I love Soundgarden, however...

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  • Of The Aggie
    Of The Aggie The ATX Posts: 1,550
    I never saw Soundgarden live but I think Live on I-5 sounds good and probably what I would expect from them if I had seen them live. I have seen Audioslave and I think Chris sounded much better on Live on I-5.
  • Kraven
    Kraven Posts: 829
    metsfan wrote:
    stateoflove79 wrote:
    i have both the vic show and showbox show and cornell sounds like cornell and matt sounds like the matt of sg old

    I have the Vic show and Cornell is not on par with the recordings. If by Cornell he sounds like Cornell right now, and not Cornell from Badmotorfinger and Superunknown then I would agree with you. Listening to Fell on Black Days right now and he's struggling with the higher notes. He is a lot closer to Audioslave Chris Cornell than he is Soundgarden Chris Cornell.

    Matt Cameron is in fact playing the shit out of Jesus Christ Pose though, but I wouldn't expect anything less from him.
    32 shows and counting...
  • Rueb
    Rueb Posts: 64
    Kraven wrote:
    metsfan wrote:
    stateoflove79 wrote:
    i have both the vic show and showbox show and cornell sounds like cornell and matt sounds like the matt of sg old

    I have the Vic show and Cornell is not on par with the recordings. If by Cornell he sounds like Cornell right now, and not Cornell from Badmotorfinger and Superunknown then I would agree with you. Listening to Fell on Black Days right now and he's struggling with the higher notes. He is a lot closer to Audioslave Chris Cornell than he is Soundgarden Chris Cornell.

    He sounds infinitely better on Fell On Black Days during his solo-acoustic performance this month in Austin. Listen to those high notes:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nf9YjOipX9k

    Still waiting for my Live on I-5, so can't really argue about it.
  • Kraven
    Kraven Posts: 829
    Rueb wrote:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nf9YjOipX9k

    Holy good god, consider me converted
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  • stateoflove79
    stateoflove79 Posts: 2,845
    [/quote]

    He sounds infinitely better on Fell On Black Days during his solo-acoustic performance this month in Austin. Listen to those high notes:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nf9YjOipX9k

    Still waiting for my Live on I-5, so can't really argue about it.[/quote]


    I must say that was pretty impressive.
    Is it so wrong to think that love can keep us safe?
  • Lukin19
    Lukin19 Posts: 542
    Get_Right wrote:
    In my mind, SG has never been a great live band. Great studio band, some great music, but I never thought it translated to the stage very well.
    Exactly what I've been saying all along. They rocked back in the day , but there has been a drastic deteriation in Cornell's voice live . I really noticed it back in '97 at Lola. When I saw him again in '05 with Audioslave it was almost unbearable. I've heard bar bands cover Soundgarden better that they did. The guys from rage were the only thing that kept me there.
  • Veddernarian
    Veddernarian Posts: 1,924
    I like them too but I like PJ more. I hope Soundgarden doesn't become a distraction which delays a new PJ album.

    I'm hot and cold about all of these other projects. Brad, Tres Mtns, Soundgarden, even Ed solo. On one side of it, one could say this is all healthy stuff, etc. On the other side of it, one could look at it and say that maybe they've lost some interest. Maybe like a married man looking at other women because something is missing. I hope the latter isn't the case. For example, the analog shirt. With confirmed artists in the band, even my wife, who isn't interested in PJ other than some of the music, commented on the plain-ness of the shirt and stuck it in the drawer with my fishing shirts. I wonder if that is reflective of the spark. Hope not. I would love a new PJ album. Even before a tour.
    Up here so high I start to shake, Up here so high the sky I scrape, I've no fear but for falling down, So look out below I am falling now, Falling down,...not staying down, Could’ve held me up, rather tear me down, Drown in the river
  • Music For Rhinos
    Music For Rhinos Posts: 1,693
    edited March 2011
    Rueb wrote:
    Music For Rhinos wrote:
    ......Why would Soundgarden finally release a live album comprised of songs from a '96 tour if that was the time period when Cornell's vocals were in the worst shape? Why would they choose this tour to represent the live sound of the band if it was the one where they were just "going through the motions" ?

    That is easy to answer: this is the only tour they professionally recorded. They brought Adam Kaspar on the road. So there wasn't much choice in hindsight - they simply didn't have another tour recorded to release.

    You may be right about that, it may be the only complete tour they recorded but are you telling me there aren't other live versions of songs here and there from various shows/tours anywhere? I'd be hard pressed to believe that. In fact, I'm almost certain there are, and with today's technology, surely they could have remixed/remastered/whatever and released something perhaps different.

    Plus, there's a whole foreward written by Kaspar in the I5 liner notes about how there was a great energy on that tour and how it was incredible and awesome. Now who am I gonna believe? Adam Kaspar, who has worked directly with Pearl Jam and Soundgarden and recorded albums and tours and actually gone on tours with the band or some random person I don't know (no offense) on a message board? It's not even close.
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  • jmk
    jmk Posts: 425
    From http://www.soundgardenworld.com/news/20 ... ake-record

    Our goal for 2011 - Let's Make A Record

    Over the past few months, we've been busy jamming, writing and hanging out together - exploring the creative aspect of being Soundgarden. It feels great. We have some cool new songs that we are going to record very soon. Thank you for all of the support!

    Loudest of Love,

    Ben, Chris , Kim and Matt

    That's the studio PJ are recording in. What's it called and is that a new photo. Insa the following nme quote it says that they are recording in Chris Cornell's home studio in Seattle.

    http://www.nme.com/news/soundgarden/55691

    and a last one:
    http://www.nme.com/news/soundgarden/55297

    I think it's nice to see soundgarden working together again and also nice to see Matt with them. And while Matt is in the studio with SG the other pj-members have time to write new pj songs. Then they can record in the fall 2011/winter 2011/2012...
    Stockholm - 07/07/2012

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