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Soundgarden signing to a major, then Mother Love Bone, and seeing the same happen to Alice in Chains. We were all suddenly making music and recording at the same time, and we had money to do it. It wasn’t like a $2,000 recording that you do over a weekend. It’s like, ‘Wow, maybe this will be our job.’
When I first went on tour with PJ in ’98, I was still in shock having gone through the Soundgarden break up.
When Soundgarden formed, we were post-punk – pretty quirky.
I love Soundgarden, I love Rage Against the Machine, Simon & Garfunkel.
I’ll never forget getting my first Nirvana, Soundgarden, and Alice in Chain records, and hearing that wonderful, beautiful darkness. And the rhythmic intensity, that’s what attracted me more than anything else.
Whenever anyone sends me a link to a band, saying, ‘These guys sound exactly like Soundgarden,’ it’s always some super simple sludge riff with a singer that sings high and screechy. And it’s really awful.
Soundgarden are kind of the masters of writing songs that aren’t pop cliches.
I can go from one extreme to another, from playing at the Sydney Opera House on the Songbook tour to shows with Soundgarden at Voodoo Fest, all in a week.
There are a handful of Soundgarden songs that work acoustically, but only a couple. It’s not who we were.
And if I’m honest about it, I was obsessed with Nirvana and Pearl Jam. This is like ’92, right in the throes of Soundgarden and Pearl Jam and Nirvana. I think I probably wanted to be Kurt Cobain.
We wrote many a Rage song where we’d use Soundgarden as a template.
There was no animosity in the breakup of Soundgarden.
