From: Automatic digest processor To: Recipients of SOMMS digests Subject: SOMMS Digest - 7 Feb 1999 to 8 Feb 1999 Date: Monday, February 08, 1999 1:58 AM There are 5 messages totalling 130 lines in this issue. Topics of the day: 1. Spin and Entertainment Weekly articles 2. angel on fire and other buisness... 3. Attention: wellwater release 4. baracuda 5. SG pull a black sabbath???? To UNSUBSCRIBE from SOMMS, send email to LISTSERV@MITVMA.MIT.EDU with the following in the body of your message: SIGNOFF SOMMS ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 7 Feb 1999 13:03:54 -0000 From: Deborah Baker Subject: Spin and Entertainment Weekly articles Here's the article from Spin (the picture's on my page www.rustycage.u-net.com)... Does grunge icon Chris Cornell harbor secret fantasies of being a quiet folkie a la Elliott Smith? Cornell says his first post-Soundgarden solo album following the band's amicable 1997 split will be "singer/songwriter-oriented". "My voice is stripped down and up-front. It's not a big rock guitar record. Everyone's going to be surprised." What he really means is: It won't sound like Soundgarden, okay? The as-yet-untitled album, due out this spring, was recorded at the Los Angeles home studio of Alain Johannes and Natasha Shneider (of the band Eleven), who share playing and production duties with Cornell; his backing band includes ex-Soundgarden drummer Matt Cameron. Cornell is vague about the lyrics, but offers that they are both introspective and retrospective. "You can make things up for a long time," he says, "but at some point you've got to write about yourself: relationships, losing people in your life, pausing and looking back." ...and some info from Entertainment Weekly... For a few hours on Jan. 21, the A&M Records sign above the company's historic Hollywood lot was swathed in a black armband, while ex- prexy Al Cafaro treated dozens of wet-eyed employees to Dom Perignon and Domino's pizza. Earlier that day, all but 30 of the venerable label's 200 staffers had been fired-Cafaro included-as a result of the multibillion- dollar Universal/Polygram merger; the campus (built by Charlie Chaplin in 1917, acquired by A&M in '66) will be sold. Universal's Interscope label, which is absorbing the spoils, is expected to jettison more than 45 of A&M's 65 acts. Dropping in to pay respects were two of A&M's biggest '90's artists, Sheryl Crow and Soundgarden's Chris Cornell. "I feel like I'm being traded to another basketball team," said Cornell, who'll shortly deliver Interscope the solo debut he recorded for A&M. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 7 Feb 1999 08:39:40 PST From: SheLikesSurprises * Subject: angel on fire and other buisness... ohhh god... i just heard angel on fire, thanks very much kendrick... i had always seen the lyrics, memorized them in fact because they were so moving... i loved, LOVE this song.... i just had to share, i'm sure you have all heard it already.... sls (into chris' fire she goes) p.s. oh and so nice to have joined somms :) rock on everyone! p.p.s. i heard recently from a 'saturday night live' fanatic thet the snl episode soundgarden performed on will be reairing again on comedy central at 10pm on feb23. ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 7 Feb 1999 18:09:17 -0500 From: Geoff Kleemola Subject: Attention: wellwater release Brotherhood of Electric: Operational Directives In stores worldwide February 9th on TimeBomb Recordings. That's tuesday, for those who don't own calendars. To obtain official and unofficial operational directives go to the follwoing url and follow the links to trowerchord: http://members.xoom.com/kleemola/wwc/ End of transmission. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 7 Feb 1999 20:31:42 -0600 From: The Opon Family Subject: Re: baracuda Jonathan Berrier wrote: > I certainly like to think that he is planning on bringing more to the > soundgarden table. They know their stuff, and it's only a matter of time > before they get back together. Sorry to disappoint you and Shawnte, and anyone else still hanging on to the hope that Soundgarden will reunite, but I don't think there's any way in hell that that's going to happen. I think what Chris was saying was that he felt that Soundgarden was not accepting enough of his emerging (and changing) style of writing. I personally think he felt a bit stifled by the band and felt the need to go out on his own in order to grow and develop his own style. And I think he is saying that if they had been more willing to accept these things that the band may have continued, and would have benefitted from the changes, ie. growth. Kathie ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 7 Feb 1999 21:34:41 EST From: Igor Nepomnyashchiy Subject: SG pull a black sabbath???? Hey everyone... just saw sabbath's reunion show... maybe we can expect the same thing from SG in 20 years? Chris will hardly be able to walk (knock on wood)... Kim would be the one with the mild heart attack from the beer (double knock on wood) but they will do a super tour and everyone will be happy!!!!! ------------------------------ End of SOMMS Digest - 7 Feb 1999 to 8 Feb 1999 **********************************************