SOUNDGARDEN: San Francisco Footage Available

Fan-filmed video footage of SOUNDGARDEN's July 21, 2011 performance at the Bill Graham Civic Auditorium in San Francisco, California can be seen below.

The band's setlist was as follows:

01. Searching With My Good Eye Closed
02. Spoonman
03. Room A Thousand Years Wide
04. Jesus Christ Pose
05. Blow Up The Outside World
06. The Day I Tried To Live
07. My Wave
08. Ugly Truth
09. Fell On Black Days
10. Loud Love
11. Drawing Flies
12. Outshined
13. Nothing To Say
14. Rusty Cage
15. Black Hole Sun
16. Black Rain
17. Burden In My Hand
18. Head Down
19. Superunknown
20. 4th Of July

Encore:

21. Beyond The Wheel
22. Pretty Noose
23. Like Suicide
24. Slaves & Bulldozers

SOUNDGARDEN vocalist Chris Cornell recently spoke with John Jurgensen of the Wall Street Journal about the progress of the recording sessions for SOUNDGARDEN's new CD, its first since 1996's "Down On The Upside" and since reuniting last year.

When asked if it was hard to take the step from playing old songs to actually writing new material, Cornell said, "It's like wearing two very different hats. Rehearsing for a show after 12 years off, there's less tension surrounding that. You know it's do-able. The songs are on a list somewhere. Writing a new album, that's when the individual relationships come into play. In that regard we've always been a really great band. Everybody supports everyone's ideas. But there are still question marks in writing new music. What's it mean? Who are we now? Hopefully the answers are in the songs."

Regarding what the new SOUNDGARDEN material sounds like, Chris said, "I'm really happy with it. I understand the feeling of the album. It's very true to form for SOUNDGARDEN yet you can't compare it to anything else."

On the topic of how writing, playing heavy, aggressive music in his forties compares to doing it in his teens and twenties, Cornell said, "I don't feel like the source has changed. In some ways as people get older they might have convictions that change but ultimately they may be more open-minded about everything. That's part of being an adult and getting older. I don't think music necessarily is affected by that. For me it's important that the lyrics are borne of the feeling of the music. I don't get in there and create a character. It's more of a voice that I hear living inside the music."

When asked how his voice which was always one of the most distinctive aspects of SOUNDGARDEN has changed, Chris said, "I never really stopped adjusting in terms of singing the old songs. Any of the hard parts for me are still hard when singing live. The thing that I like now is that we have the opportunity not just to rise to former glory, but to explore what these songs can do live. I never stopped thinking if there was a better way to approach it. It's a moving target. And these songs have their own lives."