Soundgarden "My Wave" Live

[jasonsadrummer]

Noticing I'm oh say 28k+ views behind everyone. So I guess I'm a little late but great post anyway!

[JasonLewisLovesVG]

This song is in the Top 10 Surf Songs or Songs about the Water

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Thank you Chris Cornell for being so effing lovely

[SuperJewTV1]

Soundgarden should've had an MTV Unplugged. All the songs sound awesome acoustically.

[youtellmegod]

four bars of five beats.

[APPLESAUCE50]

best use of the 5/4 time signature I've ever heard

[w9jon]

@APPLESAUCE50 look up "Take 5" by dave brubeck

[APPLESAUCE50]

@w9jon 0.0 thank you... (btw "The Last Baron" by Mastodon uses a lot of different signatures. I believe 3/4, 4/4, 5/4, 7/8, and 9/13)

[pandespinas]

Matt Cameron..... the master!

[CivilizedJerk]

The best Soundgarden song IMO

[ringshanked]

fuckin awesome band.

[OutOfSeattle]

They're Back!

[slazed19]

instead of a 4/4 time sig. which you hear quite often these days in most songs, it's in 5/4 which means in one bar there is 5 beats. just tap your foot and count along

[56fr65]

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[CivilizedJerk]

This is a Killer song!

[aycebmike]

look into this, because it helps your rhythm playing immensly to feel the music in these different ways. For example, Spoonman, is in 7/4 during the verses.

[jalmuhs]

seriously?? haha i never noticed...i just play by feel uk?

[mandrews91a]

man i love these guys, but cornell sounds horrible live. i'm not saying i could do it better, but there it is.

[godofhaircare]

You have no ears!

[stevenhouten]

well, the lows sound good, but the highs... not so good

But thats just my opinion

[trevormd2]

by this point his voice was getting damaged by all of the years of incredible kick ass vocals. listen to some of his old live stuff, it'll blow you away.

[harryormemusic]

Amen, mandrews91a. I've always thought his studio work is badass, but live... not so much.

[mandrews91a]

it means that a quarter note gets one beat and there are 5 beats in a measure. its musical shit.

[pongopudy]

omg it sounds likes crab.... it can be much better!!

[pkrwd]

Doesn't sound like "crab" to me? Perfect.oh yeah,spell checkers r free.

[Poppejazzmanbass]

that completely sucked.... the drummer is the only musician in that band

[rjwile]

Yeah this isn't the best version--Soundgarden actually split up less than a year after this. Matt Cameron, the drummer, is now the drummer for Pearl Jam. But you should look at other SG videos, the guitarist Kim Thayill is pretty great in the early days.

[heman3457]

ah.. c'mon... if you say one thing of the voice of chis i'll kick your ass!

*yeah, and i'll kick it with my bad english!"

[slazed19]

ohh nah man. they are all pretty talented

[sethpin67]

I love the 5/4 time signature in the verse... it's hard to find math rock with a decent singer.

[paulo101]

So anything other than 4/4 is math rock. Right.

[Gui7arFreak]

I kind of agree, even though a lot of soundgardens time signatures were out of the ordinary its not entirely progressive. Maybe the song Lateratlus from Tool going from 9/8 to 8/8 to 7/8 would be more of an exception for "math" rock, including the fact that the lyrics are written in a Fibonacci sequence. A lot of bands play in 5/4, this isn't nearly as impressive as the musicianship of jazz or classical music. At least time signature wise :P

[JimiHindrex]

if anything, playing in awkward time signatures can be a bad sign, why bother if it sounds better in 4/4? obviously this song is great but i dont like when they do it just for the sake of having a weird time signature.

[PSFlorida]

Different time signatures can provide a different feel, which means a different groove (which is why they did it). If you need everything to be in 4/4, your musical experience is going to be very limited.

[slazed19]

i don't think they did it just to be weird. it just happened according to kim thayil. and anyway, time sig. changes are generally a sign of just, skill in music as opposed to really fast wanky guitar solos :) and other things

[JimiHindrex]

yeah i'm saying that it's good in this song, but people that just do it to show off are stupid, what's the point of showing off in music? i think sometimes its as bad as wanky guitar solos, when it makes the song unlistenable.

[slazed19]

this is true. luckily soundgarden do time sig. changes well

[slazed19]

wicked! someone noticed the 5/4! then the change to 4/4 in the chorus?

[AndJusticeForMe]

His voice is really hurting here.

[anonymously1nspired]

his voice was always hit or miss in concert I saw him once live in rochester NY o all places and he sounded ok...then like a week later I saw him on TV singing live and it was piss poor....but yeah in this he sounds a bit like a Rusty Cage...pun intended of course....but this was one bad ass bad and was really cool to be a part of this crap when I was a kid

[AndJusticeForMe]

Yeah, with his style of singing, I'm surprised that he hasn't had surgery. You are so right. It was amazing to be in the midst of this music when it was going strong. Some outstanding memories.

[milkjugs110290]

he has had surgery twice he blew his vocal chords when he was in soundgarden and thats why on the last album his voice sounds a bit different

[Willhouse1978]

@anonymously1nspired

hard to say how bad ass this performance was based on the video. It was recorded on old technology. I bet it was awesome live.

[Sammyt3hSnake]

I love his opening comment.

[AudioSlave24]

FUCK  YEAH!!!!!!

[HeavySavage500]

I can't believe that he's cooperating with Timbaland. my only hope is that Chris Cornells new album will be good

[Hel27]

Has anybody heard about Timbaland producing Chris' next solo album??? Aparently he's going to be the first rockstar who'll be played in clubs...

[MindFuLL]

I heard about that... shakes my head...Tim's going to ruin the careers of two of my favorite artists: Chris Cornell and then Stevie Wonder...Both could do better without him.

[TheBrazilianFreak]

how can chris go from this to "carry on"? :(

don´t talk about "evolving " as a musician and a person or cliches like that, cos carry on is a devolution, if anything! :(

[stonescourt3]

i hear a little zep at 5:19

[stonescourt3]

i hear a little zep at 5:19

[classical10398]

This is great!

[stonescourt3]

F&*^% YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!

[noah4242]

lol, being a musician, i've written plenty of shit that makes me want to say "fuck you." soundgarden is the best ever!

[cappz]

very good!

thanks

[oldstarmex]

awesome