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Re: Chris and Kim Discuss Lollapalooza
this is from SPIN:
You guys last played Lollapalooza in 1996. Do you have a sense of how the festival has changed since then?
Thayil: There used to be a lot of camaraderie between the bands when it was a traveling festival. I don'™t know if that can happen when it'™s site specific.
Cornell: From the lineup, it looks like there'™s a little bit of everything, which was always part of the Lollapalooza idea.
Does knowing that you might be playing in front of Lady Gaga fans or MGMT fans change the way you approach the performance?
Cornell: I don'™t think it would be possible for Soundgarden to try to come up with a set list that would appeal to Lady Gaga fans. Maybe what we wore would be different. I would be interested to see, for example, what Kim might wear.
Thayil: A Devo flowerpot hat.
How'™s rehearsal been going? Did the muscle memory kick in, or have you had to completely relearn the material?
Cornell: It'™s been interesting. We started digging up songs we hadn'™t played since, like, 1989, and it turns out that time isn'™t as much of a factor in remembering a song as is how much we played it live. I remember stuff from Louder Than Love way better than I do from [1996's] Down on the Upside because we toured so much more behind it.
Thayil: Yeah, the greatest things are the songs that we haven'™t done since the late '™80s. You start into it, and all of a sudden you'™re like, 'Oh, yeah. This kicks ass!'
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Re: Chris and Kim Discuss Lollapalooza
Yeah but that wouldn't be surprising at all. Few bands that broke up come back and play much from their last pre-break up album. Alice in Chains only plays 1 song from Tripod consistently, Faith No More doesn't do much from Album of the Year, Green Day (do they count? they never really broke up but they might as well have) mostly ignores Warning, hell you could count GnR and say they don't play UYI, Jane's did next to nothing from Strays, when NIN re-emerged in 05 they played almost nothing from The Fragile, etc.
I'd imagine that the older tracks might work better live anyways. Those songs were written to be played, not to be recorded. At the AIC show I went to and the NIN one, the biggest shock was how alive the early tracks become when played live. They might sound a bit flat, or dated, or even just overplayed in the studio forms, but live those are the ones that shine the most.
Re: Chris and Kim Discuss Lollapalooza
In other words, Down on the Upside will be ignored and the reunion is gonna revolve around deep cuts from the original lineup with the hits sprinkled throughout the set.
Which I'm fine with. It made for a damn good set at the show I saw.
My wish is Overfloater, Like Suicide, 4th of July, Let Me Drown and Jesus Christ Pose.
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Re: Chris and Kim Discuss Lollapalooza
4-5/30 trx from UYI... yeah i'd say GN'R don't play UYI at all also.
If you count the covers, it's a decent amount. But I don't count them. So I am technically wrong, but I'm ok with that.
Re: Chris and Kim Discuss Lollapalooza
Yeah but that wouldn't be surprising at all. Few bands that broke up come back and play much from their last pre-break up album.
Yeah, but the band exploded during its last three albums.
To put this in GNR terms, lets imagine that AFD and Lies never explode and simply have an underground following. They then get huge with UYI and TSI. They reunite 15 years later and the reunion revolves around AFD and Lies.
Would you be happy with the band charting that course?
Which I'm fine with. It made for a damn good set at the show I saw.
The reason that set was impressive is because they appeared to be making the statement that anything goes and they wouldn't be tied down to doing a nostalgic hits set. If that set becomes the norm, it changes the dynamics of it completely.
In a club performing in front of a thousand extreme hardcores in Seattle, its fine. Take that set on the festival circuit or arenas, problems will arise. Ignoring huge chunks of your discography that most fans prefer has disaster written all over it.
Re: Chris and Kim Discuss Lollapalooza
Which I'm fine with. It made for a damn good set at the show I saw.
The reason that set was impressive is because they appeared to be making the statement that anything goes and they wouldn't be tied down to doing a nostalgic hits set. If that set becomes the norm, it changes the dynamics of it completely.
In a club performing in front of a thousand extreme hardcores in Seattle, its fine. Take that set on the festival circuit or arenas, problems will arise. Ignoring huge chunks of your discography that most fans prefer has disaster written all over it.
I should probably clarify a little more then. I'm not fine with that set being played for all the shows here on out, because it wouldn't go over well. There were people who were disappointed that they didn't get to hear Black Hole Sun at the show I saw.
But the old songs have such great energy live, so some of them should be kept in the set. Gun, Get on the Snake, Beyond the Wheel, Hunted Down, and Loud Love were all great live.
Newer songs need to be added in as well though, especially in the case of a large festival like Lollapalooza. Playing the set they played in Seattle there would go over like a turd in a punch bowl because most people won't know a lot of the songs.
It's fine when you're in Seattle and most of the people are familiar with all of your work, but a massive festival is a whole different audience.
Re: Chris and Kim Discuss Lollapalooza
Also, James I know you're disappointed on the news, but I can't imagine they'll load up on the old stuff. Especially at a festival, typically 40 minute sets however I imagine they'd headline & myb get an hour+. So I'd expect myb 2 old, unpopular songs.
Also, are they festival touring, or just Lollapalooza. If they tour they'll probably change the old songs they play, rotate them in & out. I'm sure part of this is just PR, so they don't respond "No, we're only going to play hits."
