Soundgarden‘s surviving members Kim Thayil, Ben Shepherd and Matt Cameron reunited to play a charity present in Seattle final month as Nudedragons, an anagram of Soundgarden, with R&B/Soul singer and neighborhood organiser Shaina Shepherd fronting the band.
The efficiency on the metropolis’s 1100-capacity Showbox venue noticed the 4 musicians play Soundgarden’s Hunted Down, Outshined and Flower, earlier than Weapons N’ Roses bassist Duff McKagan, one other Seattle music legend, joined them onstage for Kickstand and a canopy of MC5‘s proto-punk basic Kick Out The Jams.
Given former Soundgarden frontman Chris Cornell’s iconic standing, reactions to the present have been understandably blended, although a big variety of commentators appeared much less involved in regards to the high quality of the present than about the truth that Shepherd is a black girl.
Shepherd herself has let it’s identified that she could not give a flying fuck in regards to the opinions of outsiders.
Responding to adverse suggestions on a Fb publish by Australian rock/metallic publication Sizzling Metallic which invited debate about whether or not or not the ‘alliance’ between the singer and Thayil, Shepherd and Cameron must be positioned on a extra everlasting footing, the singer wrote, “Haters gonna hate whereas I reside my dream.”
She adopted up by responding to at least one commentator, “bro….Soundgarden is a revolutionary band that modified my life, your life, the world. I might by no means entrance Soundgarden. However I really like making music with these guys. I did it for me, for them like another music endeavor. I don’t care what any of you suppose – by no means did. I care what they suppose – all the time will. This entire article is meaningless.”
Watch wonderful fan-filmed footage of the Nudedragons present, a profit for SMooCH, a charity created to assist elevate funds for uncompensated care at Seattle Youngsters’s Hospital, beneath.
