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Soundgarden concert review: Call it a comeback

Josh Bell

Mon, Jul 25, 2011 (10 a.m.)

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Soundgarden’s Cornell (right) and Thayil

Photo: Erik Kabik/Retna/ErikKabik.com

A band reunited after 14 years apart and playing almost exclusively songs from its back catalog sounds like the formula for a lazy cash-in, but the members of Soundgarden were anything but lazy during their two-hour-plus show at the Joint on Saturday. Singer/guitarist Chris Cornell noted that the band had been busy recording a whole bunch of new songs, but wanted to provide fans with a chance to hear older material first (“It’s all kind of old now,” he pointed out).

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