From: Automatic digest processor To: Recipients of SOMMS digests Subject: SOMMS Digest - 13 Sep 1999 to 14 Sep 1999 (#1999-5) Date: Tuesday, September 14, 1999 2:02 AM There are 10 messages totalling 316 lines in this issue. Topics of the day: 1. JCP on Rage 2. Hear Ye! Hear Ye! NYC BABY! (2) 3. We want to hear ye!! 4. important message to Boston sommies (2) 5. Euphoria Morning in NZ 6. Cambridge setlist (2) 7. review of first concert To UNSUBSCRIBE from SOMMS, send email to LISTSERV@MITVMA.MIT.EDU with the following in the body of your message: SIGNOFF SOMMS ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 13 Sep 1999 23:11:55 +1000 From: dpbit1@STUDENT.MONASH.EDU.AU Subject: JCP on Rage Hey, On mighty Rage (Australia) a few weeks back the JCP clip got played sometime during the night, but this Saturday it was the SECOND clip to get played for the whole night! At this rate they'll be playing it in prime time within a couple of weeks!!! (I wish). Dave The Noy. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 13 Sep 1999 14:41:30 EDT From: Nadezhda Ball Subject: Hear Ye! Hear Ye! NYC BABY! Hear Ye! Hear Ye! Meeting at Town Hall Tomorrow Night! All NYC CHRIS CORNELL CITIZENS MUST ATTEND! To witness the Good Cornell emerge from a three year NYC hiatus. Dammit people I'm tryin to get some folks to meet up. There's a coupla people out here ready to meet other SOMMSters, let's get a couple more. Email your royal hedgieness as soon as possible. We'll get a line of happy internet freaks at the bathroom all happy to meet each other! It'll be great! Album Network has Mr. Cornell on the cover. I'm not sure if that's an actual magazine ya'll can get, or what. All I know is that my store gets it in the mail, and I've seen it in no other place. Anyway. Chris is talking about the regualr EM stuff. The Interviewer is all portraying Chris in a happy fashion. YEAH RIGHT HE'S NOT BRAINWASHED! I like my men good and depressed! Just kidding. Alright article. Pretty pictures. But it's only ONE PAGE! Oh well. How ya gonna put him on the cover and not even have a gobbibly good 99 pages tof him to follow? Jeez Lawheez Christ Pose. da queen uda hedgehogz goin to her souled out show tomorrow night... dezh. "if this isn't makin sense, it doesn't make it lies." "the truth don't look that good on me." ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 13 Sep 1999 14:58:47 EDT From: Mike Gallagher Subject: Re: Hear Ye! Hear Ye! NYC BABY! well, i'm meeting some of my college pals from columbia and nyu before the show, and we're going to dinner. probably at mars 2112. i tried to arrange for a meeting a while back but no one responded. hope to randomly bump into some of you tomorrow night. --Mike-- ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 13 Sep 1999 15:55:25 -0500 From: tonerkin Subject: We want to hear ye!! OK, all you sommsters going to the shows the next week or so. We want reviews, comments, reactions, set list, pix, fashion commentary and meeting stories! Share the experience!!! Packin my bag for DC!!! toni ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 13 Sep 1999 17:53:57 EDT From: Mike Gallagher Subject: important message to Boston sommies !!!!!!!!!!!TO ANYONE IN THE NEW ENGLAND SOMMSTERS ATTENDING THE BOSTON SHOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I DESPARATELY NEED TO KNOW HOW LONG CHRIS PLAYS TONIGHT. I NEED TO KNOW SO I CAN PLAN WHICH TRAIN TO TAKE BACK HOME FROM NEW YORK. IF HE PLAYS MORE THAN 2 HOURS, I'M GOING TO BE HOME EXCESSIVELY LATE AND I HAVE TO PLAN FOR THE NEXT DAY OF SCHOOL. THANKS IN ADVANCE. --Mike-- ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 13 Sep 1999 18:24:15 PDT From: Toni Crawley Subject: Euphoria Morning in NZ For anyone out there in New Zealand, I found out today that the release date is hopefully going to be the 29 September, although it could change. Also they are giving it away on a radio station called The Rock this week. -Toni ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 13 Sep 1999 22:57:26 -0400 From: Nate Crosswhite Subject: Cambridge setlist First, let me say I'm extremely disappointed: this is actually Chris' second live show, not his first :) Chris said he played a show as "Chris Cornell", with Matt Cameron in 1990. (Note the smiley, I'm actually _not_ disappointed) 1. Sunshower 2. Can't Change Me 3. Flutter Girl 4. Mission 5. Preaching the End of the World 6. Seasons 7. Pillow of Your Bones 8. When I'm Down 9. Moonchild 10. Sweet Euphoria 11. Like Suicide 12. Follow My Way Encore: 13. All Night Thing 14. Steel Rain For Mike Gallagher: The show started promptly at 9, ended just short of 10:30. Sorry if I missed any Boston-area Sommsters at the show, I'm just now catching up with all my email. All I have to say for now is KICK ASS!!! I may write a longer review later, but for now, I will say that Chris sounded amazing, and the new music is very good. Hearing Seasons live was worth the price of the show, and it just got better from there. Nate ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 13 Sep 1999 23:07:26 -0400 From: Kendrick Kay Subject: review of first concert *** WARNING: DON'T READ THIS if you don't want "spoilers"! *** I just got back from the concert here in Cambridge, MA.. small venue, indeed. about 1000 people. I was about 75 feet from the stage.. actually all the seats were within 100-200 feet of the stage. sound was pretty loud.. audience was pretty enthusiastic.. it seemed from the audience responses that not many had heard the album songs (although i have, ha ha). it was about 80 minutes long. overall a pretty damn good concert. chris' voice was quite excellent. everyone but the bass dude seemed really into it.. chris didn't play guitar on anything(!) and, obviously, he didn't do anything solo. chris talked a little bit.. seemed pretty enthusiastic. no crazy stuff happened at the concert. Here is the setlist in order, if i recall correctly: sunshower can't change me fluttergirl mission preaching the end of the world seasons pillow of your bones when i'm down moonchild sweet euphoria like suicide follow my way encores: times of trouble(!) steel rain good things: they did a really cool intro into sunshower (different from the album cut).. at first i didn't recognize it, but eventually everyone did and everyone started going crazy..the live performance was awesome..the treatment was "louder" and more "messy" than the album cut, but it seemed more fitting than the album version's "precise" production; seasons was performed by the full band..quiet drumming, guitars, bass, etc.. it was pretty damn good; some of the superb performances in my opinion were sunshower, seasons, pillow of your bones, when i'm down, follow my way, and steel rain. when i'm down started out with that bluesy pianoish tone that i'm pretty sure surprised most everyone...but it gradually developed and finished with a great ending. chris' vocals were especially good near the end of follow my way.. as follow my way ended, the whole band seemed to be in the groove..it was great. pillow of your bones plain-out rocked bad things: sweet euphoria had vocals, guitars, and some sort of organ synthesizer instrument which i thought detracted from it. like suicide was performed by the full band...it was pretty good and had a respectable guitar solo but the arrangement was substantially different from the original soundgarden album version as well as from all the live soundgarden performances of it. i didn't really dig it.. it had that "grooving" tone that the band seems to put into the songs instead of the original more "desperate" tone of the soundgarden original. times of trouble was so-so . . the performance lacked the "sparseness" of the original temple of the dog cut. again, the band seemed to add that certain "groove" to it, which i didn't like. other things: the backing vocals in general were actually pretty good...and at times great. natasha did a piano intro into steel rain that i thought was really good (better than the album). i thought the live performance of preaching was too bombastic (not appropriate for that song). Mission sounded pretty good and definitely was the most soundgarden-ish. i give the concert an 8.5/10. it's not one to miss, though a real soundgarden performance would take precedence any day.. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 13 Sep 1999 23:12:31 -0500 From: Joe Corroney Subject: Re: Cambridge setlist Seasons, Like Suicide, and All Night Thing? Those happen to be my three favorite Cornell tunes ever. Mmmmmmmm...seasons (cue Homer Simpson drool)...i am so pissed (and jealous) I didnt make it to the show. He's got to come abit closer to the Midwest later this year or early next. I have to hear those three songs live! Please God in heaven tell me there was a SOMMie who recorded this show for us and that there will be a bootleg to come.... over and out... -J ---------- >From: Nate Crosswhite >To: SOMMS@MITVMA.MIT.EDU >Subject: Cambridge setlist >Date: Mon, Sep 13, 1999, 9:57 PM > >First, let me say I'm extremely disappointed: this is actually Chris' >second live show, not his first :) Chris said he played a show as "Chris >Cornell", with Matt Cameron in 1990. (Note the smiley, I'm actually _not_ >disappointed) > >1. Sunshower >2. Can't Change Me >3. Flutter Girl >4. Mission >5. Preaching the End of the World >6. Seasons >7. Pillow of Your Bones >8. When I'm Down >9. Moonchild >10. Sweet Euphoria >11. Like Suicide >12. Follow My Way > Encore: >13. All Night Thing >14. Steel Rain > >For Mike Gallagher: The show started promptly at 9, ended just short of >10:30. > >Sorry if I missed any Boston-area Sommsters at the show, I'm just now >catching up with all my email. > >All I have to say for now is KICK ASS!!! I may write a longer review later, >but for now, I will say that Chris sounded amazing, and the new music is >very good. Hearing Seasons live was worth the price of the show, and it >just got better from there. > >Nate > ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 13 Sep 1999 23:31:18 EDT From: James Connolly Subject: Re: important message to Boston sommies it was like an hour and 15 minutes i'll go more in depth soon, i'm still overwhelmed!! jimmy ------------------------------ End of SOMMS Digest - 13 Sep 1999 to 14 Sep 1999 (#1999-5) **********************************************************