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"Spoonman" was performed in drop D tuning.The main riff was written in septuple meter, in 7 4 time. [7] [8] [9] The chorus is 44 and part of the spoon solo is in 3 4.The guitarist, Kim Thayil, has said that Soundgarden usually did not consider the time signature of a song until after the band had written it and said that the use of odd meters was "a total accident".
The video clip of the song "Spoonman" is notable for featuring a performance by Artis the Spoonman, a street entertainer in Seattle. [25] The title of the song is credited to bassist Jeff Ament of Pearl Jam. [26] While on the set of the movie Singles, Ament produced a list of song titles for the fictional band featured in the movie. [25]
In 1997, the band broke up due to internal strife over its creative direction. Soundgarden has sold 14 million records in the US, [2] and an estimated 30 million worldwide. [3] Cornell announced Soundgarden's reunion on January 1, 2010, [4] The band's first studio album in 16 years, King Animal, was released on November 13, 2012. [5]
Singles like “Outshined” and “Spoonman,” and a formative Lollapalooza stint in 1992, pushed the band to platinum sales, but Soundgarden broke up in 1997 before ever mellowing out or ...
Live on I-5 is a live album by the American rock band Soundgarden.It was recorded during the West Coast leg of their 1996 tour, and released on March 22, 2011. They announced the album, the band's first live album, on their website on January 13, 2011. [5]
A previously unreleased Soundgarden song—"Black Rain"—debuted on the Guitar Hero video game and appears on the compilation album, [102] [103] which achieved platinum certification status after its first day of retail availability. [104] "Black Rain" hit rock radio stations on August 10, 2010, and was the band's first single since 1997. [105]
"The Day I Tried to Live" is a song by American rock band Soundgarden. Written by frontman Chris Cornell, "The Day I Tried to Live" was released in April 1994 as the second single from the band's fourth studio album, Superunknown (1994). The song peaked at number 13 on the Billboard Album Rock Tracks chart and number 25 on the Modern Rock ...
Artis, known professionally as Artis the Spoonman (born October 3, 1948), is an American street performer and musician from Seattle, Washington, who uses spoons as a musical instrument. He frequents the Pike Place Market accompanying singer/songwriter and guitarist Jim Page with his collection of spoons of different shapes and sizes and ...