Soundgarden: Alive in the Superunknown
... Shepherd buys me a beer, and I ask him where he lives.
“Nowhere,” he says. “Literally. I’ve been sleeping on studio couches and at friends’ houses. I’m totally broke.” Shepherd is part owner of a bar 15 minutes from here called Hazlewood, but he says he sinks any money from it into the solo album he’s been working on since last fall. Six months ago, he split with his girlfriend and moved out of their house. “This is my home now,” he says, holding up the sides of his slightly gamey overcoat.
Although he was the last of the four to join, in 1990, Shepherd took the band’s dissolution hardest. “My whole life seemed over,” he says. “Soundgarden broke up; my other band, Hater, broke up; my fiancee broke up with me; and then I broke three ribs. I got addicted to pain pills, drank a ton, and wound up OD’ing on morphine. I was laid out in my house for five days, and no one knew it. It was a fucking horrible time — this total rock’n'roll cliche.”
Black Rain
Producer-engineer Adam Kasper, who worked on both albums (Superunknown & Down On The Upside), is mixing "Black Rain" and plays us the latest version. "What's amazing," Kasper says as he looks up from the mixing board, "is Chris recorded new vocal bits, and his voice still hits all those notes. You can't tell which vocals are from 20 years ago and which are from today." The song, an outtake from 1991's Badmotorfinger sounds like, well, an outtake from Badmotorfinger, complete with sludgy riffs and Cornell's voice in screaming metal-god mode.
... There is talk of a live album culled from mid-'90s concerts and maybe a B-sides collection, but the band hasn't yet written any new music.
"It would be exciting to record one song," says Cornell, "to hear how Soundgarden-ish that might be this much time later. But for me, it's been more of a trip relearning the songs and playing them together. Some of the songs we're approaching we've never played live." |
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