The surviving members of Soundgarden have reunited as Nudedragons for a Seattle profit live performance – watch footage of the gig under.
Members Kim Thayil, Matt Cameron and Ben Shepherd reunited for a efficiency on the Showbox in Seattle on December 14. Billed as Nudedragons, the band title is an anagram of Soundgarden and is similar title they utilized in 2010 once they reunited to play their first present since 1997.
The Nudedragons members had been joined by singer Shaina Shepherd on the thirteenth annual SMooCH live performance that helps profit the Seattle Kids’s Hospital uncompensated care fund. They had been additionally joined by Weapons N’ Roses‘ Duff McKagan for his or her two ultimate songs.
Nudedragons and Shaina Shepherd carried out 4 Soundgarden tracks to kick off the efficiency: ‘Hunted Down’, ‘Outshined’, ‘Flower’ and ‘Past The Wheel’. For the 2 ultimate songs, they enlisted McKagan for Soundgarden’s ‘Kickstand’ and closed out the practically 30-minute set with a canopy of MC5‘s ‘Kick Out The Jams’.
Watch fan-shot footage of the total Soundgarden/Nudedragons gig under.
Soundgarden’s (Nudedragons) set was:
‘Hunted Down’ with Shaina Shepherd
‘Outshined’ with Shaina Shepherd
‘Flower’ with Shaina Shepherd
‘Past The Wheel’ with Shaina Shepherd
‘Kickstand’ with Shaina Shepherd and Duff McKagan
‘Kick Out The Jams’ (MC5 cowl) with Shaina Shepherd and Duff McKagan
On the present’s web site, the band’s efficiency was described as a “temporary encore efficiency.” The three surviving members have solely carried out collectively twice since frontman Chris Cornell’s 2017 passing. They appeared collectively throughout a tribute present for Cornell in 2019 and once more in 2021 once they appeared with Brandi Carlile.
Cornell died by suicide on Could 18, 2017. He was 52 years previous.
In 2021, the Chris Cornell property launched ‘No One Sings Like You Anymore: Quantity One’, a set of canopy songs handpicked by the late Soundgarden and Audioslave frontman and sequenced to rejoice artists and songs that impressed him. On the time, Vicky revealed that there was nonetheless quite a lot of music remaining within the vault and that there have been plans to launch a second quantity.
It additionally featured a canopy of Weapons N’ Roses‘ ‘Persistence’, which earned Cornell his first ever solo Billboard Quantity One.
