Got an email from the band at 10:13 this morning. By 10:18 they were sold out. This is gonna be incredible.....
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Got an email from the band at 10:13 this morning. By 10:18 they were sold out. This is gonna be incredible..... -
Fukking cool
Though not as cool as it was to have seen them in 1992
Is Matt Cameron playing drums for Soundgarden AND Pearl Jam at the same time?!Comment -
Yep. PJ has a coupla tours scheduled this summer too. SG was my first concert I ever went to when I was 15, back in '94. So I was there, lucky to grow up in Seattle. I've seen Pearl Jam almost 30 times too....Comment -
Pearl Jam is the best live band out there todayComment -
Here's hoping they are the opening band tonight then. Mother Love Bone reunited two nights ago in Seattle, and Temple Of The Dog was released 19 years ago today (fukk I'm old), so any of those would be okay with me.Comment -
Cool deal.
I saw them back in the day @ Lollapalooza.Comment -
They have anything other than Black Hole sun?Comment -
That is awesome. Chris Cornell hasn't been relevant for a few years ... Outshined played on my iPod today ... killa.Comment -
Saw Soundgarden in 1996 right before they broke up.........best/loudest show I have ever been toComment -
Great stuff. One of my favorite rock bands from the 90's.
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I would have been there if we were not having a baby today. But my kid has been to two pearl jam concerts before she was born.Comment -
Nice! Yeah I took my 8 year old to PJ last fall and he ended up getting a guitar pick from Ed. It was way cool.Comment -
SEATTLE — On Friday night, 13 years after last taking the stage together, the members of grunge-era band Soundgarden reunited in front of about 1,000 fans at Seattle's Showbox at the Market for a rousing performance that kicked off with fan favorite "Spoonman" and closed with a cover of the Doors' "Waiting for the Sun."
The surprise performance comes just four months after singer Chris Cornell proclaimed that Soundgarden would return to action. Since that January announcement, the band's inclusion in August's Lollapalooza festival in Chicago had been made public, but no additional concert dates had been set.
On Thursday afternoon, Seattle radio station 107.7 "The End" began tweeting about the possibility of a "secret" show, and news soon spread that fans on the band's e-mail list would receive information on when and where it would take place. When word got out that a band going by the name "Nudedragons" (an anagram of Soundgarden) would be playing on Friday night, fans began stalking Twitter and Ticketmaster, awaiting the moment that tickets would go on sale. According to local news reports in Seattle, the available tickets sold out in less than 15 minutes.
"That's Kim. That's Ben. That's Matt.," Cornell informed fans, pointing to his stagemates, halfway through the band's almost two-hour set, which included a run of more than an hour of nonstop rock before a short break. "And that's Chris," responded drummer Matt Cameron, bringing a cheer from the hometown crowd, who appreciated the introductions, though they were hardly needed.
"It's a rehearsal, so if we f--- something up, we're probably going to go through it again," explained Cornell, just before tearing into "Outshined," off 1991's Badmotorfinger. From the fans' perspective, however, the show appeared to be a rehearsal in name only, with the crowd holding tight to every note, drumbeat and guitar riff sent their way.
If the throwing of a guitar symbolizes all things rock and roll, then clearly bassist Ben Shepherd is ready to make a go of it. After tossing his bass in what many hard-core fans recognize as the "end" of the band back in February 1997, it probably won't go unnoticed that Shepherd did the same thing to close Friday night's show, in what could be seen as an effort to go back to the way things were — with Soundgarden as the heavy, loud powerhouse that exemplified the early-to-mid '90s.
Friday night's set list:
"Spoonman"
"Gun"
"Searching With My Good Eye Closed"
"Rusty Cage"
"Beyond the Wheel"
"Flower"
"Ugly Truth"
"Fell on Black Days"
"Hunted Down"
"Nothing to Say"
"Loud Love"
"Blow Up the Outside World"
"Pretty Noose"
"Outshined"
"Slaves and Bulldozers"
Encore:
"Get on the Snake"
"Big Dumb Sex"
"Waiting for the Sun"Comment -
This bootleg will be on one of the torrent sites in the next few days...
Hungercity, dimeadozen, zomb----I'm betting it will be on Dime b4 it shows up anywhere else.Comment -
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Saw em in Philly in their early days back in '91 when the opened for GnR. They got booed off the stage. Little did the people know. Wow, back in 91, goddam I'm f**king old, LOLComment
