From: somms@mit.edu To: somms-digest@mit.edu Subject: Soundgarden Digest, Friday, 18 Apr 1997 Reply-To: somms@mit.edu Date: Fri, 18 Apr 1997 02:26:02 EDT Sender: saperl The Soundgarden Digest: Friday, 18 Apr 1997 listadmin: saperl@mit.edu list archive: http://www.sgi.net/soundgarden/archive/ TO UNSUBSCRIBE: email saperl@mit.edu Today's Topics: Graceful Goodbye soundgarden trivia Take a sad song and make it better Re: Somewhere in my dreams Sg acronyms Full On Kevin's Mom... Live... #SOMMS and ...UNIX??? Re: #SOMMS and ...UNIX??? Spreading the Music #SOMMS!!!!! re: Soundgarden Gifts Re: Soundgarden Gifts can'T WAIT for them cds..... song of the day Re: The Dis-Banded BAND SG Gifts to anyone that can help me 1993 Guitar World article... Re: spread the music Jesus Christ Pose RE: Soundgarden Gifts Re: spread the music Re: Somewhere in my dreams Re: spread the music and the pests! ------------------------------------------------------------ From: Cathy Hoyle Subject: Graceful Goodbye So I guess I was one of the lucky ones....I saw the bands many times (5 times on the last tour) including hanging out with them at two of the shows in Phoenix and Los Angeles; And I worked with them professionally. They are great guys and I can't really understand the reason to be sad to the point of (to quote another) 'throwing up'. You know they will all do solo stuff. What is the alternative? them turning into The Eagles and giving knowing when to retire - I say props to them for knowing when to say goodbye...gracefully... ------------------------------ From: "GOOD PAUL" Subject: soundgarden trivia Could anyone send me some unusual facts about Soundgarden. I need some more for my home page. Send any info that you might have at Goodp@hotmail.com Thanks Paul ------------------------------ From: Moon Druid Subject: Take a sad song and make it better > From: Seth > Subject: My Mom made me a cake on April 9 > > SG albums at once this weekend, and I mean really listened...like > the second > time you ever hear an album (yes, second. Think about it) and there > were > several songs that I had always thought were alright/good, but this > time it Second's always the winner for me. The first time I hear it, I either hate it or am able to find all the flaws that I can. The second time, I start to love it. > was like WOW, what a great song! Among the newly awakened tunes > were Limo > Wreck, Tighter and Tighter, Switch Opens, and Smokestack Lightning. > It Wierd... those have always been favorites of mine (save Switch Opens). I heard those right away. But personally, I like music that's really layered. The majority of those songs are layerd. Moon Druid - ------------------------------ > From: clindz@wavenet.com (chris) > Subject: the future... > > The Cornell / Cantrell Experience > ... and I hear the bass player and drummer of Mad Season aren't > doing much > lately... I really don't think so. Besides... they've got pretty conflicting music styles. Cantrell still has a lot of Diamond Lie in him, and that's something that Cornell has always been against. FYI - Diamond Lie is the original AIC... DL was a glam metal band. If you have sap, the pictures that the guys are pissing on are their pictures from Diamond Lie. Moon Druid - ------------------------------ > From: Dave > Subject: B-sides and cover's > > Well i guess now we wont get to hear Helter Skelter and Waiting for > the > Sun as possible b-sides. Also now that Rhinosaur was released in > Australia or somewhere does anyone know what the b-side was??? Who did Waiting For the Sun originally? And BTW - it's on Waiting on the Upside... by Snow Recordings. WOTU is a bootleg from the last Lolla concert. I know that I've said a lot about it, so here's all the info about Waiting On the Upside... Tracks: 1. Spoonman 2. Searching With My Good Eye Closed (listed as Searching With My Eye Closed) 3. Let Me Drown (listed as Drown) 4. Waiting For the Sun 5. Pretty Noose 6. My Wave 7. Ty Cobb 8. Fell On Black Days 9. Rusty Cage 10. Black Hole Sun [solo version] (listed as Black Hole Sun [slow version]) 11. Outshined 12. Mailman 13. Jesus Christ Pose (Recorded at Irvine Meadows Amphitheater, Irvine, CA, 8/3/96) 14. Interview/Down On the Upside (Recorded in Seattle, Wa before the release of their new album in 96) Recording Quality: A (an actual A, this was done well) Does anybody know if, on the Interview with Mr. Bunchy Pants, there was a person with a slightly Balkan or Swede accent? That's the accent on this interview, and I'm trying to figure if Snow Recording spliced it in. Moon Druid ------------------------------ From: tonerkin Subject: Re: Somewhere in my dreams At 09:44 PM 4/15/97 -0500, Moon Druid wrote: > Has anybody ever heard Full On Kevin's Mom done live? I've >not. I'd assume that everything on Screaming Life and Fopp have been >done at shows because that was their starting material and you pretty >much play all of that at a show when you start. THEN you record it I have Full on Kevin's Mom live. The recording was done in Providence RI October 24, 1989. It's actually a pretty good live tape. It also has Chris singing American Woman(the old Guess Who ? song) >> One more thing. In the local Chicago paper (Sun Times) on last >> Thursday there on the top of the front page was a picture of CC with >> the > >Damn... I didn't see the Sun Times. Did you see any coverage in the >Trib, though? I checked it each day, and I also looked in A&E on Sunday. No, MoonDruid I did not see it in the Trib either. But I guy I work with brought me a copy of the Sun-Times. >And also, this is really to Anna and all of us Chicagoans, but what do >we think of a SOMMSfest '97? Sounds like a weiner to me!!! Any out of town guests invited? Anybody want to make a pilgrimage to the Aragon and Moody's?? toni One side note, don't read this unless you are Valerio....what the hell is going on with the mail?????? t ------------------------------ From: tendrils Subject: Sg acronyms just a short one, me and another obsessed Sg fan came up with this acronym, it may just cheer some of you up... :) Sg r u dead? non. non, being french for no (i hope) (OK, so we had to bring in the punctuation from another band's name, but the letter are SOUNDGARDEN all the way) tendrils ------------------------------ Subject: Full On Kevin's Mom... Live... From: Brydon Cheyney CS95 >That's cool. Has anybody ever heard Full On Kevin's Mom done live? I've >not. I'd assume that everything on Screaming Life and Fopp have been >done at shows because that was their starting material and you pretty >much play all of that at a show when you start. THEN you record it. Glasgow Barrowlands, last year... Fucking amazing! It was the only pre-BMF track they aired that night, and it was the closing song... Alas, no Jesus Christ Pose, but Full On Kevin's Mom made up for it... I couldn't believe they played it - It's the one thing I remember clearly in the concert, no blurs, no memory lapses, just SG breaking into Full On Kevin's Mom, a confused look on the majority of faces around me, and a sixty mile smile planted on mine... Fuck yeah... Brydon ------------------------------ Subject: #SOMMS and ...UNIX??? From: Brydon Cheyney CS95 Help!!!! I need to gain access to #SOMMS, but as I'm on a UNIX system I haven't a clue how... Actually I don't have much of an idea if I was on a PC either, it's just that most people have a PC at home while here at University your account is held on Sun or Sparc workstations with a UNIX O/S... Is there anyone out there who used #SOMMS on a UNIX operating system??? If so, could they drop me a line about how they go about it??? Cheers... This is really starting to piss me off, as I heard they had a most interesting discussion on underwired bras and tampax a few days back... The topics I miss!! ;) Ho hum... Brydon ------------------------------ From: eliza Subject: Re: #SOMMS and ...UNIX??? >This is really starting to piss me off, as I heard they had a most interesting discussion on underwired bras and tampax a few days back... oh my oh my...who told on us?? (/me looks toward california ;-)...oh shit, i guess i just admitted i was there - we are adults, really we are ;-) actually brydon, it all started with boxers, but hey, we are infamous for the wildest tangents ... knowing all that, you sure you want to join in? heheh...beware :) brydon, go here : http://www.irchelp.org/index.html that is the irc help homepage...there is a link there (i think) for how to IRC with UNIX, i think you need ircII, not mIRC) hope that helps, and hope to see ya in the looney bin ;-) eliza ------------------------------ From: MEXUM@email.usps.gov Subject: Spreading the Music I am a wounded soul since the breakup of Soundgarden, but I've been "in the business" at various levels long enough to understand how most groups just can't stay together. The ones who do end up doing the same old crap over and over (like Aerosmith, Rush, The Stones, etc.), so it's usually for the best musically speaking when the members of good groups go out and mingle with other good musicians-- keeps the juices flowing. I'd expect the SG guys to wind up in other great bands fairly soon. Trade Live/Rare/Imports? Here is my list page: http://studentweb.tulane.edu/~cschmid/ExumGarden.html L8r, Eride ------------------------------ Subject: #SOMMS!!!!! From: Brydon Cheyney CS95 Fuck yeah!! *FINALLY* I learn how to master the beast... Or at least download mIRC and get the fucker to work... So c'mon America - wake the fuck up!!! Eh, excuse the profanities... I'm just happy is all... Millions upon millions of thanks are heaped on UKDeb and eliza... That you so much - you are indeed beautiful people!!! Dena - where are you?!?!?!?!? Brydon =) ------------------------------ From: Slave4cc@aol.com Subject: re: Soundgarden Gifts Subj: Re: Soundgarden Gifts Date: 04/17/97 To: oponfam@cnsnet.com Yea, cool. I will respond to this..... Soundgarden gave me the desire to play hard rock guitar, which I love. Soundgarden gave me the best fucking music I ever heard. Soundgarden gave me an empowerment, a spiritual healing, something like that. Its hard to describe. Chris I think would love to be alone after being hounded by media and fans all the time...a chance to be alone is probably heaven for him. No, my dear Kathie, (who btw, is a big sweetie and *very* devoted SG fan ;), you dont have to feel guilty of not wanting to hang with those people you cant relate to, People who could never understand SG or want to, or care. Other people are ok and a part of life ya know, but wouldnt it be great if they felt like you did? Thats why I try to convert people to SG hee hee...so we can relate better, so they can experience them...some theres hope for, some never. so far, Im working on 3. As for me Kathie, Im sick of being alone, of being opressed by my jealous, controlling man, Its time to ROCK! ;) Carol (stupid aol doesnt put the">>" in and I dont have time to type them all, sorry) >>Subj: Soundgarden Gifts Date: 97-04-17 02:47:58 EDT From: oponfam@cnsnet.com (Kathie and David) Reply-to: oponfam@cnsnet.com To: somms@MIT.EDU (Soundgarden Mailing List) I have an idea for a thread. What *specific* gift has Soundgarden or one or more of its members given you. I don't mean the gift of wonderful music, I mean something specific. For me the gift came from Chris. I have a personality very much like his and I've always felt guilty about my reluctance to be a "social butterfly". My mother criticized me for wanting to spend time alone in my room reading and my husband has accused me in the past of being antisocial when I didn't want to go to parties or something with a bunch of people I didn't know (his friends or work buddies). I used to think there must be something wrong with me because I really have no desire to be buddy-buddy with all my neighbors. Then I got into Soundgarden and started learning about Chris and his acceptance of his reclusiveness. And the more I learned about him, the more I came to accept my own introverted personality. I realized that I'm not anti-social, but have a need for space and solitude. Now when I feel pressured to do something that just doesn't feel right I remind myself of Chris and it helps me feel OK about being the way I am. So in many ways Soundgarden has really helped me like myself better. Anybody else want to share a Soundgarden *gift*? Kathie<< ------------------------------ From: RiTa Subject: Re: Soundgarden Gifts > > For me the gift came from Chris. I have a personality very much like his > and I've always felt guilty about my reluctance to be a "social > butterfly". My mother criticized me for wanting to spend time alone in > my room reading and my husband has accused me in the past of being > antisocial when I didn't want to go to parties or something with a bunch um...same here ;) really, kathie just took the words out of my mouth. although i never actually felt guilty because of my lack of human interaction...i enjoy it far too much. in those times of seclusion, when there's just me and a stereo i am more grateful than ever to have that incredible music to fill my time. and then there are chris' lyrics, a guy who just GETS IT when no one else quite does. ________ RiTa ------------------------------ From: "McMahon Potvin" Subject: can'T WAIT for them cds..... hey ya'll..... i just ordered a copy of BADMOTORFINGER/SOMMS from a used cd store.......it's used, and it's costin' me 60$......... am i gettin' screwed here? i know it's worth it.... Anyone know anything about a Rhinosaur single? Thanx..... Marc ------------------------------ From: "McMahon Potvin" Subject: song of the day song of the day: ROOM A THOUSAND YEARS WIDE go on, indulge yourself......pop the song in........ Marc ------------------------------ From: "Phelan, Kate" Subject: Re: The Dis-Banded BAND AntiDog, I couldn't agree with you more. Alas, my first SG concerts were to be my last, but I am SO GRATEFUL that I was among the privileged few who got to meet the band in Chicago. I think about the experience now, and I can't help but wonder what was really going on in the boys' heads at the time. Kim had his family backstage with him; he introduced his dad to the raving crowd. They all seemed quite happy. Perhaps one of the reasons we were so blessed to have had this opportunity was because they knew it was the last tour? Maybe not "knew", but "felt"... I agree that they owe nothing to their fans as far as an explanation, but it seems that for those of us who saw them this last tour (and everyone else for that matter), it feels like a premature death, one that leaves us shaking our heads, asking "Why?" Looking forward to the future, I wanna be ... Kate ------------------------------- From: AntiDog@aol.com Subject: The Dis-Banded BAND Here's what I wish - that I'd seen SG perform MORE, and that I'd known the last time would in fact be the last time. I'm sure I'm not the only one who would have flown to Chicago if I'd known it was the last gasp - I mean, exhaltation! ------------------------------ From: Ali@Worldnet.att.net Subject: SG Gifts Just being alive is gift enough for me. These guys are so incredibly gifted and I just cant think of anything else to say except, THANKS FOR EVERYTHING. Its really kind of sad when you get hounded for being yourself. Maybe if more people would listen to their own hearts and follow their own dreams they would a much happier person and not down on someone for being able to be who they want to be and not who someone else thinks they should be. As I've said before, knowing that Chris seems to like being alone, I've often wondered how long he would want to be in the kind of spotlight that being in Soundgarden put him in. Not everyone has to be around people all the time. And if you feel that Soundgarden has done more for you than some people you know will ever do, then thats how you feel and you damn sure dont have to explain that to anyone and I do mean ANYONE. Maybe I'm wrong maybe I'm not, who knows. Its an individual decision. What works for some does not work for others. Maybe I love to much?????? later, ali............ ------------------------------ From: Moonsta693@aol.com Subject: to anyone that can help me I'm really trying to access #somms, but nothing seems to work. Can anyone tell me how to get into #somms? The original pretty noose ------------------------------ From: Skyegarden@aol.com Subject: 1993 Guitar World article... I was just checking the list of articles on the page today, and I saw this one wasn't there... and Lisa, you can possible use it for your report... I'm afraid the cover fell off of the magazine so I am not sure what the date on it was, but that it's 1993 I'm pretty sure of--if this helps at all Nirvana was on the cover. And if you do have it already.... well.... then I'm dumb. Singers Guitar World: You've been on the road with Guns N' Roses, off and on, for some time now. Is touring with them as chaotic as it looks? Chris Cornell: Not really--on an average we play two shows a week with Guns N' Roses. They don't like to play that much and they lose a lot of money. We could go do out own shows I suppose, but I don't really want to. [laughs] I'd rather do some writing. It's kind of like a vacation, just stating in my room, writing some songs. I haven't really done anything else the whole time we've been touring. I don't really like touring around Europe; it's kind of boring. You can drink and then go look at something. [laughs] If I stay in my room and write songs, it's like I'm at home. The only way I can tell that I'm not home is if I look out the window. GW: Has touring quit being fun for you yet? CC: You mean, "Has it started being fun?" It hasn't been that hard this time out. It hasn't been as hard as the Louder Than Love tour. I think you get used to it. We used to do 17 shows in a row; you can't really do that anymore when you're headlining. As it's ended up, we get a week off at home every six or seven weeks, which is really cool. That's the thing that keeps it from being a complete drag. But you can't get into being at home because you don't remember what to do when you're there. I usually drink a lot when I'm home every day, because I don't drink when I'm on tour. As long as I don't drive, it's not too stupid. I don't try to solve the world's problems when I'm drunk, either. Driving and solving the world's problems when you're drunk--those things don't work. It's like you're waking up at four in the morning, vomitimg, trying to remember how it was you discovered the cure for AIDS... "What was that I said...bleeaagghh!!" [laughs] GW: In the issue of RIP magazine that had you on the cover, editor Lonn Friend made a statement that Seattle has more herion users per capita than any other city in the United States. Where did he come up with that? CC: Part of it might be because Andy Wood died from a drug overdose, and Lonn was a really big Mother Love Bone fan; that really bummed him out, big time. Then there's all the rumors about the guys in Mudhoney and Nirvana and all that shit. In that interview I was basically saying I don't do drugs, but that doesn't mean I'm this together, well-adjusted rock star guy, because that's not true; I'm as fucked up as anybody. I don't do drugs, it's as simple as that. Maybe Lonn was trying to understand why other people did it. To me, it's a relatively clean scene compared to some. I think the other point to be made is that I don't believe musicians and rock stars have any kind of responsibility to be role models for anybody. The only responsibility they have it to be true to what they're doing artistically and not use any kind of production or packaging techniques to fool people into buying records, like Milli Vanilli. To me, those guys are way worse than somebody whose idol is on drugs. I don't think any celebrity is responsible for setting an example to young people. If you're looking for role models, maybe you should be into Michael Jordan because he seems to be into being one. GW: Let's talk about the worldwide pay-per-view cable broadcast Soundgarden performed with Guns N' Roses in Paris. That was some serious exposure. CC: No shit! But those people aren't running out to buy our records, though. If they were, we'd be selling millions of records, and it's obvious we're not. It's just another inch inside the door. I think that's how bands with longevity end up doing it. It's kind of like what the Cure did in the U.S.; U2 did the same thing. For Soundgarden, that's all it is, those kind of tours and playing in front of an audience that isn't ours. GW: A&M is planning to re-release Temple Of The Dog and treat it as a brand-new album. CC: Everyone was paranoid when we first released Temple. It was more of a commercial record than Soundgarden's next record was going to be, and we didn't want to cheapen it by releasing it as members of this band and that band. It was before Pearl Jam had anything out, and no one really knew who they were. No one really wanted to stick their necks out and push Temple. It was more "Let's throw it out there." GW: It doesn't hurt that both Soundgarden and Pearl Jam are selling and doing so well. CC: Yeah, now it's not as much of a risk. Both bands have gotten all this exposure, so no one's gonna mistake it for something other than what it is. No one's going to say, "That's Chris Cornell's new band." Temple is a thing we did together, it should be cool. GW: Another record coming out soon, the Singles soundtrack featuring Pearl Jam, Soundgarden and your solo track, "Seasons" should do really well, too. CC: I hope so. The timing seems right. GW: It was rumored that you wrote "Seasons" and some other songs as a joke using fictional titles Jeff Ament [Pearl Jam] created for an album used in the movie. CC: I just did it as a suprise for Cameron [Crowe, the films director]. I did it partly because I had always wanted to do that--write down ten titles on a piece of paper and make an album based on those titles. One day when I was on the movie set, I saw the cassette lying there with the titles on it. It was the Cliff Poncier fictitious solo tape, and I thought it would be really fun to whip out some quick four-track shit and make this totally influenced by the titles and my interpretation of the vibe of what solo tapes are like. Solo tapes usually have lame production and a lot of acoustic shit, and softer, more inside views of whoever's writing it. GW: You could have a career on the coffee house circuit as a solo act with those songs. CC: [laughs] I'm too shitty of a guitar player to do that. GW: You also contributed music to the film's score. CC: Yeah, but I don't know how much of it they used. GW: You didn't collaborate with [the Replacements'] Paul Westerberg, who composed the movie's score, did you? CC: No, I just gave them a couple pieces of music. I'm not really sure how much Westerberg did, either. It was fun, though. GW: Screaming Life has now been reissued as part of the Sub Pop Classics series. Does it feel strange to have enough popular history to warrant a reissue? CC: As long as they pay us for it [laughs] ...it's fine! I don't know how I feel. I'm not the kind of guy who gloats much on the history of what I've done and what the band has done. That kind of thing scares me. When you start thinking about that, the future kind of gets away from you. To have that kind of history, it's hard to look back and think, "Wow, we really accomplished a lot," because I've never been suprised by our success or anything we've ever done. It all sort of makes sense, and happened the way I figured it would. There hasn't been any overnight successes, really. Everything's been slow and pragmatic. I have no clue as to the magnitude of what our history is, the listening audience or how we're percieved or how I'm percieved. I'm pretty removed from it. GW: Whichi seems strange, given that you're in the eye of the hurricane, so to speak. CC: It's impossible to have that perspective. I suppose I could go out and listen to the fans, and hear what they think and how they react. Maybe I could get a better idea of what we've done. I know there are a lot of fans we've influenced and a lot of rock stars we've influenced. But it's a thing you can never measure in terms of impact. Even if it is a big impact, you can never count on being recognized for it. I know that some day, after this Seattle scene thing is just completely dead and buried and the most unhip thing in the world--which will happen--at some point in my forties, there's gonna be a resurgence and they're going to start playing all our old videos again. And it'll look like something from the Fifties. [laughs] Then there's gonna be some new band that sounds kinda like we did, like what The Black Crowes are to the Stones and the Faces. That will be cool. Then we'll really know if we had any kind of impact. As far as what the Encyclopedia of Rock N' Roll will say about us in the year 2010... are we even going to be mentioned, or are we gonna be listed as one of the forerunners of this big huge Seattle scene? Or will they just put Nirvana in? Or will they just blow the whole thing off and it will continue to be Jimi Hendrix and Heart and Queensryche? [laughs] I want to be successful, and I want to think what we're doing is worthwhile; otherwise you have to start questioning why you bother doing it. But I don't wanna be crammed down anybody's throat: I don't wanna be hated; I would rather be hated because I suck. That's fair. Then I could look back and say, "Yeah, we deserved to be hated." GW: As far as flattery by your peers goes, it was cool to see a Soundgarden press photo taped to Nigel Tufnel's amplifier when Spinal Tap played Seattle. CC: I heard about that; fuckin' great! I wish we could have been there--I could have worn some kind of Kiss makeup and come out onstage and done a solo without being plugged in. [laughs] GW: During Ice-T's soundcheck when he played Seattle, he yelled at the guy back at the board to turn it up because "This is Soundgarden's town... we gotta be loud!" CC: That's so cool. We played a show together one time, and he saw us and thought what we were doinf was pretty intense. When I lost my temper at that show and kicked a bunch of amps over when we played "Big Dumb Sex," he told us he thought it was cool and over the top. We discussed doing a tour with Body Count [Ice-T's metal band], but he was making a record and it never worked out. That would have been a blast. ...and that would be all. - -skye. ------------------------------ From: Slave4cc@aol.com Subject: Re: spread the music I though chris cut his hair while on tour in europe or somewhere.... how much money you wanna bet she still has it? ;) Carol In a message dated 97-04-17 03:53:24 EDT, you write: << > > << Chris cut off his hair on stage >> > > No, Chris didn't do this onstage. If I'm not mistaken, he did it at home > during one of his reclusive periods, while Susan was away on business. I > believe he mailed his hair to her...yikes.. > > Leslie > yikes? i always thought it was a sorta, kinda sweet gesture...who says chris isn't romantic? ;) <---could this be the first smiley face on somms since wednesday april 9, 1997? >> ------------------------------ From: Dave Subject: Jesus Christ Pose Well I got my netscape working so sorry to bug you guys with asking for help, netscape takes to long to reply, so I ended up figuring it out myself. Well anyways I got the Jesus christ pose video to finally work, its pretty tame, not like what I thought it to be, so I dont seee why MTV banned it, hell Madonna can dance in front of crosses why can Soundgarden have girls hanging on crosses. I like the terminator guy in the vid also. BTW if you download stuff off of the web does it get charged to your phone bill? ------------------------------ From: Krakhead13@aol.com Subject: RE: Soundgarden Gifts In a message dated 97-04-17 02:47:59 EDT, oponfam@cnsnet.com (Kathie and David) writes: << I have an idea for a thread. What *specific* gift has Soundgarden or one or more of its members given you. I don't mean the gift of wonderful music, I mean something specific. >> I like this idea. The gift I got from them is much like yours. I am also a very kept person and don't like being with people I don't know. So for me the gift I got was proof that I wasn't alone and that there was someone else outthere just like me locked up in their room all alone. Through their music I realized that through their music I can relate with myself better and have a better understanding of my self. My most special gift from a person though was the gift of Soundgarden. My best guy friend had one of their cd's on a long time ago and got me interseted in them. He isn't the biggest fan of theirs but he introduced me to the greatest band in the world. Thanx Jeff. *~PAM~* - --------------------- Forwarded message: From: oponfam@cnsnet.com (Kathie and David) Reply-to: oponfam@cnsnet.com To: somms@MIT.EDU (Soundgarden Mailing List) Date: 97-04-17 02:47:59 EDT I have an idea for a thread. What *specific* gift has Soundgarden or one or more of its members given you. I don't mean the gift of wonderful music, I mean something specific. For me the gift came from Chris. I have a personality very much like his and I've always felt guilty about my reluctance to be a "social butterfly". My mother criticized me for wanting to spend time alone in my room reading and my husband has accused me in the past of being antisocial when I didn't want to go to parties or something with a bunch of people I didn't know (his friends or work buddies). I used to think there must be something wrong with me because I really have no desire to be buddy-buddy with all my neighbors. Then I got into Soundgarden and started learning about Chris and his acceptance of his reclusiveness. And the more I learned about him, the more I came to accept my own introverted personality. I realized that I'm not anti-social, but have a need for space and solitude. Now when I feel pressured to do something that just doesn't feel right I remind myself of Chris and it helps me feel OK about being the way I am. So in many ways Soundgarden has really helped me like myself better. Anybody else want to share a Soundgarden *gift*? Kathie ------------------------------ From: Larry Grover Subject: Re: spread the music Actually, I heard that Chris cut his hair while on a short break in Hawaii. Jen Grover ------------------------------ From: DodeRoad@aol.com Subject: Re: Somewhere in my dreams In a message dated 97-04-17 05:30:21 EDT, you write: << I have Full on Kevin's Mom live. The recording was done in Providence RI October 24, 1989. It's actually a pretty good live tape. It also has Chris singing American Woman(the old Guess Who ? song) >> Are you talking about the Ugly Flower boot? ------------------------------ From: tonerkin Subject: Re: spread the music and the pests! At 09:37 PM 4/17/97 -0400, you wrote: >Actually, I heard that Chris cut his hair while on a short break in >Hawaii. I heard Chris cut his hair because he had head lice!!! The little tiny teeth on those RID combs are a bitch to get through long hair!! Or was it fleas from the Poms?? SMILE........................ toni ------------------------------ End of somms Digest [Volume 3 Issue 94] ***************************************