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Re: JAMES: Kim Talks About Contributing More to New SG Album
From Dallas Observer‘s new interview with Soundgarden guitarist Kim Thayil:
On the new album you’re working on now, are you contributing more?
Yeah, I’m definitely contributing more. With guitar bands, fans want to hear the guitarist’s ideas as a song. But the good thing about Soundgarden is that everybody in the band writes songs on guitar. The drummer Matt writes songs on guitar. He’s not introducing songs on drums or piano or anything. Even our bass player Ben: As opposed to introducing songs on bass, he primarily introduces songs on guitar. So I’m the guy that has to learn everybody’s guitar nuances and styles and play their songs. So regardless of whether it’s me or the other guys in the band, we are a guitar-based band. I am contributing more, but I think the good news is that everybody is contributing.
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James is going to be pitching a tent over this.
Re: JAMES: Kim Talks About Contributing More to New SG Album
Seriously this is like the only thing i'm looking forward to right now. Every other artist I know of is well-between albums right now, and i've kinda gotten bored with Dream Theater.
I'm glad Kim is contributing more. I always thought he was the underrated one.
Re: JAMES: Kim Talks About Contributing More to New SG Album
Seriously this is like the only thing i'm looking forward to right now. Every other artist I know of is well-between albums right now, and i've kinda gotten bored with Dream Theater.
I'm glad Kim is contributing more. I always thought he was the underrated one.
Kim, Ben and Matt are all highly underrated. Cornell can be underrated too (seriously). None of those guys get the respect they deserve. Cornell gets the most but mainly for his voice. He's also a brilliant song writer and one that can't read music at all.
Kim contributing more suggests that the album will be heavy and not a lighter album. That is good news. Someone needs to be kicking ass out there and no one seems able or willing to do it.
Re: JAMES: Kim Talks About Contributing More to New SG Album
Excellent point. Down on the Upside 2 is fine with me though. He'll probably contribute more in the writing process than that. We need more info obviously.
Never the Machine Forever was the heaviest song on DOTU .
Re: JAMES: Kim Talks About Contributing More to New SG Album
Sounds more to me like Kim is contributing less. That everyone is giving guitar parts and he's just playing them like a guitar monkey.
The point you are missing is that everyone has always wrote songs on guitar and presented them to the rest of the guys.
Re: JAMES: Kim Talks About Contributing More to New SG Album
I think Riad was referring to this:
I’m the guy that has to learn everybody’s guitar nuances and styles and play their songs.
While he does say he's writing, that sentence is his DOTU contribution in a nut shell....
