Soundgarden...

In 4 weeks Soundgarden will release their first album since 1997. A band that to me was much more than average grunge of its peers at the time. Kim Thayil didn't just bang on pawn shop guitars like so many from the era and he was even named one of the Top 100 guitarists of all time by Rolling Stone a few years back.

This picture was in the February 1995 issue of Guitar World magazine. I remember seeing this image and thinking it was so cool. I was so entrenched in playing bass, skating and doing drugs at the time that music like The Melvins and Soundgarden made perfect sense. The funny part now is that I'm not in a band anymore, I don't skate anymore and I put the drugs aside 10 years ago, but I still listen to The Melvins and Soundgarden.