From: somms@mit.edu To: somms-digest@mit.edu Subject: Soundgarden Digest, Tuesday, 17 Sep 1996 Reply-To: somms@mit.edu Date: Tue, 17 Sep 1996 02:22:48 EDT Sender: saperl The Soundgarden Digest: Tuesday, 17 Sep 1996 listadmin: saperl@mit.edu list archive: http://www.sgi.net/soundgarden/archive/ TO UNSUBSCRIBE: email saperl@mit.edu Today's Topics: **WANTED** NYC Tickets sg tourmates... woohoo :> Soundgarden LIVE! SOMMS shirt Soundgarden is popping up all over!!! Re: before they were full-time music artists more ramblings on ben AAUUGGHHH!!! RE: Power in numbers Thanks for your help. Re: AAUUGGHHH!!! cigarettes & other naughtiness effects Re: before they were full-time music artists Making of Superunknown New Jersey.....the Soundgarden state! Brandies Show Best Album? Re: Best Album? Please shoot me?? re:from the likes of her... Toronto Ticket Information AUSTIn show electric factory SHOCKED!! Re: Best Album? SG on ATN; AIC Dream a little dream of Soundgarden yeah...finally Re: more ramblings on ben ------------------------------------------------------------ From: mudgroove@earthlink.net Subject: **WANTED** NYC Tickets Hello Everyone, If anyone has extra tickets for ANY of the NYC shows at Roseland, please let me know because I am very interested. Thank you. Josh. mudgroove@earthlink.net ------------------------------ From: jgrotelu@herbie.unl.edu (grote) Subject: sg tourmates... hey all... well, once again sg is coming nowhere near me on their upcoming u.s. tour. not a surprise...i don't blame them at all. i just wish they would break convention and come to omaha or something AT LEAST ONCE. oh well... anyway, i was really happy to hear the planned opening acts for their tour. my brother got me hooked on rftc about two years ago...their stuff is pretty cool, if i do say so myself. pretty simple and kinda noisy at times, but good overall. but it's the second opener--tenderloin--that really blew my mind. is anyone else on this list familiar with this group? they're a midwestern product (lawrence, ks, if i'm not mistaken) and they played the whole midwestern area like madmen a couple of years ago...then their lead singer went on a power trip and "fired" two of the band members, one of whom was an instrumental founding member. i hadn't heard anything from 'em since then, so i'm not sure what their lineup is now. at any rate...if they're anything like they were two years ago, their set will be a treat for those of you attending sg's shows this fall. a fine band. the singer is a fairly rotund, excitable sweaty dude and he just tears the place apart...that is, if he's still in the band. anyway, my $.02 once again... - -- ######################################################################## # GROTE!!!!! "I don't remember half the time # # If I'm hiding or I'm lost # # jgrotelu@herbie.unl.edu But I'm on my way....." -Chris Cornell # ######################################################################## ------------------------------ From: overfloater@thenexus.com Subject: woohoo :> Well, it looks like I got a ride to Boston, along with Mommy's credit card number so I can buy the tickets, but I just gotta wait for em to go on sale :> This probably isn't gonna be for a while cause I keep checking both the Brandeis and Ticketmaster websites and they don't say ANYTHING.. I also still gotta get parental permission, especially since we might be moving that week and it's on a school night and I have to drive kinda far to school in the morning, but I went to see Soundgarden in Rochester, got home at 6am and was on the bus at 7am :> I didn't even sleep that night.. sigh.. I hate parents. But "I think it's turning back around.." :> ------------------------------ From: Warren Dyson Subject: Soundgarden LIVE! Hallo crazy lunatic Soundgarden fans ! Just so that you'll all hate me, I thought I'd tell you that I'm off to Manchester tommorrow (Tuesday the 17th) with a front row seat for the second European gig.... Expect a FULL report :) TTFN, Warren. ------------------------------ From: alexander ebora Subject: SOMMS shirt who sells the official SOMMS shirt of the mailing list members...i think i read somewhere that someone took the shirt money and left so is this true and can i still buy the shirt?...i don't want to send money and then find out i paid for a nonexisting shirt so can anyone help me. ------------------------------ Subject: Soundgarden is popping up all over!!! From: tonerkin@usa.pipeline.com (Tonerkin) Greetings, I am back from Seattle. Had a great time! Thanks to Bonnie, Andrea and Vikki for sharing an Inflatable Soule show with us. I will get to my job of looking up a place for Sommsfest96 this week. Also hunting down a lead on some Saturday night tix. Ben, are you back?? e-mail me OK? Congrats to all of you that got tickets for the announced shows! And good vibes to all of you sommsters going to get to see them in the next few weeks!!! We expect reviews!!! toni ------------------------------ From: alexander ebora Subject: Re: before they were full-time music artists i have read that Chris used to be a cook and Ben used to work in construction before they made music their full-time occupation but i am not sure about Matt and Kim's jobs (although i have read that Kim was once a DJ, was this his day job?)...so what did Matt and Kim did before they devoted full-time on the band? just wondered while on the subway on my way to NP ------------------------------ From: infinite Subject: more ramblings on ben about an unkind, ben played guitar and bass, no one else played them on = the record.. i forgot where i heard this, probably from that guitar zine = w/ the kim thayil interview... kim said something about not being able = to pick that fast or soemthing.. geez i said somehting a lot didn't i??? i have to agree ben's riffs are pretty neat.. i really like head down, = and wish they had a version (maybe they do) w/ the guitars more up front = in the mix so it would be a little heavier ------------------------------ From: ShRooMGrLz@aol.com Subject: AAUUGGHHH!!! As many of you know, I'm SO behind in my e-mail it isn't even funny. I promise that I'll catch up tonight. I was out of town this weekend (except for the Course of Empire show on Friday night that was really amazing and all the Dallas Sommsters missed out on). =P Not that I'm griping at anyone, of course. You guys can make it up by coming to the Slow Roosevelt CD release party at Trees this Friday. Caulk and Bobgoblin will be opening. It's going to be GREAT!! It's about damn time that Slow Roosevelt put out a CD. Oh, and I, The Jury will be at Trees on Thursday night. There's so much excellent music here in Dallas, I can't believe you people are missing out on it. Y'know, someday a few of these bands are going to be huge, too... and you're going to say to yourselves "Now why in the hell didn't I see them when they were still playing in the small clubs with only 40 people in attendance?? Damn me!!" Heheheh... ok, enough on the Dallas music stuff... I'm so happy to hear about the TX tour dates, but like others... I'm puzzled by the fact that no Dallas date has been announced. Why would SG skip the ALMIGHTY Dallas?!? Maybe because they were here for Lolla? Well, it's a toss up between here and NOLA now, I guess. It doesn't REALLY matter, because I'll see the show no matter where it's at. I'm going to the November 24th, 26th, 27th, and 29th shows. I can't wait to see SG four times in a week! And Matt's gonna be in TX for his b-day. Heheheh... gee, let's see what kind of scheme Shroomy can come up with for this. I didn't really prepare for Lolla, but dammit... this time I'll figure something out. ;-) It's going to be impossible to sneak backstage this time, though. Ummm... I know! When D and I are in Seattle, and Matt shows up at the OK on the 28th... ummm... he'll be really cool, and comp me backstage for one of the TX shows. Yeah, that's it!! Heheheh... hey, a girl can dream, can't she?!?!? Ummm... yeah... =) Anyway... I promise I'll catch up on my delinquent e-mail ASAP. Love me, bye-bye... Shroom "Hey Shroomy, of course you can come backstage for the Austin show!! In fact, there's no need for you to stay at your friend's place... because you can crash in one of OUR hotel rooms! Now who would you rather sleep with? Me, Kim, Ben........ or CHRIS? Heheheh..." ~ Matt Cameron (Words not necessarily said in that order...) <~~~ my disclaimer "I want to eat you all!!" ~ Pinky (& the Brain) "God hates you. He told me." ~ Slow Roosevelt ------------------------------ From: Monica Lewis Subject: RE: Power in numbers Hi again! yea, it was me (Monnica). I did e-mail the fan club last week and told them a bunch of us were coming, I haven't heard back yet but I'll let you guys know when I do. But, I'm not giving up there. I work in advertising in Indy. I personally don't work w any Reps in Chicago but I believe some of the media buyers might, I'll ask around and see if may they can get something set up. Also, I would like to go to the Seattle shows too. Does anyone know when tix go on sale? I can't even get through to the "TicketBastards". More later. See ya. Monnica ---------- From: oponfam To: Soundgarden Mailing List Subject: Power in numbers Date: Friday, September 13, 1996 7:07PM A while back someone (sorry, don't remember who) said since so many of us are going to the Chicago shows we should try to find out if we could get some special treatment (or something like that). Has anyone checked into that? I remember on that radio interview they did there were a bunch of fan club members in the studio - I think we should rank right up there with them:) Does anyone have any ideas how we would go about getting some "group recognition"? Who would we contact? By the way, I've lost count of all of us who are going to the Chicago shows. We need to arrange a meeting place so we can all get together before the show, maybe have dinner or something. What do you all think? Kathie ------------------------------ From: Monica Lewis Subject: Thanks for your help. Sorry, I forgot in my last post, I wanted to thank everyone who e-mailed w directions and info for the Aragon. Believe it or not, I have an older relative who doesn't live too far from there so I may not even have to pay for lodging. (Well not pay MONEY anyway, my sanity is another question) Also, speaking of "things I've done for Soundgarden". Has anyone ever gotten locked in a building for them? I came to the office on Saturday afternoon to check my e-mail for word on the tour and when I went to leave the doors were locked and my elevator key wouldn't work in the back elevators. So I was stuck in this little lobby area with all these windows so I could see all the happy, free people walking by and I was trapped. (Now I know how fish feel.) I had to call the elevator service guy on the emergency phone and wait for a 1/2 hour for him to come and get me. And he LAUGHED AT ME. I'll probably end up having to pay for the service call too :( Anyway, I'm really not an airhead, just addicted to Soundgarden. See ya. Monnica ------------------------------ Subject: Re: AAUUGGHHH!!! From: tonerkin@usa.pipeline.com (Tonerkin) On Sep 16, 1996 12:12:33, 'ShRooMGrLz@aol.com' wrote: >I'm so happy to hear about the TX tour dates, but like others... I'm >puzzled by the fact that no Dallas date has been announced. Why would SG >skip the ALMIGHTY Dallas?!? Could it be for security reasons???? Their manager is very protective of them and keeping them as far away from Dallas seems like a good move. "hey Susan why can't we play Dallas?? "~ C.C. " In your dreams- Cornell you aren't coming within miles of that red-headed hootchie devil woman!! Quit whinin' and go walk the dogs."~S.S. (words not necessarlily said in that order but most likely said!) ------------------------------ From: Seth Ward Subject: cigarettes & other naughtiness Last week, somebody (I can't remember who) posted a concern about smoking being a detrement to CC's voice. I would just like to comment that Mark Lanegan from the Screaming Trees reportedly smokes 2 or 3 packs of Luckys a day, and in my opinion, he's still got the _2nd_ best voice to come out of Seattle. Hopefully, there's not too much to worry about. (Except maybe that nasty lung cancer...) Later, A different Seth BTW: Thanks for all the *support* and humorous stories relating to my "new Black Hole Sun band" problem. They've been fun to read. SW ------------------------------ From: BdMtrFngr Subject: effects Any guitar players on the list, please help me out here. What effects boxes do chris and kim use...and since they are probably multi-effects boxes which are too mcuh money, what boxes give you the distortion that is on like fourth of july. Just tell me what you guys use and how much it is. Thanks ------------------------------ From: Monica Lewis Subject: Re: before they were full-time music artists I read that Matt worked at Kinkos and Kim was a DJ and philosophy student. Monnica ---------- From: alexander ebora To: somms Subject: Re: before they were full-time music artists Date: Monday, September 16, 1996 11:51AM i have read that Chris used to be a cook and Ben used to work in construction before they made music their full-time occupation but i am not sure about Matt and Kim's jobs (although i have read that Kim was once a DJ, was this his day job?)...so what did Matt and Kim did before they devoted full-time on the band? just wondered while on the subway on my way to NP ------------------------------ From: Deborah Baker <106314.1470@compuserve.com> Subject: Making of Superunknown Chris Mckenzie was asking for info on Making of the Superunknown book. I saw it listed in an ad for Key Mail Order here in the UK. I have ordered a copy so when it arrives I'll tell you what it's like. If anyone wants to order one from Key Mail Order, they mail worldwide and accept credit cards so it should be easy enough. You can phone or fax them (no email address - this is merrie englande) - Tel 0181 770 0900 Fax 0181 770 0300 I am off to see Soundgarden on Thursday at Brixton Acadamy, so I'll check out Chris for all of you who thinks he's wasting away and give you a full medical report! Deborah Baker ------------------------------ From: Moonsta693@aol.com Subject: New Jersey.....the Soundgarden state! Any way, I just got some tix for the 16th, after the whole weekend of gathering ulcers, at such a young age. My mom had them the whole time, I could have killed her or kissed her. but not in the middle of the mall! So, what I want to know, how many of you are going to the 16th show in NYC? what's soo cool is that my friend Rachel(Chrissy's wife in the afterlife) is goin' to the show, and her birthday is on the same days as Ben's, so we're going to add an extra candle to the cake for him(like you care!) anyway, I must go kiss my tix again, and decide what to wear! Love, peace, and Rock-and-roll, The original preety noose ------------------------------ From: Michael Groark Subject: Brandies Show Has anyone recieved any info on the Brandies show? The people at TM and at Brandies don't have any info about the show and when tickets go on sale. If anyone knows anything please e-mail me at gerk99@bu.edu Thanks ------------------------------ From: ben.eardley@utoronto.ca (Ben Eardley) Subject: Best Album? Okay muchachos (need not spell it fon-ett-ik-all-eeee), here's da question. What is the best Soundgarden album created? My votes with Superunknown. Just send 'em in people. - -clockwork orange ------------------------------ From: Moonsta693@aol.com Subject: Re: Best Album? didn't we have a poll like this one time? Anyway, I think it's Badmotorfinger, but how can you possibly judge, anything by Soundgarden is the BEST! the original preety noose ------------------------------ From: ShRooMGrLz@aol.com Subject: Please shoot me?? Someone put me out of my misery. My parents have ONCE again driven me from their presence with insults to my favorite band. It was my mother, this time. I happened to walk in on a conversation between the two of them about famous people. I guess that my padre didn't know who Pamela Anderson was. He kept thinking that she was Loni Anderson, but that's not quite germane to my story. I was just listening in and silently laughing at my parents for even HAVING this conversation... until the topic switched to Tommy Lee, Motley Crue, and Soundgarden. My padre asked what Tommy Lee looked like, and my mother announced that he looked almost EXACTLY like Chris Cornell. I had to speak up (of course) about how my mother must be going blind AS WELL as deaf in her old age. Chris is so much better looking than Tommy Lee.... jeez, they're like on opposite ends of the spectrum. Chris is a God, and Tommy Lee can woof with the best of them. My mother listened to me rant and rave for about five minutes... then she turned to my padre an said "Tommy Lee could pass for Chris Cornell's twin. AND he's a better drummer than that blonde guy in Soundgarden." Tommy Lee... BETTER than MATT?!?!? Oh pleeeeeeze save me from this torture!! I AGAIN ranted and raved to the woman... for at least TEN minutes this time. I told her all the nifty information I'd picked up from y'all concerning Matt's drumming. I threw in all the technical terms I could remember. I did and said EVERYTHING to show the woman the error of her ways. She listened to me again, and then very calmly (and seriously!) said "Tommy Lee can play the drums while FLYING around the stage on his drum kit. I'll bet Matt Cameron can't do THAT." And that was the end of the story. My mother went outside to do the traditional Texas afternoon barbeque thingy that she's so fond of... and I was left standing there with my mouth open, unable to even SPEAK. My padre looked at me and said "Well, I guess she told YOU, huh??" AAAAUUUGGGHHHH!!!!! You can't argue with my mother!! The woman is IMPOSSIBLE!! I tried later to explain that Soundgarden doesn't NEED to do frivolous crap like that, because UNLIKE Motley Crue... SG's music is GOOD. Fans don't NEED to be amused by stupid fucking flying drummers... the MUSIC is enough for us. But would she listen to me??? Noooooooooooo!!!!! AAAAUUGGHHH!!!! Ok, I'm a little better for having shared this with y'all. Blah. Methinks that I need to find an apartment NOW. Damn... I'll sure miss the fridge always being full, and that barbeque stuff my mom makes, though. But you've gotta have SOME standards in you life, right?? Heheheh... >>I'm so happy to hear about the TX tour dates, but like others... I'm >>puzzled by the fact that no Dallas date has been announced. Why would SG >>skip the ALMIGHTY Dallas?!? > Could it be for security reasons???? Their manager is very protective >of them and keeping them as far away from Dallas seems like a good move. > "hey Susan why can't we play Dallas?? "~ C.C. > " In your dreams- Cornell you aren't coming within miles of that >red-headed hootchie devil woman!! Quit whinin' and go walk the >dogs."~S.S. > (words not necessarlily said in that order but most likely said!) AAUUGGHHH!!! So now it's MY fault that SG isn't coming to Dallas?!?!? Jeez Toni... why is it ALWAYS the HOOTCHIE'S fault?!!? Heheheh... "quit whinin' and go walk the dogs..." I love that!! I can definitely hear Susan telling him that. =) Heheheh... Shroomy "Kim, could I please borrow your hot pink sparkle spandex leggings? Mine are at the cleaners. Oh, and be a bud and hand me the mousse and hairspray. I need to look really good tonight, because I've found out that our flying drummer is getting more attention than ME, so I'm going to let our pyrotechnics men blow me up at the show tonight." ~ Chris Cornell (Words not necessarily said in that order...) <~~~ my disclaimer ------------------------------ From: spierce@mpls.k12.mn.us (Sandy Pierce) Subject: re:from the likes of her... yes, i heard that ben started bass when he joined the band, and that his influences were kim, matt and chris. he said that when soundgarden was on modern rock live (on the radio) a while ago because someone asked him how long he had played and who influences him in the way he plays. amanda ------------------------------ From: "Steven Russell Jr." Subject: Toronto Ticket Information Hey List! Tickets for the Toronto date go on sale this thursday at 10:00am at normal ticketmonster outlets. Price is $25 canadian + 7 million percent GST. Anyone who can actually show up at a Ticketmonster outlet at 10am instead of sweating inside a hot atticy lab station doing a Fluid Mechanics Lab until 11am, which said person has to be there for! Get a hold of me. I have a feeling due to the huge radio push and the relative small amount of people Varsity Arena can hold...the show will sell out before I can show up at a Ticketbastard outlet. Thanks, Steve - - busy calculating the flow vectors over Niagara Falls and wondering why UB's mail server is done yet again. - - Oh yeah...Go BILLS! :-) ------------------------------ From: Josh_Garza@teachnet.edb.utexas.edu (Josh Garza) Subject: AUSTIn show anyone going to the austin show.. nothing really set here yet, austin music hall people don't even know about it, and the STAR Tickets who will be selling the tickets don't know anything about it yet either.. well anyone going to that show write me anyway if u wish.. - -pencapchew - -- - -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- TeachNet, College of Education, University of Texas, Austin Texas - -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- ------------------------------ From: michele@waterw.com Subject: electric factory Hi somms list people, I also would like to attend the Philadelphia date. I am a digest person so I don't get all the email that was sent until the next day so if somebody could inform me as soon as tickets go on sale private email please I would be very thankful. Also to anybody else going I would like to meet you guys if possible. I believe I saw there is like what 5 people going to Philadelphia if we can all get tickets. after all the electric factory isn't as big as a stadium. Well I ahve been watching the web page like a hawk if I find anything I will let all of you know. Hi Foo! I am just a babbling fool really, Michele ------------------------------ From: Gemma Lewis Subject: SHOCKED!! A couple of weeks ago I entered a compitition in Kerrang to meet Soundgarden at the Brixton Academy..I WON..I ACTUALLY GET TO MEET THEM FOR ABOUT 5 MINUTES(wow)..IT'S THIS THURSDAY..I CAN'T BELIEVE IT..LIFE DOES NOT SUCK ANYMORE. All I can say is.. Aaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrggghh!!! X-CITED KITE xx ------------------------------ From: belrose@icom.ca Subject: Re: Best Album? badmotorfinger by far dave ------------------------------ From: vman@ctdnet.acns.nwu.edu (Vasant Ramamurthy) Subject: SG on ATN; AIC Guys, check out today's issue of Addicted to Noise (http://www.addict.com). It has a list of SG tour dates, plus news that somebody from Devo is directing the video for BUTOW. Also, could somebody who has all of Alice in Chains albums, please e-mail me? I have to ask some stuff. Thanks. Vasant ****************************************************************************** THE REFUGE OF THE DAMNED - Check out lots o' music stuff here!! http://ctdnet.acns.nwu.edu/~vman/me.html vman@ctdnet.acns.nwu.edu "When new damage comes, it's a new word for plague, a new world order, a new word for hate" - New Damage - Soundgarden ------------------------------ From: Cornell Subject: Dream a little dream of Soundgarden I don't mean to ramble and all, but it is SG related...kinda. Imagine if Kim or Matt or somebody got their mitts on my band's demo tape, and asked us to open up for some of their shows. Man. How cool would that be? Then I couldn't bitch about not having tix. Gregg ------------------------------ From: Eliza J Polly Subject: yeah...finally i finally got my Alive in the SU cd+ to work, completely!! i had lots of parts working till now, but never the whole thing... and i must say, it is awesome! especially the videos, the live FOBD is amazing and the My Wave is very cool....and especially for all you Chris lovers, having his full blown face singing on your 'puter is too cool! i have been sitting in the dark for an hour watching the videos and my friend that is here (not really a fan) thinks i am insane, so i had to tell someone that would care ;-) counting the days till chicago and d.c., eliza ------------------------------ From: The Guitarist-2001 Subject: Re: more ramblings on ben At 04:00 PM 9/16/96 +0000, Infinite wrote: > > > about an unkind, ben played guitar and bass, no one else >played them on the record.. i forgot where i heard this, probably from that >guitar zine w/ the kim thayil interview... Which one?! When DoTU came out, almost every guitar magazine had a Kim Thayil interview . . . > kim said something about not being able to pick that fast or soemthing.. >geez i said somehting a lot didn't i??? Are you sure about this? I could've sworn it talks about Kim playing guitar on that Pretty Noose single interview? Chris says he couldn't do the pinky thing, but I thought Kim still played? . . . and I don't think you said something that much . . . > > > i have to agree ben's riffs are pretty neat.. i really like head down, >and wish they had a version (maybe they do) w/ the guitars more up front >in the mix so it would be a little heavier I agree on the guitar thing, but I sure don't think it should be heavier . . . I really like the acoustic guitar best on that song . . . think it would be great unplugged . . . The Guitarist-2001 "The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist" - The Usual Suspects ------------------------------ End of somms Digest [Volume 2 Issue 246] ****************************************