From: somms@mit.edu To: somms-digest@mit.edu Subject: Soundgarden Digest, Friday, 1 Sep 1995 Reply-To: somms@mit.edu Date: Fri, 01 Sep 1995 01:21:46 EDT Sender: saperl The Soundgarden Digest: Friday, 1 Sep 1995 listadmin: saperl@mit.edu list archive: http://web.mit.edu/saperl/sg/archive/archive.html Today's Topics: alternate rant Re: Who Is that guy? REQ:Guitar TABS/Chords to Superunknown Re: Re:Chris's Themes Reading Review Who Is that guy? (fwd) early b-day Alice In Chains SAP Re: according to this person chris cornell rocktropolis site Re: alternate rant Re: Whoops! live Re: Reading Review ------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 31 Aug 1995 15:46:07 +1000 (GMT+1000) From: blind dog To: Carolyn Cc: somms@MIT.EDU Subject: alternate rant On Thu, 31 Aug 1995, Carolyn wrote: > Yeah, know what you mean. 10 years ago I called myself an 'alternative' > band listener. Back then alternative meant NOT the 'nice, pretty > teeney-bopper' stuff that gets thrashed on the radio day after day and all > the mindless people go out and buy music from those bands just because they I don't want to rain on anybody's parade here :), but I've always thought it was much simpler to associate yourself with certain *individual* bands, instead of subscribing to the whole alternative sort of thing. I mean, if you are alternative, then you could be a fan of just about any new band with guitars in it. don't you sometimes wonder if some bands which are generally placed under the 'alternative' banner are really that alternative. what are they an alternate to? bon jovi? I'd argue that the nirvana and pearl jam get as much airplay as these old sorta glam rock, la type bands. so what is alternative? do you have to listen to fugazi and black flag to be alternative nowadays? I just don't know. I prefer to be an individual, as opposed to being part of the crowd. so don't define yourself in terms of what class of music-listener you are, think of yourself as a music fan with your own unique set of likes and dislikes. that's my rant/scrawl for the day. so here's to hoping that a new soundgarden record comes out soon, so you don't have to listen to me :) ps. carolyn, would you say that jjj is alternate? too much shitty dance music there for my liking. ----------------------------------- a thousand doors, a thousand lies rooms a thousand years wide ----------------------------------- ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 30 Aug 1995 23:03:24 -0700 To: mrl5@Lehigh.EDU (ClownWithBazooka) From: aagaston@wln.com (Aaron Gaston) Subject: Re: Who Is that guy? Cc: SOMMS@MIT.EDU >Jason Everman is currently a Army airborne Ranger. Ouch...his career moves just get better... Aaron Gaston (aagaston@wln.com) http://www.wln.com/~aagaston/ ------------------------------ From: "Daniel Liliegren" To: somms@MIT.EDU Date: Thu, 31 Aug 1995 14:04:26 + 100 Subject: REQ:Guitar TABS/Chords to Superunknown Hi! Does anyone out there have any TABs/Chords to this superb record. If you do please send it to me. I also wonder if anyone have any tickets for sale to the show in Sweden tomorrow. /Black Days ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 31 Aug 1995 10:01:28 -0230 (NDT) From: Tony Dawe To: ClownWithBazooka Cc: Avatar , somms@MIT.EDU Subject: Re: Re:Chris's Themes On Thu, 24 Aug 1995, ClownWithBazooka wrote: > a couple. btw, how is naked in the cold sun a contradiction? Being naked does try the sun being cold. the sun is usaly warm. /\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\ \/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/ /\Tony Dawe /\ \/gbf2033@infonet.st-johns.nf.ca \/ /\St.Johns InfoNET /\ \/"I am you, you are me, \/ /\ no one is themselves" /\ \/"I am the law" \/ /\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\ \/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/ ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 31 Aug 1995 13:25:28 -0400 From: ansel@morgan.com To: somms@MIT.EDU Subject: Reading Review OK...everybody now. Big, big, huge, collective sigh of relief. Chris did NOT do permanent damage to his chords. Last year, he was unable to sustain both high and low notes w/o pained concentration and aid from soundboard echoes. At Reading, it was apparent that he must finally have a voice coach. His voice was powerful and controlled with zero effort and his facial expressions and stance were arrogant and teasing (he was laid-back and deservedly proud of himself). The set opened with Chris casually striding to the mike as he checked the tuning on his guitar, to apologize for canceling last years show. SG then went on to make it up with a seamless set. With their decade + experience, they know how to put together 90 minutes with no awkward lapses or inconsistencies. It just flowed. They opened with "Searching With My Good Eye Closed" (always gets the crowd surfing), continued with "Drown Me", "My Wave", "F*** You Up" (Never heard this one before. A concert song? For the new album? A potential B-side?), "Spoonman", "Kickstand", "SuperUnknown", "Mailman", "Black Hole Sun", Fell On Black Days", "Rusty Cage", "Head Down" (Chris remarked "This is always one of my favorites."), "Hands All Over", and a Doors cover which the crowd sang the chorus to (SG usually do one different song in each set as they tour, either a cover or a rarely-played-live tune like "I Love You", which they did at Milwaukee's Summerfest last year). I especially loved the "4th of July" finale (not included in last years set) and Chris's exaggerated thrashing feedback assault in dimmed stage lights to close the evening. Flawless. P.S.: I was nearly unconscious during "Hands All Over" (with NO exaggeration -- complete with sound distortion and large blue splotches before my eyes) after a surfer injured my neck and nose. I was up against the fence in front and ducked when I saw him coming. This was a MISTAKE. With my head bent to the ground, I was perfectly positioned to get my head slammed down into the rail of the fence -- could have knocked my front teeth out given a few inches. Any recommendations on injury prevention? P.S.S.: Did anyone tape last years Grammy broadcast? I would love to buy it, as I had to work late and only heard about SG's acceptance speeches. Vikki ------------------------------ From: aol.com!WshuWerHre@gcc.cc.md.us To: somms@MIT.EDU Subject: Who Is that guy? (fwd) Date: Thu, 31 Aug 95 13:07:43 EST Forwarded message: > > -------------< COMMENTS BY Nothingman >-------------- > > When Soundgarden started, Chris was the drummer/singer, and Kim was the > guitarist and I think Hiro was the bassist. That other guy might have > been a fill in drummer or something, because Chris said that drumming > hindered his singing. I don't know, just speculation. > > Nothingman > > -It's funny, I unsubscribed, but I'm still replying. Wierd. > > ----------< END OF COMMENTS BY Nothingman >---------- > > I have a few pictures fom when SG started-I'm not sur eof the exact years, > but Chris doesn't have a goatee and has his long hair. But there is this guy > in it, who I don't know who he is- and Its not Hiro, I know thta. Anyone > know who this guy is? ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 31 Aug 1995 16:22:45 -0400 From: ThisRulz@aol.com To: somms@MIT.EDU Subject: early b-day since i'm gonna be one all weekend, i'd just like to wish kim thayil a happy birthday this labor day. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 31 Aug 1995 14:56:48 -0700 To: somms@MIT.EDU From: sunishun@e2.empirenet.com Subject: Alice In Chains SAP I trashed the digest for 8/31 so I can't reference the message but, speaking of Alice In Chain's SAP (Columbia Records, 44K 74182) album, singing on "Right Turn" along w/Mark Arm is CHRIS CORNELL. Ann Wilson of Heart sings on "Brother". ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 1 Sep 1995 08:36:02 +1000 (EST) From: Avatar To: Soundgarden Mailing List Subject: Re: according to this person chris cornell On Tue, 29 Aug 1995 ThisRulz@aol.com wrote: > mjackson was signing autographs at some music store and chris cornell walked > in, but he was asked to leave because more people were paying attention to > him than to mj. chris was pretty pissed and defaced (the person didn't know > if that meant set fire to or pissed on) a fiberglass statue of mj. > > i don't know if this is true, but that's somebody said. > i don't remember there screen name either. > If he defecated on it, that means he actually took down his pants and crapped all over it. He must've been really pissed! - - Avatar ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 31 Aug 1995 19:27:31 -0400 To: somms@MIT.EDU Subject: rocktropolis site From: nephend@usa.pipeline.com (nancy e phend) Hi I have tried repeatedly to access the Soundgarden Rocktropolis site with no luck. Have had no other problems moving around Rocktropolis. Anyone else had this problem? Is the site even worth the trouble? Thnx nephend ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 1 Sep 1995 10:48:06 +1000 To: somms@MIT.EDU From: Carolyn Subject: Re: alternate rant >On Thu, 31 Aug 1995, I wrote: >> Yeah, know what you mean. 10 years ago I called myself an 'alternative' >> band listener. Back then alternative meant NOT the 'nice, pretty >> teeney-bopper' stuff that gets thrashed on the radio day after day and all >> the mindless people go out and buy music from those bands just because they On 31 Aug 1995 blind dog wrote: > don't you sometimes wonder if some bands which are generally >placed under the 'alternative' banner are really that alternative. what >are they an alternate to? bon jovi? I'd argue that the nirvana and >pearl jam get as much airplay as these old sorta glam rock, la type >bands. so what is alternative? do you have to listen to fugazi and >black flag to be alternative nowadays? I just don't know. Good point. I think that's what I was trying to say in a roundabout way! When I wrote about the old days above I meant then the bands I liked weren't all that popular with the general public, because they weren't flogged on the radio and rather they were liked (by people like me) for what they were and not for the reason that "everyone likes them so I will too". In those days Nirvana & Pearl Jam were alternative. Now of course they're (even though N don't exist now) in mainstream popularity so are no longer alternative! I guess alternative kinda means bands that perhaps aren't as successsful as 'pop' bands???????? (and I only mean successful in terms of numbers of records sold) blind dog also wrote: > I prefer to be an individual, as opposed to being part of the >crowd. so don't define yourself in terms of what class of music-listener >you are, think of yourself as a music fan with your own unique set of >likes and dislikes. OKAY - who cares about alternative shit anyway? trendy term, that's all that is nowadays. Here's to Soundgarden!! > so here's to hoping that a new soundgarden record comes out soon, >so you don't have to listen to me :) I reckon we could listen to both you AND soundgarden............. Stay cool & play it loud ~ Carolyn Australian Music Freak ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "Feel the rhythm with your hands - steal the rhythm while you can" - Spoonman "And my youth I pray to keep" - Black Hole Sun ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 1 Sep 1995 00:15:20 -0230 (NDT) From: Tony Dawe To: ClownWithBazooka Cc: somms@MIT.EDU Subject: Re: Whoops! On Thu, 24 Aug 1995, ClownWithBazooka wrote: > Thanks to all the members of the mailing list, who pointed out that the sun is > indeed not cold. However could chris have meant that even though the sun is the sun is kinda cold. how about here in newfoundland the sun may be out but it is still 10 below zero. oh, who cares :) /\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\ \/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/ /\Tony Dawe /\ \/gbf2033@infonet.st-johns.nf.ca \/ /\St.Johns InfoNET /\ \/"I am you, you are me, \/ /\ no one is themselves" /\ \/"I am the law" \/ /\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\ \/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/ ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 31 Aug 1995 21:38:18 MDT From: nothing now To: somms@MIT.EDU Subject: live i was just wondering and would hate to seem redundent, but does anyone know of a soundgarden new album out there. if so i would like to hear about it. thanks have a nice day....nevermind nothing ------------------------------ From: "Limo Wreck" Date: Fri, 1 Sep 1995 00:35:03 -0400 To: ansel@morgan.com Subject: Re: Reading Review Cc: somms@MIT.EDU They opened with "Searching With My Good > Eye Closed" (always gets the crowd surfing), continued with "Drown Me", "My > Wave", "F*** You Up" (Never heard this one before. A concert song? For > the new album? A potential B-side?), "Spoonman", "Kickstand", > "SuperUnknown", "Mailman", "Black Hole Sun", Fell On Black Days", > "Rusty Cage", "Head Down" (Chris remarked "This is always one of my > favorites."), "Hands All Over", and a Doors cover which the crowd sang the > chorus to (SG usually do one different song in each set as they tour, > either a cover or a rarely-played-live tune like "I Love You", which they > did at Milwaukee's Summerfest last year). I especially loved the "4th of > July" finale (not included in last years set) and Chris's exaggerated > thrashing feedback assault in dimmed stage lights to close the evening. > Flawless. Are you sure "Fuck You Up" isn't "Big Dumb Sex"? If it is definetly a new song, hopefully it will be on the new CD w/ a big fat Parental Adivsory on it to scare off the poser shits. > > P.S.: I was nearly unconscious during "Hands All Over" (with NO > exaggeration -- complete with sound distortion and large blue splotches > before my eyes) after a surfer injured my neck and nose. I was up against > the fence in front and ducked when I saw him coming. This was a MISTAKE. > With my head bent to the ground, I was perfectly positioned to get my head > slammed down into the rail of the fence -- could have knocked my front > teeth out given a few inches. Any recommendations on injury prevention? > Don't duck, just push the crowd surfers somewhere else. If you duck, they have one less support and can fall easier.Trust me i know. Wishin i could have been there... - -- Jeremy Crocker, A.K.A LimoWreck j_crocke@eos.ncsu.edu http://www4.ncsu.edu/eos/users/j/j_crocke/WWW/home.html "This is not an exit" -Anthrax "I know you better than I know myself" -TOOL "I am the wreck of you all" -Soundgarden ------------------------------ End of somms Digest [Volume 1 Issue 32] ***************************************