For those who care:

Soundgarden reunion shows in the works
Jan. 3, 2010

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"Rocker Chris Cornell has confirmed Soundgarden will return in 2010 for the first time in 12 years. The band split in 1997, but former frontman Cornell recently gave hope to fans by admitting he would 'never count out' the idea of a reunion. Now the singer has confirmed the rockers, including guitarist Kim Thayil, bassist Ben Shepherd and drummer Matt Cameron, are back together and planning a series of concerts. In a post on his Twitter page, Cornell writes, 'The 12-year break is over and school is back in session. Knights of the Soundtable ride again!' All four members attended a Pearl Jam show in Los Angeles in October when Cornell briefly reunited the grunge supergroup Temple Of The Dog, and plans for a Soundgarden reunion are said to have taken shape shortly afterwards."

http://music.msn.com/music/article.aspx?news=449748>1=28102

Should be some good shows.

1/4/2010 1:43:46 AM

I think this will work like Pavement in reverse.

Soundgarden, renowned in their day for excellent shows, will be a shadow of their former selves, especially Cornell.

Pavement, renowned for being fucking terrible and not caring about it, will get their shit together and blow people's heads off.

Hopefully they're both awesome.

1/4/2010 1:51:58 AM

i'm kind of hoping they just stick to shows and don't bother with a new album. chris cornell's songwriting has been pretty lackluster since euphoria morning.

1/4/2010 6:56:45 AM

Well, if they go back to the old formula, Kim Thayil will be writing the songs and the band will fucking ROCK

1/4/2010 7:44:52 AM

soundgarden reunion = money-printing machine

1/4/2010 8:22:34 AM

pffff....call me when there is a Savage Garden reunion in the works.

1/4/2010 8:43:16 AM

Call you what, a lady?

1/4/2010 8:43:32 AM

1/4/2010 8:44:45 AM

^^

ahahahahhaa

1/4/2010 9:22:46 AM

footnote link: message_topic.aspx?topic=580560

1/4/2010 9:28:23 AM

fuckin awesome

1/4/2010 10:00:25 AM

I am happy about this, I will definitely try to catch a show in Florida.

1/4/2010 12:16:54 PM

I seriously hope I'll be able to catch a show. I don't care if it involves a new album and I don't care if they sound like crap. I didn't get to see them in the 90's and this is the best I can get.

1/4/2010 2:53:55 PM

THIS INTERESTS ME

1/4/2010 5:22:45 PM

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"Soundgarden, renowned in their day for excellent shows, will be a shadow of their former selves, especially Cornell."

I'm gonna go on a limb here and assume that 10 years ago you were told everyone they were shit.

1/4/2010 10:54:48 PM

I am all for this just as long as it doesn't mean I won't be able to see a Pearl Jam show this year

1/4/2010 11:33:46 PM

^ "their day" is more than 10 years ago

1/4/2010 11:59:12 PM

say what

1/5/2010 12:02:44 AM

pearl jam has sucked for the last 11 years.

1/5/2010 3:17:56 AM

well thats just like.. your opinion, man.

all i was saying was i hope a soundgarden tour doesn't compromise potential pearl jam shows with the whole drummer thing

1/5/2010 3:58:54 AM

Chris Cornell was one of the greatest rock 'n' roll singers who ever lived.

Now he's just good.

1/5/2010 5:14:18 AM

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"pearl jam has sucked for the last 11 years."

i'm not a huge fan of their last 2 albums, and i'm pretty sure the band even hates riot act even though it does have a couple solid songs on it. binaural is a completely different album on vinyl though. and they're still awesome live.

[Edited on January 5, 2010 at 6:39 AM. Reason : .]

1/5/2010 6:38:39 AM

that Pearl Jam bit

just isn't true

1/5/2010 8:20:33 AM

This thread needs some Soundgarden music--I've always liked "Rhinosaur":

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7UU6mXFpl9k

1/5/2010 3:48:37 PM

I saw Cornell at Projekt Revolution (I know, I know. I was only there to see Cornell because I had never seen him live.) and I was very pleased with the way he performed a couple of Soundgarden songs. While his voice does sound much different in his newer songs, it seems that he still has the chops to at least leave Soundgarden fans satisfied.

1/5/2010 4:16:36 PM

one of cornell's best vocal performances

1/5/2010 4:57:53 PM

how about 4th of july. best soundgarden song ever

1/6/2010 3:00:17 AM

Obviously the best soundgarden song is "kyle petty (son of richard)"


their version of come together is pretty cool too

[Edited on January 6, 2010 at 4:37 AM. Reason : ;]

1/6/2010 4:31:27 AM

1/6/2010 4:52:46 AM

1/6/2010 9:50:32 AM

soundgarden should tour with pearl jam and then jam some temple of the dog

1/7/2010 8:21:23 AM

Lollapalooza '92 '10!

1/7/2010 9:05:01 AM

^ LOL!

1/7/2010 10:56:24 AM

this is going to be pretty lame if they make such a big deal out of this and they don't even make any new music

1/7/2010 9:03:39 PM

I came across my soundgarden tapes just the other day.

1/7/2010 9:06:00 PM

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"Lollapalooza '92 '10!"

funny update

it's a rumor floating around that pj and soundgarden (which means of course Temple of the Dog would probably close the night out) are gonna headline... matt cameron would be one exhausted panda if it's true

2/19/2010 4:59:20 PM

soundgarden and pearl jam both played lollapalooza 92 and it did not guarantee Temple of the Dog stuff. They didn't do any in Raleigh that year for sure.

2/19/2010 5:03:42 PM

it's just one show now tho, right?

there's no way they wouldn't pop a couple of songs off... hunger strike would surely show up... wouldn't surprise me if they did "pushin forward back" and "say hello 2 heaven"

i've been to a couple of shows now where pj plays "crown of thorns" to boot

2/19/2010 5:09:22 PM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7srvA1V740

Im partial to "Holy Water", but honestly "Badmotorfinger" is such a fucking awesome album its hard to choose.

2/19/2010 8:00:16 PM

I liked some of Audioslave's early stuff, but Cornell's solo shit was terrible. Hopefully this will be good. Cornell's vocals aren't as good as they used to be, but they aren't bad at all right now.

2/19/2010 9:08:49 PM

90's music >> 2000's music

2/19/2010 11:02:08 PM

Is Cornell planning on more solo stuff after this reunion show? His solo stuff has never been very good, but I just listened to the shit he did for that Scream album with Timberland. WTF Cornell?

2/21/2010 4:00:32 AM

http://www.soundgardenworld.com/

lollapalooza confirmed

4/5/2010 8:10:48 PM

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"His solo stuff has never been very good"

someone's never heard euphoria morning...

4/5/2010 10:31:53 PM

Quote :

" Kim Thayil will be writing the songs and the band will fucking ROCK"

completely agree. all the heroin and womanizing took him too soon. not sure how he is able to function 12 years later. will be interesting....

4/5/2010 10:32:54 PM

^^ Agreed, Euphoria Morning is a great album. Pumped for Lollapalooza, just gotta save some cash now.

4/6/2010 3:07:29 AM

holy shit

just got this in my email from the fan club

from about a week and a half ago at the showbox in seattle

also this guy seems to have some song boots of the show http://www.youtube.com/user/Soundmacchine#p/u

[Edited on April 30, 2010 at 9:36 AM. Reason : +]

4/30/2010 9:28:02 AM

Thanks for the video. That's awesome!

4/30/2010 9:56:15 AM

omgomgomgomg

4/30/2010 6:09:31 PM

Kim Thayil is still a beast. thx

5/2/2010 10:51:18 PM