From: somms@mit.edu To: somms-digest@mit.edu Subject: Soundgarden Digest, Sunday, 19 May 1996 Reply-To: somms@mit.edu Date: Sun, 19 May 1996 04:06:27 EDT Sender: saperl The Soundgarden Digest: Sunday, 19 May 1996 listadmin: saperl@mit.edu list archive: http://www.sgi.net/soundgarden/archive/ TO UNSUBSCRIBE: email saperl@mit.edu Today's Topics: D.O.T.U. Pre-Release Review... 24-hour chatline Re: 24-hour chatline Surfrider Foundation's benefit CD Project "MOM" (fwd) oh yeah... sticker! Bootlegs DOTU vinyl Soundgarden Compilation Re: the girl u want PN! Re: Soundgarden Digest, Saturday, 18 May 1996 Re: the girl u want I saw DOTU today livewire article. karaoke?? christi?? Re: Top 20 For The Limo Wrecker Re: 24-hour chatline congrats to the page Pretty nose Is Pretty Pain Top 20 For The Limo Wrecker Cool pictures and Chris naked? Re: online mayhem ;) The Matt Article - Part 2 Sticker thank you. Rockline in Chicago SNL Re: SNL ------------------------------------------------------------ From: Bryan Alan Blumklotz Subject: D.O.T.U. Pre-Release Review... ****>>>>>>WARNING! WARNING! Long Post!<<<<<<<**** To All>>> For those of you how are not fortunate enough to live in the very wet Pac/NW region of our country... here is a tid-bit from our neck of the woods... This is a transcription of the review of Soundgarden's new album in the May 15-29 issue of The Rocket, a Seatle/Portland Music News Weekly: Welcome to the sonic hothouse By Marty Jourard SOUNDGARDEN Down on the Upside (A&M CD) Soundgarden have been making recourds for 12 years. That's right, {12 years}, releasing songs on C/Z (1985), Sub Pop (1987), and SST (1988) berfore signing with A&M and putting out {Louder Than Love} (1989), {Badmotorfinger} (1991, and 1994's ultra-mega-triple-platinum {Superunknown}. You'd figure by now these guys would had learned how to make records, right? Yes indeed, and {Down on the Upside} is easily their best recording to date. Soundgarden are a confident band at the peak of their creative powers. And now, a brief technical aside: Jesus, can these guys play. After spending a couple of days listening to their last four records as a warmup, I opened the plastic case of the advance cassette, slipped it into my Walkman, and hit "play." Incidentally, I think all music reviewers should work from these generic cassettes: No artwork or lyric sheets to ponder, no production credits, only the names of the songs on white card stock as if the Lord was telling us all, "It's the music, stupid." It is hard to exaggerate how huge and powerful this record sounds. Who is responsible for achieving this fiant production value? This time around Soundgarden chose to produce themselves, assisted by engineer Adam Kaspar, who better rest now while he still has a chance. No band is entirely without musical influences, and much of {Down on the Upside} owes a debt to the best ideas of Led Zeppelin. This is no way a putdown; both Zep and Soundgarden have great singers, use complex time signatures without anyone noticing, approach the studio fearlessly, often play in modal tunings, and create seamless drum/bass/guitar figures. Each song on {D.O.T.U.} has a distinct atmosphere and plenty of the expected big riffs, played on guitar, mandolin and (on "Ty Cobb") what sounds like a banjo. Supporting this vast galaxy of guitar textures are drummer Matt Cameron and bassist Ben Shepherd, who build on their instruments a structure comparable to Seattle's landmark Gasworks Park: solid, elaborate, and very much {there}. A wise man onnce said that writting about music is like singing about baseball. How true. Until this release is available in stores and you can hear it for yourself, live through this: "Pretty Noose"-starts with a fuitar intro that would be perfect as the soundtrack to {Prelude to a Technicolor Yawn} and powers up from there. "I cought the moon today/Pick it up and throw it away all right...Fallour and take the bait/Eat the fruit/And kiss the snake goonight..." leading to the chorus: "And I don't lkie what you got me hangin' from." "Rhinosaur"-a great, high energy 6/8 cruncher with one of those classic, "I could have written that" (but you didn't) lopsided drum/bass/guitar riffs. "Only happy when you hurt/Only deadly in a swarm/Only healthy in the dirt/Only empty in your arms..." "Zero Chance"-it took Soundgarden nine years before they recorded a ballad ("Fell on Black Days") and here's another velvet fist featuring intricately arranged mandolin/acoustic/electric guitar and great big drums. "They say if you look hard/You'll find your way back home/Born without a friend/And bound to die alone." "Dusty"-seductive Zep-like chord riff with acoustic guitar. "I think it's turning back around/And I think I like it... I think it's turning back on me/I'm down on the Upside." Killer shaker overdub. "Ty Cobb"-starts with a highly misleading mandolin noodle straight into a fast, wall of sound Foggy Mountain Breakdown-like thrash anthem featuring more mandolin, an the chorus, "Hard headed fuck you all/Hard headed fuck you all/Hard headed fuck you all/Just add it on the hot rod death toll." Everybody! "Blow up the Ousdide World"-slow, mellow, and paisley with heavily processed vocals. "Nothing seems to kill me no matter how hard I try... Nothing seems to break me/No mater how hard I fall nothing can break me at all," leading into a searing "Blow up the outside/Blow up the outside/Blow up the outside world." Burden in My Hand"-"Follow me into the desert/As thirsty as you are/Crack a smile and cout your mouth/And drown in alcohol" Heavy vocal processing, acoustic guitar/big fuitar chorus, then the drums kick in and the song struts and rolls, builds and swaggers... then just ends. "Never Named"-fast and very punky. "I had a dog he was a mix/he loved me like God/But I was jua a kid... I'm just a baby who looks like a boy/I'm getting depressed." The song ends side one with these words" "And I'll keep hanging from your hair/And I'll keep playing in the sand/Just as long as I can." "Applebite"-Soundgarden is obviously a band that jams, and when they find a groove they {work it}. Moog oscillators, slow hypnotic beat with a sixnote guitar pattern and a heavily processed vocals. "Everything fits/Even the wrist on your arm/Grow and decay/Grow and decay." Dangerous. "Never the Machine Forever"-a high energy 9/8 romp with sizzling, melt-the tape vocals... "Get up/Get off/Get on with your life." "Tighter and Tighter"-slow, hazy, heavy, bluesy feel reminiscent of Robin Trower's Bridge of Sighs," with a sinuous, shimmering vocal chorus: "And I hope it's a sweet ride/Sleep tight for me/Sleep tight for me, I'm gone," ending with "'Cuz I feel I'm going/Feel I'm slowing down." This song alone demonstrates why Cornell is easily one of rocks best vocalists. It even has an ending. "No Attention"-a high energy, loopy, punky kiss-off to authority that makes this record, among other things, fun listening: "They're gonna tell you where to walk/When to smile and just what to say/...So say what what you want, suck all my life/Suck on my brain... And I'll pay no attention/No attention." Guitarist Thayil sounds like a 17-year-old punk-rocker with technique on this one. "Switch Opens"-another beautifully misleading intro into an Easternflavored, up-tempo number with a chiming hook. nice harmonies, and a very odd division of the beat. "Overfloater"-slow, in a minor mode, Zep meets "Come Together" with a touch of Savoy Brown, hypnotic Rhodes electric piano, and atmospheric harmonies: "Close the door and pull the shades/Climb the walls... And nothing's going to pinch this nerve of mine... Hold the potion up/Tear your shadow down/Remember to forget and then rename your shame...." A hypnotic chorus in 14/4: "I wanna make it right/I wanna make it right." "An Unkind"-Rush, King Crimson and Mott the Hoople in a three-way tie. Fast, and about something. "Boot Camp"-dreamy, Pink Floyd on Prozac: "I must obey the rules/I must be tame and cool/No staring at eh clouds/I must stay on the ground... There must be something else/There must be something good/Far away/Far away from here/... When I leave here for good/For good...." The giant sucking sound you're about to hear is radio rushing to put this album on the air. - --------------------- END OF REVIEW Well there you have it... any mistakes are mine. The use of the {} denotes the use of Italics for the words enclosed in them... Hope this is something you liked reading. I felt that he mentioned too many Led Zep refs... but that is just my hang up... enjoy. Saracen AKA Bryan ------------------------------ Subject: 24-hour chatline From: seth You may have noticed that the official SG site now features a 24-hour Soundgarden "chatroom" (IRC channel). You can access it via the Web via a Java applet, or you can use any IRC program (server: home.webmaster.com, port: 6667, channel: soundgarden). Anyway, when I saw it I thought back to the ATN article that said "the album will be released in late May, which is when the group will open the Soundgarden web site and conduct an on-line chat there." I'm wondering if the band will actually appear in the new "chatroom" and allow themselves to be the center of a crazed free-for-all. Hmm... seth ------------------------------ From: URBANO Subject: Re: 24-hour chatline seth wrote: > You may have noticed that the official SG site now features a 24-hour > Soundgarden "chatroom" (IRC channel). I guess this is the end of the already-dead #somms... -URBANO ------------------------------ From: caryn rose Subject: Surfrider Foundation's benefit CD Project "MOM" (fwd) is this old news? am i on drugs, or experiencing any other type of memory lapse? ;-> >Soundgarden is on it?!?!?!?!?!?!?!? > >probably "My Wave" :P > >---------- Forwarded message ---------- >Date: 15 May 1996 19:54:28 GMT >From: Helge Weissig >Newsgroups: alt.music.pearl-jam, alt.music.perl-jam, > alt.music.smash-pumpkins, alt.music.beastie-boys, alt.music.soundgarden, > alt.music.ramones, alt.music.primus >Subject: Surfrider Foundation's benefit CD Project "MOM" > >Surfrider Foundation's benefit CD Project will be released > > July 2, 1996 > >on SurfDog Records, distributed by Interscope Records. >Available at all major record stores. > > >Bands appearing on Surfrider's album: > >Pearl Jam * Porno for Pyros * Brian Setzer Orchestra * Beasties Boys * >Sprung Monkey * Silver Chair * Reverend Horton Heat * Everclear * >7 Mary 3 * Pato Banton * Pennywise * Ramones * Soundgarden * Primus * >Common Sense * Helmet * Jewel * No Doubt > >for more information check http://www.sdsc.edu/surfrider > >for the ocean, >h. > >-- >-------------------------------------------------------- >/ Helge Weissig >/ Surfrider Foundation, San Diego County Chapter >/ http://www.sdsc.edu/~sdccsf > > > > ------------------------------ From: caryn rose Subject: oh yeah... sticker! i forgot (how could i forget)... i got this cool postcard/sticker from KOTS today, it's a GREAT color image of the cover... really really n ice... an advantage to being local, i prolly got it before most of yas (and it was almost pristine to boot) if you're in the fan club or on the mailing list... watch for it - --caryn ------------------------------ From: Cameron Straatsma Subject: Bootlegs Does anyone on the list have any Soundgarden video bootlegs from Badmotorfinger tour or earlier that they would be willing to trade a copy of? I am also looking for any bootleg anything from Quicksand. If you're interested please email my personal mail. Thanks. ------------------------------ From: danabt@ix.netcom.com (Dana Born-Thomsen) Subject: DOTU vinyl There seem to be a few of you who still can't find the it. Like some people have said before, go to CDNow and order it. They still have it in stock and it's $10.78, not including s&h. They also have a limited edition colored BMF? If it's so limited, why do they still have it?? Oh, the best part is that there is a different song listed on CDNow's version of BMF...."Nasty Cage"!! ------------------------------ From: "Mailman" Subject: Soundgarden Compilation What exactly is on the Soundgarden Compilation? I haven't heard very much about it. Can somebody plese tell me. Also, who ever had that list of SG rarities (sonik death), could you please send me the list again, I kinda lost is by accident. One last favor, I didn't catch the Rockline thing, and I would very much like it if someone could help me get a copy. I hope that isn't asking too much. - -Mailman ------------------------------ Subject: Re: the girl u want From: "Matthew Lawrence" > > does anybody knows how much is the SOMMS CD worth, now ? i have got 3 copies > of it.... > Not worth that much, I'll but it off you for, say, $5.. ;) Matt ------------------------------ From: melusk2@crow.cybercomm.net Subject: PN! Their playing PRETTY NOOSE on Q104.3 RIGHT NOW!! I'm Sorry, I just love this fucking song even though I've heard it a million TIMES!! FUCK YEAH! Common ruse dirty face pretty noose is pretty hate!!! YESSS! Gregg - --I guess this kind of enthususiasm is that of a hard core fan. ____________________________________ | | HEAVY ROTATION-- | http://www.cybercomm.net/~melusk2 | "Screaming Life/Fopp" Soundgarden | melusk2@crow.cybercomm.net | "Tiny Music. . ." STP |____________________________________| "Blow up the outside WOOOORRLLD!" --Ben Shepherd (If you missed Soundgarden's interview w/Matt Pinifield, forget about it.) ------------------------------ From: whitby@nando.net (Whitby Joyner) Subject: Re: Soundgarden Digest, Saturday, 18 May 1996 I may piss a lot of people off here, but am I alone in noting the band's huge increase in quality since the arrival of Ben Shepherd? Screaming Life\Fopp, ultramega ok, and Louder than love all had a couple songs that wre really great, but as a whole, the last 3 albums were much, much better. Between Louder than Love and Badmotorfinger, they leaped from a mediocre band to a great band, and over the course of the last 2 have leapt from great to possibly the best out there. The major change that happened there was the advent of Ben Shepherd...one would deduce that he was responsible for a lot or all of the change. - -Whitby ------------------------------ From: melusk2@crow.cybercomm.net Subject: Re: the girl u want At 01:29 PM 5/16/96 EST, 96753415@student.hawkesbury.uws.EDU.AU wrote: >does anybody knows how much is the SOMMS CD worth, now ? i have got 3 copies >of it.... > DAMMIT!! ALL I WANT IS ONE COPY FOR MY BROTHER!! "Some people are born lucky, some people are born unlucky"--Calvin Gregg ____________________________________ | | HEAVY ROTATION-- | http://www.cybercomm.net/~melusk2 | "Screaming Life/Fopp" Soundgarden | melusk2@crow.cybercomm.net | "Tiny Music. . ." STP |____________________________________| "Blow up the outside WOOOORRLLD!" --Ben Shepherd (If you missed Soundgarden's interview w/Matt Pinifield, forget about it.) ------------------------------ From: Grant Asher Subject: I saw DOTU today I was in my local record shop today and they had the DOTU cd behind the counter!! I begged and begged but they wouldn't sell it to me until Monday!!!!! This is a pretty bad release date for for two reasons. Firstly, it's near the end of term so I haven't got much money left, and secondly, my first exam is the next bloody day! Could I claim "new SG album" as a medical excuse? Hmmmm? For anyone who was wondering what a digipack is, it's basically a cardboard cover, rather than the usual plastic case. DOTU is a gloosy one, like the Sepultura "Roots" album cover. Grant Asher ------------------------------ From: rea49625@pegasus.cc.ucf.edu (Rebecca Agrait) Subject: livewire article. karaoke?? christi?? while at my friend's house the other day i read the may issue of livewire that he had. while stumbling through it i found a little snippet on soundgarden: SOUNDGARDEN DO KARAOKE ALBUM? No, you wont have to hear Seattle grunge vocal god Chris Cornell belting out Gloria Gaynor hits anytime soon. "Karaoke" is the title of a song on the much-anticipated new Soundgarden album, which deals with what the band feels to be a lack of originality in music today. "Following a formula is what seems to be successful right now," says Cornell. "It's about how loads of bands are imitating bands that already exist." Soundgarden are currently working at Pearl Jam's guitarist's Stone Gossard's Litho Studios in Seattle on the follow-up to Superunknown. Some of the tracks are likely to include: "Ty Cobb", "Christi", "Blow Up The Outside World", "Boot Camp", "Apple Bite", "Zero Chance," and others. Look for it in April in May, if all goes well. While we're on the Soundgarden subject, Chris Cornell had some interesting comments on the break-up of Michael Jackson and Lisa Marie. "That fucking guy makes me want to puke," said the Soundgarden frontman." Couldn't agree more... This being the May issue i found it a little weird that the magazine's info was so out of date. I know that magazines are usually released a month before what the cover says, but the may issue saying that they are currently working on it and that it should be released in April or May (not knowing the official release date, considering how long its been announced for) seems kinda cheap. Nevertheless i read through the magazine and its full of outdated info (for example: its just been announced that metallica will headline lollapalooza) anyways i was wondering if anyone else had heard about the two tracks that are mentioned here and didnt make it onto the album: "Karaoke," and "Christi." Future b-sides maybe??? Oh wait nevermind, i forgot that from now on b-sides are gonna be limited to the 'scat version' of the songs :) well anyways i just wanted to let you guys know. sorry for the long post. -Hasswipee Hasswipee's Home Page http://pegasus.cc.ucf.edu/~rea49625/ ------------------------------ From: onefellswoop Subject: Re: Top 20 For The Limo Wrecker On Sat, 18 May 1996, Greg Dunbar wrote: > I'm wondering about the words in "Outshined". Seeing that I'm not from > the US, I'm wondering if anyone knows what Chris means when he says > that he's '... looking California and feeling Minnesota'? > I've wondered about that one for a while. > California is a warm state in the southwest US. Minnesota is a cold state in the north. I live just north of Minnesota, so I KNOW how he feels. Somebody please take me from this arctic hell! So I guess he's saying he's looking good, but feeling like shit. (Sorry McCheese) Geoff ------------------------------ From: ar303921@student.uq.edu.au (DEFsonic) Subject: Re: 24-hour chatline >seth wrote: > >> You may have noticed that the official SG site now features a 24-hour >> Soundgarden "chatroom" (IRC channel). > > I guess this is the end of the already-dead #somms... > being logged on to the channel as we speak #soundgarden that seth told us about, it is as dead as #somms :) yeah no one there but me :) if anyone is up I'll be around for a while longer. seeya Lee _/_/_/_/ _/_/_/_/ _/_/_/_/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/_/_/_/ _/_/_/_/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/_/_/_/ _/_/_/_/ _/ SONIC E-mail ar303921@student.uq.edu.au Turn it UP and Play it LOUD!! Let the blood rush to your head!! CD I'm listening to this week: "Pretty Noose" single by Soundgarden ------------------------------ From: j_crocke@unity.ncsu.edu Subject: congrats to the page congrats to the unofficial soundgarden page. There are now 700 links to that page! jeremy ------------------------------ From: dao5@Lehigh.EDU (ClownWithBazooka) Subject: Pretty nose Is Pretty Pain Guys, I am going to be taping the snl appearence and the 120 minute one today and tommorrow. I will be making two simulataneous copies. (I hope it works) possibly three. So if you want a copy just email me privately and we can make all the neccessary arrangements. Just reimburse me for postage and a tape. I can probably wangle a deal on postage because the print shop I work at( I know crappy student job) is also a shipping outlet. Hm.... also I spent almost all my paycheck once on the new fangled four head hi fi dealie vcr and I hooked it up to my stereo and made my own bootleg copy of motorvision. It came out awesome, I used one of those real expensive metal tapes to make it but it was worth it. Slaves and bulldozers sounds better on my tape then on my somms cd. Anyway just email me privately and we'll work out the details. Also to the sommster who hasn't opened his dotu vinyl yet don't worry I just opened mine after 3 days. However I bought 2 copies and the other one will never be opened. So don't worry your normal. (Or were both weird) -Clown "Pick it up throw it away" ------------------------------ From: "Greg Dunbar" Subject: Top 20 For The Limo Wrecker I'm wondering about the words in "Outshined". Seeing that I'm not from the US, I'm wondering if anyone knows what Chris means when he says that he's '... looking California and feeling Minnesota'? I've wondered about that one for a while. And in reply to Andrew Clarke the Limo Wrecker, it's too hard a task to name the top 20 Soundgarden songs of all time but I'll give it a whirl anyway. TOP 20 SG Songs (Not including DOTU) 1. Mailman 2. 4th Of July 3. I Awake 4. Fell On Black Days 5. Outshined 6. Beyond The Wheel 7. Hands All Over 8. Mind Riot 9. Little Joe 11. Limo Wreck 12. Slaves & Bulldozers 13. Let Me Drown 14. Room A Thousand Years Wide 15. Jesus Christ Pose 16. Mood For Trouble 17. Like Suicide 18. Uncovered 19. Nothing To Say 20. No Wrong No Right 2 Funniest Songs Circle Of Power (Classic!) Big Dumb Sex (Well, obviously!) This list is very, very debatable so don't go giving me too much of a hard time about it. It'll probably change heaps anyway by Monday when the newy comes out....YYYYEEEESSSS!!!! Rock Hard!, Greg Dunbar - ------------------------------------------------------------- greg@lin.cbl.com.au ------------------------------ From: ShRooMGrLz@aol.com Subject: Cool pictures and Chris naked? I hit the nearest white-trash indoor flea market today, and found some really groovy stuff!! I love those flea markets!! They're like HUGE garage sales. Heheheh... anyway, this place has three vinyl dealers. I found like thirty million copies of DOTU, and even better... PICTURES OF CHRIS!! This lady who owns one of the booths is REALLY great with a camera, and she's got pictures of BMF concerts. And she had one of him from the filming of the "My Wave" video. I snagged all six of 'em. There's this one... mmmm... Chris has this green and black flannel shirt on, blue denim cut-off shorts that are rolled, and his red Docs. It's a side shot, and he's got his guitar on, but he's got his hands on the microphone. His face is raised and his eyes are shut. Did I mention that he's still got his long hair in this pic? Anyway... y'know how at the shows he'll sometimes blow air inbetween verses of songs? He's doing that... lips puckered, eyes shut... it's a HOT picture!! And he's even got his shirt on. But it does have a nice bootie view on it. Heheheh... thank God for flea markets!! Anyway... besides those six pictures, I also got the promo shot for Temple Of The Dog. Stoney... mmmm... very nice!! Chris looks great, of course. As does Matt. Even that punk Whiny Vedder looks good. One last thing... my best friend Allen asked me today what I would do to see Chris naked. I told him I'd indebt myself for the rest of my life, which is the truth. Then he asked me what I'd do if Chris posed nude for Playgirl magazine. OHMYGAWD!!! As my buddy Geek Girl would say... "Please hold. " I thought about it for a few minutes and decided that I'd get my credit card ready, and the day the magazine was released, I'd go out and buy every single copy of it I could find. Yah, it would probably cost me major $$$$, but I don't know... call me obsessed, but the thought of a bunch of women lusting after Chris just turns my stomach. Heheheh... that's funny!! Poor Susan... after thinking about that, I can just imagine how it must be for her sometimes with all these women drooling over her husband. I couldn't deal with everyone seeing Chris naked, either. So... it comes down to one question. Would I rather have Chris in the magazine so I could see him naked, or would I rather not see him naked, and not feel sick about everyone else seeing him naked, too? I'm still not sure yet. Heheheh... obsessions are SO weird. Y'know... I'm wondering... how many of the guys on the list would buy the magazine too, if Chris were in it. Nothingman? Heheheh. All you other obsessed people, think about it too. What if it were Matt, or Kim, or even Ben (HAHAHAHA!!!). That laugh was not meant to be derogatory towards Ben, heheheh. Ok... excuse my babbling... it's the drugs. Shroomy the Sicko "Alright everyone... take off your shirt!!!" ~ Chris Cornell (Yes he really said that... and I have the wav to prove it!!) "Hey Shroom... let's get naked." ~ Chris Cornell (Words not necessarily said in that order...) <~~~ my disclaimer ------------------------------ From: ShRooMGrLz@aol.com Subject: Re: online mayhem ;) The oh-so wise and amazing Caryn said... >hey shroom.... i bet if enough of us got together and shared >questions and kept asking the same ones... we'd get heard... >hmmmmmm... heh heh heh 0=) Ummm... ok!! Good idea!! I'm going to ask Chris (CORNELL *Geek Girl*, heheheh...) my usual "What do you sing when you're in the shower?" I've asked that at EVERY online interview... but he never answers, damn him. If some of y'all would be ever so kind, please unite with me on this question, 'cuz I'd love to find out anything about what he does in the shower. ;) Heheheh... There's a few other questions I'm going to ask him that I KNOW he won't answer, but I think I'll get flamed if I post them. HEY!! Let's all get together and bug them to check out the list, though!!! If we keep after them, they might just check it out!! We can offer to e-mail them copies of the digest, or something!! That would be great! Shroom ***I made ya get down on your hands and knees... *** Chris Cornell | |.| |.| |\./| "She drinkin' my JackDaniels |\./| and smokin' all my weed" .\ |\./| /. ~~Andy Wood, MLB \-.\ |\\.//| /.-/ \--./\ |\\.//| /\.--/ \--.| \ |\\.//| / |.--/ \---.|\ |\./| /|.---/ \--.|\ |\./| /|.--/ \ .\ |.| /. / _ -_- \ \\ // / -_- _ - -/_/_/- | | -\_\_\- - /_\ ------------------------------ From: ansel@morgan.com Subject: The Matt Article - Part 2 If you've already read Part 1 (which I posted to the list on May 9th), page down to Part 2 (below the double line). Enjoy. -Vikki :) HIGH TIMES - July 1992 Matt Cameron, Soundgarden's drummer extraordinaire and official band stoner, took time off during the group's February Skid Row tour to chat with 'High Times' about the Seattle herb scene and other musical topics. He came across as clever, considerate and fiercely dedicated to his art. Who said integrity-fueled Rock-n-Roll has to be a contradiction in terms? HT: Let's talk about pot. MC: I'd rather talk about pot than music anyday. We talk about music in every fucking interview, so this is a nice change. HT: When was the first time you got high? MC: When I was 15, and I didn't like it. But the second time, when I was 16, I loved it. The main thing I did was listen to music. And that just totally opened my head up. I decided at that point that it was a really good thing, but that I would wait until I had more time on my hands. HT: When was that? MC: When I was 17, and out of high school. A lot of my friends got stoned in High School. Coming to class stoned didn't seem like a really good way to go to school. So I was pretty coherent all through school. HT: Why do you get high now? MC: I normally do it for a sense of well-being. We have this pot up in Seattle that's amazingly potent. There's a cancer research center at the University of Washington where they grow pot for their chemotherapy and glaucoma patients. Over the years, certain students have taken clippings from these plants and started growing them around the Seattle area. All the growing done in Seattle is indoor. When I'm home and get pot, it's normally so strong that I can barely move - I just hang out at home and veg. The mushrooms we have in Seattle are fucking amazing, too. HT: Do the other guys in Soundgarden get high? MC: On long drives Ben and Kim and I will smoke out, but they normally are drinkers. Chris will take a hit every now and then, but it's pretty rare. He stays pretty clean on the road. HT: Do you get stoned when you play? MC: Sometimes. I think it helps when I'm at home and I'm in the right mood to create. A little pot, coffee and time is normally a really good combination for me. Sometimes it helps open up a different side of my creative brain that might not open if I'm not relaxed enough. For the most part, it's always been helpful. HT: Have you ever played a gig stoned? MC: Oh, yeah, The first Guns N Roses show I was a little bit baked. It wasn't that great of an idea, actually, thinking back on it. ============================================================ Part 2 HT: How was the GNR tour? MC: It was kinda tense. It definitely wasn't a low-key situation. It was our first arena tour, so it took us a while to adapt to that kind of crowd. But it was cool playing 45-minute sets and not pacing ourselves. There were a few nights I thought we were really good, but overall it was probably one of our most disappointing tours as far as the way we played. With Skid Row, it's better; it's not as tense. They're cool guys. HT: Do they get high? MC: Yeah. (Lead singer) Sebastian (Bach) does. He smoked out last night. HT: I had a weird experience at the GNR show in New York. We had to wait for two hours for them to go on. They had the lights flashing on different women in the audience... MC: Taking off their clothes. HT: Right! What was up with that? MC: They did that pretty much every night. It was just backstage entertainment, because all that stuff was coming through on the monitors. It was just kind of a "rock" thing to do. I watched it one night, and I thought it was pretty funny, but it was definitely a strange scene. The women who do stuff like that are pretty stupid in the first place. A big rock circus is what it was. HT: What do you think about groupies? MC: The whole groupie scene we pretty much steer clear of. HT: Have you ever been busted? MC: No. But on one of our first van tours, we got pulled over as soon as we crossed into Louisiana by these undercover DEA cowboy dudes. They searched the van, and our sound man had a smidgen of pot. They took all of our money, all the stuff they thought was evidence -- vitamins and stuff. They thought we were selling pot. So they left us pretty much high and dry for a gram of pot. That's been the only legal problem I've encountered. HT: Do you think pot should be legalized? MC: It seems like it pretty much IS legal in a certain way. You have places like Ann Arbor, Michigan where it's only a $25 fine for carrying pot. I think it should be legalized, but I also think there should be certain guidelines for it. I wouldn't want really young kids to start smoking pot. HT: What about legalizing harder drugs? MC: I'd be apprehensive to say I would be for legalizing heroin and cocaine. HT: Do you know about the whole hemp issue? MC: Yeah! There was a hemp concert in Seattle that I just kinda stumbled onto. I was just riding my bike one day and there was this guy in the park talking about hemp at the top of his lungs. HT: If High Times put on a benefit concert for legalization, would you wanna play? MC: I sure would. But if my bandmates don't, then I'll just go up there and do a drum solo! END OF INTERVIEW ------------------------------ From: ThNrthFace@aol.com Subject: Sticker I got my sticker/postcard announcing the release of DOTU today. Horaaaay. Aaron ------------------------------ Subject: thank you. From: seth more than 490 mailing list subscribers. more than 70,000 hits on the unofficial sg page. i thank you all for making both so successful; as i've said before, these projects are as much yours as they are mine. i promise you there will be some serious improvements and additions to the page this summer, and i want to hear any suggestions you might have. seth ------------------------------ From: vman@ctdnet.acns.nwu.edu (Vasant Ramamurthy) Subject: Rockline in Chicago What station is Rockline on in Chicago? I can't find it anywhere on the station list. The closest cities that have it are Rockford and Springfield. Can we pick up Rockford from here? Chicagoans, please help! Thanks, Vasant ****************************************************************************** The Refuge of the Damned http://ctdnet.acns.nwu.edu/~vman/me.html Lots of music, photos, links, and more! vman@ctdnet.acns.nwu.edu "I don't need your love to disconnect" - An Ode to No One -Smashing Pumpkins **************************************************************************** ------------------------------ From: oponfam@cnsnet.com Subject: SNL Oh man, it was great to see Soundgarden again, even if it had to be on SNL (I'm sorry, Jim Carrey turns my stomach). Kind of strange in that setting, though. Anyway, I don't know if Chris didn't warm up before Pretty Noose or what, but it sounded a bit strained at first. Burden in My Hand was terrific though. What is it about SG that makes us all feel so close to them? Maybe its because they seem like such regular guys (and from what Frank Kozik says they really are down to earth). Whatever it is, I actually feel nervouse for them when they perform, and proud of them afterwards. Is that weird, or do other people feel that way too? Its like I'm watching friends or family or something. I really loved Frank Kozik's comments. I hope we hear from him often. Kathie ------------------------------ Subject: Re: SNL From: tonerkin@usa.pipeline.com (Tonerkin) On May 19, 1996 00:13:13, 'oponfam@cnsnet.com' wrote: >Anyway, I don't know if Chris didn't warm up before >Pretty Noose or what, but it sounded a bit strained at first. Burden >in My Hand was terrific though. I thought the same thing. It must be hard to get up and sing without much warm up. The band sounded and looked great! BUT what is with the wolfman "do" Chris is sporting! A Soundgarden weekend-this is too good!!! On to 120 minutues!!! Toni ------------------------------ End of somms Digest [Volume 2 Issue 129] ****************************************