From: Automatic digest processor To: Recipients of SOMMS digests Subject: SOMMS Digest - 16 Sep 1999 to 17 Sep 1999 (#1999-8) Date: Friday, September 17, 1999 1:08 PM There are 8 messages totalling 223 lines in this issue. Topics of the day: 1. No Cleveland Show... (2) 2. Georgia Sommsters 3. Hello 4. Motorvision 5. TOWN HALL PERFORMANCE=SHEER PERFECTION 6. Feeling better all the time, all the time 7. On sale dates?? To UNSUBSCRIBE from SOMMS, send email to LISTSERV@MITVMA.MIT.EDU with the following in the body of your message: SIGNOFF SOMMS ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 16 Sep 1999 10:51:00 -0400 From: Tracy Thompson Subject: No Cleveland Show... Well, I was really disappointed at first when the mini-tour had no stop in Cleveland....and now the new tour schedule has no stop in Cleveland either. What's up with that! Any other sad Cleveland SOMMS-sters? Sad in Cleveland, Tracy ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 16 Sep 1999 11:11:00 -0400 From: Anson Watkins Subject: Georgia Sommsters I am down here in Athens about an hour from Atlanta and I was wondering if Sommsters from this neck of the woods plan on going to see the Nov show. Ifs so email me privately. Kayler ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 16 Sep 1999 18:04:51 EDT From: Ryan Parks Subject: Re: No Cleveland Show... uhhh, this is a little weird. no where. i mean no where NEAR TEXAS!!! what the fuck@! Austin's the fucking live music capitol of the world...there are SOOO many awesome clubs that he could definately play...aaaaarrrrggghhh!!!!! god, this week has completely sucked. this list of tour dates is fucked up. i'm sorry, you play chicago (go there), detroit(hockey town my ass), milwaukee, philly(be sure to check out woolworths chris), new york (which you've already played but it's ok cause it's the shit), boston, toronto (eh), all during the middle of fucking winter whereas you could be enjoyin the shit playin La Zona Rosa, sipping on margaritas and enjoying yourself in nice sunny texas...ahhhh, the nearest show is either St. Louis or Denver!@!!!!!!! i don't get it. no wonder soundgarden hated touring. dude, you're playing the shittiest places during the winter. back ass backwards mang. ya move from seattle cause the weather sucks...but you decide to tour the north during november and december...hmmm. play the south during the winter and enjoy the spring up north. it's rediculous, texas is like the second most populated state yet once again gets screwed. not all of us are slackjawed yocals. you play all of those dates up north...yet don't even bother with the rest of us. i can totally understand playing out west...totally understandable...it's your home and all....but.....ehhhhhh....please have this be some sort of sick joke. i swear there's a freaking curse on me. the hockey gods don't want me to see chris. first my ticket to dc ends up god knows where in dallas...yeah, cancel that shit, now i find out that i'm gonna have to go to denver again just to see one of my favorite musicians. this sucks. yes, i'm complaining. PLUS 6 SHOWS IN GERMANY!!!! full scale North American tour my ass. Matt, when you and John and Ben start playing live (along w/ the mystery guest on vocals Mr. McBain mentioned)...bring the conspiracy to town. come to SXSW. i'll take you all to the Salt Lick for some all you can eat barbeque if ya got the munchies...come by kvrx and i'll get you on the radio (sunday nights mang...live college rocknroll), i'll get all of my friends to pitch in for a case of Shiner (yep i'm that broke)...don't miss austin! please! ryan (thinking to himself...what am i complaining about, cheap trick's coming back on the 5th of october :) ps. sorry for using fuck so much mang feartheboognish ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 16 Sep 1999 18:10:13 EDT From: Josh Lewis Subject: Hello Hey does anyone know where I can get tons of bootlegs of Soundgarden??? ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 16 Sep 1999 16:54:37 PDT From: Omar Pahati Subject: Motorvision I just picked up a copy of Motorvision and watched the video for the firs= t time. What do you guys think of it? I must say that I was a little bit disappointed. With the camera moving so much and the slow motion effects= it was hard to get a real sense of what was going on at those shows. I was especially disappointed that there is not a sustained shot of Matt playing JCP. Always a highlight at SG shows. Interesting to see Kim playing a Firebird instead of the white Guild. Be= n looked like a mad man onstage. Chris looking appropriately very early 90= s. = And Matt as intense as ever. Of course the music was excellent, capturing a rawness that I think would= survive in their live shows but be less apparent on their more polished followup records. The performance of Mind Riot and S&B were particularly= memorable for me. Why didn't they video tape their later tours? I hope they surprise us wi= th more footage. later, omar ____________________________________________________________________ Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at http://webm= ail.netscape.com. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 16 Sep 1999 20:39:31 EDT From: Denis Farinha Subject: TOWN HALL PERFORMANCE=SHEER PERFECTION Hey Sommsters! I've finally gotten around to typin' up a little review of Chris Cornell's performance at Town Hall. Lemme tell ya, IT WAS ABSOLUTELY MAGNIFICENT!!! First of all, I must state that Natasha Shneider and Alain Johannes really proved their capabilities to me. Those two undeniably gave their all, that Tuesday night! And Chris himself was just a wonder to behold! I hate to repeat what others have already posted to the Somms list, but the guy's voice is just amazing! Come to think of it, it's beyond amazing! I was so impressed I almost crapped in my pants right there and then! One of the highlights of the show actually came in the form of a certain song entitled Mission! I do not lie! Personally, I was not fond of this song when I initially heard it in mp3 format, but the live rendition was remarkable! In fact this was the first song to really electrify the crowd! With that stated, I'll close my short, but sweet review since I don't want to spoil the experience for anyone on the list. In case you were wondering, Chris looks quite healthy (although thin) and seems to be as strong as ever. For those of you who have never seen him perform live, Chris looks just a tad different in person. He's nowhere as tan as he sometimes looks in photographs (kinda pale actually, but not really) and his hair color is more of a chestnut brown as opposed to being jet-black. Just thought you guys might wanna know. Well, it's been swell, but the swelling's gone down. I sincerely hope all you Sommsters have as great a time as I did, once you get the chance to see Chris Cornell PREACH THE END OF THE WORLD!!! ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 16 Sep 1999 18:18:09 PDT From: Joe Franks Subject: Feeling better all the time, all the time I have a feeling that Chris' album may do better than we expect. I listened today on 107.7 a Seattle radio station. Waiting an hour to hear the new Stone Temple Pilots song. Luckly they played Black Hole Sun and a Pearl Jam song to get me through. I heard the song and I was F*cking disappointed. The song sucked, and I heard the new Nine Inch Nails song also, that F*cking sucked too. Even though being disappointed by those songs I relized something. Chris ain't gonna have no competition. I says that he's going to be #1 for sure. I thought he was going to have some compitition from STP and NIN. But after hearing those songs..... ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 16 Sep 1999 18:35:10 -0700 From: Liz Corona Subject: On sale dates?? Hey everyone, i was just wondering if anyone knows when the la and san diego shows go on sale... a rough estimate would even be nice. I'm really interested in going to both shows and i want to know when i should be saving up my penny's... =) also, for those of you that have already been to one of chris' shows; was there any merchandise sold at the shows? If so, what exactly where they selling? if anyone has any of this information, please email me at blackorburningsun@yahoo.com (i check that email addy more often). Thank you, i appreciate it... and have a nice day =). ~Liz __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? 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