Biography
The American Seattle Rock Group Soundgarden has become one of the most brilliant and at the same time mysterious heads of the history of alternative music of the late 1980s and early 1990s. Its appearance resulted in a completely new rock and roll, loaded with rigid bass and metal reefs, combining dark melancholy with avant-garde minimalism.The history of creation and composition
The founders of the SOUNDGARDEN team are called vocalist and drummer of Chris Cornell and Bass-guitarist Hiro Yamamoto. They met Seattle in the early 1980s and played together with the shemps called The Shemps. Then Yamamoto left the comrades, and his place was taken by the bassist Kim Tyyil. In Seattle, he arrived with Hiro and Bruce Pavitt.
And although Yamamoto left the group, he did not lose touch with Cornell. Soon The Shemps finally disintegrates, and two former colleagues are again combined. Then they did not pursue the goal to create a new team, and simply sometimes they gathered and played together for pleasure. Soon they joined them and Tyiyll.
Hence, the history of the creation of SoundGarden began. This name of the guys borrowed from the artistic music installation "Garden of Sounds", from blowing wind and other external influences she published gloomy melodies.
Hiro Yamamoto was born in the Forest Park, in the suburbs of Chicago, in 1961, his parents are coming from Japan. At the school he studied on a complicated program, he also met Tayyl. Since childhood, he experienced love for music, preferred the classics and jazz, playing altea. After graduating from studying, moved to Washington, and then to Seattle with Kim. Before The Shemps played in the the alterated team.
Chris Cornell was born and grew up in Seattle in the family of Ed Boyla and Karen Cornell. Then he, his brothers and sisters wore the surname Boyle, but after the divorce, the mother changed her to her maiden. Love guy to music began with listening to the Beatles plates.
Embed from getty imagesAt the same time, in the youthful years, he suffered a strong depression and almost did not leave the house, at that time mastered the game on the guitar and the drums. Before becoming a successful musician, I changed not one profession. In his youth, he had a great desire to speak on stage, but did not know how to get into the group until he met his current colleagues.
Kim Tyil is considered the most influential Gitarist grunge scene, he was also born in Seattle, but he spent his junior years in Chicago. There is his parents, indigenous industries, came from the state of Kerala. The creative path of the guy began with the Identity Crisis postpank-group, the highest achievement of which was the recording of a mini-album. As mentioned above, he met Hiro in the Chicago school, and with Cornell a little later in the University of Washington, the guy was his neighbor in the room.
Since the musicians lacked for a full-fledged composition, initially Cornell had to simultaneously sing and play the drums, but then Scott Sandkivist joined the guys. He took the work of the drummer, and Chris, in the meantime, focused on vocals. True, the novice lasted for a short time and in 1986 he left the guys. And Matt Cameron came to his place.
Matt began to play the drums at an early age, and at 13 years old, together with friends, created a Kiss-group team, but this team quickly collapsed, as he received a threatening letter from the leadership. Before the career in SoundGarden, he was not on speeches with other adult teams, the work was there for a guy an excellent springboard for a musical career device.
Embed from getty imagesThe biography of Yamamoto has changed much after the release of their 2nd full-length album when he left the team. The young man decided to continue his studies at the university. Briefly his place was taken by Jason Everman, and then the constant participant becomes a bass guitarist and back-vocalist Ben Shepherd. This ended the changes in the composition of the group.
Music
Having collected the command number of musicians, SoundGarden starts to record songs. The first tracks were 2 compositions that were subsequently entered into the "Deep Six" collection containing the material of six Seattle alternative rock bands, which during recording tracks were not yet known to the wide audience.Embed from getty imagesSoon the creativity of the guys interested recording studios, after which they signed a contract with the Sub Pop label. The company helps musicians to release 2 mini albums: "Screaming Life" in 1987 and "FOPP" in 1988.
Talent guys noticed other labels, but for the release of the debut full-length SOUNDGARDEN disk, select SST Records. In 1988, the students for the first time can acquire the album "Ultramega Ok", critics responded about him positively, and the band acquired more and more fans. For this record in the 1990th, it was nominated for the Grammy Award in the nomination "Best Metal-Execution". Soon the first clip on the song "Flower" appeared in rotation on MTV. He was removed the director Clinton Sulie.
The next time the discography team was replenished in a year. To record the album "Louder Than Love", they decided to use the services of the Major label A & M Records and did not lose. By recording it, the performers took a step towards a more uncompromising grunge sound with numerous metal elements. Many compositions had unusual signature time. The disc hit the Billboard 200 chart, in his support the team went to the tour of North America and Europe.
In 1991, the musicians again please fans with a new album. The plate "Badmotorfinger" became very successful, and the songshined and Rusty Cage songs found their listeners on MTV and alternative radio. Tours in her support decided to spend together with the Guns N 'Roses team. And later they performed at the LOLLAPALOOZA Mobile Festival.
Although the last album had relative success, a truly breakthrough fans call the Superunknown plate, the release of which was held in 1994. The tracks "FELL ON BLACK DAYS", "Black Hole Sun", "The Day I Tried to Live" and a number of other compositions that have retained the creative approach of early years have entered, but at the same time the tracks sounded in radio format. Their texts affected the topics of depression, suicide and cruelty, and the music was painted with mysterious and gloomy paints.
Immediately after this, the guys went to the world tour, and returned, started recording songs for a new studio album. "DOWN ON THE UPSIDE" was released in 1996, a joint photo of musicians placed on the cover. The compositions had a much softer sound, which was marking the waste of grunge-roots of the group. There were a sign songs, including the Blow Up the Outside World, Burden In My Hand and Blow Up the Outside World. Sales did not exceed the indicators of the previous album, although critics react favorably.
While working on the disk between musicians, frictions were increasingly launched, which continued on performances in support of the record. Basically, they took place between Tayyil and Cornell, however, and other participants gradually donated nerves.
At the concert in Honolulu in 1997, the equipment was constantly faced, Shefherd was broken, threw the guitar and left the stage, the speech was discontinued. And the concert came to the Cornell Solna Song. 2 months after that, the SoundGarden event announces the team's dissolution of the team, releaseing a collection "A-sides" to farewell.
For more than 10 years, each of the musicians engaged in other projects, some toured and recorded solo plates. This lasted until 2010, while in his Twitter Cornell did not declare the reunion of SoundGarden in the previous composition. Musicians launched a new site, reissued old albums, and soon announced work on a new disc.
So for the first time in 15 years, the revived team pleases the fans with new Studio records of the King Animal record, and then goes to the world tour. At the beginning of 2014, they also announced the Boxing Seth, consisting of 3 disks, which entered rare and concert records, as well as songs, previously not published, among them the tracks "Live to Rise", "Black Rain" and "Birth Ritual. " In 2015, artists told about work on a new disc and even shared with listeners that 6 songs are completely ready for him.
However, the album was never destined to go out. In May 2017, Cornell was found dead in his room in Detroit, where the group lived during a concert. The forensic examination called the cause of the death of the musician's suicide, but many still do not believe in this version. Care from the life of Chris has become a great loss for his family and the team, and therefore no one again decided to continue the activities of the Group without the chief participant, although officially artists did not declare SoundGarden.
SoundGarden now
Although the SoundGarden team has not declared the cessation of activities, after the death of Cornell, the musicians never went to the stage anymore and now still do not work together. The only time they first appeared before the public, a charitable concert in January 2019.
Embed from getty imagesHe was organized by the wife of Chris, Vicky. The performance passed in Los Angeles, in the "Forum" arena. In addition to SoundGarden, Temple of the Dog, Audioslave, Melvins, Foo Fighters and Metallica groups connected to the promotion, each executed compositions from different periods of Cornell. More after the death of a friend, a man did not meet.
Discography
- 1988 - "Ultramega OK"
- 1989 - "Louder Than Love"
- 1991 - "Badmotorfinger"
- 1994 - "Superunknown"
- 1996 - "DOWN ON THE UPSIDE"
- 1997 - "A-Sides"
- 2012 - "King Animal"
Clips
- 1988 - "Flower"
- 1990 - "Hands All Over"
- 1991 - "Outshined"
- 1992 - "Rusty Cage"
- 1994 - "My Wave"
- 1994 - "Spoonman"
- 1994 - "Black Hole Sun"
- 1996 - "Burden in My Hand"
- 1996 - "Blow Up the Outside World"
- 2010 - "Black Rain"
- 2012 - "By Crooked Steps"
- 2013 - "Halfway There"