From: somms@mit.edu To: somms-digest@mit.edu Subject: Soundgarden Digest, Tuesday, 29 Apr 1997 Reply-To: somms@mit.edu Date: Tue, 29 Apr 1997 01:42:09 EDT Sender: saperl The Soundgarden Digest: Tuesday, 29 Apr 1997 listadmin: saperl@mit.edu list archive: http://www.sgi.net/soundgarden/archive/ TO UNSUBSCRIBE: email saperl@mit.edu Today's Topics: Re: living with myself is hard enough... Re: chris cornell Re: The Really really real reason SG split Seattle article... Susan Silver article fire maple song Seth is the best!! Toy Box Re: Rage? Johnny Cash - and RE: Rage?....Aussie Sommsters RE: living with myself is hard enough... First Show Pic Devilhead The real reason Hey Sommsters,Lets start a webring! Susan Silver Interview a lifetime searching for something... auction Susan Silver interview Searching for .....Hype ------------------------------------------------------------ From: "wyn" Subject: Re: living with myself is hard enough... > On Sun, 27 Apr 1997, wyn wrote: > > > doing the same and I'm sure I've seen Chris Cornell so does anyone know if > > he did program Rage and I missed it or do you think he would and they just > > have it somewhere down at the ABC. Then on Mon, 28 Apr 1997, Justin wrote: > > as for future soundgarden features jackhammer>, I don't know. I had hoped the band had agreed to a second > stint as programmers/featured artists while they were here during january > and february, but I don't know that it will pan out. supergrass (who also > played the big day out festival circuit) have already been featured, while > no other bdo band has been on since. hopefully we'll see something, but I > wouldn't hold my breath. I'm yet to see a band program rage twice. > When I wrote my original bit I neglected to mention that the shot I saw of Chris was from the hair DOTU vintage. So we may still have hope of seeing some sort of interview with videos or him or the rest of SG programming Rage perhaps. Bronwyn wyn@powerup.com.au & Wyn ------------------------------ From: Mercyhurst Prep Library Subject: Re: chris cornell Yeah, but this is also that kind of scary stuff that wreaks of the stalker type. "I will do whatever it takes"???? Even jokingly that's not exactly....in line. Just a thought..... At 01:25 PM 4/25/97 PDT, you wrote: > >chris cornell is the man. i love him. and i will do whatever it takes until he >is mine. > >Tiffany > > >--------------------------------------------------------- >Get Your *Web-Based* Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com >--------------------------------------------------------- > ------------------------------ From: "Ben \"Flea\" Burnsed" Subject: Re: The Really really real reason SG split Some things to consider: > The future: Kim, who is extremely upset that he couldn't make Gavin cry, Maybe he should screw Gwen, if he can stand all the shrieking. > Ben, Mike Inez and Krist Novoselic form Triple Bass, which becomes the best > band on earth, even though everbody hates them. Wait a minute, how about having Anthony and Flea getting into a fight, splitting the Peppers forever, and Flea joins this band and everybody finally loves them (because Flea has such personality!) They call themselves "Fourth Bass" > Billy Corgan cries. ....as opposed to...???? > (ps, all of the above is one big fat joke. Please don't make fun of Kim. So he likes his beer. So what. No more fat jokes, please! Oh, yeah, don't take me serious on this one. Flea ------------------------------ From: DustyGrrl@aol.com Subject: Seattle article... >Rock: End of an era for grunge=92s neoclassical stoner band. >By Ted Fry > Most of my friends - girlfriends especially - could never understand >why I like Soundgarden so much. =20 - --->Makes me wonder what kind of girls Ted goes for?! They dont like Soundgarden? And Ted seems like a cool guy...=20 >This was Soundgarden: strong, true guitars, thundering >bass, a tidal wave of drums and thrilling vocals that put a spin and a >chill on every line. It was an experience I wished I=92d had about 15 >years earlier for the way it woke me up to the real meaning of the word >"classic" as used to describe rock. - ---I like how he didnt go right for Chris or vocals first. I guess there really *are* 4 guys in soundgarden afterall, missy-fetal-girl-u-need-to-get-a-life. - ---All in all I thought it was a very good article, right down to the bong-a-thon! Thanks for posting it Bonnie. >She wrote: >> >chris cornell is the man. i love him. and i will do whatever it takes=20 >until he=20 >is mine. - ---I wonder if whoever-that-was got any of that dribble on her shirt? (ducks/head down) >Then you wrote: > > >have you not noticed that chris is a happily married man of about=20 >seven years to the charming, extremely intelligent, and beautiful=20 >susan silver? give me a break. >oh, but what do i expect from hotmail people anyway? >=3D[ > >mind riot > You are right. Besides, Chris Cornell is mine, all mine! Come here= ,=20 >Chris you stud! :) Hee hee. Just kidding. > Really, I'll bet Chris gets tired of this kind of crap all the time= . =20 >Who are these people trying to impress anyway? >Later, >Michael Apple - ---Dam you Mike! Me and fetal girl dont need your competition!!! =20 (disclaimer---Im not lusting for Chris, that poor guys over-lusted for) Carol ;) =20 ------------------------------ From: Rebekah Henderson Subject: Susan Silver article I tried to access that Susan Silver interview Vasant posted, but I get the digest so I guess I was too late. It said the file was not found. It's a newspaper and I didn't find any place where I could search previous issues of the paper. Does anybody have this article??? I would love to read it!! May Soundgarden be with you. Rebekah ------------------------------ From: Vince Varkey Subject: fire maple song Got this from the Everclear mailing list: - ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Following article appeared in Spin: April 14, 1997 Art Alexakis, frontman of the Portland, Oregon multiplatinum act Everclear, brought his one-man acoustic show to New York City's intimate Mercury Lounge last Wednesday and managed to cheer up the grunge brethen lamenting the break up of Soundgarden. And although everyone at the Merc hopes that Everclear's lifespan will be at least as long as Soundgarden's, it's pretty obvious that Art would do just fine on his own (as will Chris Cornell, no doubt). - --Brian Ives - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ From: DustyGrrl@aol.com Subject: Seth is the best!! >>Subj: Seth Perlman is a fanatic - official :-) >>Date: 97-04-26 07:06:46 EDT >>From: deborah@rustycage.u-net.com (Deborah Baker) >>To: somms@MIT.EDU > The poor guy must be >some sort of fanatic - but all the same it's a very good effort." ~~~~~~~~~ Thank you Seth, for being the kind of fanatic we and Soundgarden can really be proud of! Thanks to you, (I kno you havent always appreciated me for my ~now~ less frequent dumbass comments 8), I have met alot of cool people/fellow fans here. Somms is the reason I survived the split. Somms people can communicate on that certain level that most people in my life cant relate to when it comes to my favorite band. YOUR THE MAN!!! ;) Carol ---> Throws a big high five to Deb for posting that excellent review!! ------------------------------ From: Rhinosaur4@aol.com Subject: Toy Box I would LOVe to know the lyrics to the song "Toy Box"!!!! ------------------------------ From: e9328995@student.uq.edu.au (John Grieves) Subject: Re: Rage? At 01:38 27/06/96 +1000, Rosario Fusca wrote: >chris cornell did program rage, i think it was a couple of years ago. i >think i still have a copy of it on cassette, but im not sure. i think >there's a bit of an interview with him too, but im not sure. ruth > Yes, there is that Rage special with Chris Cornell in it - it covers a lot of Soundgarden videos, and has Chris Cornell interviewed in a motel room (?) with Ben Shepard misbehaving in the background in between videos...quite worth having your hands on! It was somewhere early in the Superunknown era - it had Spoonman and (I think!) Blackhole Sun video. Chris Cornell discussed, for a large part, the process of video making and how little it has to do with the band's interpretation of the song. Jackhammer ------------------------------ From: Carolyn Hanel Subject: Johnny Cash - and RE: Rage?....Aussie Sommsters [Carolyn Hanel] =20 This morning on Triple J Johnny Cash's version of Rusty Cage was = introduced by saying "Soundgarden is dead, but Johnny Cash lives on to play their songs for = them......" How sad. :-( But I do like his version! From: wyn [SMTP:wyn@powerup.com.au] Has anyone else out there in Australia seen the little promo they have = on Rage for Rage (you know the usual thing a whole heap of people saying/screaming Rage!). But this one has various bands or artists in it doing the same and I'm sure I've seen Chris Cornell so does anyone know = if he did program Rage and I missed it or do you think he would and they = just have it somewhere down at the ABC. [Carolyn Hanel] =20 I've seen that too, Bronwyn. I don't think it necessarily indicates SG = or CC programming Rage :-( - that was on while SG were in Australia. I = think they perhaps just got footage of various bands while in our = country, even if they didn't come into the Rage studios. {I like the = silverchair's version of saying 'Rage' on there, btw!} Bronwyn: I just got reminded of this by Jackhammer's (John Grieves) post 25/4/97: >More importantly, does anybody know of Rage here in Australia putting >together a Soundgarden special some time in the future? It would seem >fitting at the closure of the band for them to play all Soundgarden = videos >as a tribute to the band, and they certainly have done it for other bands... I also hope that they do a tribute as well. [Carolyn Hanel] You can add me to that!! :-) Bronwyn: ************ Also must remind you all you must go to the Recovery site: http://www.abc.net.au/recovery/home.htm =20 and place a few votes at the Hyperchart for us poor Aussies with no pay = TV and can't get MTV. Just click on the Jukebox bit and then Hyperchart = then vote SG- Jesus Christ Pose. (we're starting with this one first) ************* [Carolyn Hanel] I've just done it. Now I have to remember to watch it! = (can you believe Kylie Minogue is up there near the top??????) :-# Hang in there, to those of you I owe mail to! (Justin, esp you) I'll = be writing when I can......... Carolyn the Most Flaccid You wired me awake and hit me with a hand of broken nails.......SG/JC ------------------------------ From: Carolyn Hanel Subject: RE: living with myself is hard enough... - -----Original Message----- From: wyn [SMTP:wyn@powerup.com.au] When I wrote my original bit I neglected to mention that the shot I saw = of Chris was from the hair DOTU vintage. So we may still have hope of = seeing some sort of interview with videos or him or the rest of SG programming Rage perhaps. [Carolyn Hanel] Yes, Justin - I saw it too, and it was definitely taken = while SG were here this year. Hopefully this might be the first time a = band will do Rage twice???? Yah, me once more, Carolyn the Mighty Fine You tied my lead and pulled my chain to watch my blood begin to = boil......SG/JC ------------------------------ From: Rebekah Henderson Subject: First Show Pic I checked out Seth's site today and I was looking at the new pics. It's the KERRANG! pic of Chris that has me wondering. It's an old pic. Long hair and no goatee. I saved the pic and I noticed the file name; firstsho. Is this the show Chris where it was the first time Chris was the frontman and he didn't remember anything about it because he had a temperature of 103?? The reason I'm asking is because he looks SICK in the pic!!! I mean, he looked like he needed to be in bed, with a cozy blanket, and a bowl of chicken noodle soup. He looks horrible (in a sexy kind of way, mind you. :)) Just wondering. May Soundgarden be with you. Rebekah ------------------------------ From: Geri Ryan Subject: Devilhead I just picked up "Pest Control" by Devilhead the other day for only $1. I haven't really been able to deeply listen to it but I think it's pretty damn good. I look forward to seeing what Ben can add to their sound, especially with his song-writing skills. I know he may have been one of the reasons for the breakup but give Devilhead a shot. Please respond ifanyone has heard any of their music. I was also wondering what the Andrew Wood connection is to the band and also: What songs are on the bonus disc in the "Down on the Upside" Australian import. Kool Moe D. ------------------------------ From: Mitchell Family Subject: The real reason Hi everyone, Now I've heard a couple different stories about thr real reason why sg broke up.Friends have asked me why 'cause they know I like SG and I don't knnnow which story to tell them or show them.Maybe there is no real reasons,just stories people say to explain it.Please if you know the REAL reason why e-mail me.I'm a little clueless and tired (at the moment to think) with all of it but,I love SG and woould like to know.Thanks Peace Megan ------------------------------ From: Bosshogrox@aol.com Subject: Hey Sommsters,Lets start a webring! While searching the index at webring.org the other day,I realized that there isnt a soundgarden web ring.I know that there are a lot of us sommsters out there with web pages,so I was wondering if there was an individual out there who would be interested in designing and maintaining the main page for the ring.I would do it myself,but I work too much. Think,wouldnt it be great to have one place where all of us sommsters could learn more about eacxh other and our favorite band?Please give me some info if you are intewrested! ------------------------------ From: Vasant Ramamurthy Subject: Susan Silver Interview Well, it appears that interview of Susan Silver in the Chicago Sun-Times isn't at the URL it was at yesterday, so here's the text: - ------- Susan Silver steers careers toward rock stardom BY JAE-HA KIM Pop Music Critic At last year's Lollapalooza in Downstate Pecatonica, three 15-year-old girls ogled Soundgarden's bare-chested frontman, Chris Cornell, as he sang. One of them turned to the other and said, ``I want to be Susan Silver,'' referring to Cornell's wife. I asked her why, expecting the teen to gush about how cute Cornell was or how cool it would be to be married to a rock star. Instead, she said, ``Then I would be powerful, too.'' In a business that is dominated by men onstage and off, Silver is an anomaly. For most of her adult life, the 38-year-old has guided the careers of superstar groups such as Soundgarden, which recently disbanded after 12 years together, and Alice in Chains. Silver got into band management for the love of music. Money wasn't an issue. Until six years ago, Silver maintained secondary jobs to make sure the bills got paid. Her conviction that music should always come first in the music industry has earned her a stellar reputation in the rock community. ``In a world where the music industry is a really crazy place, Susan is an island of sanity,'' said director Doug Pray, who documented the music scene in Seattle in his film ``Hype!'' ``Out of all the bands in Seattle, Soundgarden managed their career the most carefully and thoughtfully for over a decade. They did everything on their own terms--even their breakup that everyone wanted to find dirt on, where there was none. It's all attributable to Susan. She just gets it.'' The first band Silver managed was the U-Men in 1983. She then added First Thought to her roster. By 1985, she met Soundgarden and started dating Cornell. The following year she began working as their manager and in 1990 married the singer. She specializes in ``loud rock music.'' When she's off the clock, Silver will play a variety of records, ranging from Edith Piaf and Eartha Kitt, to Jeff Buckley and Tuatara, to Spanish guitarists and gospel singers. Silver prefers to avoid the limelight, but in a rare interview, she spoke with the Sun-Times about what it took to get where she is today. Q. A lot of people get into the music business because they secretly wish they were in a band. Are you a frustrated musician? Silver: No. I never thought of it as a career. I played really bad keyboards in a performance once, and that was it. Oh, and I played clarinet--first chair--growing up. [Laughs.] I enjoyed playing, but I was never good at it. Even in college, I took choral classes and really loved singing. I loved it, loved it, loved it! And only after the fact did I realize how incredibly bad I was. Q. When you began your career, there weren't a lot of women managing bands. Were you apprehensive about tackling a male-dominated field? Silver: I never thought of being a woman as a hindrance. I just went forward with what I wanted to do. I think if I had thought about it, it may have been a hindrance. But I didn't know that I couldn't do it, so I just did it. Q. Were you perceived as a hanger-on in the beginning? Silver: I had already been part of a scene in Seattle by the time I started managing, and I was working all the time. So there wasn't much time to even look like I was a hanger-on. If I was perceived that way, it didn't matter to me because I was doing a job that I loved, even though it wasn't a paying job. I loved being involved. Q. You majored in Chinese at the University of Washington. Anyone who does that can't be money-driven. When did you start earning income as a manager? Silver [laughs]: I always had other jobs until 1991. So it was really only since then that it became my full-time, paying job, even though I had been doing it for about 12 years. Q. How difficult is it to work with your husband? Silver: We have pretty good boundaries. In the beginning, everything was so new and exciting that I did want to talk about [the business] 24 hours a day. There are days that I still want to do that, but I stop myself. You have to keep them separate. Q. What's Soundgarden's future? Silver: When the band's ready to say something, that will be it. But they are respectfully disbanded. Q. How much of a band's success is related to its management? Silver: It's a partnership. The strength of an organization can really create a successful environment for an artist. Certainly, the music comes first. It's really important for great artists to surround themselves with great management, but I think lawyers are as important as managers. My job is to present the pros and cons as thoroughly as possible, but ultimately [the choice of which label to sign with or whether to hold out for another deal] is the artists' decision. They're the ones who have to live with what they decide. It's really a balancing act to preserve a band's future as well as make them successful. The time we're at right now is where there's a heavy emphasis on chart-topping hits, and there's less room for artist development. With Soundgarden and Alice in Chains, we got in under the wire because there still were a lot of opportunities for artist development. Thankfully, there are still some patient record companies that continue to invest in groups and realize that. But in general, the music business is much more of a song-driven market as opposed to a lifestyle market. Q. What do many bands overlook when they sign a record deal? Silver: It's not that they overlook this, but nowadays bands have to be up not just on the financial aspects, but the mechanics of what they have to do to break a record [such as waiting for the right time rather than expecting a hit with your first try and knowing how radio works for and against you]. The guys in Sponge [who Silver also represents] are so on top of the game. Bands need to have a real awareness of how incredibly competitive it is. I'm finding more and more artists are aware of how much goes into that and staying on top of their game. Q. What keeps you sane? Silver: Chris. And my dogs. I have three small ones here and another two at home. Q. Taking care of bands must be easy compared to that. Silver [laughs]: There you go! It's all perspective. - ------ Vasant Vasant Ramamurthy vman@ctdnet.acns.nwu.edu http://ctdnet.acns.nwu.edu/~vman/me.html ------------------------------ From: justin nicholls Subject: a lifetime searching for something... without further ado, here is chapter 2 of justin's soundgarden songbook. this week's topic is 'gun'. I hope you like it. if you hate it, mail me and we'll work something out... details - track three from _louder than love_, 'gun' runs in at a modest four minutes and forty-two seconds. similar to many soundgarden songs, both the music and lyrics were penned by chris cornell. the record itself was produced by terry date, whose fruitful history with the band included production duties on _badmotorfinger_, and of course soundgarden themselves. something I've always liked about this record is that both stuart hallerman and jack endino provided studio assistance; reason being that jack was good to the band in their early history and stuart seems to have been around for ages, popping up everywhere. two good men behind any mixer, in my book. 'gun', like the rest of the album' was recorded over the christmas break of 1988-89 at london bridge studio. never released as a single, 'gun' was included on a promo cd of 'loud love' and an audio track of its performance on the video _louder than live_ was included on the australian and european release of 'blow up the outside world'. music - well, this song can truly be called, if you'll pardon my bluster, an "old school" soundgarden song. the riff is immediately recognisable to anyone who has listened to the band for a period longer than six months, and so it should be. this song is classic soundgarden; the certain amount of swagger and volume requisite in any pre-superunk recording is here, and it is here in abundance. probably the best song from _ltl_, imho (closely followed by 'I awake'). despite that, there isn't much to say about this song musically, since it is fairly linear and not to complex or noodly. but having said that, 'gun' is by no means a boring or plain song. what it lacks in complicated song-writing it easily makes up for with sheer power and weight. if you are in the mood for cheesy (and fairly simple) analogies, I equate 'gun' with a large and rather sweaty locomotive, slowly gaining speed over it's course, running down anything in it's way. this pretty much sums the song up, I guess. 'gun' has slow beginnings, but from the first listen you get the clear impression that this song can't possibly maintain this speed. it *must* get faster. and it does. driven by matt's toms and pure chunk from kim, 'gun' gains speed bar by bar, each terse...I mean verse (pardon my $1 vocab) racing faster than the last. the rhythm of the song is fantastic, catching you up and pushing you to conclusion with its momentum. in full swing by the second verse, 'gun' is unique in the soundgarden catalogue; no other song plays on acceleration and anticipation quite like it. marvelous, really. the band would have been dumb to try and replicate it on future albums, and much to their credit they didn't. kim pontificates thusly: "The thing about this song that's so distinct is that the tempo starts off slow and gradually speeds up, but it doesn't walk up steps or come to sections that are faster. It just speeds up until it culminates in a big jack-off guitar solo. Then it slows down again. It's a fun song to do live because Matt [Cameron, drummer] always speeds up way too fast. Faster than we can play." (guitar school, may '94) instrumentally, 'gun' belies the simple motion of the song's form. this song requires some major chops. you may hear matt pounding his floor tom, but ultimately it is his kick drum and hiro's bass that have total control. I'm not sure of any other song where hiro and matt were as tight as they are here ('beyond the wheel' and 'incessant mace' come to mind, but I'd have to listen to them again). kim should also be pleased with his effort; I'm yet to think of a song that sounds so clean yet so dirty at the same time. not a note out of place, as far as I can tell. chris' vocals are clean with no effects (which would have been unnecessary anyway) and aren't doubled, giving the listener an unadorned glimpse into what his throat really can do. the pace of the lyrics also gel perfectly with the song's intent (which came first, the words or the music?) unfortunately, I didn't have time to watch _louder than live_ this morning, and I can't really tell if chris plays guitar on this track. there might be two guitar tracks (both by kim?), but everything is so tight that I can't figure it out. any tips would be appreciated. at any rate, the final result of these four men's skill is (if you listen to it closely) almost mind numbing in its beauty. structurally, 'gun' is weird. there is no chorus. or at least, there is no discernible chorus. the repetitive sections ("shoot, shoot, shoot...push, push push") seem like a chorus, but the riff being played is exactly the same as the one during the more varied lyrics ("nothing to worry"), so I'm not sure that it counts. but then again, I'm no expert, and soundgarden have never been sticklers for structured song-writing. there is, however, a distinction between riffs here. the riff played during the intro is later used as a bridge between verses, leading me to think that this is the lyric-less chorus. then kim strides in at 2:53 with a *great* guitar solo, which is centered rather than panned to the left. the solo itself is in sharp contrast to the song's abrasive introduction, but by this point the all four instruments are racing for the finish line anyway, so it seems perfect ('rhinosaur' solo anyone?). the lead break is followed by a breakdown at 3:25, which then concludes by returning to the song's original (much slower and chunkier) riff, chris' voice full of menace. a couple of interesting points (all to do with drumming, if you'll pardon my blathering). listening through headphones last night, I picked up something totally wacky. at 3:13 matt gives us a rare treat...a double kick drum! although a self-acknowledged average double bass player, he has laid out seven of them at the conclusion of kim's solo. they sound kind of out of place to my ears, now that I know they are there. also, the breakdown for 'gun' is cool, in that it progressively became a chance for the band to just go wild. the song was added to the band's setlist early and often (it was at one time a staple of their performance), and I think that as they became more comfortable with the song, they let it grow. I strongly recommend those who haven't got this song on a boot somewhere at home, go get a copy. at later shows, this song more than any other became a showcase for matt, progressing from thumping rolls to twenty second drum solos (the version on _this is boston, not seattle_ must be heard to be believed). and just on a tangent, I originally thought that 'gun' was the first of the truly tom-driven soundgarden songs. wrong wrong wrong. the first was 'little joe', but I feel safe discounting that one because I don't really like it that much. there is also, of course, 'beyond the wheel' (may my flesh be stripped from my living body for forgetting that one) and 'nazi driver' (a song matt wasn't happy with, from memory). since then, there have been a ton of soundgarden songs that rely heavily on some weird or driving tom pattern from matt. and the list doesn't start and end with 'jesus christ pose' (as amazing as that song is). in fact, no less than five songs from _superunknown_ follow this drum style, as do three from _down on the upside_. interestingly (and I'll shut up about it in just a moment), while 'like suicide' and 'wooden jesus' are great examples of matt's skill on the toms, 'switch opens' is probably one of the coolest , if only because matt throws us a change-up. in all of the above songs, matt uses his toms during the verse and then moves to the hi-hat or ride cymbal during the chorus. but in 'switch opens' he plays some pretty cool toms during the *chorus* and leaves his zildjian's to the verse. perhaps not that noteworthy, but interesting to me. lyrics - here they is: I got an idea of something we can do with a gun sink load and fire till the empire reaps what they've sown shoot shoot shoot till their minds are open shoot shoot shoot till their eyes are closed push push push till we get some motion push push push till the bombs explode I got an idea we can do it all on our own nothing to worry regret must weigh a ton kick kick kick till the laws are broken kick kick kick till the boots are worn hit hit hit till the truth is spoken hit hit hit till the truth is born I got an idea of something we can do with a gun. chris at lollapalooza '92 in phoenix introduced this song as "an open-minded song...it's about getting off your ass and forcing people to change...". I guess that really sums it up. in some respects it seems that chris is taking an anti-war stance ("till the bombs explode"), but the means he would use appear very aggressive or violent, even militaristic. perhaps he is hoping to use the "empire's" own force against them, turn the tables on those in power, so that they know what it is like to be on the wrong end of a gun barrel. it is certainly a song where the writer wants to cast off authority, yet make those in authority know and understand the suffering of those below. truth and freedom are very strong themes here, and the desire to fight for them is just as strong. almost inevitable, in fact; the line "regret must weight a ton" illustrating a future where such (dare I say) revolution has already taken place and those who sat on their asses must be wishing they did not. all in all, a rather cheery number. coupled with 'power trip', 'hands all over' and (at a stretch) 'uncovered', you could almost mistake soundgarden for some sort of political band :) well, that's it fellow sommsters. next week, 'new damage'. ----------------------------------------------- in your real life, treat it like it's special in your real life, try to be more kind in your real life, think of those that love you in this real life, try to be less blind words by vernon reid ---------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ From: Lee Christensen Subject: auction Hey ya, Well it's been awhile since my last posting :) Good to see the rest of the Aussies are still in here :) hey ya everyone :) OK got to: http://www.streammedia.com/auctionline/ and you get big on a SG guitar signed by the band...it's for a cancer research fund or something..so it goes to a good cause if you win. Just thought I would throw it in anway. umm not much else to say...excepct to Justin, I am sure bands have programed RAGE twice...of course I can't think of examples but I belive they have :) And you would think Rage will do a tibute fairly soon....they usually do, all the SG videos ever made...now let's hope they do it :) umm that's it for me and my once a year posting :) seeya Lee ***** "I'm sorry I was cruel, I forgot to kiss you..... " For KC dog....love you always....Oct 1986 - Feb 25 1997 ------------------------------ From: DodeRoad@aol.com Subject: Susan Silver interview I typed in the URL that someone posted here for an interview with Susan Silver, but It said File Not Found. The URL I got was http://www.suntimes.com/arts/current/SILV_Apr26.html Is this right? ~Kelly ------------------------------ From: "Saskia Becher" Subject: Searching for .....Hype Hey I have two questions....For those of you that have seen the Hype video there is a bit where Chris starts singing Searching with My Good Eye Closed that starts off real slow and goes on from there and I was wondering if anyone knows where I can find an audio copy of that version??? and where I can find somewhere on the net (or someone) to order SG bootlegs as I have found one (Stolen Prayers) which is good but I would like to get more....... Sassy ------------------------------ End of somms Digest [Volume 3 Issue 105] ****************************************