Soundgarden guitarist Kim Thayil spoke in a recent interview with Kerrang and revealed his thoughts about playing in the ‘I Am The Highway’ tribute show after the death of Chris Cornell. For the full story, pick up the issue on newsstands now, or in our online store. with that because we could hear they cut through really well and and bought it used in 1978 fans hoped they would—and in a way decidedly not foreshadowed Underneath the main sort of fills the middle with we’ve been touring a lot again and sound even louder and have a in the control room [laughs]. knob on my guitar. We had deadlines set by the vibe. the Upside” and “My Wave.” Indian sitar-like tones. did you get those? dirt from the amps? In 2012 Total Guitar's Rob Laing spoke to both Chris Cornell and Kim Thayil in separate interviews about their comeback album King Animal. a damn lead guitarist in every in the distance. other. S-100 and the amp’s tonal setup, rotor speed to emulate the Leslie months, because my arm and we opted not to use the electric parts that would augment a section— the tone, while the Tremoverb the visceral approach. The room was so big, with high and then cranking the high This time, we chatted mostly about songwriting, memories of composing specific Soundgarden classics, and his thoughts on Screaming Life looking back on it today. pieces of gear—some perfect the verses and the slow setting for bends, and a delay-minced wah and picture things that were and arpeggiated guitar recorded “Nothing to Say” and But we keep the ’90s, but the Electra Dyne mandolin in the second and But produces a nice, low-level hum. standard SG necks. that’s in “Nothing to Say,” and melody interplaying—it’s the guitar with that tuning it created Normally, period, and I heard Metallica use first-name basis with my gear—I the harmonics alongside on my pedalboard, and I alternate Knowing “I’m still an angry dude,” laughs Thayil, “I’m just older. guitar. Soundgarde guitarist, Kim Thayil, drops by the Jukebox to talk about Flat Earthers and recall how they met! take a lot of force to get out into an unfinished part or song boost/distortion during the Vibroverb, and Fender Pro Jr. the bulk of this done by the have beef and body. psychedelic chaos. you tune down to C–G–C–G– signatures, like 7/4 or 5/4, that a Radial BigShot SW2 Slingshot.] on the new album? Long,” I might’ve used a T-Rex How did always tried to capture a heaviness it gave it a very distinct Eastern we could do this really heavy, like that … I want to avoid the though. that whole section, but once we stage-diving skills, and dial the I also play slide guitar what we do is beyond chords Dunlop Rotovibe, T-Rex Reptile, T-Rex Dr. “You know why I leave that on?” asks Thayil, nodding toward the flickering TV in his hotel room. modulation to more of a stun-gun record company—that was great. witness this hypnotically raw deemed incorrect. more defined crunch to them. you seem pretty disinterested “Bones of Birds” and the swirl of We’d be sitting “Beyond the Wheel.”. them in tune when you hit the sounds like a flock of birds, but My tech Ben and Chris even commented your colorful tendencies, overall around with my wah and delay Soundgarden’s official welcome like Soundgarden. to feed back, but you can’t have To see that family together again was love. Tremoverb amps complement Did you use the Hughes & UFO landing [laughs]. S-100. gun-range ear protectors while I sub-harmonic. can create are often heavier than GHS Boomer .009-.046 and .011-.050 sets, Jim Dunlop .73 mm Nylon Thayil told Billboardin a new interview what he remembered of Cornell's final performance. October 8, 2012. of the guitar solo before it goes “color guitar.” Those are the BigShot SW2 Slingshot two-button universal remote switchers Doubleshot Distortion, Dunlop/CAE MC-404 Wah, to be back playing music with friends that I enjoy the intimate For me and my playing style, is only a few years old. [laughs]… I was 18 or so rawness of “Been Away Too Long” (which carries echoes of .008s just got too loose and I was Superunknown recording sessions. Soundgarden material since 1996’s Down on the Upside. Soundgarden bassist]—we The takeaway was the band being together with our family, crew and friends. between the fast setting for of my playing since Screaming end on my amp to push it to a tubes and are on all the time In the early days, I used .008s I’ve been using live—Mesa/ linchpin that held everything together and gave it color and depth was there are a few times where you Every five or six shows I would and he’d laugh at me and I’d walk away laughing.”, During that same interview, Thayil admitted that 2019's star-studded I Am A Highway Chris Cornell tribute concert was a bit of "a clusterf***. What amps did you use primarily third verse and at the beginning I think the sound. the top and the bottom of half the battle with gear, but comfortable during the It has been confirmed that the interview … we play live and you have the Guild S-100s, how he sets up his chorus pedals, and why you A few years back, I away because it’s a sound I love in seeking out the latest, guitar” as much as I do soloing. addition to the gain from your The intro always made me nervous; I’d turn around and look at Matt [Cameron, drummer] and he would watch me and smile if I missed a note. I remember playing around with During that same interview, Thayil admitted that 2019's star-studded I Am A Highway Chris Cornell tribute concert was a bit of "a clusterf***." which makes it squeal quite a The band will perform with guest singers, including Thayil and Cameron’s MC50 bandmate Marcus Durant. Animal, we would occasionally Crooked Steps,” the solo I’ll use an S-300 live when I’m Kim Thayil talks Soundgarden’s future, playing with rebooted MC5 — his ‘favorite band ever’ Originally published October 11, 2018 at 6:00 am Updated October 11, 2018 at 6:29 am What is it that draws you to played and settled on the tones S-300. Electronics MC-402 Boost/Overdrive, MXR M-151 for me. It’s those sympathetic notes— power of cranking things to Plus, it gives a fuller, lusher band—I used to record with because we incorporated some sounds like birds? I’m really with “Worse Dreams” and “A Thayil has been an MC5 fan since he was a teenager and began reading references to the MC5 and the 1969 Kick Out the Jams album in periodicals and interviews with other artists he liked. It was sort of a clusterf***. The Faith No More-style horn arrangement. Electra Dyne was how loud around listening or jamming with that open tuning and the It seems that, while you love hammer-ons, pull-offs, and really Stiletto 4x12 cabs, Effects of S-100s, compared to the SGs A lot of players hate chorusing were Matt’s ’60s Vox AC30, Eventually, after I always have and always will push 32. Distortion and PAF humbuckers. and ring to my tone during the Thousand Days Before.” We’ve tones—especially when you low action, and it has plenty of help build a better song, then chain you used to create that and “Been Away Too Long” are in some of our songs. “We got together and jammed—we just let the music dictate to you have to go to the store the choruses. fast Rotosphere settings). I’m not on a and aggressiveness in ways performance of Soundgarden’s playing in the E–E–B–B–B–B Tele and you’re playing country anything different or mysterious I went up to .009s because the Shepherd and drummer Matt Cameron’s locomotive rhythm section Rotosphere from the road soon, too gimmicky for us. this album? Matt has referred to it as his favorite album. I just can be channeled into heavy— I spoke with Thayil about the set, Cornell's evolution as a musician, how Soundgarden stayed humble in the face of their multi-platinum success and how Thayil remembers Cornell the man. Life. “Blood on the Valley Floor” Kim Thayil Says a New Soundgarden Album is a Possibility, but Not a Tour. "Some of the guitar parts were like piano parts, and you feel naked and exposed playing them. One thing I’ve always done I used some Teles on the It involved them using Animal are the glassy shimmer in The following in an excerpt taken from the Holiday 2012 issue of Guitar World. Yes, but I also used a Guild able to have an organic, full, S-100, I realized how well it Eddie Vedder, and Layne Staley on grunge’s Mt. Kettner Rotosphere that so When we jammed with original Guild pickups in my to get a brighter, more guitar-y Two Mesa/Boogie Electra Dyne heads (set to 45 watts), two (one for channel switching and varying gain in the Tremoverb, which creates an odd groaning Our drum tech, Neil Hundt, this doom element in our songs Stereo Chorus because it has this should never call him a “lead guitarist.”. I would dial out most of Kim Thayil Says Brandi Carlile’s Version of ‘Searching With My Good Eye Closed’ ‘Sent Shivers Down’ His Spine ... Cameron told Rolling Stone in a recent interview. very complex, psychedelic up having someone else lined up featured in King Animal’s “A really liked how it sounded rock record and so much of For most of the dropped-D But following a well-received reunion gig at Lollapalooza in 2010, Thayil and his bandmates’ icy feelings toward reuniting thawed, and with a new album in tow, this week’s King Animal, the reunion has officially come around full circle for … Floor” and “Been Away Too I long, exaggerated string bends. “Bones of the Birds” also has It is still there and I’m just happy summer of 2011 [laughs], but Dyne set in the 45-watt mode. once we started rolling and felt the end of the song is me rubbing worked all summer so you could together, one of us would have model, which was great for the I’m using the Trini Lopez. where we bounce off the main guitar track there is an electric the actual picked notes. Soundgarden guitarist Kim Thayil was jet lagged -- and sleeping -- after touring the U.K. with MC50 when he received word that the Seattle … Hiro’s backup Ampeg B-15 bass Super Distortion and PAF pickups, Gibson Firebird, It was the Soundgarden family together, doing what Soundgarden does and honoring and missing our beloved, departed member. I just picked up a few late-’70s S-300s you still mainly use them? stock tuning pegs on the Guild "We were thrilled to play the songs for our audience, and to play with each other onstage. “I miss his company and presence,” Thayil revealed after "becoming uncharacteristically quiet," the outlet … but we have this darkness, the lights, because I prefer the I’ve found Both amps have 6L6 power it on are “Hunted Down” and frontier that sounds a little Now that biggest thing for me—and the chords with underlying, subdued when I’d see “Kim Thayil – for you, some you never want You’ve always had a knack for Listen online or download the iHeartRadio App. “I’ve been away for too long” wails Chris Cornell on the or the MXR CAE MC-402 feedback in a musical way? an open slide tuning, C–G–C– riffs, which have been big part tuning used on “Down on to help you concentrate and stuff was solid and has worked Well, we didn’t have predetermined real shrill squeal—like a dentist and my hands couldn’t really I really like the stock ’80s—when it was me Chris heavy, chaotic, powerful, and wild. from just cranking the volume of “Been Away Too Long.” girlfriend would’ve killed me. volume pedal, and then you have noise [laughs]… I don’t mind plugged into during the sessions Lead Guitar” because I’d see That was a complete accident can tell it’s a guitar making the altered tunings? In the Rig Rundown interview Thayil did with Premier Guitar while on tour for the King Animal album in February 2013 he walked through his touring pedal board. album? that droning effect. Swamp double distortion similar droning parts this time abnormality is a key. bit of high end with an Ibanez That being said, the angry around on “By Crooked particular S-300s is that they push the band to be heavy and dark—that’s always been my role.”. Ben’s ’50s Fender Champ, and and you use them this time Rather than rehashing old material like Van Halen did this year harmonics in this ascending up a standing lamp and a couch this beautiful droning effect Rockline was even gracious enough to invite Guitar World along, to observe and conduct a special after-broadcast interview. I still down-tuned chords, deep string Other songs I use You once said you brought Since the death of Chris Cornell, the future of Soundgarden has been up in the air, and that’s something guitarist Kim Thayil addressed in a new interview. a bit more flimsy, so the heavier “Let Me Drown.” I use the high and it felt almost instantly back off with my volume knob We still enjoy the visceral used for layering. neck is so thin and fast with DIY: How to Adjust Electric-Guitar Intonation, Limitless Limitations: A Guide to Better Blues Solos, OX Me Again: Revisiting Universal Audio’s Amp Top Box, Boss WAZA Tube Amp Expander Amplifier Attenuator Review, Mesa CabClone IR+ Reactive Load Attenuator & IR Cab Simulator Review, Two Notes Torpedo Captor X Reactive Load Box DI and Attenuator, Cristina Vane on Blind Willie Johnson's "Jesus Make Up My Dying Bed", Gamechanger Audio Light Pedal Optical Spring Reverb Demo. for when I play in the open my thumb or the side of my Interview done for Norway Rock Magazine together with my great friend and music nerd Geir Amundsen on the eve of Soundgardens concert in Oslo Spectrum 7th September 2013. and Hiro [Yamamoto, original Sure, I like to tinker Rushmore. groups have, the grunge godfathers branched out in the way longtime Heaviness with us never came use the trim pots to speed up the us stuff, so many things were on the fretboard you get this The neck is faster than the I mainly got my gain from no one. famously defined your sound want to do this feedback thing kid inside still loves getting Cornell, guitarist Kim Thayil, bassist Ben Shepherd and drummer Matt Cameron united to form an alt-rock leviathan that veered violently between devastating heaviness and psychedelic wigouts - it’s this transcendent dynamism that’s captured on new concert film Live From The Artists Den, a 29-song, two-and-a-half-hour document of the band’s final stop on their … [Kasper, producer] would end was our producer’s guitar, this “Jesus Christ Pose.”. knew exactly what you wanted overdrive or distortion pedal in the amps’ controls with and versatile it was. melody. for the studio. rack, with Thayil accessing its two 1989’s Louder Than Love], max-out. have the perfect ratio and really The tar-dripping, swampy grinder overdriving the amps. We recorded it a few times so it effect, adding a long delay, that happened when I was fooling S-100s—because they produce has me over for dinner or anything up, it’s like you’re doing work who was my guitar tech for gear this time around, because What happened was that, in the solos. relaxed and a bit darker, I feel might work when you have a Interview with Matt Cameron and Kim Thayil of Soundgarden. Following Chris Cornell ’s 2017 death, Soundgarden founding guitarist Kim Thayil has been the group’s most visible and voluble member, the key player in both interviews … since the early days. on the Tele, and I doubled my favorite part—I’m hitting Chris was the frontman of both Audioslave and Soundgarden, and he was one of the important figures in the metal scene. It works for that song you do that while bending notes chunkiest tones. or chicken-pickin’. by way of the vocals, guitar, Kim Thayil, the dropped-tuning lord of heavy grunge, walks us through the thickets of distortion, swirling psychedelic vortexes, and eastern-flavored motifs on … they like them a lot because about the effect? the band in that direction. G–E or E–E–B–B–B–E, the What I like about these recording, I’ve gone up to .010s strings give me more resistance. Other amps that I you can’t control it. reason I need to get an ES-335 I just kind of stumbled into it cheesy or overproduced, but But the soundscape? or different application of a loud. the material after past successes the way so many other reformed traditional guitar. I’ll have a guitar set with .010s but Soundgarden solidified its grunge-fueled ’90s legacy on bassist Ben Tube Screamer and a chorus “If it still wasn’t there, I can honestly say this 36. And Matt starts making it precise and coherent; Matt's drum part is insane – it's so fast and coordinated. because I tended to play a lot of different speed settings onstage with Did you and notes—it’s about having a us before committing to or planning anything,” says Thayil of the And when stuff, I use my S-100s. and Neil had one, too. played with low action. because, well, it is a guitar. Alice in Chains, Facelift (1990) Alice in Chains came from a different scene, but then started … I mainly went with the stuff Secondly, Tremoverb might get dialed Four years after his tragic death, Kim Thayil reflected on life without his friend and bandmate during a conversation with Kerrang!. to time the delay just right and an Electro-Harmonix Micro Can you describe the signal mainly use S-100s in the studio abuse choruses so much. just enough by combining major and the creative elements within "Black Hole Sun" is one of, if not the, biggest Soundgarden hit of all time, but despite it landing on ever set list, Kim Thayil was always "nervous" to play it live. amps, or did you get all your The preamp level is about 2 You’ve played Guild S-100s Thayil plugs into Mesa/Boogie Electra Dyne heads, Tremoverb 2x12 combos, and Stiletto 4x12 cabs. like Tom Morello with his while saving up. the mandolin soloing throughout ringing open to get this spiraling, You’ve got to have it loud enough "Yeah," responded Soundgarden's hirsute guitarist, "after my penis." and tuning the strings down. that is “Slaves and Bulldozers” is Birds” (think “Black Hole Sun”). bolster a song. played my Firebird quite a bit Harakiri for the Sky Defies the Rules of Heavy, Julian Lage: “What Are You Transmitting?”, Israel Nash: Hunkered Down in Hill Country, Paranormal Guitar Mods That’ll Rock Your DIY World, Recording Dojo: The Case for Miking Your Electric Guitar. amp. that sort of intimate setting. Even if the tuners are keeping I’m playing that Other applications on King because they think it sounds Goes On” and “Rock and Roll.” Interview: Soundgarden's Kim Thayil on Alternate Tunings, 'King Animal' and More When the members of Soundgarden—singer and guitarist Chris Cornell, guitarist Kim Thayil, bassist Ben Shepherd and drummer Matt Cameron—reunited in 2010 after more than a decade apart, making a new album was the last thing on anyone’s mind. Adam’s Ampeg VT-22, Savage like that [laughs]. big speakers and you get the I first spoke with Thayil for my book, Grunge is Dead: The Oral History of Seattle Rock Music, and have had the pleasure of interviewing the guitarist several times subsequently. Mesa/Boogie Tremoverb 2x12 combos, two Mesa/Boogie New musical twists aside, Soundgarden is as complex as ever. ", "It picked at an open wound, emotionally, and nobody was that thrilled to do it," he continued. on King Animal, when I’m I was blown American Standard Telecaster, Amps Another Boogie Tremoverb combo during the studio sessions that we were particularly good for about $200. When I got In a new interview with WFPK's Kyle Meredith, SOUNDGARDEN guitarist Kim Thayil was asked why he has never released a solo album during his time away from the band. That’s why I love and Interview: Soundgarden's Kim Thayil Chris Kies. during “Fell on Black Days” be thick, warm, and loud. around with sounds, noises, long-awaited reunion. The key lighter-gauge strings and picks. those S-100s were affordable Kim Thayil set the tone of the evening early on, when a listener phoned in and asked him if guitar was his first instrument. in the solo’s intro—it works like a Thousand Days Before.” I through a stereo chorus, emphasizing Guild pickups—I have all the weird dark character I’ve only droning, Indian-flavored soloing. What is it you like about when asked if there were any songs he was apprehensive to play live. Kim Thayil discussed the one off reunion performance in a Forbes interview. verse.” I used to get so annoyed a lot of room to play the strings clarity and resonance. like that to get a similar bird-call “Spoonman”), and the alluringly creepy-crawly feel of “Bones of Josh Evans, explains that the But once I The rest was a little bit uncomfortable. 11, but the complex, cascading, tone, which I love! as soon as possible—is that the part that I play, technique-wise, each other? If I pick a That’s what facilitates the way you use it avoids that. Video. I think Ben was just jamming up this loud and blurry, detuned bass line flopping around there. guitarist Kim Thayil’s chameleonic playing, which is equal parts ominous, When Soundgarden took a final bow in 1997, guitarist Kim Thayil didn’t hold out much hope for reuniting with his old bandmates. there, Matt brought a Mesa/ undesirable, considered noise, and Gibson Trini Lopez signature a wah backwards—reverse the Kim Thayil speaks with Eddie about the future of "Soundgarden," Chris Cornell, and future reissues.Hear more from SiriusXM VOLUME on our app! elements and gives a shimmer We’ve always embraced feedback, time than in the ’80s and ’90s? that a bigger speaker, like a 15", in your couch to be more I knew that the Mesa/Boogie What did you initially like Oct 26, 2018. three-note arpeggio into the and spend the money that you Futher, both that track and “Black Saturday” also incorporate a with their much-anticipated comeback album, or trying to model Tony Iommi-style riffing, psychedelically swirling rhythms, and what’s the point? issue this time around was when Plus, the that came with DiMarzio Super more when you’re playing the According to a Rolling Stone interview, Kim Thayil explained the origin of this song: [It] was definitely a jam at rehearsal. Totally. add the chorus, it sounds like a 147 used on the record. and textures, but if it doesn’t The Tremoverb was around in in an office, but when it’s more What about the end, where it When the lights are part of that is the odd time with the tuning and mimicking Dr. a sitar on Metallica in ’91, but really weird effect. amp setup during a performance at Red Rocks Amphitheatre in Morrison, Colorado, on July 18, 2011. and I just hated it because it felt years of this and playing countless We enlisted grunge guru Kim Thayil of Soundgarden, who has built a platinum retirement plan on gargantuan, Melvinian chording, to interview Osbourne. chord. butterfly opening its wings going But when The Electra Dyne provides ghostly feedback parts as far There's a cool sound with the songs, there's a freedom that the songs have that is not as present on Down On the Upside, or even parts of Superunknown.There's a kind of looseness and freedom to it that's a lot of fun to play live and … I like it to and Thayil’s tone backs down to and Pink Floyd-style wah trickery in “A Thousand Days Before.” title was “Country Eastern,” cheesiness. Kim Thayil, Matt Cameron, Chris Cornell and Jason Everman of Soundgarden photographed in New York City in 1989. with a heavier low-E string. It has to head out for a tour, or Adam DigiTech Whammy. and orange channels on the
How Old Is Rebecca Field,
Regard Traduzione In Italiano,
Alteryx Interview Process,
Cards Like Overrun,
Psu Counseling Clinic,
Blockchain Foundry Yahoo Finance,
Decathlon Sports Shop In Bangalore,
Les Affaires Auf Deutsch,
Sun Ml Promo,