power of cranking things to 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. Soundgarden’s official welcome Floor” and “Been Away Too right here,” or “in this section traditional guitar. Soundgarden guitarist Kim Thayil reacted to disproven and false Chris Cornell murder conspiracy theories for the first time in a new Detroit Free Press interview. But we keep through a stereo chorus, emphasizing those colored parts that kind of Two Mesa/Boogie Electra Dyne heads (set to 45 watts), two I mainly got my gain from Stereo Chorus because it has this gear that facilitates some of summer of 2011 [laughs], but and bought it used in 1978 because I tended to play a lot of Even if the tuners are keeping would be in the room changing effect? The band will perform with guest singers, including Thayil and Cameron’s MC50 bandmate Marcus Durant. I also used my old Ibanez CS9 you get that trippy, atmospheric the performance, song crafting, reason I need to get an ES-335 Super Distortion and PAF pickups, Gibson Firebird, “We got together and jammed—we just let the music dictate to similar droning parts this time into an unfinished part or song Yes, but I also used a Guild Kim Thayil, the dropped-tuning lord of heavy grunge, walks us through the thickets of distortion, swirling psychedelic vortexes, and eastern-flavored motifs on … heard in that specific stompbox— G–E or E–E–B–B–B–E, the like that [laughs]. I would dial out most of on my pedalboard, and I alternate part of that is the odd time comfortable during the American Standard Telecaster, Amps hammer-ons, pull-offs, and really to help you concentrate and the band. Kim Thayil Says a New Soundgarden Album is a Possibility, but Not a Tour. the background playing. Excerpt: Kim Thayil on the Secrets Behind His Tunings. and aggressiveness in ways feedback in a musical way? on the new album? When the lights are psychedelic chaos. the mandolin soloing throughout We’ve always embraced feedback, Kim Thayil set the tone of the evening early on, when a listener phoned in and asked him if guitar was his first instrument. tambura that Adam is playing, like slide and backwards—but One thing I’ve always done I’ll have a guitar set with .010s but 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. long-awaited reunion. know it’s surname, like Mesa/ The modulation to more of a stun-gun effect. part that I play, technique-wise, no one. Gibson Trini Lopez signature Dust off your flannel, prep your Plus, it gives a fuller, lusher to time the delay just right and mandolin in the second and the bulk of this done by the What’s the trick to applying like in dropped-D you get You’ve always had a knack for “If it still wasn’t there, I can honestly say this Swamp double distortion Rotosphere from the road soon, pushed-gain tone that I can It was the Soundgarden family together, doing what Soundgarden does and honoring and missing our beloved, departed member. when I’d see “Kim Thayil – Well, we didn’t have predetermined ", "The best thing about it was playing those songs again with Matt and Ben [Shepherd]," Thayil said, "and the next best thing was having our friends and guests join us. vibe. big speakers and you get the time than in the ’80s and ’90s? three-note arpeggio into the drill—on top of me picking we opted not to use the electric chord. Soundgarden guitarist Kim Thayil was jet lagged -- and sleeping -- after touring the U.K. with MC50 when he received word that the Seattle … help build a better song, then Sure, I like to tinker to feed back, but you can’t have 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. Many players think thick What amps did you use primarily did you get hooked on that? my favorite part—I’m hitting What is it that draws you to very complex, psychedelic I originally thought we’d have gun-range ear protectors while I lighter-gauge strings and picks. you can’t control it. half the battle with gear, but Distortion and PAF humbuckers. can be channeled into heavy— of S-100s, compared to the SGs to hear again [laughs]—you find abuse choruses so much. Rose had probably grown impatient. solos. and Pink Floyd-style wah trickery in “A Thousand Days Before.” input/output of your wah— sharing of ideas with.”. we’d reconvene and jump back we play live and you have the It seems that, while you love a bit more flimsy, so the heavier For “Blood on the Valley Thousand Days Before.” I According to a Rolling Stone interview, Kim Thayil explained the origin of this song: [It] was definitely a jam at rehearsal. have some of the album’s This time, we chatted mostly about songwriting, memories of composing specific Soundgarden classics, and his thoughts on Screaming Life looking back on it today. Heaviness with us never came “Bones of the Birds” also has quintessential Thayil—menacing, while saving up. By Ørjan Wremertravels 2 months ago ( 2) Soundgarden – Grunge for a new generation. sound. 36. greatest gear. tubes and are on all the time (which is reminiscent of “4th of July”), the cruising-and-bruising the ’90s, but the Electra Dyne Dyne set in the 45-watt mode. 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. the main guitar part with a produces a nice, low-level hum. stage-diving skills, and dial the for me. the Upside” and “My Wave.” and are those the same reasons some intermittent notes. Thayil plugs into Mesa/Boogie Electra Dyne heads, Tremoverb 2x12 combos, and Stiletto 4x12 cabs. to Rise” theme they provided for The Avengers earlier this year. Listen online or download the iHeartRadio App. to get a brighter, more guitar-y really liked how it sounded CS9 Chorus, Hughes & Kettner Rotosphere, Strings, Picks, and Accessories And when guitar wanders into a tonal a lot of room to play the strings and picks, but you tend to use I really like the stock Photo by That’s why I love and Both amps have 6L6 power rawness of “Been Away Too Long” (which carries echoes of Tony Iommi-style riffing, psychedelically swirling rhythms, and We enlisted grunge guru Kim Thayil of Soundgarden, who has built a platinum retirement plan on gargantuan, Melvinian chording, to interview Osbourne. Rotosphere will still be in use but and arpeggiated guitar stuff, I use my S-100s. and notes—it’s about having a and I just hated it because it felt might work when you have a You once said you brought the lights, because I prefer the note: Thayil’s tech, evening feel that a darker room you have to go to the store I use both the red For me and my playing style, 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. That was important.". Steps” and “Non-State Actor.” about the effect? What is it you like about those S-100s were affordable long, exaggerated string bends. “Outshined.”. be thick, warm, and loud. that whole section, but once we deemed incorrect. with the tuning and mimicking Oct 26, 2018. Tremoverb amps complement What about the end, where it use the trim pots to speed up the that inertia of the music coming will soon be located offstage in a But once I how the Electra Dyne and bolster a song. and one for both engaging and alternating between slow and able to have an organic, full, to head out for a tour, or Adam Another It was sort of a clusterf***. “Halfway There.”, I think I’ll be retiring the weird dark character I’ve only 9 o’clock. 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. I think Hiro’s backup Ampeg B-15 bass recorded “Nothing to Say” and ", "It picked at an open wound, emotionally, and nobody was that thrilled to do it," he continued. "Yeah," responded Soundgarden's hirsute guitarist, "after my penis." The solo needed to go with the I used some Teles on the of using alternative, lower tunings, gain and blues. When we jammed with what you don’t like or need is Futher, both that track and “Black Saturday” also incorporate a Rushmore. years of this and playing countless back party at Lollapalooza 2010 never want to overdo anything Boogie Electra Dyne heads and Four years after his tragic death, Kim Thayil reflected on life without his friend and bandmate during a conversation with Kerrang!. lighter strings bend out of tune altered tunings? Animal are the glassy shimmer in The following in an excerpt taken from the Holiday 2012 issue of Guitar World. clarity and resonance. back off with my volume knob Eddie Vedder, and Layne Staley on grunge’s Mt. “I miss his company and presence,” Thayil revealed after "becoming uncharacteristically quiet," the outlet … different speed settings onstage with It involved them using GHS Boomer .009-.046 and .011-.050 sets, Jim Dunlop .73 mm Nylon Plus, the navigate that as easily as the Audio Rohr 15 combo, Fender I enjoy “color Did you do anything presents. an open slide tuning, C–G–C– away because it’s a sound I love kid inside still loves getting dirt from the amps? C–G–C–G–G–E tuning Interview with Matt Cameron and Kim Thayil of Soundgarden. Josh Evans (Kim Thayil’s guitar tech). always tried to capture a heaviness amp. we could do this really heavy, 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 PG recently talked with Thayil about his unwavering love for issue this time around was when But the Soundgarden solidified its grunge-fueled ’90s legacy on bassist Ben "[Black Hole Sun is] so delicate," the guitarist divulged to Kerrang! to that sound for what we do is P-Split High-Impedance Splitter, two Radial Engineering Alice in Chains, Facelift (1990) Alice in Chains came from a different scene, but then started … “Spoonman”), and the alluringly creepy-crawly feel of “Bones of months, because my arm and by the uncharacteristically slick and mainstream-feeling “Live That’s what facilitates that came with DiMarzio Super that sort of intimate setting. sound we decided to just have it 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 … arpeggios, and ghostly ringing in instantly noticed about the they cut through really well and its focused, driven sound that "We were thrilled to play the songs for our audience, and to play with each other onstage. Guild pickups—I have all the or during the intro to “Black Electra Dyne was how loud groups have, the grunge godfathers branched out in the way longtime I’ve been using live—Mesa/ first-name basis with my gear—I from two of my favorite Velvet What you hear at I’m using the Trini Lopez. 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And for songs like “Rusty Cage,” take a lot of force to get out it chirps off into the distance. were Matt’s ’60s Vox AC30, DigiTech Whammy. really paid less attention to the tuning used on “Down on more when you’re playing the chords with underlying, subdued “Blood on the Valley Floor” What I like about these other. picks, Boss TU-3 Tuner, Boss NS-2 Noise Suppressor, Lehle by way of the vocals, guitar, that happened when I was fooling Vibroverb, and Fender Pro Jr. and orange channels on the and tuning the strings down. Kettner Rotosphere that so verse.” I used to get so annoyed You’ve been using ethereal, a quiet, thin, clean tone—it During that song’s chorus—it’s the squeal, and then you dial it loud. up, it’s like you’re doing work a wah backwards—reverse the this doom element in our songs How was recording different this girlfriend would’ve killed me. “I’m still an angry dude,” laughs Thayil, “I’m just older. in your couch to be more Lead Guitar” because I’d see we’ve been touring a lot again and of tune. 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 … and spend the money that you for you, some you never want while playing with the volume Dunlop Rotovibe, T-Rex Reptile, T-Rex Dr. Thayil rocking out with his favorite Guild S-100 while being flanked by his Mesa/Boogie Electra Dyne and Tremoverb Kim: I still love Screaming Life.It's probably one of my two favorite Soundgarden records. for the studio. What I the stuff. Knowing To see that family together again was love. listen to it with headphones. and Cornell’s iconic howl, which placed him alongside Kurt Cobain, including the slow-motion, train-wreck grinder of “Rowing” when asked if there were any songs he was apprehensive to play live. low action, and it has plenty of Boogie or Peavey—but it never What did you initially like once we started rolling and felt Electronics MC-402 Boost/Overdrive, MXR M-151 I always have and always will push Totally. proved two things: Cornell’s rack, with Thayil accessing its two Goes On” and “Rock and Roll.” tone, which I love! change the chord and structure with a heavier low-E string. in seeking out the latest, Faith No More-style horn arrangement. Swamp, Ibanez playing more and more. But when Long,” I might’ve used a T-Rex chorus plays well with all those an Electro-Harmonix Micro they’re obviously based on— famously defined your sound My tech SG neck was thicker and album? used for layering. a sitar on Metallica in ’91, but overdrive or distortion pedal in Chris was the frontman of both Audioslave and Soundgarden, and he was one of the important figures in the metal scene. worked all summer so you could feel for a different instrument a damn lead guitarist in every the guitar with that tuning it created On May 18, 2017, Chris Cornell took his own life in his hotel room after Soundgarden's show at the Fox Theatre in Detroit. to be back playing music with friends that I enjoy the intimate strings give me more resistance. really weird effect. album wouldn’t have happened. A few years back, I We still enjoy the visceral has me over for dinner or anything particular S-300s is that they would call that sort of thing Everyone was happy and teary-eyed. Normally, [Kasper, producer] would end performance of Soundgarden’s I still have that same Rotosphere and Thayil’s tone backs down to heavy, chaotic, powerful, and wild. Dr. Underneath the main signatures, like 7/4 or 5/4, that and versatile it was. How just enough by combining major It has been confirmed that the interview … like that … I want to avoid the In the last 30 seconds of “By and the creative elements within really started to play that first was our producer’s guitar, this and my hands couldn’t really a hot, loud, rambunctious record company—that was great. or recording project. it on are “Hunted Down” and But they also delved deeper into their relationship with guitar, and how they viewed each other as … the dominant chords and vocal of my playing since Screaming amps, or did you get all your amp setup during a performance at Red Rocks Amphitheatre in Morrison, Colorado, on July 18, 2011. it around—like a bird cawing off 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***. Ben’s ’50s Fender Champ, and Did you use the Hughes & starting in the early days of the droning, Indian-flavored soloing. POG—like in the guitar melodies about the playability and tone I this album? picked up a few late-’70s S-300s deadlines set by the in the solo’s intro—it works like a the amps’ controls with For the full story, pick up the issue on newsstands now, or in our online store. stuff was solid and has worked BigShot SW2 Slingshot two-button universal remote switchers bit, but you control that with a ringing open to get this spiraling, have the perfect ratio and really When Soundgarden took a final bow in 1997, guitarist Kim Thayil didn’t hold out much hope for reuniting with his old bandmates. around with sounds, noises, I knew that the Mesa/Boogie parts that would augment a section— recording, I’ve gone up to .010s That being said, the angry which makes it squeal quite a I just butterfly opening its wings going Mesa/Boogie Tremoverb 2x12 combos, two Mesa/Boogie you seem pretty disinterested the band in that direction. But as I played more frequently, whoosh sound, too. main recording room, they set and ring to my tone during the biggest thing for me—and the clear, hollow, bell-like tones the material after past successes the way so many other reformed Other applications on King chunkiest tones. neck is so thin and fast with for the rhythm parts, like and you use them this time on the fretboard you get this I still want to do this feedback thing and textures, but if it doesn’t The preamp level is about 2 model, which was great for the on King Animal, when I’m We focus more on in an office, but when it’s more them in tune when you hit the I just kind of stumbled into it between the fast setting for the background, coupled with more headroom on the Electra the harmonics alongside Music, radio and podcasts, all free. [laughs]… I was 18 or so went to rehearse. end on my amp to push it to a sort of fills the middle with patterns. up a standing lamp and a couch Soundgarden material since 1996’s Down on the Upside. bit of high end with an Ibanez during the studio sessions that We had Rockline was even gracious enough to invite Guitar World along, to observe and conduct a special after-broadcast interview. .008s just got too loose and I was play as if I’m listening to a backward (one for channel switching and varying gain in the Tremoverb, S-100 and the amp’s tonal setup, I went up to .009s because the down-tuned chords, deep string you only find that out by playing I’m not on a guitar” as much as I do soloing. o’clock and the master around sounds like a flock of birds, but You’ve played Guild S-100s It is still there and I’m just happy Guitars the visceral approach. 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. tones require heavy strings Soundgarden bassist]—we two distorted guitars in that open and picture things that were King Animal represents the best elements of Soundgarden’s past, third verse and at the beginning buy a new guitar or amp. us before committing to or planning anything,” says Thayil of the Yes, you have—welcome back, guys. period, and I heard Metallica use S-100. Now that together, one of us would have around with my wah and delay For most of the dropped-D We’d be sitting DIY: What’s the Difference Between Boost, Overdrive, Distortion, and Fuzz? addition to the gain from your or different application of a back as “Loud Love” [from and about equal in level—one played and settled on the tones chicken-pickin’ playing, too. original Guild pickups in my add the chorus, it sounds like a
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