From: somms@mit.edu To: somms-digest@mit.edu Subject: Soundgarden Digest, Sunday, 2 Feb 1997 Reply-To: somms@mit.edu Date: Sun, 02 Feb 1997 02:22:47 EST Sender: saperl The Soundgarden Digest: Sunday, 2 Feb 1997 listadmin: saperl@mit.edu list archive: http://www.sgi.net/soundgarden/archive/ TO UNSUBSCRIBE: email saperl@mit.edu Today's Topics: defining moment/happy wishes/shopping update Hi evreybody. Soundgarden at the BDO in Adelaide...... that special Soundgarden song sg love Wanting to buy. what made soundgarden click.. 97 US tour?????? hater tabs Re: Hi evreybody. Re: Hi evreybody. "THE SONG" Re: your mail CC interview/THEsong Re: CC interview/THEsong Re: Not just another Band Re: Reach out and Grab! Rock 103.5 Greatest SG Song caryn rose : Re: Hi evreybody. Spoonmn94@aol.com: Rock 103.5 Re: Not just another Band Re: caryn rose : Re: Hi evreybody. Sorry Juno/Rock 103.5 ------------------------------------------------------------ From: "Julian Curwin" I am wondering whether the movie "Feeling Minnesota" has anything to do with the lyrics to "Outshined". ------------------------------ From: "Polly, Eliza" Subject: defining moment/happy wishes/shopping update i think i am one of the few people who was had a UMOK defining SG moment....i first heard Hunted Down and Ugly Truth back in '88/'89 sometime thru a guy in my band...it got me interested in the band, but not hooked for life...that happened when i heard Beyond the Wheel right when Umok came out...the vocals completely blew me away and i have been obsessed ever since...my god, is it really 1997???? on another note, i will prolly get killed for doing this, but i will take that risk ;-) Just want to let y'all (hi DD) know that today is the birthday of a very beloved list member...to save my butt i will not name names, but let's just say that he knows more about SG releases and boots than any other human on the planet...*huge happy birthday* :))) and on that note, an update on my finds.....i bought Somms and Supermainstream and will add it to the little pile of stuff i can sell when i get home again (ah...home...tonight)...I will be getting at least one duc tape LTL and am waiting to hear about the color of the vinyl of the Screaming Life (seth - i did meet a guy last night who has an Orange SL.but he had no interest in selling it :-(( , a Fopp EP, there also is a purple RTYW sub pop 7" that i will be getting and i *think* a LTLive that has been signed by Hiro (who is hiro? ;-) Also waiting to find out what *really* is on this special made LTL with two supposedly unlreleased songs... Anyway, there is more, but i am leaving Athens today and heading back to the land of sucky sucky music stores but the stuff will be shipped to me...and i will have a garage sale when i get back!! hehe heading to Shopper's Anonymous, eliza ------------------------------ Subject: Hi evreybody. From: gotee1@juno.com (Kevin A Stapleton) Hi my names Kevin. I'm new to this list and I think its prtty cool. well any way Eliza I saw your message and it asked who Hiri Yamamoto is. well Hiro was the original Soundgarden Bass player. at first a guy named Matt Dentino started a band called the Shemps and Hiro was the bass player for them but he quit and Kim replaced him. That band was Chris Cornell, Kim Thayil and Matt D. They broke up and Cornell moved in with Hiro and they started a new band and eventualy got Kim as their guitarist. that was when they first called them selves Soundgarden after the pipe sculpture. Then they got a drummer so Chris could focus on singing and wrote two songs f9or the album Deep Six. The drummer left and was replaced by Matt Cameron. Then they wrote Screaming Life then Fopp and then Screaming Life/Fopp was put together. After that they wrote Ultramega OKand after that Hiro left the Band because he wanted to return to school. they got a guy named Jason Everman who knew the songs and they had concerts coming up soon. They eventualy found he did not work out and they got got Ben Shepherd. well tyhats all I have to say now cya Kevin ------------------------------ From: Carolyn Hanel Subject: Soundgarden at the BDO in Adelaide...... My head is thumping, my mouth is still dry, my ears are ringing, my feet = are aching.............but hell I feel high! :-) Last night's performance by Soundgarden beat what I saw at Melbourne on = Sunday night. I was close, I saw smiles, laughter, Kim's amusing bug-eyes, Ben = throwing one of his classic tantrums............I was RIGHT THERE in = amongst the front row crowd of 25,000-plus people. I managed to take some notes again (still not sure how I did that), so a = review will be coming in the next few days - I just don't have time = right now. Stay tuned.......... Carolyn the Mild Frame "Don't you fucking throw stuff at my friend Ben!!" - screams Chris = Cornell ------------------------------ From: "merlin.dwc@internetmci.com" Subject: that special Soundgarden song Hey... I'd have to say that *the* SG song for me was (and I hope this doesn't sound like a cliche) BHS. I'd heard SG before, I think I was in 7th grade when I first heard "Outshined," and I liked it, but back then Toad the Wet Sprocket was my favorite band (they still are one of my favorites) and I mostly listened to stuff like that. Then later on my taste became much more eclectic and I got into a lot of harder stuff. But I remember hearing "Spoonman" = and liking it, but not enough at the time to go buy the album. But then = I remember one night in like early spring '94 listening to the local station's modern rock show they have on sunday nights, and hearing BHS for the first time. It wasn't like I heard it and it became my favorite song instantly, but it caught my attention and the next couple times I heard it I found myself memorizi= ng it and singing along. That was when I really started to get interested in SG. Then I remember the last night of the Stanley Cup when the NY Rangers (my favorite team) were playing the Canucks and I had the radio and the tv on at the same time, and I was sitting there biting my nails, screaming & cheering & trying to will them to win, and BHS came on and I started singing along as I was watching, and it all just seemed to fit together. The rest is history (of course they did win)... that probably sounds really funny but I guess you have to have been there. Anyway, after that it became one of my all-time favorite songs, I bought Superunknown, it became one of my all-time favorite albums. Nuff said. :) ~Lorraine "Nothing's seems to break me no matter how far I fall nothing can break me at all" ------------------------------ From: Bluem81014@aol.com Subject: sg love i didnt always likw soundgarden.i firste heard of the band when BHS came out in 94.to me it was just the flavor of the month.then in 96 when DOTU came out and i first saw thr pretty noose video i said HEY this is cool.but i still didnt really pay sg any attention.but i noticed that every time i turned on the radio a sg song played for me.on the tv isaw them do interviews and i saw more videos.the song that made me run to the music store was burden..i didnt stop until i bought the superunknown and bmf.the song that made me realize that i would worship sg forever was 4th of july.it made me cry for reasons i didnt understand.but sg is my life now.there songs run thriugh my head 24/7 and i love them.<3<3 naked in the cold sun breathin life like fire..... bluem81014(bluemoon):-)~ ------------------------------ From: Rebekah Henderson Subject: Wanting to buy. I've got some money to spend and I'm looking for Soundgarden stuff!! If anyone knows of the most unreleased material on one CD, please tell me. My method is to own every song ever done by Soundgarden. Original and covers. I don't want to buy 40 something bootlegs that only have one song on it that I don't have. I'm looking for CDs that have alot of unreleased material on them. I'm also looking for videos. If ANYONE has any info on where I might find SG bootleg videos, please tell me. I don't want to blow all of my money without knowing all of my options. That would suck. May Soundgarden be with you. Rebekah ------------------------------ From: spierce@mpls.k12.mn.us (Sandy Pierce) Subject: what made soundgarden click.. the first time i ever heard soundgarden (and also the song that made me know that this was a special band) was when i was on a field trip in the 8th grade. my friend had her walkman with and she told me to listen to this tape she had. i put it on and it was searching with my good eye closed. at first i thought, "hmmm, this is strange." when i heard the intro(the guy talking), but then i thought it was the coolest music i had ever heard. first chance i got i bought badmotorfinger. from then on i have been so in love with soundgarden. the sexiest song (imo) would be a tie between blind dogs and pretty noose. if you don't agree, lay down in your bed and play either song. just totally relax and take it all in. it gives you an amazing feeling. feeling minnesota,amanda (not sandy, o.k. gosh, that's my mom.) ------------------------------ From: Toni M Roark Subject: 97 US tour?????? Hi guys! OK, you all can draw your own conclusions on this. The radio station 103.5FM here in Chicago is having a contest every day in February. On Monday(2-3) when they play 4 songs by Soundgarden if you are caller 103 you win................. "a trip for two to see Soundgarden anywhere on their '97 U.S. tour" I don't know about you but I smell a TOUR!!!!!!!! Pleeeeeeeeezzzzzzzzeeeeeeeee! Dear Susan, Let me make a suggested tour stop or two. Chicago(SOMMSfest II..the slumber party returns), Las Vegas(SOMMSvention), and Oklahoma(SOMMSstock) and maybe Indianapolis and Milwaukee(close enough for a road trip). Thank you!!! toni ------------------------------ From: "Enrique Olavarria" Subject: hater tabs hi. if you go here: http://uts.cc.utexas.edu/~wonsup/guitar/h/hater/ you will find tabs for circles, roadside, tot finder and who do i kill. they were all done by the same guy, Wesley Torres. someone asked for hater tabs a while ago so there you go. bye. enrique ------------------------------ From: "Polly, Eliza" Subject: Re: Hi evreybody. At 09:20 AM 2/1/97 EST, who's kevin wrote: >any way Eliza I saw your message and it asked who Hiri Yamamoto is. well >Hiro was the original Soundgarden Bass player. at first a guy named Matt >Dentino started a band called the Shemps and Hiro was the bass player for >them but he quit and Kim replaced him. That band was Chris Cornell, Kim >Thayil and Matt D. They broke up and Cornell moved in with Hiro and they >started a new band and eventualy got Kim as their guitarist. that was >when they first called them selves Soundgarden after the pipe sculpture. and all kinds of etc... REALLY????????????? No shit? Hiro was the bass player? Ya mean Ben didn't start the band? and the band is named after the pipe sculpture? Holy shit, this is a wealth of information i have *never* heard before!! I feel so enlightened... Gosh, and i thought *I* knew alot about Soundgarden... ok, i will stop being mean now ;-) *LMFAO* and happy to be home :)) eliza ------------------------------ From: caryn rose Subject: Re: Hi evreybody. At 06:30 PM 2/1/97 -0500, Polly, Eliza wrote: >At 09:20 AM 2/1/97 EST, who's kevin wrote: > >>any way Eliza I saw your message and it asked who Hiri Yamamoto is. well >>Hiro was the original Soundgarden Bass player. at first a guy named Matt >>Dentino started a band called the Shemps and Hiro was the bass player for >>them but he quit and Kim replaced him. That band was Chris Cornell, Kim >>Thayil and Matt D. They broke up and Cornell moved in with Hiro and they >>started a new band and eventualy got Kim as their guitarist. that was >>when they first called them selves Soundgarden after the pipe sculpture. >and all kinds of etc... > >REALLY????????????? No shit? Hiro was the bass player? Ya mean Ben didn't >start the band? and the band is named after the pipe sculpture? Holy shit, >this is a wealth of information i have *never* heard before!! I feel so >enlightened... Gosh, and i thought *I* knew alot about Soundgarden... ok, i >will stop being mean now ;-) does anybody know of a really good soundgarden web page? or a really good band history? i really think there should be a soundgarden faq. maybe we should write one? and does anyone here think that chris cornell is really sexy? i'm sure i'm the only one. (not mean, eliza, just trying to educate newbies who would never think that there are 700 people who have been on this list for over a year and... oh, nevermind) - --caryn ------------------------------ Subject: "THE SONG" From: gotee1@juno.com (Kevin A Stapleton) My favorite song is Let me Drown. I did not like Soundgarden untill a little while ago. My friends were talkin about them and they played the cd for me and I was just like wow this is awsome. I got the Superunknown cd and I listened to all the songs and when I listened to Let me Drown I was just hooked. I fell in love with it imeadiatly. I think it is just the best song ever written.cya'll Kevin ------------------------------ From: CELESTE KARA CHRISTIE Subject: Re: your mail yes, the title is taken directly from the song. love to all, celeste (new member) On Sat, 1 Feb 1997, Julian Curwin wrote: > I am wondering whether the movie "Feeling Minnesota" has anything to do > with the lyrics to "Outshined". > ------------------------------ From: Gyde Subject: CC interview/THEsong I'm new to the mailing list, and this is just a note to let everyone know that in two hours there will be an exclusive Chris Cornell interview on Max (NZ's music channel)and if anyone wants it, e-mail me privately (gyde@xtra.co.nz) and I could probably type it up for you. Also, the song that really turned me on to SG was TDITTL. My cousin had given me a dubbed copy of Superunknown (a REALLY bad version)and I had listened to BHS once, but I wasn't really concentrating and tossed it aside thinking that I didn't really like it much. Then, a couple of days later I saw TDITTL video clip and couldn't believe my eyes. I couldn't believe that this was the same band. So I grabbed my Superunknown tape and listened to it all the way through about five times. The very next day I went out and bought the CD...and I've been hooked ever since. Well, gotta go set up a tape to record the interview... Tessa. ------------------------------ From: Natalie Derojas Subject: Re: CC interview/THEsong i would really want to hear how the interview went please email me and let me know! derojas@fiu.edu Natalie ~...hands are for shaking,..no, not tying.." SG On Sun, 2 Feb 1997, Gyde wrote: > I'm new to the mailing list, and this is just a note to let everyone > know that in two hours there will be an exclusive Chris Cornell > interview on Max (NZ's music channel)and if anyone wants it, e-mail me > privately (gyde@xtra.co.nz) and I could probably type it up for you. > Also, the song that really turned me on to SG was TDITTL. My cousin had > given me a dubbed copy of Superunknown (a REALLY bad version)and I had > listened to BHS once, but I wasn't really concentrating and tossed it > aside thinking that I didn't really like it much. > Then, a couple of days later I saw TDITTL video clip and couldn't > believe my eyes. I couldn't believe that this was the same band. So I > grabbed my Superunknown tape and listened to it all the way through > about five times. The very next day I went out and bought the CD...and > I've been hooked ever since. > Well, gotta go set up a tape to record the interview... > Tessa. > ------------------------------ Subject: Re: Not just another Band From: Vincent wrote: >What song of Soundgarden's, upon hearing it, made you realize that SG >was not just "another" band and that they were something special? For me it was Loud Love, the first SG song I ever heard. It was about 3AM, some time in early 1990 I think, and I was dozing during another thrilling (ha ha) night of Headbangers Ball and all of a sudden I was totally jolted awake by the opening of Loud Love. I must have sat through the whole song with my mouth open, absolutely awestruck by the power of the band. The next day I started buying up anything by or about Soundgarden that I could get my hands on. This was during the time when not too many people had heard of SG (at least not in the Midwest) and we used to go to see them when they opened for other bands and then leave after seeing Soundgarden, not only because they were the band we had come to see (I saw them when they opened for Danzig and at the time I had never even heard of Danzig:)) but to make a statement that we thought they should be the headliners. Actually it seems like most of us knew they were special from the first time we heard them. Are we an insightful bunch or what;) Great idea for the thread. Then Lorraine wrote: >Sometimes >you think you're the only person in the world who feels a certain >way, that you can't talk to anyone else about it because they >wouldn't understand or you just *can't*. . and then you hear a >song by someone who's a thousand miles and you've never met, >and yet you feel as close to them as your best friend, maybe even >closer at that first moment. Does anybody know what I'm talking >about? I hope so... it's hard to explain. You don't have to explain, I understand perfectly. I've felt the same way about not only songs, but when things happen to the band. Like for instance the infamous SNL performance of Pretty Noose - I was dying for them, as if they were personal friends. And when they do something great, I feel real pride for them. Its weird how personal it becomes (and its even weirder after you have a real "personal" dream about one or more of them). Kathie ------------------------------ From: DodeRoad@aol.com Subject: Re: Reach out and Grab! The song that made me a total Soundgarden fanatic was....well, it was more of a gradual thing, but what really got my attention was Black Hole Sun. I used to cry listening to this song..I was kind of depressed back then. The music especially grabbed me, but it was the lyrics that made me cry....and I love the video. I've stopped crying now, but it still one of my favorites. ~Kelly :) P.S. Sorry if you found that depressing. :) ------------------------------ From: Spoonmn94@aol.com Subject: Rock 103.5 I am fairly new to the list and got started listening to Soundgarden in seventh or eight grade ------------------------------ From: "Julian Curwin" Subject: Greatest SG Song For the greatest ever Soundgarden song, you can't go past She Likes Surprises. When I bought Superunknown, I just listened to this track about a million times in a row. Superunknown was my favourite album for a long time after that... ------------------------------ Subject: caryn rose : Re: Hi evreybody. From: gotee1@juno.com (Kevin A Stapleton) - --------- Begin forwarded message ---------- From: caryn rose To: "Polly, Eliza" , somms@MIT.EDU Subject: Re: Hi evreybody. Date: Sat, 1 Feb 1997 16:31:17 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <1.5.4.16.19970201163351.1a5f99a4@mail.nwlink.com> At 06:30 PM 2/1/97 -0500, Polly, Eliza wrote: >At 09:20 AM 2/1/97 EST, who's kevin wrote: > >>any way Eliza I saw your message and it asked who Hiri Yamamoto is. well >>Hiro was the original Soundgarden Bass player. at first a guy named Matt >>Dentino started a band called the Shemps and Hiro was the bass player for >>them but he quit and Kim replaced him. That band was Chris Cornell, Kim >>Thayil and Matt D. They broke up and Cornell moved in with Hiro and they >>started a new band and eventualy got Kim as their guitarist. that was >>when they first called them selves Soundgarden after the pipe sculpture. >and all kinds of etc... > >REALLY????????????? No shit? Hiro was the bass player? Ya mean Ben didn't >start the band? and the band is named after the pipe sculpture? Holy shit, >this is a wealth of information i have *never* heard before!! I feel so >enlightened... Gosh, and i thought *I* knew alot about Soundgarden... ok, i >will stop being mean now ;-) does anybody know of a really good soundgarden web page? or a really good band history? i really think there should be a soundgarden faq. maybe we should write one? and does anyone here think that chris cornell is really sexy? i'm sure i'm the only one. (not mean, eliza, just trying to educate newbies who would never think that there are 700 people who have been on this list for over a year and... oh, nevermind) - --caryn - --------- End forwarded message ---------- I know two that I think are really good. oneis the unofficial web page ( which I think is the best ) and the other is the official web page. http://www.sgi.net/soundgarden/ and http://www.imusic.com/soundgarden/ or you can go to yahoo at www.yahoo.com and search soundgarden cya Kevin ------------------------------ Subject: Spoonmn94@aol.com: Rock 103.5 From: gotee1@juno.com (Kevin A Stapleton) - --------- Begin forwarded message ---------- From: Spoonmn94@aol.com To: SOMMS@MIT.EDU Cc: Spoonmn94@aol.com Subject: Rock 103.5 Date: Sat, 1 Feb 1997 22:47:50 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <970201224749_-1878740417@emout10.mail.aol.com> I am fairly new to the list and got started listening to Soundgarden in seventh or eight grade - --------- End forwarded message ---------- SO WHATS YOUR FAVORITE SONG AND WHY ------------------------------ From: Candy Subject: Re: Not just another Band Like Kathie, the first SG song I heard and the one that got me hooked was Loud Love. I found LTL at the record store and, on a whim (maybe it was fate), I bought it. When I got in the car, I put it in my cassette deck to listen to on the drive home. I had my puppy with me in the car and suddenly I smelled something really bad. I thought the dog had done a doo doo in my lap. Fortunately it turned out to only be a gas attack, but before I figured that out, I panicked and swerved, hitting the neighbor=92s mail box and knocking it off into the ditch. I finally got home, thinking =93Well, I wasn=92t very impressed with Soundgarden.=94 T= hen I realized that I had been pretty distracted in the car and maybe I should give it another chance. As soon as I put it in the tape deck and REALLY listened to Loud Love and the rest of the songs, I got very excited. This was the music that I had been waiting for! I rushed out and got UMOK and Screaming Life and listened to all of them over and over. Until then favorite bands would come and go for me. That was in 89 and Soundgarden=92s music has become what seems to be a permanent part of my life. There are many bands that I like, but no one else even comes close! Candy ------------------------------ From: caryn rose Subject: Re: caryn rose : Re: Hi evreybody. At 11:31 PM 2/1/97 EST, Kevin A Stapleton wrote: > >does anybody know of a really good soundgarden web page? or a really >good >band history? > >i really think there should be a soundgarden faq. maybe we should write >one? > >and does anyone here think that chris cornell is really sexy? i'm sure >i'm >the only one. > > >--------- End forwarded message ---------- >I know two that I think are really good. >oneis the unofficial web page ( which I think is the best ) and the other >is the official web page. >http://www.sgi.net/soundgarden/ >and >http://www.imusic.com/soundgarden/ > >or you can go to yahoo at www.yahoo.com and search soundgarden yahoo? search? what's that? - --caryn ------------------------------ From: Spoonmn94@aol.com Subject: Sorry Juno/Rock 103.5 Sorry Juno but my stupid a** friend sent my mail when I was not even close to finishing it, so you don't have to worry. Anyways, I had a friend in junior high who mentioned soundgarden and I thought the name was original and cool. He let me borrow LTL and I thought it was weird at first, but then I realized how powerful the whole aura of the music was. The song that got me "hooked" or made me realize sg was the best was the whole BMF album. Every sg album, to me, has no individual songs that are great, they all have significant meanings. Every song they have made is "sexy" in its own way, it is open to interpretation and that is one of the reasons why sg is so damn good. Regarding Rock 103.5, I believe Toni mentioned a summer tour but I heard the new ad where you get to attend a SG show in Seattle, which does not neccesarily mean the will travel the country again. But I have my fingers crossed, considering Chicago is Kim's home, like it or not. Unfortunately I had to attend the Q101 show on November 9th with a bunch of teenagers, like myself, but they wanted to hear BHS and BiMH and start their mosh pits. It sucked having to watch the concert while constantly having to worry about some Korn shirt wearing hard a** wannabe trying to get in your face and you can't concentrate on watching your fave band. Anyway I hope, along with the whole list, that they tour the US and I will make sure to attend the Rock 103.5 show, where the crowd will be older and more mature. But if there is no tour, another good thing could come out of this, the likely possibility of a new album by the end of the year (one could only hope). Gonna try to listen to the interview on Hard Drive with Lou Brutus where he interviews Kim tomorrow night. Spoonmn94~aka Adam ------------------------------ End of somms Digest [Volume 3 Issue 29] ***************************************