According to The Pulse Of Radio, drummer Matt Cameron, who sits behind the kit for SOUNDGARDEN, PEARL JAM and TEMPLE OF THE DOG, was asked in an interview with The Trap Set to compare working with SOUNDGARDEN to PEARL JAM. He responded: "It's just different band dynamics in general... I think my role in SOUNDGARDEN is a little bit more of a musical director role, whereas in PEARL JAM it's more of a supporting in the rhythm section kind of role. I think the collaboration I have in SOUNDGARDEN is bigger in the creative realm, but I feel very fortunate to be in two really fantastic bands."
The Pulse Of Radio asked Cameron a while back if he alters his style for either band. "I don't think I do," he said. "I mean, I'm just really trying to play my role in each group. I definitely feel like I support the vocal in both groups. The music around the vocal is a little bit different. But that's the way I've always considered my drumming, is vocal-influenced. I've been lucky enough to play with two of the best singers in modern day history, so I think that's always sort of been my strength as a drummer."
Asked about playing in two of the most successful and influential rock groups of the past 25 years, Cameron told The Trap Set: "I totally earned it, I worked my tail off for it, but I think there's always an element of luck in success in the music industry, for sure."
Cameron will be inducted with PEARL JAM into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame in early 2017 if the band — which made the nominee list this year — is chosen for that honor.
SOUNDGARDEN has been eligible for induction since 2012 but has yet to be nominated.
TEMPLE OF THE DOG, which features members of both bands and is touring for the first time since it was formed in 1990, starts a two-night stand in San Francisco on Friday night (November 11).
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This Just In From Seattle Music History!!! TheNFLis making a very big deal of the season opener between the Green Bay Packers andSeattle Seahawksat CenturyLink Field in Seattle on September 4th. And that they should! We’re the freakin’ champs, man!
The NFL kicks off its 95th season with a huge preshow at 4:30 PM our time on that Thursday with Grammy Award-winning singer, song-writer and producerPharrell Williams (‘Happy’). Seattle-natives and Grammy Award-winning band Soundgarden open for him and both will perform live outside of CenturyLink Field in Seattle before the game.
Simulcast coverage of the 60-minute pregame show from Seattle will air from 4:30 – 5:30 PM PT on NBC and NFL Network. The live pregame broadcast also will be available via NFL Mobile from Verizon.
This is the 13th consecutive Kickoff celebration to start the season and the 10th time the NFL has saluted the Super Bowl champions with the opening game in their stadium on a Thursday in primetime.
We will have more details on exact location and how to see this free show (and get on TV) before the Hawks kick the Packers butts, shortly!
This Just In From Seattle Music History!!! I'm sure nobody in the room was prouder than The Spirit of The Late Great SIR Mr. James Marshall Hendrix- In New York you always hear about the house that "Ruth" built, well on this evening in Manhattan The Babe had to take a backseat because it was Soundgardens turn to ride at The House That Jimi Built!!! Soundgarden just releasedKing Animal, their first album in 16 years. So what better way to celebrate than with a Q&A session that moderator and Foo Fighters drummer Taylor Hawkins called “the raddest garage party ever”??
Last night, at an event hosted by SiriusXM at the legendary Electric Lady Studios in Greenwich Village, the reunited Seattle rockers took part in an informal Q&A session, moderated by Foo Fighters drummer Taylor Hawkins. The venue is microscopic; there were maybe fifty people there, so needless to say, there wasn’t an un-close seat in the house.
Now, most musicians don’t go into the business for the press circuit. They’re usually roped into these events by their publicists in order to promote an album or a tour, and they tend to answer questions — nearly all of which they have been asked countless times — with marginal, rehearsed enthusiasm. You could tell there was an element of forced publicity in last night’s session, but the discussion was surprisingly lively and informative.
A standard question about the players’ individual influences elicited responses that drew from a scholarly musical catalog. Frontman Chris Cornell, who admitted that he didn’t learn how to play guitar until after he joined the band, cited the Beatles and Tom Waits; Matt Cameron, the genial and well-spoken drummer, spoke of Buddy Rich, Tony Williams, Captain Beefheart, and Death Grips; and bassist Ben Shepherd mentioned Charles Mingus and Black Flag’s Chuck Dukowski. Guitarist Kim Thayil, who remained somewhat aloof for most of the evening, acknowledged reluctantly that his childhood guitar hero was KISS’ Ace Frehley. All of them agreed, though, that many of the band’s early influences weren’t musical at all, but rather works of film and literature.
As the guys loosened up — thanks in no small part to Hawkins’ exuberant hosting job — the talk became more freewheeling. One fan asked what the band members would be doing if they hadn’t pursued music, prompting them to rip into one another about baseball and their total ineptitude at non-musical tasks.
They all reacted strongly when someone apologetically applied the term “grunge” to their work. “Grunge is over, people,” Hawkins shouted. “It never started.” However, I would be remiss if I failed to mention Shepherd’s contributions to the evening. Seated on the far right, slouched and sneering, the bassist spent most of the event spouting non sequiturs that grew increasingly off-the-wall. Rather than try to contextualize them — because there was really no context for most of his comments — I’ll just list a few, below:
-”It’s too bad we don’t talk like Donald Duck, or that would have been an incredible answer.”
-”We all hide the dream couches when we’re jamming.”
One of the night’s testier moments came in response to a question about the role of music criticism in an album’s success or failure. For the first time, Thayil spoke up adamantly, denouncing bloggers and unqualified writers “who don’t know anything about music or cultural trends or journalism.” “I’m just waiting for that Pitchfork review,” Cornell joked, referring to the notoriously severe, online music magazine.
He then lamented the fact that so many music writers concentrate on the lead singers and guitarists at the expense of the other musicians. Soundgarden, he insisted, was always a collaborative effort with equal contributions from every member. Hawkins added a story about a producer he knew who collected original reviews of every Led Zeppelin LP, which were largely negative, and brought them out 20 years later as proof of their irrelevance.
“[Critics] help people with scarce resources prioritize their shopping lists,” Thayil concluded.
Once the talk wrapped up, the band played an exciting but tragically short set: “Been Away Too Long” and “Worse Dreams,” both off of King Animal, and two early classics, “Rusty Cage” and “Spoonman.”
I’ll admit that I’m a total Soundgarden aficionado, so watching them perform live in such an impossibly tiny setting felt a bit like discovering Zeppelin when I was 13. Their music is deliriously, refreshingly heavy, all sludge and sinew — I wanted to jump around and break chairs, and I think everyone else did, too, but the surroundings weren’t suited to a mosh pit.
Luckily the band’s got a tour lined up for early next year, so all those metalheads who grew up onBadmotorfinger and Superunknown can get their long-awaited ’90s thrash on for the first time in nearly 20 years.
“SiriusXM’s Town Hall with Soundgarden will air on Pearl Jam Radio this Friday, Nov. 16, at 6pm ET.
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This Just In From Seattle Music History!!! This Just In From Seattle Music History!!! CRAZED FAN OF SEATTLE'S CHRIS CORNELL OF SOUNDGARGEN, & AUDIOSLAVE GETS ARRESTED FOR TWEETING CORNELL DEATH THREATS!!! One of the cool things about Twitter is the dialogue it can open up between artists and their fans. But as was recently the case forSoundgardenfrontmanChris Cornell, that communication can take a dark turn.
Local Seattle station KIRO 7 reports that a woman has been charged with using the social media service to allegedly send death threats — over 100 in all — to Cornell from an assortment of Twitter accounts. “A Seattle woman has been charged for allegedly tweeting death threats to Soundgarden singer Chris Cornell,” says the report, which you can watch above. “Prosecutors claim Elizabeth Walden had nine different Twitter accounts and sent more than 100 messages to Cornell. They say the postings also alluded to a rape of his 13-year-old daughter. Prosecutors say those tweets constituted cyber-stalking and they filed criminal charges against her this week.”
As Loudwire reports, Cornell has been through this type of thing before. A decade ago, when his wife was pregnant with the couple’s second daughter, a deranged individual mailed them death threats against the entire family. This reportedly went on for years, with Cornell ultimately spending roughly $250,000 on a “high-tech security system to protect them [with] more than 40 video cameras, invisible laser beams, and 24-hour security guards.”
At one point, Cornell also had to cope with repeated harassment from a private investigator allegedly hired by his ex-wife and former manager. Fortunately, he’ll at least have the band’s busy tour schedule to distract him from this latest round of unwelcome attention. Soundgarden will hit the road at the end of March for a series of dates taking them from South America to Europe, then back to the group’s native Washington for a few shows in early July.
