I found my copy of DOTU while packing up cds for a move. It's still great.

I found my copy of DOTU while packing up cds for a move. It's still great.

And are there more releases from the vault that you’re working up?

“Right now, we’re very slowly putting together the anniversary package for Louder Than Love. And there’s some other live material that hasn’t been put out as a standalone release. There’s Live from the Paramount, which is on the super-deluxe edition of the anniversary issue of Badmotorfinger. I think we’d like to put it out on its own with its own graphics, remaster it for vinyl and everything.

“There is some Sub Pop stuff that we wrote and recorded during the Screaming Life period. We recorded enough - over enough - for an album. But since we were a band who was releasing its initial record, Bruce [Pavitt] and Jonathan [Poneman] wanted us to be competitive in the record rack by bringing the price down, and that would work by producing an EP. So we put out an EP, Screaming Life, but there’s some material that we didn’t put out on that, and I think Sub Pop is interested in releasing that, and I’ve been talking to those guys.”

Speaking of unheard material, what state was the unfinished Soundgarden album in, and will it see the light of day?

“It was demos, but the demo quality was pretty good, because both Chris and Matt had become very interested in their home recording technique, so they might demo a song, and then Ben and I would add our guitars or bass. Maybe Matt might play drums to a riff that Chris had recorded. And that would be recorded by one of our engineers or techs.

“This is an interesting thing: our entire backline, our guitar techs and bass techs, are all also record producers and recording engineers, so we love that they want to go on the road with us, and we love the guys in the studio with us, but the only people who do both are Nate Yaccino, Josh Evans and Dave French. Those guys have worked with us in the studio and onstage, and that’s a great family to have, to be involved in all aspects of a band’s career. So that will help us.

“So they come and record parts that we overdub on the demos. Right now, that’s all kind of stalled. We tried to get this going two years ago, but we’re not in possession of any of the demos that Chris was working on with them. We have copies of them, but what we need are the files, so that we’d be able to overdub and finish the record. We are not in possession of those.”

And what will it take to get hold of those?

“We don’t know. We’ve asked nicely, we’ve suggested that this will benefit all parties, if the band could just have these files, and we could finish the songs we were working on.

“But there seems to be some confusion amongst various parties as to what that would entail and how that works, and who that would benefit. And it’s been tiring, you know. And we can’t move on until some future date when someone realises the value of allowing the creative partners to have access to the material.”

Still no DotU reissue?!?!? Goddammit!

Who wants a reissue when Kim is saying they want to finish their last unfinished record.

They don't have acces to the files?? I blame Vicky

Who wants a reissue when Kim is saying they want to finish their last unfinished record.

They don't have acces to the files?? I blame Vicky

I imagine there is a calculation being made here. If the songs are Cornell penned is there more money in giving them to Soundgarden to finish and share the money or release them as is on a Cornell comp and get all the money. There is probably a question in the Vickey camp as to which is more lucrative. Total speculation. Feels right.

Yeah, sounds about right. But total speculation. Maybe she just doesnt have his password

I imagine there is a calculation being made here. If the songs are Cornell penned is there more money in giving them to Soundgarden to finish and share the money or release them as is on a Cornell comp and get all the money. There is probably a question in the Vickey camp as to which is more lucrative. Total speculation. Feels right.