En el Backstage con Chris Cornell

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Yo estaba en octavo grado cuando escuché por primera vez a  Soundgarden.  En Kentucky rural  sólo ponían  pop y country, que estaba viviendo de MC Hammer y Garth Brooks cuando uno de mis mejores amigos, sentado detrás de mí en la espalda de autobús principal, me puso unos auriculares en mis oídos con el los gloriosos sonidos rítmicos de Spoonman.
Toda mi vida cambió para siempre


Chris Cornell, cantante de Soundgarden, Audioslave, Temple Of The Dog y una saludable carrera como solista, ha gastado el año pasado en una gira acústica en solitario que ha llevado al Songbook, su versión más reciente que ha catalogado algunos de los puntos más brillantes de la gira.  Entre bastidores en el teatro Brown en Louisville, nos sentamos por casi media hora hablando a través de su legendaria carrera, así como sus pensamientos en el Salón de la fama del Rock and Roll, cómo él mantiene bien  su voz en forma, muestra su primer álbum en solitario, el futuro de Soundgarden y muchas muchas más.


Aquí tenéis el enlace con la entrevista


http://soundcloud.com/theweeklyfeed/chris-cornell-interview


In English
I was in 8th grade when I first heard Soundgarden.  Rural Kentucky with radio catering only to pop and country, I was living off of MC Hammer and Garth Brooks when one of my best friends, sitting behind me on the bus back home, snuck some headphones over my ears with the two tiny speakers blaring the glorious rhythmic sounds of Spoonman.
And my life changed forever.


Chris Cornell, front man for Soundgarden, Audioslave, Temple of the Dog, and a healthy solo career, has spent the last year on a solo acoustic tour which has led to Songbook, his latest release that has cataloged some of the brightest spots of the tour.  Backstage at the Brown Theatre in Louisville, we sat down for a near half hour to run through his legendary career, as well as his thoughts on the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, how he keeps that massive voice in shape, his very first solo shows, the future of Soundgarden, and lots-lots more.


Here the link


http://soundcloud.com/theweeklyfeed/chris-cornell-interview

Pearl Jam han añadido 2 conciertos a su gira Europea

2 de Julio en Praga, República Checa y otro el 2 de Julio en Berlín, Alemania


In English


July 2nd in Prague, Czech Republic & 2nd show in Berlin, Germany July

Feliz cumpleaños Jimmy Page

Foo Fighters en directo en el NPA (1997)

Entrevista a Krist, Dave y Buth en la grabación del Wasting Ligth

Un día como hoy pero de 1992 Nirvana ensaya en los estudios de NBC en Nueva York para su primera aparición en Saturday Night Live

Después de esto se fueron a hacer una aparición en The Late Show con David Letterman.


In English

Nirvana rehearses at NBC Studios in New York for their first

apperearence on Saturday Night Live. after rehearsel Krist and Dave went

to a taping of The Late Show With David Letterman.

Mudhoney harán un tour Europeo en mayo y junio

Sacado de su Twitter oficial

May 20 Le Transbordeur Villeurbanne, France

May 22 Circolo Artisti Rome, Italy

May 23 at Bronson Club, Ravenna, Italy

May 24 Feierwerk 089 Munich, Germany. Tickets:

May 25 at Les Trinitaires, Metz, France

May 26 ATP Festival London, England

May 27 Villette Sonique Paris, France

May 28 Tivoli Utrecht Utrecht, The Netherlands

May 29 Het Depot Leuven, Belgium

May 30 at La Sirene, La Rochelle, France

May 31 Primavera Sound BARCELONA, Spain

June 1 K aleatoire Marseille, France

May 21 Bloom Mezzago Mezzago, Italy

Respuesta de Andy Frisk a Nicholas Pell

Es muy larga, por lo que lo dejo en inglés, ya lo siento, si puedo intentaré traducirla poco a poco

I don’t know Nicolas Pell, but I think it’s pretty safe to say that he isn’t a fan of Pearl Jam. He starts out by making a snide remark in reference to Eddie Vedder’s vocal delivery. He says he mumbles. I can’t really argue with this one, as Eddie has been accused of mumbling a good bit over the years. What Pell implies is that Vedder “mumbles” all of the time. If a singer mumbled the words in every song that he sang, I doubt that the band would go anywhere. (Look at that other band with a mumbly guy. Although I bet that Pell never liked REM either…) Pell then goes on to take another smart assed and frankly juvenile jab at “Jeff Ament’s endless procession of silly hats.” Pell accidentally counters his own argument almost immediately here. This “procession of silly hats” obviously isn’t boring enough to be forgotten. So already Pell admits, either by mistake or in an effort to purposely undermine himself, that Jeff Ament’s hats, while silly, aren’t boring. Doesn’t one quickly forget and dump from their short term memory that which is boring? Next, Pell makes fun of Stone Gossard’s name. I won’t even touch this one. After this, he refers to Eddie Vedder as being “self-important.” Herein begins the only part of his tirade that even approaches logical, if not necessarily true or learned.

Eddie Vedder has often been mistaken for being self-important, when honestly, especially in the early days, he was a little too raw and honest about himself, his background, his beliefs, etc. Anyone who wears their heart on their sleeve, especially a rock star, is going to get labeled “self-important.” Remember Bono circa 1988? ‘Nuff said. Again though, being “self-important” doesn’t label one as being boring does it? His critiquing of Pearl Jam as not being “grunge” (he does name some bands here that really were “grunge” according to the scene’s purists) really is spot on, in a particular sense that is. Pearl Jam got lumped into the grunge category because of their location, their appearance, and their DIY mentality. These are the things that defined “grunge” much more than the musical style. Grunge was much more than just one type of sound. It was incorporative of many sounds. Punk, metal, pop-rock, and classic rock elements all mixed together to form “grunge.” The bands that originally formed the “grunge” scene all had various different sounds, but all enjoyed each others’ take on the guitar, bass, and drums formula. There was not as much infighting in the Seattle music scene as there was in the New York punk scene. The Melvins, Soundgarden, Mudhoney, Nirvana, The Fastbacks, The Gits, Seven Year Bitch, etc. were all stoked by each other’s music, and not much of it was even of the same genre. It was okay to like punk AND metal AND classic rock (we’re talking the originals here, a la Black Sabbath, and not REO Speedwagon). Upon taking all these facts into consideration, one can conclude that Pearl Jam IS grunge. I don’t know how much Pell knows about music “scenes,” and it’s probably more than I do since he’s writing for LA Weekly and I’m writing my own, Blogger published DIY blog, but I do understand grunge, having lived through it. Pearl Jam are grunge.

Continuing to dis on Vedder, Pell makes some comments about how he “played the brooding, tortured frontman, constantly brushing hair from his face, affecting shyness.” Again, how is this boring? Vedder was pretty different from most of his grunge peers at the outset. He wasn’t necessarily as ready for the limelight as a Chris Cornell or Andy Wood was. Vedder was in over his head, and it took a while for him to come out of his shell. Once he did though, especially as documented in Pearl Jam’s performance at Pink Pop 92, he was anything but an “affecting shyness” frontman. Pell says that while Vedder stood around brooding, the rest jumped around and “grinned like simpletons.” Again, is he talking about every other member of the band? Did Pell ever see them in concert? If he’s basing his assumptions on Dave Abbruzzese’s grin directed towards Jeff Ament during the band’s performance on SNL the week after Cobain blew his brains out, it’s difficult to label the whole band as perpetually “grinning simpletons.”

“Collectively they mouthed all the shibboleths about gun control and “white male dominance, maaaaaaan …” Seriously, who did they think they were fooling?” bewails Pell next. Well, I’m not sure if they were really trying to fool anyone. Yes, they were a bunch of comfortable middle-class kids at the time they formed. What do most middle-class kids, who have no real worries, do most of the time though? Get high, chase girls, get into the appropriately cool trouble, i.e. get busted busting cherries, getting high, or tripping out. If they happen to be talented enough to form a rock band, it’s usually to get laid. Eddie Van Halen once bragged, saying something to the effect that “I was always in my room playing my guitar and missing out on stuff, but once I got in a band I got more pussy than everyone.” While that’s not a direct quote (sorry can’t find the vid of this interview), it is indicative of the type of music that Pearl Jam and grunge was going against the grain of. Van Halen were a bunch of grinning simpletons who gave birth to a plethora of even worse sounding and grinning simpletons. Their musical pedigree was one that eventually evolved into the likes of Warrant, Poison, Whitesnake, and the like. Coming from the perspective of someone who is a member of Gen X,THAT was boring, pointless music FOR grinning idiots. When Pearl Jam got up and performed songs about the warning signs that lead to teenage suicide, “white male dominance,” and abuse, they were doing something that was completely unique in rock music at the time in comparison to what was dominating AOR radio. A gaggle of guys who look like girls with prettier makeup jobs than most supermodels, all singing about how hard they can swing their dicks, is boring. Pearl Jam, and their grunge counterparts, were a breath of fresh air, and the exact opposite of boring. As Pearl Jam got big, their message got even more important and intelligent. Again, for the most part, when a bunch of middle class kids got together to attempt to rock they either (1) played at rebellion or (2) chased the ultimate lay, then sang about it. Pearl Jam did something different.

Finally, Pearl Jam isn’t boring musically. Saying that though isn’t the same as saying that Pearl Jam are doing something brand new musically. If Pearl Jam is boring, then the whole genre of blues-based, Hendrix influenced, or simple-punk styled music (as is evident in Pearl Jam’s later music) are all boring. Seriously, what can be considered new in rock post-Hendrix? The trick is for this type of music, which is all of a same style, and therefore similar, to be presented in an interesting way and within interesting contexts. This is something that Pearl Jam has continued to do over the years in spades. So while I wish Mr. Pell plenty of luck as a blogger for a major site (he’s well on his way to it), I’ll be anxiously awaiting something “new” from him other than controversy stirring and hit-generating designed rants, which is something that is itself becoming a boring and repetitive aspect of the blogosphere.

Fotos de los conciertos de Smashing Pumpkins en España

Un día como ayer pero de 1994, fue la última vez que el público de EE.UU vio a Kurt Cobain en vivo

like yesterday but in 1994, he was the last time that the public in the United States.UU saw Kurt Cobain in a concert

No sé lo que significa el Post Grunge, Creed y Nickelback son 2 cosas que no puedo soportar - Mark Arm

"I don’t even know what [post-grunge] means. Creed and Nickelback are two things I can’t handle." - Mark Arm

Dave Grohl es el Gandhi del rock and roll según los Muppets

Sacado de dailytelegraph.com 


El líder de Foo Fighters aparecerá junto con el grupo de títeres en su película "The Muppets", se lanzará oficialmente en Australia el 12 de enero.


Kermit la rana, Dr. dientes y el resto de los personajes disfrutó trabajar con el Dios del rock.
'' Puedes encontrar esto difícil de creer, pero es más cierto fehacientemente. Mi hombre Dave, aka el Grohl-, es un tio muy tranquilo. El Gandhi de rock ' roll. Y que yo sepa nunca luchó un Foo,'' Dr. Teeth dijo Q Magazine.


Los Muppets han trabajado con muchas caras conocidas en los años. Sir Michael Caine en su estreno de 1992 "The Muppet Christmas Carol" tiene un lugar especial en el corazón del Kermit.


In English


The Foo Fighters frontman appears alongside the puppet group in their movie The Muppets, to be officially released in Australia on January 12.

Kermit the Frog, Dr. Teeth and the rest of the characters thoroughly enjoyed working with the rock god.

``You may find this hard to believe but it is most certifiably true. My man Dave, aka the Grohl-man, is one very peaceful dude. The Gandhi of rock'n'roll. And to my knowledge he never actually fought a Foo,'' Dr. Teeth has told Q Magazine.
The Muppets have worked with many famous faces over the years. Sir Michael Caine featured in their 1992 film release The Muppet Christmas Carol and has a special place in Kermit's heart.

Un nuevo single largo de los Melvins/ U-men

Desde la página de Facebook de AmRep : Amphetamine Reptile va a hacer una serie de 12 "registros a partir de 5 a 6 semanas. El récord de Sugar Daddy Splits series  son las pistas de Melvins desde su CD de "Sugar Daddy" Ipecac combinado con bandas que aman de pasado, presente y futuro. Bueno, quizás no futuro. Starting it off, Cows y los U-MEN!!! Será mucho mayor que los proyectos más recientes y  de forma más rentable. 


Una canción por cada lado, 33 1/3 rpm 180 granos Gore vinilo.


Seda proyectado imprimida.


Precio aún no se ha fijado (probablemente en el rango de 20 dólares)


fecha de lanzamiento - aún no establecido. estimado en 5-7 semanas.


No hay suscripciones.


Ahora no podemos listar todas las pistas, pero algunas son material previamente publicado por bandas desaparecidas y algún nuevo material exclusivo de bandas actuales.


In English


From the AmRep Facebook page: Amphetamine Reptile will be doing a series of 12” records starting in 5-6 weeks. The 13 record Sugar Daddy Splits series is the Melvins tracks from their Ipecac “Sugar Daddy” CD combined with bands they love from past, present, and future. Okay, maybe not future. Starting it off, COWS and the U-MEN!!! Pressing sizes will be a lot larger than recent projects, and way more affordable.
One song per side, 33 1/3 rpm 180 grain Splatter vinyl.



Silk screened print.


Price not yet set (likely in the $20ish range)



Release date - not yet set. 5-7 weeks estimated.



No subscriptions.



We can’t list all the tracks now, but some are previously released material by defunct bands, and some new exclusive material from current bands.

Mark Lanegan portada de la revista "Noise"

La gira de Pearl Jam también se ha colado entre las más taquilleras de este 2011

Sacado de las lista de Pollstar de las giras más taquilleras /exitosas de este año 2011:


Puesto 68: PEARL JAM


Millones (En bruto) : 12.3


Promedio de entradas: 18,578


Ciudades / conciertos: 10/11


In English


Removed from the list of Pollstar's most blockbuster tours this year 2011 /exitosas:


68. PEARL JAM


Gross (millions): 12.3



Average Tickets: 18,578



Cities/Shows: 10/11

Soundgarden anuncian un concierto en París

Una nueva fecha del tour: Le Zénith in Paris, Francia, 29 de mayo. Las entradas se venderán a partir de las 10 de la mañana del 13 de enero


A new date of the tour: Le Zénith in Paris, France, may 29. Tickets will be sold from 10 in the morning of January 13

La gira de verano de Soundgarden recaudó unos 6 millones de dólares

De la lista de Pollstar de giras de 2011 más taquilleras:


Soundgarden (Puesto 126) 


-Millones (En bruto) 6,1 millones de dólares


-Promedio de entradas: 5,167


In English


From Pollstar’s list of top grossing tours of 2011:


126. SOUNDGARDEN


Gross (millions): 6.1

Average Tickets: 5,167