Soundgarden

Soundgarden was formed in Seattle, Washington in 1984. Formed by Chris Cornell (drums & vocals), Kim Thayil (guitar), and Hiro Yamamoto (bass). The band named themselves after a wind-channeling pipe sculpture. Cornell originally played drums while singing, but the band enlisted Scott Sundquist to allow Cornell to concentrate on vocals. In 1986 Sundquist left the band, to be replaced by Matt Cameron, who was the drummer in Skin Yard. Soundgarden was one of the key bands in the creation of grunge, a musical style that developed in Seattle and based around their record label Sub Pop. Soundgarden was the first grunge band to sign to a major label, but they did not achieve commercial success until Seattle contemporaries Nirvana and Pearl Jam popularized grunge in the early 1990s. Soundgarden achieved its biggest success with the 1994 album Superunknown which debuted at number one on the Billboard charts and yielded the Grammy Award-winning singles "Black Hole Sun" and "Spoonman". In 1997, the band broke up due to internal strife over their creative direction.

[edit] Soundgarden and Pearl Jam

[edit] 1992: Lollapolooza

Among with bands like Ice Cube, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Ministry and more, Pearl Jam and Soundgarden were also both billed on the 1992 Lollapolooza tour.

[edit] July

• July 18 - Mountain View, CA
• July 19 - Mountain View, CA
• July 21 - Vancouver, British Colubmia
• July 22 - Bremerton, WA
• July 25 - Denver, CO
• July 27 - Maryland Heights, MO
• July 28 - Cincinnati, OH
• July 29 - Cleveland, OH
• July 31 - Clarkston, MI

[edit] August

• August 01 - Clarkston, MI
• August 02 - Tinley Park, IL
• August 04 - Saratoga, NY
• August 05 - Barrie, Ontario
• August 07 - Mansfield, MA
• August 08 - Mansfield, MA
• August 09 - Wantaugh, NY
• August 11 - Wantaugh, NY
• August 12 - Stanhope, NJ
• August 14 - Reston, VA
• August 15 - Scranton, PA
• August 16 - Pittsburgh, PA
• August 18 - Raleigh, NC
• August 20 - Atlanta, GA
• August 22 - Miami, FL
• August 23 - Orlando, FL
• August 24 - Orlando, FL
• August 25 - Charlotte, NC
• August 28 - St. Paul, MN
• August 29 - East Troy, WI

[edit] September

• September 01 - Atlanta, GA
• September 04 - New Orleans, LA
• September 05 - Houston, TX
• September 06 - Dallas, TX
• September 08 - Phoenix, AZ
• September 11 - Irvine, CA
• September 12 - Irvine, CA
• September 13 - Irvine, CA

[edit] 1993-1997

• There is only one show after the Lollapolooza tour where Soundgarden and Pearl Jam played together. This was on August 18, 1993 in Toronto, Ontario. In addition to Blues Traveler, Both of the bands opened up for Neil Young this day.

[edit] Temple Of The Dog

Temple of the Dog was started by Chris Cornell. After the death of his former roommate, Mother Love Bone singer Andrew Wood, Cornell wrote two songs in tribute: "Say Hello 2 Heaven" and "Reach Down". Cornell approached Wood's former band mates, Stone Gossard and Jeff Ament, with the intention of releasing the songs as a single.

With the band completed following the addition of then Soundgarden drummer Matt Cameron and Pearl Jam lead guitarist Mike McCready, the band started rehearsing the songs, as well as re-working some existing material, such as Pearl Jam's Footsteps, which would become Times of Trouble. The rehearsals soon led to several new songs, and the single soon became an album.

Eddie Vedder, who had flown to Seattle to audition to be Pearl Jam's singer, ended up providing backing vocals. "Hunger Strike" became a duet between Cornell and Vedder. Cornell was having trouble with the vocals at practice, when Vedder stepped in. Cornell later said that "he sang half of that song not even knowing that I'd wanted the part to be there and he sang it exactly the way I was thinking about doing it, just instinctively".

The album was released on April 16, 1991.

[edit] Matt Cameron

Shortly after the break-up of Soundgarden in 1997 the following year, after Jack Irons had quit just prior to the US Yield Tour Pearl Jam invited him to play drums for them, where he's been ever since.

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