Chris Cornell Talks Soungarden Reunion, Legacy
Posted by Mitch Michaels on 07.09.2009
Soundgarden working on a new project?
Chris Cornell said recently that the members of Soungarden had been in contact, but not in regards to a reunion.
"The only thing that we have talked about is trying to put together an album of B sides and maybe a box set with some unreleased tracks we have," Cornell says. "This is something we first talked about 10 years ago. We all feel it's time to do that, and we have a lot of fans out there, and we have a lot of new fans discovering our music, and I think the catalog and the legacy of the band has been ignored by the record label and previous management, so we decided to get together, and start working towards putting something like that out."
"We did so many B sides, and we were always miffed by the concept that the largest part of our audience was in the U.S., and yet, we were always churning out B sides for other territories, so they would buy the local release instead of the import. That's what I am the most excited about, to get that collection out so every one knows its there and has access to it. I think a box set would be good, too."
Soundgarden released the compilation A-Sides in 1997, the same year they broke up. A companion album, B-Sides, was planned but never released.
As for a reunion, "I've always said nothing is impossible," Cornell explains. "I never wanted to be one of those people who tries to predict the future. I don't want to know what I will be doing two years, five years from now. I want to be open to anything, but nothing has changed in terms of our attitude toward it. It takes somebody to really stand up and say, ‘We should do this, we have to go do this, let's go do this,' and so far, no one has raised their hand to do that. Still, it's not impossible."
