From: somms@mit.edu To: somms-digest@mit.edu Subject: Soundgarden Digest, Thursday, 18 Jul 1996 Reply-To: somms@mit.edu Date: Thu, 18 Jul 1996 02:45:32 EDT Sender: saperl The Soundgarden Digest: Thursday, 18 Jul 1996 listadmin: saperl@mit.edu list archive: http://www.sgi.net/soundgarden/archive/ TO UNSUBSCRIBE: email saperl@mit.edu Today's Topics: Live at the Armory worth it? SG's World Takeover Re: DOTU boxed set Re: inflatable soule Any ideas for my birthday??? Charles Town Lolla SG TOOL tour Vid. Re: Any ideas for my birthday??? Re: Vid. Soundgarden in some different languages Lolla Report: Charlestown, West Virginia boot camp mumblings/australian releases/BiMH on Much SG & U2 Names, obsessions, etc. God Damn Bill Nye! fuck you all:charlestown lolla Re: boot camp mumblings/australian releases/BiMH on Much hey.. Entertainment Weekly/You know you're obsessed when.... Correction ------------------------------------------------------------ From: David_H._Steinhage@nrunner.mil.wi.us Subject: Live at the Armory worth it? I went to the local music shop today, and saw SG Live at the Armory for $50!....That is VERY high for me, but if it is really worth it I think I could cutback on my spending for a while to make up for it. But, IS it REALLY worth it? Did they put on a good show? I'm wondering just how good it is to warrant that kinda money, and I realize it is a 2 cd set... Sorry, I'm sure I'm not the first person to ask this question, but any advice is appreciated.... Dave ------------------------------ From: Candy Haun Subject: SG's World Takeover > ...with SG when you've been at work for over an hour and haven't > actually done anything work related. (I shouldn't admit to that one...) I'm not admitting to anything, of course, but this one really hit home. Soundgarden is having an adverse effect on the productivity of the American work force! I wonder, is this happening in other countries as well? Soon they will control the planet! Candy ------------------------------ From: Gonzo Subject: Re: DOTU boxed set That would be me.I mentioned that promo sheet.It was brought to my attention by my friend Gary,the record store manager.I looked at the sheet myself.Still no word on when it will be available.Must do some work now. Gonzo At 09:29 PM 7/16/96 -0400, you wrote: >Howdy- > >I asked a friend of mine who manages a record store if he knew anything about >the boxed set, and he said no. The A&M rep came in a few minutes later and so >I asked him, and he said that he hasn't heard of it either. So he looked in >his book, and there was nothing to be found. So, now I'm confused, because >someone mentioned a promo sheet for it. Hmmm. Well, I just thought I would >share with the group what I've found. > >Remember to boycott Molson, folks. >Aaron > > ------------------------------ From: ansel@morgan.com Subject: Re: inflatable soule They don't have a record contract. 'So Sad' & 'Golden Boy' were self-released. You can order CDs ($10 + postage) and other merchandise (caps, T-shirts) from the management co. Inflatable Soule c/o Silver Mgt. 207 1/2 1st Ave. S. #300 Seattle, WA 98104 (206) 623-9268 -Vikki :) ------------------------------ Subject: Any ideas for my birthday??? From: tonerkin@usa.pipeline.com (Tonerkin) Seth, you are Webmeister supremo!!!! Chris's B-day page is great!! Too die for images -four at a time (be still my beating heart!) The birthday card is a cool idea! I hope we all did you proud by doing good on our quizes!! Once again we should "bow down before you"!!! Chris should invite you to his birthday party!!! If he does, could you ask to bring along a few hundred *friends*???????? toni ------------------------------ From: Greg Bensimon Subject: Charles Town Lolla Sorry guys, this isn't a complete review. I've got a mind like a sieve, so this is just more impressions of the show... Screaming Trees rocked. I think everything they played was off Sweet Oblivion and Dust, but it was an excellent set. I had a friend with me who has heard some of their more "commercial" stuff (i.e. the songs that actually get airplay on large stations), and he was really impressed. Soundgarden was truly a religeous experience. God, what musicians. After having to suffer through an hour of the Wu Tang Clan, everone was ready to tear it up with SG, and they didn't disappoint. The set list was pretty similar to what others have already reported. They opened with Spoonman and closed with Jesus Christ Pose. In between, we heard Searching, Rusty Cage, Outshined, My Wave, FOBD (Chris only), Let Me Drown, Mailman, Pretty Noose, Ty Cobb, and Burden (not in this order. Hey, I already said I've got a mind like a sieve. It's all I can do to stare at the albums and say "Yeah, they played that.") Jamie, we did plenty of screaming, singing, and jamming on our air guitars. If not by the end of SG's set, then by the middle of the Metallica set, everyone around us probably thought we were stoned out of our minds... That leaves Metallica. Now I am not the world's biggest Metallica fan. And given the choice of listening to SG or Metallica, I will always pick SG, but Metallica absolutely blew the roof off the place. They play so hard and fast and intense, it's amazing. We got to yell "Die!" during Creeping Death, which was cool, but not as cool as at Woodstock when we got to yell "Die!" with 400,000 other people. The rest of the set was just more screaming and jammin on our air guitars while Metallica cranked out Four Horsemen, One, and Master of Puppets among others. (It's an SG list, I won't bore you with the details...) Finally, James Hetrick closed the show by saying, "We'll see you in the fall, indoors." So obviously they're gonna tour. But I also noticed an SG shirt that read "Soundgarden 96/97". Does this mean there's a tour in the works for SG as well? Let's hope. Greg ------------------------------ From: Mark Miller Subject: SG TOOL tour That would be an interesting combination. I was lucky enough to see tool with their new bassist and he sounded just like Paul.. I als osaw Paul's new band. Thay were very much into the experimental thing. You really need ear plugs for them. Soundgarden and tool, what a dream... Mark ------------------------------ From: Daniel Ladle Subject: Vid. Dear All, why, oh why, oh why, oh why etc haven't Soundgarden got a promo video out with like all their decent videos on it. It isn't as if they don't have enough decent vids what with stuff from their early days which a lot of fans (like myself) won't have seen, through the sandy, cagey Badmotorfinger stage up until the new stuff like PN and BiMH. Sure it isn't something that similar bands do, but what the hell, start a trend and get all the decent bands doing the same thing. Sorry for ranting Dan ------------------------------ Subject: Re: Any ideas for my birthday??? From: seth > Seth, you are Webmeister supremo!!!! Chris's B-day page is great!! Too > die for images -four at a time (be still my beating heart!) The birthday > card is a cool idea! I hope we all did you proud by doing good on our > quizes!! Once again we should "bow down before you"!!! Chris should > invite you to his birthday party!!! If he does, could you ask to bring > along a few hundred *friends*???????? toni An intimate party for Chris and 550 fanatics. He'll love it, I'm sure. :) seth ------------------------------ From: Lightning Boy Subject: Re: Vid. At 04:49 PM 7/17/96 +0000, you wrote: >Dear All, > why, oh why, oh why, oh why etc haven't Soundgarden got a >promo video out with like all their decent videos on it. It isn't as if they don't >have enough decent vids what with stuff from their early days which a lot >of fans (like myself) won't have seen, through the sandy, cagey >Badmotorfinger stage up until the new stuff like PN and BiMH. > Sure it isn't something that similar bands do, but what the hell, start a trend >and get all the decent bands doing the same thing. > > Sorry for ranting > > Dan That's a great idea, and I wish Alice In Chains would do one too... Has anyone ever seen Down In A Hole, Angry Chair, and/or What the Hell Have I?? Just wondering, sorry 'bout the Non-SG content. .__ .__ .__ __ .__ __________ | | |__| ____ | |___/ |_ ____ |__| ____ ____ \______ \ ____ ___.__. | | | |/ ___\| | \ __\/ \| |/ \ / ___\ | | _// _ < | | | |_| / /_/ > | \ | | | \ | | \/ /_/ > | | ( <_> )___ | |____/__\___ /|___| /__| |___| /__|___| /\___ / |______ /\____// ____| /_____/ \/ \/ \//_____/ \/ \/ aka Eric Bonus lightning@ag.net Keeper of the "Complete AIC Lyrics Songbook" (Now in version 3.5! (HTML!!)) http://www.ag.net/~lightning/aic/lyrics/ ------------------------------ From: GARIBAY V MARIANA L Subject: Soundgarden in some different languages Here it is my contribution: Literally soundgarden in spanish would be: Jardin sonido But it doesn't make sense, so it'd be better like this: Jardin del sonido Nos vemos Mariana Puedo delirar contemplandote, viendote brincar, solo predicar, que este planeta esta perdido y es mejor pasarsela dormido. Paco Huidobro. ------------------------------ Subject: Lolla Report: Charlestown, West Virginia From: mamasan@juno.com (Sunil Mohanty) It took me nearly four hours, but I managed to get down to Charlestown and see SG play an excellent set at Lollapalooza! I was stuck in Fairfax, VA all morning and nearly all afternoon doing some clerical business shit and sacrificed seeing the Ramones and Screaming Trees in the process until finally arriving at the festival around 6:15. Soundgarden's setlist was the exact same as the one from when they played the Syracuse lolla: spoonman, searching, drown, noose, burden, my wave, ty cobb, FOBD, rusty cage, black hole sun, outshined, mailman, jesus christ pose. A good overall performance, the only thing that ticked me off was the fact that all the people who came to see metallica were just standing there like motionless dolls. They didn't even get into black hole sun! The extended ending in Rusty Cage where Chris holds the last note of the song and improv's some lyrics was cool. Spoonman was heavier than the album version, Outshined was very upbeat and the only time in which Kim really interacted with the crowd, and Jesus Christ Pose was pure heaven. But highlight of the set had to be Ty Cobb. The song was sort of indirectly dedicated to all the inactive metallica fags in the crowd. Ben was EXTREMELY pissed off he stepped up to the mic and yelled out : "...White trash motherfuckers!! Fuckin' buttcheek motherfuckers!!" At the end of the song, Ben once again let his discontent be known to the metallica crowd: "You've come to see metallica, don't ya white fuck!!!" Aside from Ben's taunting to the crowd, the band really didn't move around on stage. Kim stood his ground and other than the occasional nod he drifted off into space. I couldn't see Matt's face because the crash cymbal blocked my view from the right side of the stage. Ben, who usually lurches all over the stage with his bass dragging down to his knees, but even he was pretty quiet in terms of motion. Another metallifuck moment was when Chris introduced Mailman: "This song is about sleepy society fuckin' with the wrong guy.." (Some metallica dick yelled "Fuck you" at Chris) I can't wait for SG to finally do a headlining tour in the fall/winter. The vibe at the lolla gig was cool, but you could tell SG is definitely fed up to being touted as "the opening act for Metallica". Later, Fresh Tendrils ------------------------------ From: erin@planet.eon.net Subject: boot camp mumblings/australian releases/BiMH on Much Okay.. This is what I got out of the mumblings at the beginning of Boot Camp. I think it's either a speech from a senator (or some other American-type politician or an analyst): "We're gonna increase taxes, increase taxes for the increased people coming into retirement. That will give us a centrepiece for income tax index [somethings I didn't get] which means that when people come back next year there'll be even less and even less the year after that and if inflation keep sgoing up that tax will be in such good meaning we can't think of losing it. [music] I'll tell you this, inflation is a grave digger. It causes this which leads to that which can stop giving meaning to this which will lead to extinction." That's what I got by turning off the left speaker and only listening to the right (I figured that most of the music was coming out of the left speaker). It doesn't make sense to me in some places, so I assume some of the things are wrong, but that's what I heard. Can anyone tell me if Ty Cobb has been released in Australia because this guy I know there said he thinks he's heard it (I told him the lyrics) but he's not a big SG fan so he isn't sure. Has anyone seen BiMH on Much yet? I saw Pretty Noose a total of 2 times on it.. They're so wrapped up in playing Alanis Morrisette and R&B crap that they play a good video about once a day.. That's all for now... Erin. ------------------------------ From: apinto@mv.us.adobe.com (Andrea Pinto) Subject: SG & U2 I just heard a good SG anecdote: I live & work in seattle. Someone in my company knows I like SG, and told me that back in the late 80's, he played in a band that opened up for SG at a local club called the offramp. This was the same time that U2 released "Rattle & Hum". So, in a mocking gesture, SG made pamphlets printed out for this show saying: "Soundgarden: Paddle my Bum". Then chris cornell threw them out to the audience. That would be a nice trinket to have. ------------------------------ From: Washagizig@aol.com Subject: Names, obsessions, etc. Activating For Dave Soundgarden in Ojibwe - mdweshing gtigaan (m-dwe-shing-g-ti-gaan) double vowel a makes the ah sound (language of Ottawa, Chippewa & Potawatomi of Great Lakes) As far as BIMH I was rather dissapointed with the Video, I expected something a little more abstract. Also being a transplant to Las Vegas, my first reaction was: WHAT IN THE HELL ARE YOU DIONG DRESSED THAT WAY IN THE DESERT????; this faded into contemplating the logistics of hauling enough water out into the desert to keep the whole crew hydrated during what appears to be an extended shoot. Much preferred the batch of Videos off Superunknown. ------------------------------ From: Chris Farley Subject: God Damn Bill Nye! Ever since I saw on the page that Soundgarden appeared on 'Bill Nye the = Science Guy', I've been looking for them to show it again. I remembered = someone saying that the show was about sound and waves. I turned it on = about 5 minutes late and there it was, all talking about sound and waves = and shit. So I watched and watched and watched, No Soundgarden. All I = got to see were some outakes at the end of the show. They started = playing my KICKSTAND and it faded out. Damn! Damn, Damn, Damn!!! Chris ------------------------------ From: HQXH39C@prodigy.com (MR SEAN M MCELENY) Subject: fuck you all:charlestown lolla that how i felt and thats what Ben was screaming in to the mic. 2 hr drive, Ramones were good , not as good as in Ohio, Cj ( bass) was pissed, called the crowd white trash pot smoking peices of shit and then left. Wu tang was 10 guys on stage saying fuck every 10 seconds and playing off the applause from the song about rolling joints and sex. screaming trees rocked, like in Ohio thyre set got better as it went on. I was really in their set when someone came up from behind me crowd surfing and hit me in the back of the head . i lOVE crowd surfing but now its a bunch of guys keeping the girls up to molesty them or going up themselves to show off( yeah! im the shit! yeah look at ME!) so i didnt crowd surf even though i was dying to during Sg's set. SG CONTENTD Subject: Re: boot camp mumblings/australian releases/BiMH on Much Hey ya, On Wed, 17 Jul 1996 erin@planet.eon.net wrote: > > Can anyone tell me if Ty Cobb has been released in Australia because this > guy I know there said he thinks he's heard it (I told him the lyrics) but > he's not a big SG fan so he isn't sure. > NOt as a single it hasn't. BUT JJJ national radio station down here as played it quite a few times, so your friend has probably heard it on that. Goes off when you are driving around and JJJ play it :) Turn it right up and go off :) > Has anyone seen BiMH on Much yet? I saw Pretty Noose a total of 2 times on > it.. They're so wrapped up in playing Alanis Morrisette and R&B crap that > they play a good video about once a day.. > At least you have something on all the time. Have to wait till friday and saturday nights here for RAGE. I think BIMH should be on this weekened down here :) > > _/_/_/ _/_/_/_/_/ _/_/_/_/_/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/_/_/_/ _/_/_/_/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/_/_/ _/_/_/_/_/ _/ Sonic Turn IT up and PLAY it LOUD, let the blood rush to your head. Sonic mail: ar303921@student.uq.edu.au ------------------------------ From: overfloater@thenexus.com Subject: hey.. i was just looking at my bmf cd and noticed this.. does anyone notice in the picture from the bmf cd (the one that didn't come with somms.. or the picture from the tape if you have it) that chris is wearing a leather soundgarden jacket? or am i insane? :) ...overfloater ------------------------------ From: ASDrum@aol.com Subject: Entertainment Weekly/You know you're obsessed when.... Got my latest issue of Entertainment Weekly Saturday - Denzel Washington on the cover. Interesting Lolla/HORDE article - I'll just give you the Soundgarden stuff. The article STARTS OUT 'Soundgarden's Kim Thayil is comparing notes on Kansas City's finer hotels with a fellow traveler. "Apparently we have some Christian convention at ours" says the long-tressed guitarist, seeming to resign himself to a quiet night of room service on the eve of their tour kickoff.' Then further down the article: 'Hitting the stage an hour before dusk with an ironic "Waiting for the Sun", Soundgarden don't dance around the pre-tour hype. "Welcome to Lollapalooza with a big cock on it! M-m-m-manly," Chris Cornell teases the throng. The Seattle quartet then goes on to belie that jokiness with a fine-tuned, alternately soaring and grinding set that proves heaviness and elegance need not be mutually exclusive. Back in the band's trailer, the singer is still waxing impish. Asked if the camaderie of these bands might preclude the sort of backstage intrigue that went on between Hole and Sonic Youth, Cornell begs to differ. "No, it's gonna be a huge soap opera. (***SHROOM - PAY ATTENTION***) I think there's gonna be a lot of actual gay sex" he confides, knocking his cigarette ashes onto a glass table, sipping on spring water. "Just to do it, just to prove everybody wrong. And we're gonna do a lot of Ecstasy." It continues: 'But seriously, folks.... "We don't have these superfucking huge egos where we're gonna be worried what [Smashing Pumpkins'] Billy Corgan thinks, or if he played a little too long before we went on," Cornell says. "Who cares?" "The fun thing about this set," says Thayil, "is that if we go over 10 or 15 minutes..." "...then they have to play shorter," concludes Cornell, nodding toward Hetfield, who has just stepped into the trailer. "We ain't gonna," the Metallica frontman warns. "We can't play short - it's impossible! Our intro tape's 90 minutes long." Former Lollapalooza co-organizer Perry Farrell, who has made no secret of his dissatisfaction with the tour's current direction, comes in for some ribbing from this crew. As far as Cornell is concerned, things were just as heavy the last time his band did Lollapalooza, back in '92 when the fest was in its second year. "I think maybe Perry Farrell wants to promote his other tour, whatever that is - that space-tour thing" Cornell says, dismissing Farrell's new and improved concept, the ENIT Festival, bringing music and cosmic consciousness to a field near you later this summer. "So he decides to slam his old project...and eventually he did start getting tired of it. But the guy was negotiating for a percentage of parking; it's not like he's some sort of New Age guru." Adds Thayil: "I figure testosterone's a good alternative to pseudoscience and bad religion."' Ever the comedians. Good article, no pictures of Soundgarden though. Sorry, but I can't resist: YOU KNOW YOU'RE OBSESSED WITH SOUNDGARDEN WHEN: - - - You go out and buy a computer so you can play with the new Alive in the Superunknown CD-ROM you bought. - - - You have Soundgarden posters in every room of your house, including over the washer/dryer and in the garage.....but your husband makes you take the one in the bathroon down because he doesn't like the band looking at him when he goes to the bathroom. - - - You're going to Lolla (tomorrow!!!!) even though you've been dying with this flu thing for three and a half weeks, hacking away, you're on all kinds of antibiotics that are making you sick, and you need an inhaler just to breathe. - - - You buy several copies of DOTU when it first comes out - one for the car, one for the house, one for the husband, one for the brother......and you explain to your husband who's yelling at you for spending all this money that you're doing your part to make sure this album does well on the charts. - - - Your boss comes into your cube to have a serious discussion about a potential $3,000,000 loan to a new client, and you tell him to wait a minute while you start dialing the radio station cuz they're playing Pretty Noose and you have to be caller number 10 to win a chance to fly to Seattle and meet Soundgarden as a guest of Rockline. - - - One of your fellow bank employees who doesn't have a clue about music calls you on the phone at 9:00pm to tell you that she's watching a figure skating competition, and one of the guys is skating to Black Hole Sun. - - - Every time you go to a record collectors show, one of the vendors eagerly awaits you to proudly show you all the Soundgarden stuff he's dug up for you (even though I already have everything he manages to find). - - - The manager of a local record store calls you every time they get a new Soundgarden t-shirt, cd single, poster, etc. in and then holds it for you. - - - You spend $18 for a Soundgarden t-shirt that'll fit your 5 year old nephew (he loves SG btw) when you know he'll probably outgrow it in a year. - - - You write to the Seattle Chamber of Commerce and order up their video newcomer package, at the low low price of $30, because you are absolutely fascinated with this city. (It's cool because to this day I STILL keep getting all kinds of stuff from Seattle realtors, banks, movers, etc.) - - - The decor of your cube at work includes several SG stickers, the Flower postcard, and a picture of Chris & Kim accepting their 1994 MTV best heavy metal video award. The car has two SG pics on the dash, and the husband's truck has a SG air freshener. There. Do you see? I am SICK SICK SICK. But that's ok, because ever since I found this list last Christmas, I've seen that there are LOTS of us sick puppies out there. I have to end with this line, because something about it (even though we're not sure on the end?!) is just so beautiful....if I could paint I'd draw it: "the moon is glued to a picture of heaven and all the pigs have God" C. Cornell OH MY GOD - BIMH just came on MTV - is this fucking freaky or what?!!! Ciao babies........ Ang ------------------------------ From: ASDrum@aol.com Subject: Correction Yes, yes, I know.... The line is: "the moon is glued to a picture of heaven, and all the LITTLE pigs have God" C.Cornell Forgive me..it's 2:00AM and I'm on medication. Ciao babies.... Ang ------------------------------ End of somms Digest [Volume 2 Issue 187] ****************************************