Q&A Soundgarden Guitarist Kim Thayil


Soundgarden’s Kim Thayil Won’t Name Names, But He’s Still Pissed At Billy Stereogum

In 2012 Total Guitar's Rob Laing spoke to both Chris Cornell and Kim Thayil in separate interviews about their comeback album King Animal. But they also delved deeper into their relationship with guitar, and how they viewed each other as players. Looking back this is an interview shadowed with sadness, not just because of Chris Cornell's.


Soundgarden's Kim Thayil How to Find the Perfect Guitar for You Music News UltimateGuitar

When the members of Soundgarden—singer and guitarist Chris Cornell, guitarist Kim Thayil, bassist Ben Shepherd and drummer Matt Cameron—reunited in 2010 after more than a decade apart, making a new album was the last thing on anyone's mind. According to Thayil, the band reconvened only to address some outstanding business matters.


See Soundgarden's Kim Thayil Perform With The Pretty Reckless

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.


Kim Thayil Picks The Soundgarden Songs That He Likes Listening To

Soundgarden's Kim Thayil has opened up about his approach to the guitar and his thoughts on those who call him a "sloppy" player.. READ MORE: Ozzy Osbourne: "I've never felt comfortable about that title they put on me - 'metal'" The guitarist was speaking in a new interview with Pete Thorn where he discusses some of the online comments he's received for his work in Soundgarden.


Soundgarden's Kim Thayil Says MC5 Anniversary Tour Helped Him Out of the Fetal Position

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.


Soundgarden's 'Badmotorfinger' at 25 Kim Thayil Looks Back Rolling Stone

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.


Guitarist kim thayil of soundgarden hires stock photography and images Alamy

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.


Q&A Soundgarden Guitarist Kim Thayil

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 Kim Thayil Photograph by Concert Photos

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


Chris Cornell and Kim Thayil dissect Soundgarden's masterpiece, Superunknown Guitar World

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.


Kim Thayil Photos Photos Soundgarden Performs At The Wiltern Zimbio

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.


Soundgarden Guitarist Kim Thayil Says Another Soundgarden Studio Album is Possible Billboard

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.


Soundgarden's Next Album Kim Thayil Offers Update on Status Billboard Billboard

Soundgarden Kim Thayil Mudhoney Foundational guitarist thinks this group defines grunge's sound, style and attitude


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.


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.


Soundgarden’s Kim Thayil “I’m not on a firstname basis with my gear; I just know it’s Mr Mesa

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".

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