Chris Cornell

[Iommic Pope]

Yeah that song is all drone e and b. Its awesome.

I'm still having trouble saying that Superunknown is better than Badmotorfinger. Obviously I've been listening to a lot lately. Convince me.

Theyre two different records, you cant really conpare them.
If Superunkown hadn't been as over produced and sounded like BMF it wouldve sucked.
If BMF had been as overblown as SU then it may be comparable, but it also may have sounded like contrite garbage.
The songwriting efforts on the two are worlds apart from each other, though, and I like both for vastly different reasons.
BMF for its straight up weird-Sabb rifferery and SU for its psychedelic apocalyptia.
The Bsides from that 90-94 period are amazing.
Everyone should go check em out.

[Jwar]

I love Super Unknown but I like Down on the Upside better. If you want a trip, listen to their first two albums. Ultramega OK and Louder than Love.

So crazy how the sound evolved over the years.

[Iommic Pope]

And very well said, Pope

Sorry dude, I missed this.
Thank you
Right back at you.

I love Super Unknown but I like Down on the Upside better. If you want a trip, listen to their first two albums. Ultramega OK and Louder than Love.

So crazy how the sound evolved over the years.

The Nothin to Say EP is also awesome. Art punk weirdness.

[Strange Tales]

I love Super Unknown but I like Down on the Upside better. If you want a trip, listen to their first two albums. Ultramega OK and Louder than Love.

So crazy how the sound evolved over the years.

The first two didn't have Matt Cameron and Ben Shepherd right? I can't imagine SG without those two.

[Iommic Pope]

Matt is On Ultramega, Ben joins after Loud Love.
Yes, they are one of the best Rhythm sections.

[Dark Barn]

Ultramega OK was my favorite. And I liked Hiro! He looked cool, to me as a teen. I liked that SG wasn't all white dudes. I did not dig on Jason Everman though the few times I saw them with him. Or when I saw him in Nirvana, lol. Poor guy, but he wore overalls that literally looked like Mickey Mouse's overalls, like human sized replicas, and would skip around the stage, like he was playing hopscotch.

I actually knew Ben, barely, friends of friends. He had lived in a party house on Bainbridge Island callled the Lewd Hole where some serious freaking would go down. So I remember congratulating him when he landed the gig with Soundgarden. Who were already a national act by the time he joined. But I'm still a Hiro fan!

Another Soundgarden tidbit from the files. Kim Thayil jaywalked in front of my van at night near Gasworks park and I had to brake and swerve not to hit him. He like just stepped out in front of me without looking.

And I know Matt Cameron's wife, from work. And she is super nice and just a regular person! Matt himself tries hard to keep it private, and so I've met him but only briefly.

Anyways. Seattle was an amazing place to grow up if you were into music, and not just for the local talent, so many great bands I got to see.

[blakestree]

Badmotorfinger was Soundgarden at their best.

[Iommic Pope]

Yeah, the Hiro stuff is definitely cool.
It might even be ILF friendly

[spacelordmother]

Badmotorfinger was Soundgarden at their best.

+1

[oldangelmidnight]

Anyways. Seattle was an amazing place to grow up if you were into music, and not just for the local talent, so many great bands I got to see.

I'm envious. Did you ever see Steven Jesse Bernstein or The Gits?

I'm glad that we're celebrating Soundgarden while politely ignoring Audioslave.

[Dark Barn]

I did see Steven Jesse Bernstein once or twice, opening for other bands doing only 1-2 poems, I managed to fuck things up and never saw the Gits. My biggest failure in life was discovering Big Black like 2 weeks AFTER they played their final show EVER in Seattle with Steven Jesse Bernstein opening.

[oldangelmidnight]

The video's up on YouTube, if you're feeling vicarious. Complete with occasional Cobain glimpses. I don't know if Cornell would have been there...

[spacelordmother]

Stories about nothing, stories about everything:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7ndyZXlYig[/youtube]

[popvulture]

I started watching that earlier, need to finish. Even though his uber polished session-y stuff isn't my thing, I think Pete Thorn seems like a super sweet guy.

[John]

Plot twist: Wittgenstein is an alt of mine.

Also just ignore the obvious trolling and talk about how rad Cornell was. Because he was rad and he deserves to be talked about.

Mind slightly blown. Assuming that you're telling the truth, that there is not another Matryoshka doll layer to this troll.

He was your perfect foil, too perfect.

I almost threw in a line about "IM at least strikes a balance with his posturing..."

So uhm... "Ironic peformance of" ...

Some high percentage of that comment might still apply dude. You're not an asshole, you just have an alt to act out that part of you?? Trolling that deep...

Wtf why are you trolling this thread (and person's death) with an alt???

Pretty sure Invisible Man was joking about it being an alt. Maybe I'm wrong.