Soundgarden

jeez .. that setlist kinda rules! so much 'Louder Than Love' stuff!! figgered they would just play the "hits" from their AOR era. but no "My Wave", "Day I Tried to Live", "Black Hole Sun" ... nuts! actually pretty psyched for the Lolla show now.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tiZ2wg1ZBxc

I've been listening to Louder Than Love a lot lately. I think it holds up pretty well as a solid hard rock album. There's a definite Jimi Hendrix/Voodoo Child influence in Hands All Over (same in Even Flow, btw). I love the way the melody is there just to let Chris Cornell belt out long notes - the words are pretty irrelevant.

Hands all overrrrr!
Dead composerrrrrr!
Broke the toasterr!
Hang stockbrokerrs!

LTL has always been my favorite album of theirs. I love the Terry Date production, it's very "roomy". when I came out I was a senior in high school and used to come home from school every day, hit up the one-hitter, and blast the thing in my room. good times

when "it" came out...

outed

um so Chris sounds OK....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ceLsm8qsHMw

That sounds pretty f'n good!

I had to check and re- check that set list.
No Blackhole Sun?

I was never a huge fan but *that* song is a keeper

Love the Die Kreuzen mention^^^^ Great band.One of the best HC albums (the s/t) ever followed by that gothemo October File. Classic

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6sghQIma-2g

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ihZNidf5h4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u09QeukRV2M

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2BK3f3RSpgA

i'm not crazy about the pre-Shepherd records so i was almost hoping that whenever they tour around here the set would be just the hits straight up, like similar to the set i saw them do at Lollapalooza a few months before breaking up, but yeah pretty cool that they went through the whole catalog and ignored their biggest hit. they'll probably be at least a little more crowd-pleasing on the festival circuit, though, i imagine.

aww....Cornell's voice sounds shot on "Spoonman" - as I feared, but was hopeful after the first youtube posting.

damn they sound great

cg listen to nothing to say he sounds pretty good there all things considered

xpost I was just posting that he sounds a million times better on Nothing to Say.

all things considered I think I'd pay to see em. I never got to the first time around

now if only they'd play Limo Wreck

What? Was the limp-pop direction of his first (& only) solo joint failing him so much that he's reverting back to his Badmotorfinger / Louder than Love uber-aggression stance?

Good lord, this sentence.

soundgarden were never uber-aggressive either, always supremely graceful

A passerby wearing tie-dye said to one person desperate for a ticket, "Good luck in life."

I <3 Soundgarden but you have to give it up for this zing

i think its actually scientifically impossible to be zinged by someone wearing tie-dye tho

soundgarden were never uber-aggressive either, always supremely graceful

― a rhetorical style that implies an unwritten "now taste my ass" (stevie), Monday, April 19, 2010 5:56 AM (3 hours ago)

old big bad ass circle of power Comin To GETCHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!111!!!11!!!

yeah but even that song breaks down to a slow sweet groove around 1:30

Good god it's nice to hear Thayil again. I don't even care if Chris can't maintain the screaming anymore. Definitely psyched to see them.

There's a supposedly decent rec gone up on D1M£AD0Z£N if anyone's interested.

yeah really if i go to a show it'll be to hear the band ROKK THE FUKK OUT, if the vox sound good it'll be a bonus

is there any word on how extensively they'll be touring and whether they'll be doing headlining gigs all over or mostly festivals?

The "limp-pop" thing was actually Cornell's second solo album. People keep forgetting the actually not terrible Euphoria Morning. I'd rather have had more in that direction than Audioslave tbh.

god i hope they do more than fests--feelin too old for that bullshit.

Yeah I would love to see them, but not paying huge $$$$ to deal with the Lolla crowd in 100 degree August heat.

Timbaland Is Producing CHRIS CORNELL?!? How In God's Name Did I Miss This?

There are few things worse in this world than hearing Chris Cornell's pinched, straining scream further ruin a song that was already pretty shitty to begin with.

I don't want to haul my ass to Chicago, definitely hoping for a few more shows.
Cornell sounds a hell of a lot better than I thought he would in those youtube clips.
and that set list...short of Little Joe, that's almost my perfect setlist. NO BLACK HOLE SUN!!! If I never heard that song again it would be too soon.

Ha! My first reaction to the setlist was "Aw, no litte joe!"

Keep in mind since this was a secret show, the setlist might be more 'obscure' than what they play at 'Palooza. could also be that Cornell hates Black Hole Sun too....

Recording seems to be here, haven't downloaded it yet so I don't know what the quality's like.

http://theshadowkick.blogspot.com/2010/04/nudedragons-live-4-16-10.html

I is be burning that on first opportunity.

woohoo

Part 1 of the file is already gone. Did anyone snag it and can link it?

damn.

all this love is making me wish i hadn't deleted scream the mixtape off my hard drive a few weeks ago.

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3318/3547729051_38e0c09bda_o.jpg

not sure i ever listened to it all the way through - but for the artwork alone it was worthy of some love.

Part 1 appears to be back up. I'm d/ling now, will report....

burned the bootleg, minus Searching With my Good Eye Closed, which is a corrupted file. will report back...

oh yay some asshole in the audience is singing along so I can't hear Chris much on Rusty Cage...

so my impressions are I won't listen to this much but it's a neat lil souveneir, the band sounds great, like they haven't missed a step. Chris goes flat a bit vocally, but he sounds better than I expected. his shriek is more shrill than melodic nowadays, but he still hits some good ones. he has 'old man' sounding moments like he did on his "Carry On" album but even Fell On Black days he modifies the way he sings it to fit his current voice.

totally wanna see em now.

ok he sounsd awful on Slaves and Bulldozers :(

haha now i'm afraid to listen :S

it's interesting that they so heavily favored songs from the Badmotorfinger/Louder Than Love period where Cornell was probably screaming a bit a more than on the last 2 albums, maybe he felt like he had something to prove by singing those songs again.

yea for sure. he did hit some real nice screams that show some of it is still there, but I can imagine he only had that stamina early in the show and had to result in turning the awesome "NOW I KNOW WHY YOU'VE BEEN TAKEN" shriek into a....polite tinny falsetto. It kind of....deflates the track :/. plus it's also hard when you're playing guitar at the same time.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=crILNt7-kj8

from the same show

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K913KVe3kH8