know? does this music tell some part of my story?" So much of how my brain processes music is built on this stuff -- on Nirvana, on STP, on Soundgarden. Of course we still have the music, thank goodness. But there's just something that happens when the living, breathing spirit behind the work ceases to exist. It's not easy to explain, and is probably not practical. But I think it's nonetheless sincere and speaks to the idea of art as a sort of connective fiber between people who have never met. No question Chris Cornell impacted my life in a profound way. I wish he could have found the strength.

Well said Kev