The surviving members of Soundgarden are reuniting as Nudedragons for a profit live performance in Seattle later this month.
Members Kim Thayil, Matt Cameron and Ben Shepherd will reunite for a efficiency on the Showbox in Seattle on December 14. Their band identify is an anagram of Soundgarden and is similar identify they utilized in 2010 after they reunited to play their first present since 1997.
The band’s frontman, Chris Cornell, died by suicide on Could 18, 2017. He was 52 years previous.
The surviving members of the band shall be joined by singer Shaina Shepherd on the thirteenth annual SMooCH live performance that helps profit the Seattle Kids’s Hospital uncompensated care fund.
On the present’s web site, the band’s look is described as a “temporary encore efficiency.”
The three surviving members have solely carried out collectively twice since Cornell’s passing. They appeared collectively throughout a tribute present for Cornell in 2019 and once more in 2021 after they appeared with Brandi Carlile.
Again in July, Chris Cornell’s spouse Vicky shared a clip of the late singer masking Tracy Chapman’s ‘Quick Automotive’ on what would have been his sixtieth birthday.
Vicky took to Instagram to share a snippet of Cornell masking Chapman’s 1988 hit, alongside a montage of candid movies of him by way of the years, and a written tribute.
“Chris would have turned 60 at present. Though everybody that liked him is unhappy that he’s now not right here, it’s all of you, the followers who made him, whose love has continued to maintain his legacy alive. I’m so grateful to you all for that,” Vicky wrote.
She continued: “Whereas I keep in mind him finest because the fantastic husband, father and human being he was – I’d prefer to have a good time his complete life and the whole lot he gave us. On his sixtieth we will all have a good time his genius as an artist who redefined music, but in addition the unimaginable man who touched and adjusted lives.”
In 2021, the Chris Cornell property launched ‘No One Sings Like You Anymore: Quantity One’, a set of canopy songs handpicked by the late Soundgarden and Audioslave frontman and sequenced to have a good time artists and songs that impressed him. On the time, Vicky revealed that there was nonetheless a variety of music remaining within the vault and that there have been plans to launch a second quantity.
It additionally featured a canopy of Weapons N’ Roses‘ ‘Endurance’, which earned Cornell his first ever solo Billboard Quantity One.
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