Date: Sun, 14 Sep 1997 02:00:02 -0400 Subject: SOMMS Digest - 13 Sep 1997 to 14 Sep 1997 There are 17 messages totalling 850 lines in this issue. Topics of the day: 1. Cold Bitch 2. An Attempt at Intelligence 3. Soundgarden's Greatest the singles 4. Hits just keep on coming (2) 5. Will you buy Soundgarden's Greatest Hits? (2) 6. My fav chris cornell quotes... (2) 7. middle names?? (2) 8. The SG/Rugrats Connection 9. Purchasing Records From A&M Causes an Inexplicable Decrease In Wallet Contents 10. speaking of nicktoons..... 11. oopth 12. You never know who might be a hootchie! 13. kim's one funny guy, and i guess te others are okay too....... To UNSUBSCRIBE from SOMMS, send email to LISTSERV@MITVMA.MIT.EDU with the following in the body of your message: SIGNOFF SOMMS ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 13 Sep 1997 02:08:55 -0400 From: Jenny Grover Subject: Cold Bitch Cold Bitch was recorded for BMF. Jen Grover ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 13 Sep 1997 10:58:18 -0400 From: Lance Huber Subject: Re: An Attempt at Intelligence In a message dated 97-09-12 17:06:53 EDT, jmjdip5@GTE.NET writes: << Can anyone tell me where this shunning of organized religon came from? >> In the words of Chris himself., people who buy into organized religion are like fish. I don't want to be a fish. Lance (This is not intended as a slam, I just happen to agree with Chris. Except, in Utah, where I come from, the people are not like fish, they are like sheep. They're not smart enough to be fish) ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 13 Sep 1997 11:25:42 -0400 From: Lance Huber Subject: Soundgarden's Greatest the singles Allow me to play cynic for a moment............ From a $$$$$$money$$$$$$ stand point, it would make perfect sense for A & M to do a singles only release at this time. There is still kind of a fervor over Soundgarden (they are getting as much or more airplay here than ever). Therefore, a singles only version makes sense. Grab the money while it's there. The greedy bastards. THEN>>>>>>>>>>>> Just as things look like they may be fading just a little, say next summer or fall, they could whip everyone (some of us anyway) the slimy S.O.B.'s will release an album of unreleased material just to go to the proverbial cash cow one more time. If they were to do something like that now (unless some wrinkle in the space time continum caused a B-side to just leap into the top 10)....they would blow there wad now and not make nearly as much money. So from a marketing standpoint (sorry that's what I do, I'm a media whore) it makes sense to try it this way first. I love the boys in Soundgarden as much if not more than anyone. But do not be mistaken. They have a business side as well and 50 years of life to secure financially. They will not be against making enough money to carry them comfortably into the future. My only hope is that they don't show up in the future to do the reunion thing (ala Fleetwood Mac, Journey, and the horde of these other people that will not just ease peacefully into retirement). I hope they all have prosperous solo careers and careers in other endeavors. They have decided to put Soundgarden to bed in a totally classy, respectable way with integrity and dignity. The way they have always attempted to approach stuff. I hope it stays that way. BUT I guarantee, there will be at least SOME unreleased or B-side material on this album. If you will look over the past decade absolutely no one releases a Greatest whatever album without some new song(s) to entice the rest of us who own everything else to buy it. It will be there. If not, you can all flog me. Wheeeeeewwwww God was that long and pretencious or what???? Lance ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 13 Sep 1997 10:46:09 -0500 From: tonerkin Subject: Hits just keep on coming At 11:25 AM 9/13/97 -0400, you wrote: >I love the boys in Soundgarden as much if not more than anyone. But do not be >mistaken. They have a business side as well and 50 years of life to secure >financially. They will not be against making enough money to carry them >comfortably into the future. Nor should they be against the idea. They didn't make tons of money to begin with. You have to remember only SU made lots and lots of $$$$$ And who knows that manager of theirs might of taken a big chunk!! :) >My only hope is that they don't show up in the future to do the reunion thing >(ala Fleetwood Mac, Journey, and the horde of these other people that will >not just ease peacefully into retirement). I have to take issue with this. Being an old fart I have many bands that I have liked in the past who came back around and I have gone to see them. Yes, some of these guys should give it up BUTT some of them can still put on a hell of a show. Yes, they are older and believe me 50 isn't that old! (lookin younger all the time!) It doesn't mean they are not still good at what they do. I went to see Paul Rodgers(ex lead singer for Free and Bad Co.) and the man still has one of the best voices in Rock and Roll hands down. If you didn't like Fleetwood Mac the first time around ..yes, a reunion tour seems ridiculous and crass. BUTT if you were a fan than and a fan still. You would be salivating with the thought. Don't say you would never want to see Soundgarden reunite because 10 years from now you might be dying to hear Matt's drum intro of JCP live just one more time!! And I bet he'll still be able to play it!!! As far as the Greatest Hits Cd. I suppose I will buy it because I am totally hooked and I want it ALL!!! I would love to see a good B sides complication. I just don't see that happening. toni > ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 13 Sep 1997 11:05:09 -0500 From: Richard E Horner Subject: Re: Will you buy Soundgarden's Greatest Hits? I was thinking this too. I wont buy a greatest hits record because I only have about 70 cds right now and there are about 200 that I want so I'd rather shell out my money elsewhere. Would I buy it if it were on vinyl? No, I can get my hands on "blizzard of ozz" vinyl. I would buy something that was video because the only vid I've seen from before SU was Loud Love. The album would have to contain an inordinant amount of material unavailible ANYWHERE else to convince me to buy it. What am I saying? I don't have money. And I agree with Lance (was it you?) that pointed out that every other greatest hits album contains unreleased stuff. All of the greatest hit I can think of have b-sides (slaughter, poison, etc.) I don't like them, but there is ONE greatest hits that I THINK didn't have any new stuff. Black Sabbath's "We Sold Our Soul for Rock 'N' Roll" I'm not sure because I'm not holding my copy but I do have the version that is missing 2 tracks so that it would fit on one cd. This sucks, my last post to the list was HUGE and insightful but it NEVER MADE IT. I sent it 3 days ago, and I can't remember what I said, and even if I could I'm too lazy to write it again so pretend I said something profound. Yeah right, Rich "Dying on your feet for Honest Abe" Soundgarden, Metallica, and Megadeth, Injustice for All http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/Stage/4984 .' `. .'/ __ ___ ______ _ _ _ __ \`. .'/ \/ || _||_ _/ /|| | | | | | / \ | `\. ' / /\/| || |_ | | / || | | | | |/ /\_\| |\\` / / | || _| | | /_||| | | | | || _ | _ \ / / | || |_ | | / || |_ | |_ | |\ \/ /| | \ \ / / | ||___| |_|/_/|_||___||___||_| \__/ | | \ \ / / |/ \| \ \ /.' `.\ ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 13 Sep 1997 12:28:25 -0400 From: Mike Smith Subject: Re: Hits just keep on coming im in total compliance with tonis post, why would'nt any of us want sg to get back togeather and do a reunion thing.... i just dont understand, what the hell are you worried about? what? are you worried chris's voice will crack?, ben wont be able to spit as far? mabey i dont understand because im totally in it for the music. "meaning i dont care what happens as long as i get my hands on new music, or new versions of existing music----i know, i know, im the perfect fan in A & M's eyes and the sucker who is gonna buy the greatest hits album because there is a version of chris doing rhinosaur in the shower, named the "soap in my eyes remix". toni was absolutly in the right when saying that "if we were moody blues fans, we would be salavating over a reunion tour" anyway, im not sure where else to go with this post, so responses, anyone........ mike. "this is getting old and so are you, everything you know and thought you knew" ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 13 Sep 1997 14:11:31 -0400 From: Maria Joseph Subject: Re: My fav chris cornell quotes... I thought this was a pretty kewl thing, about the Chris quotes.. I just wanna put some stuff that I like from the band, on here, from interviews.. Kerrang!: The first question is from P.W. of Brighton. He asks: Since Soundgarden are renowned for being a moody band, how do you put up with each other's moods? Chris Cornell: "Well, we're always all sour at the same time. And if one guy's happy, we make him leave the room until he comes back in a bad mood like he should be." ----------------------------- ....What's the worst job you've ever had? "I had to bugger sheep when the local shepherd went on holiday. Of course, sheep get lonely and the whole thing ended up being a hassle because of the personal attachment I had with the sheep. See, I'm a very sensitive guy. I'm not one of those guys who can just bang a sheep and then go away and forget about it." -------------------------- Ok, now these two tied in in the interview, but oh well, here: Kim Thayil was recently charged with assulting a fan. H.B. from Cambridge asks if you have to be more careful every time someone approaches you now? "Only cos you can't haul someone off and smack them in the face cos it costs $200,000! So, yeah, you do have to be careful, and it sucks. All the band have been sued now - I can't believe Matt ever got sued, cos he's the nicest guy. He took his snare drum off the stand, threw it up in the air, and it landed on the drum riser and rolled off and landed on some guy's shoulder. I think that cost us $40,000! How hurt can the guy have been? And I'm sure he didn't even earn $40,000 a year, more like $10,000. But if I actually punched someone it would cost us more than $40,000, unless there were witnesses or he punched me first." D.W. of Norwich wants to know, what's the weirdest request you've ever had from a fan? "I don't know about the weirdest, but the dumbest request was when we were doing an in-store and this girl wanted me to stand on the table and do a Jesus Christ pose for her while she took my picture. Of course, I said no, and she started raving at me - like, 'I've been a fan for years, how dare you not stand on the table and pose for me!'. It really was annoying... So I nailed her to a cross and got sued!" ---------------------- Finally, J.B. from Hull wonders how you feel about being a sex symbol for gay men? "I think it's wonderful. The only problem is, I've done my best to get in touch with my feminine side, and it turns out my feminine side is a dyke. So I'm stuck with women for the rest of my life!." -------------------- Ok, this one isn't the actually interview.. it's what the reporter is seeing I guess, but it's more of the setting, I think... I'll just start it off and then jump around it... On a soundstage done up to resemble a demented interrogation chamber, Chris Cornell is shackled to a perforated mental dentist's chair of a sort you imagine Trent Reznor has stored in his garage somewhere. Frances Farmer-grade Velcro restraints bind his wrists to a dull gunmetal crossbar that projects from the chair's back; his temples sprout shiny plastic things that are supposed to be electrodes, but which more closely resemble bubble-packaged Drixoral tablets with wires coming out of them. His baggy sharkshin suit is puckered with exertion and sweat... The video is for Soundgarden's Beatles-tinged agony epic "Blow Up the Outside World,".............. "Is it too warm for you in here?" a gofer asks Cornell. "Would you like a drink of water? Can I get you some cookies to munch on while they set up the shot?" "Is there going to be a grip nearby?" Cornell cracks, avoiding her eyes to the extent that it is possible for him to do anything at all in three hundred pounds of bondage gear. "I mean, in case I need somebody to scratch my nose." The P.A. cinches the strap tight across Cornell's scalp. He shudders with pain. "When I give the signal, could you twitch a little?" asks Casale "To make it look as if you're really being shocked." Cornell strains to flip Casale the finger, but restraints on his wrists limit his gesture to a mild spasm. "Hmmmmm," Casale says. "Perfect." ------------------------------------- "People just don't realize how much fun it is to be depressed," he (Chris) says with a grin... ------------------------------------ Now this is a interview from Kerrang. You all probably remember it maybe.. about the little "Kerrang Challenge" they gave Kim. Well, I really liked that one.. I don't mind typing it out so don't worry.. it's pretty kewl.. This week's contestant is... Name: Kim Thayil Occupation: Guitarist from Soundgarden Specialist subject: the Superunknown 1. What is the name of Clint Eastwood's character in the spaghetti western For A Few Dollars More? Kim Thayil: The name with no name 2. Where in the world would you find the Sears Tower? KT: Chicago, Illinois 3. What is acrophobia a fear of? KT: Arachnophobia's a fear of spiders. Agoraphobia's a fear of going outside. So acro.. I don't know. Fear of heights? Kerrang: Bugger! 4. Which two members of The Black Crowes are brothers? KT: The singer and the guitarist. The Robinson brothers. 5. Name the Fonz's three sidekicks in Happy Days. KT: Richie, Pottsy, Ralph Malph... And there was Chachi - he was a newphew of Fonzie, or something. He came along later. 6. Name five films starring Bruce Willis. KT: The three Die Hard Movies. There was the Moonlighting TV series, but I don't know if that counts. Kerrang: Nope. KT: Okay, Pulp Fiction. And he was in Twelve Monkeys. 7. In which Dickens' novel would you find the ghost of Jacob Marley? KT: A Christmas Carol. Kerrang: Smartarse! 8. Name Prince Charles and Princess Diana's two children. Matt Cameron: (from the other side of the room) Willian and Henry! Kerrang: Sir, help from the sidelines is forbidden. And it's William and Harry, actually. KT: I don't think I'd have got Harry. MC: Actually, Henry is Harry's real name. Kerrang: Double bugger! 9. In what year was President John F. Kennedy assassinated? MC: 1962 Kerrang: Look, we're warning you. Go off and play your drums or something. KT: No, it's '63. Lyndon Johnson took over in '64. 10. In which film did Henry Rollins appear alongside Al Pacino and Robert De Niro? MC: That was Heat. Kerrang: Next interruption will cost your mate a point. KT: Right...Henry was in another movie with those guys from the Chili Peppers, too. Or wasn't that Heat, where he played a cop? Kerrang: No, next... 11. In which city would you find St. Mark's Square? KT: New York Kerrang: It says Venice here. KT: There's one in New York too. MC: It's St. Mark's Place in New York. Kerrang: Thank you. No points... 12. What was the cowboy William H. Bonney better known as? MC: Wild Bill Hickcock. Kerrang: You said that without moving your lips, Kim. And it's wrong. 13. What kind of animal is a loach? KT: A kind of rodent? A bird? A fish! 14. What is Reuters? KT: It's a news agency. European, I think. 15. Spell 'rhododendron'. KT: R-H-O-D-E-D-E-N-D-R-O-N. Kerrang: Oh dear, one letter out... KT: I had this picture of Rhodesia. They call them Rhodies. I've got them in my yard. MC: They don't have any in California, they're all in Washington. 16. Santa Fe is capital of which US state? KT: New Mexico. Ben Shepherd: (wandering through the room) Is this an IQ test? Kerrang: It's the Kerrang Challenge. Anyone else? MC: What's the challenge? Kerrang: At present, to shut you up. 17. Hymen was the Greek god of what? KT: Virginity? Virtue? MC: The Greek god of a thin layer of skin. KT: Man, I know my mythology. And you go and ask me to spell rhododendron and what kind of animal a loack is! Kerrang: Whatever. You got the mythology question wrong... 18. What was Elvis Presley's middle name? KT: Aaron 19. France borders which country to the south? KT: Spain 20. Which city's stock exchange is based on the Dow Jones index? KT: New York 21. In which decade was Bruce Springsteen born? KT: The 50's. Or maybe the late 40's. Yeah, late 40's. He was born to rock 'n' roll! 22. Which meat would you associal with the deadly bacteria salmonella? KT: Chicken. Actually, you can get salmonella from frogs and salamanders too. Kerrang: You shouldn't really be eating those... KT: But if you're a kid and you're playing with them and you lick your fingers.. Or put a salamander in your mouth and slip it around. 23. Where in a man would you find his urethra? KT: In the hole in his dick. 24. What is a Dutch Cap? KT: I don't know. A flower? A weed? 25. Who wrote Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory? KT: Roald Dahl. He wrote James and the Giant Peach too. And it's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory was what they called the movie, because they started merchandising Willy Wonka gear... MC: So he gets an extra point because the question you gave him was wrong. KT: Unless you want to know who wrote the screenplay, in which case I don't know.. Kerrang: Oh, forget it... HOW DID KIM THAYIL SCORE? 20 OUT OF 25 THE VERDICT Frankly, a let-down - we wanted the full monty from the 'Garden's Mad professor. And he had illegal help from drummer Matt Cameron. ------------------------- That would be all.. Actually when I wanted to respond to this I had in mind this little statement that was said by Kim and Chris in an interview and it looks like I don't have it so, I'll have to find it and then tell ya.. it, too, is funny. But for now, see-ya later! -Bunchy Pants ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 13 Sep 1997 15:13:22 -0400 From: Maria Joseph Subject: Re: middle names?? I knew that! Actually I assumed that matt's mid name was david, i was about to ask the list if i might be right.. so it's: Christopher John Cornell Matthew David Cameron now what about ben? Would it be Hunter Ben Shepherd? I know that he is referred to as Hunter "Ben" Shepherd, but would the "ben" actually be his mid name? If i confuse you, sorry :)~ -BunchyPants ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 13 Sep 1997 15:15:42 -0400 From: Maria Joseph Subject: Re: middle names?? Ignore that last post i made about ben.. just found out his mid name :)~ I KNEW THAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I did!!! I remember reading it somewhere!! Heheh.... i'm learning sooo much!!!! -Bunchypants ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 13 Sep 1997 17:39:56 -0400 From: Maria Joseph Subject: Re: The SG/Rugrats Connection > Since the characters are babies, they don't always pronounce things right. I can't even >count how many times he said the word rhinosaur. This cartoon would >have been made pre-DOTU. Did SG watch Rugrats? Of course they do...where do you think Ben got those great "hissy fit" ideas of his?? Anjelica the evil brat child! Which Ben fan threw that giant spit wad??? >Exactly where did they >come up with that song name? Ben, Chris, Matt and Kim all talk funny ....you didn't know that?? Hence the song Rhinosaur. I read in an interview about the name of Rhinosaur. Matt says that it's a nose saur because "rhino" means nose and "saur" is just spelled differently, but you get the picture :) They do talk funny... because they are funny so.. Kick Ass!! -Maria C. ~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* *SOUNDGARDEN (3)~ ~ 1984 - 1997 * *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~ ~SOUNDGARDEN (4)* * 1985 - 1997 ~ ~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 13 Sep 1997 18:25:58 -0400 From: CL Miller Subject: Purchasing Records From A&M Causes an Inexplicable Decrease In Wallet Contents Hmmmm.... I can't stand it! Will there be b-sides or won't there be b-sides??? I guess we'll just have to wait until the almighty CD Gods (sorry about the religious reference) to bless us with their presence. Oooohh...I want to comment on the "organized religion" comments...but I'll be a good little boy and try to keep my posts SG related. And on the western front... > I gotta thought...why don't ya'll wait for others to buy it, sell it for > crack and then you go buy it from a used CD store...A&M don't get shit outta > your pockets for it, but then again niether do tha boyz (not that they'd want > it). > ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha! this just killed me! chris -- Philosophical Issue of the Day Who are you? ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 13 Sep 1997 19:13:44 -0400 From: Nadezhda Ball Subject: speaking of nicktoons..... Hey buddies of the sommsgarden, As I sit here, watching the end of AHHHHHHH! real monsters, a thought came to me, that had probably been there before, but it just decided to rear its silly head now. Before I say this, I'm not saying this just to fit in on fun things to associate sg with deals. So here goes, if you have watched this show, have you noticed that if you put all of our boys together in a big moo moogly entity that it would most likely turn out looking, sounding, and acting like Krumm. Maybe not so much the acting, but then again, that can be Matt's contribution to the Soundgarden Monster. It kind of looks like Kim and Ben, hell it looks like all of them if they had one kid together. He has the voice of a combined Soundgarden. He probably stinks like them too. And I think he likes to have fun like them too, but he has more to experience to get that one down. I dunno, I just thought that it was an odd thing. Hmmm maybe these guys at Nickelodeon really like Soundgarden, maybe they're members of somms and are laughing their silly lil heads right now, cuz we've figured them out! Anyway, I've heard the interview where the boys are talking about Rhinosaur (thanx Rachelle, it's in the mail as of monday) and yeah, they explained what Rhinosaur means, but that doesn't neccessarily mean that that's where it's origin is from. I think that they might have gotten it from one of my fav nicktoons, cuz I mean Kim admitts to watching Sesame Street, so why not Rugrats. Maybe they didn't wanna tell the truth cuz it's embarrassing. I think that they would find the whole show a "hoot," can't you just picture it? Whoo woo, these posts are getting sillier and sillier, I think I'll stick to the serious side of things. Nah, this is too much fun. DeZHy "if this isn't makin sense, it doesn't make it lies." ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 13 Sep 1997 20:49:19 -0400 From: Catherine Veit Subject: Re: My fav chris cornell quotes... i personally thank you for those quotes, i particularly enjoyed kim's little IQ test i always knew he was a smarty-pants, sort of speak.. i don't have anything else to say... oh i bought some super ancient sg pins for .99!!! that's the best i can do around these parts.. i need to move. i love lucy is on in 10 min so i gotta shut down. thanx-cats4kim ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 14 Sep 1997 00:31:39 -0400 From: Nadezhda Ball Subject: oopth GIVE ME AN S! S! GIVE ME AN O! O! GIMME A DOUBLE M! M-M! GIMME ANOTHER S! S! WHAT DOES THAT SPELL? SOMMS! YAY! well... i keep meaning to do this, but always forget. or maybe i didn't. once again crack fills my head....... okay, just wanted to give a kudos bar to seth and justin for the song of the month. very very beautiful. and all this time i thought that mind riot was just a song. aww i'm just kiddin ya! alright take care y'all. it's nighty night time for me. ya know werk in the am.....zzzz..... DeZHy "if this isn't makin sense, it doesn't make it lies." ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 14 Sep 1997 15:02:57 +0000 From: Fiona Thiessen Subject: Re: Will you buy Soundgarden's Greatest Hits? "Steven Russell Jr." wrote: > Are you going to fork out > $16.99 for songs you already have? Sure the liner notes may be written by > J. Poneman (hehe...what a selling point!)... but really...does anyone care? yep. In the case of vinyl (colored or not) I'm buying it just on the basis that it will be another piece of SG art for my collection (many vinyl freaks will know what I mean by this - Hi Jen!). I hope the art work on it is really amazing, but looking at the time frame they've had to put this thing together, I doubt it. Even for SG - a band that I will buy both the cd and vinyl for the same release - I'm 99% sure that if the majority of this album is standard singles won't get it on cd. I'm betting that there will be _no_ Black Hole Sun on it. I can hear you all from here "Fiona, if you think they're not going to have the song that 'sold the world to SG' on it, then you have lost your mind", but hey, I take risks with my bets :) I'm also betting that there will be 3 or 4 b-sides. As for a name - Mr. Bunchypants springs to mind ;) Fiona Music is the truth. You can look into a man's eyes and know, because a man's heart is in his eyes, and music comes from the heart. You can look into a man's eyes and know if he's about music or he's just a pirate. -- Ben Harper ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 14 Sep 1997 00:49:25 -0500 From: tonerkin Subject: You never know who might be a hootchie! I was looking around tonight..I should be in bed. And I found this old letter to Spin magazine. Some of you old timers should recognize the name. SPIN July 1994 , Volume: 10 , # 4 POINT BLANK LETTERS Married?! Thank you for ruining my fuckin' day by informing me that Chris Cornell is already happily married. I hope you know you dashed the hopes of a lot of his female fans who had aspirations of possibly bearing his children someday! Monnica Lewis Indianapolis, Indiana Yes, it's our very own Monnica. A closet Hootchie I might add. She is no longer with us(she quit the list she is not dead) BUTT reading it brought a smile to my face. Those of you at Chicago Sommsfest remember Monnica don't you?? toni < < ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 14 Sep 1997 01:57:23 -0400 From: Nadezhda Ball Subject: kim's one funny guy, and i guess te others are okay too....... hola los sommsters! okay i just remembered a quote from kim in the new metal crown, thanx to O6z6z6y for helping me cope with my sg addiction, and all the twelve steps and shit. i'm not sure how it exactly goes, and i'm not about to go lookin thru the damn book to find it. it's 1:23 in the am for chrissakes! (btw i just looked at that, it's not like chris sakes, but like christ sakes minus the "t", no chris iz god complex here). okay kim's talking bout fans or somehing and goes: "like the 14 (or pick anumber i forget) year old girls diddling themselves to chris's pictures." hee hee hee. that one cracks me up. damn kim, yer a funny guy. or how bout: PULSE! March '94 But Thayil suddenly sits bolt upright with a wicked brainstorm. "Hey, let's go out and sexually harass some workers here at A&M," propses the bearded beafy guitarist, who-at 6'1"-looks as intimidating as your average Hell's Angel. Lanky vocalist Cornell, who is taller still but nowhere near as menacing, immediately joins in his bandmate's gag. "Some males," he offers. "Let's grab 'em and go, 'Hey, where you goin'?" Thayil parries, his eyes all aglitter. "And if they try to get away from you, just hold 'em real tight." "Or grab 'em by the back of the hair and go, 'You've got a really cute mouth! Have you ever done it with a man?" says Cornell rolling with it. "And then say, "Oh silly me! I shouldn't be asking such questions!" Thayil finishes, content with the document of the drama. And these guys aren't laughing, either, just smiling subtly in some unspoken communication, generated and nutured over a decades worth of music making and the friendship. Outsiders get the message only gradually. those silly boys. AND WE CAN"T FORGET EVERYBODY'S FAVORITE sorry, just wanted desperately to be one of those home shopping network type people. Rolling Stone June 16, 1994 (radio interview from somewhere, printed here) Host: How tall are you Ben? Shepard: Tall enough to touch the ground, like Lincoln said. Caller: Hi. I read somewhere that Chris apologized for having a penis, and I was just wondering how you guys felt about the surge of grrrl bands like Bikini Kill. Shepard: I'm glad people are making bands, I don't care what sex they are. Caller: Hi, there. Actually, this is on everyone's mind: boxers or briefs? Thayil: I think you'd want to ask Chris that. Caller: Hi, I was wondering what you guys were planning on doing for your next single. Thayil: We're planning on wearing boxers. Shepard: "The Day I Tried to Live" Thayil: Yeah, "The Day I Tried to Live." Sorry about that, it's my penis. well, that was just too funny. you just have to remember to say "oh silly me" like an old british woman, trust me, it's funnier. my sides are splitting, and i'm about to bust a gut, so i gotta go. hope you enjoyed. DeZHy "Oh silly me!" "if this isn't makin sense, it doesn't make it lies." can never break old habits. ------------------------------ End of SOMMS Digest - 13 Sep 1997 to 14 Sep 1997 ************************************************