Soundgarden’s Kim Thayil Won’t Name Names, But He’s Still Pissed At Billy Stereogum
2019. In 1981, Kim Thayil went for a drive that would change his life. At the time the 21-year-old was in a state of personal turmoil. The Chicago native's band Identity Crisis had split, his.
Soundgarden’s Kim Thayil on Reissues, Rarities and What’s Next Rolling Stone
published 18 October 2023 The Soundgarden guitarist looks back on his most iconic riffs and solos, as well as the gear and tunings that guided him deep into the creative superunknown (Image credit: Tim Mosenfelder/Getty Images) Few musicians could say they shaped the '90s quite like Kim Thayil.
Kim Thayil Photos Photos Soundgarden Performs At The Wiltern Zimbio
Soundgarden axeman Kim Thayil looked back on his early days of guitar playing and how he ended up using Guild guitars. Being one of the grunge-era heroes, it might feel odd that Kim didn't entirely join Gibson or Fender camps. Sure, he did play guitars by these old legendary brands, but his most common companion is the SG-styled Guild S-100.
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In 2017, Soundgarden frontman Chris Cornell tragically passed away, bringing the band to a final and sad end. It's a lot for any project to overcome, but thankfully now a project decades in the making has seen fruit and a the Kim Thayil Signature S-100 Polara is now finally being released unto the world - and it's not just one guitar either.
Soundgarden's Kim Thayil Talks Vinyl Reissues, New Album + More
Kim Anand Thayil [1] (born September 4, 1960) [2] [3] is an American musician best known as the lead guitarist of the Seattle -based rock band Soundgarden, which he co-founded with singer Chris Cornell and bassist Hiro Yamamoto in 1984.
See Soundgarden's Kim Thayil Perform With The Pretty Reckless
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Soundgarden Guitarist Kim Thayil Says Another Soundgarden Studio Album is Possible Billboard
Soundgarden 's Kim Thayil was caught unawares when he learned about the band's second Rock and Roll Hall of Fame nomination on Tuesday (Jan. 31). "It was not no my radar," Thayil, who.
Interview Soundgarden's Kim Thayil Premier Guitar
Cornell, guitarist Kim Thayil, bassist Ben Shepherd and drummer Matt Cameron united to form an alt-rock leviathan that veered violently between devastating heaviness and psychedelic wigouts - it's this transcendent dynamism that's captured on new concert film Live From The Artists Den, a 29-song, two-and-a-half-hour document of the band's final stop on their 2013 King Animal tour.
Soundgarden's 'Badmotorfinger' at 25 Kim Thayil Looks Back Rolling Stone
Few guitarists are as synonymous with Guild Guitars as Kim Thayil, yet owing to a series of twists of fate, a signature guitar never became a reality for the Soundgarden hero. Now, finally, Guild has announced the Thayil x Guild range of signature S-100 Polara models.
Kim Thayil Picks The Soundgarden Songs That He Likes Listening To
As a co-founding member of Soundgarden, Kim Thayil has written and performed some of the hardest and heaviest riffs of all time, spanning the drop-D swagger of Flower to the relentless grind and pterodactyl squeals of Jesus Christ Pose.
Soundgarden's Kim Thayil Talks 'Echo of Miles' Collection
From Nirvana's 'Bleach' to 'God's Balls' by Tad, the guitarist shouts out records by Seattle-area bands. Soundgarden's Kim Thayil picks his 10 favorite grunge albums, including records by Nirvana.
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Formed in Seattle in 1984 by Thayil, singer-guitarist Chris Cornell and bassist Hiro Yamamoto, Soundgarden pioneered an aggressively heavy and psychedelic sound that married the most walloping elements of heavy metal and punk, and the result soon became known as "grunge".
Soundgarden's Kim Thayil Says MC5 Anniversary Tour Helped Him Out of the Fetal Position
Interview: Soundgarden's Kim Thayil Chris Kies October 8, 2012 Kim Thayil, the dropped-tuning lord of heavy grunge, walks us through the thickets of distortion, swirling psychedelic vortexes, and eastern-flavored motifs on Soundgarden''s epic return to form, King Animal. Photo by Chris Kies
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For Soundgarden guitarist Kim Thayil, soloing in odd time signatures felt like it was "above his pay grade." As he told Pete Thorn in a recent interview, playing riffs if something is not your usual 4/4 isn't that much of a problem for him. However, doing lead parts in odd meters comes with its set of challenges.
Q&A Soundgarden Guitarist Kim Thayil
Kim Thayil has dismissed a review that called his guitar playing "sloppy" while detailing how his love for alternate tunings saw him disregard all he knew about shapes and scales. In an extensive interview with Pete Thorn, Thayil - arguably the most experimental guitarist to come out of the Seattle scene in the '90s - wasn't coy.
Chris Cornell and Kim Thayil dissect Soundgarden's masterpiece, Superunknown Guitar World
Formed in 1984, Soundgarden, whose best-known lineup is comprised of singer/guitarist Chris Cornell, guitarist Kim Thayil, bassist Ben Shepherd, and drummer Matt Cameron, was one of the bands that helped make "grunge" more than just another word for dirt.