SOUNDGARDEN LIVE '92 - Beyond the Wheel (Hey Jude Intro)

[gornandez]

lol, dig Kim's wierd flippy guitar move at 3:47

[4345ghee]

this performance was a fucking out of body experience.

[thecheitey]

Just saw them in Grand Prairie, TX (Dallas). Chris still can hit all the notes and the band sounded amazing.

[erving25]

Jesus christ he's wailing his ass off

[PGROSYE02]

Its so funny how it starts out like, "alright, stoned version of hey jude" and then you hear the opening verse and your like "oh shit"...

[Radz117]

This band was too badass for the world, every single fucking member a master of their trade. They should of been the biggest band in the world but the world would of died from an epic orgasm.

[jek21]

The live videos of this band just blow me away

[PGROSYE02]

As soon as he goes into the high part someone has an orgasm

[Elfulano]

Chris, Staley, Vedder and Plant are my favorite singers

[albetty100]

@Elfulano ...and, Ian Astbury of The Cult.

[gothnickify]

Chris by far has a better voice then Patton! Chris could hit the high notes, he had more power to his voice and could go lower then Patton; also Chris had more of a soothing sound to his voice during a soft slower song

[GoodGuitarSolos]

@gothnickify Nope, Cornell could go much higher, but Patton has much better low register, King for a Day... Fool for a Lifetime album proves it. Patton has also nowadays almost perfect technique, he has started to hit powerful high C:s. During his prime Cornell was one of the best high note singers I know and he still keeps souding good. Patton has started to get better all the time and I think there's more to be seen from him. Both of them are baritones, which makes their singing incredible.

[codebabe]

@gothnickify I agree with most of what you are saying, except Patton has an EXTREMELEY soothing tone when he wants to.

[gothnickify]

@codebabe I totally agree with that.

[nailinmyhead]

mindblasting!! 

[bettergameplay]

This is unbefuckenleavable. holy fucken shit!!! Chris just kills it. best vocalist ever untouchable.

[chaka178]

Oh my God Ben it's an insane man.

[LoboKhan1]

this is absolutely sick!

I thought I heard it all from Soundgarden, but this performanc is one of the best.

[beAVENeasy]

his voice doesn't end

[chiefzona1472]

This is still the best concert footage I have ever seen of Soundgarden. Chris is in world of his own. Untouchable.

[jek21]

@chiefzona1472 He reminds me of Jim Morrison.

[krkgak]

This footage is unbelievable. Too bad you had trouble with the camera. You are so lucky to have witnessed this. Chris is the man.

[gutterspout]

beginning is Hey Jude

[k3nn8y8]

if that is hell sign me up now!

[codebabe]

this is when Chris was the end all-be all of vocalists...he's still one of the best out there, but at this point...there was no one who could touch him. some people say Mike Patton is the best vocalist of this era, in my opinion Patton can't touch Chris in terms of sheer balls and emotion. you just can't compete with a guy whos voice sounds like THIS.

[Coldacre]

quite simply; the most powerful voice ever.

[codebabe]

bar none, brotha ;)

[tsugacanadensis77]

@codebabe patton couldn't hold a candle to 90's cornell. especially early 90's

[codebabe]

@tsugacanadensis77 for certain. Chris Cornell and Jeff Buckley imo are the two best vocalists of the past 25 years.

[GoodGuitarSolos]

@codebabe Both of them are mindblowingly good vocalists, Patton wins in versatility, whereas Cornell wins in power! Buckley, Cornell and Patton: Three greatests vocalists of 90's!

[jdidnoid]

@GoodGuitarSolos totally agreed.

Chris: Power. Patton: Versatility. Buckley: Technique.

[DavidKinner]

@GoodGuitarSolos Dude don't forget Layne Staley!!! He had a very different voice. Check out his old glam days quite a lot of range also.

[GoodGuitarSolos]

@DavidKinner Yup, amazing voice.

[DavidKinner]

@codebabe Layn Staley, Jeff Buckley, and CHRIS CORNELL! are the best vocalist's from this era. Definitely not Mike Patton although he is great.

[codebabe]

@DavidKinner Yes, Layne was amazing. Definitely one of my very favorite singers. What makes patton great is the fact that he's just so versatile, and he can sing opera and r&b quite amazingly. But as a rock vocalists those other three outdo him by quite a bit in my opinion.

[GoodGuitarSolos]

@codebabe Yup, amazing singer Layne was.

About the other comment considering Patton, he has really improved with his singing to INSANE levels. Just check something by Tomahawk ("Mayday", for example), new live performances, etc.

[codebabe]

@GoodGuitarSolos He's still one of my favorite vocalists and is an amazing singer. but i still think his 'singing' itself is in most cases overrated. as a rock vocalist he's not on the same level as most of the greats. but as i said he's done so much amazing vocal work in other genres that it backs it up.

[665beyondthewheel667]

look im not one to really exagerate things.....esspecially not when it comes to music. i am actually pretty critical of music but this........this is simply the MOST AMAZING THING I HAVE EVER HEARD!!!!!!!!!!!!

:)

[metallybenj]

That was fucking epic at the end, with the stage dive... pure epicness

[ronnbyrne13]

if the devil sang hes sound like chris cornell

[MNV74]

THIS LOOKS LIKE HELL!!!!

[Chrotisofus]

Actually, IT IS!!!

Kind of a nice place, isn't it?

[ninjachipzanuff]

holy fuck this is mindblowing

[shadowofmorgoth]

cornell sounds like a demon here.

[lukolino03]

Whatta great voice !!!!!!!!!!!!

[Chrotisofus]

All live performances of Beyond the Wheel somehow sound SO MUCH BETTER than the studio version.

[soundgarden21]

F'N amazing...

[toadsnmarshmellows]

wow!

[toadsnmarshmellows]

friends don't let friends cut hair.

[GRUNGERINNIRVANA]

yeah man and parents too

[jek21]

@toadsnmarshmellows hahaha true that.

[CabooseBabyshit]

why did he cut his hair

[JoeSidhu]

he said it was annoying and it interfered with his singing. he would take in huge gulps of hair and he would take in and swallow a crapload of his hair. he shaved his head completely.

and another reason was b/c people were growing their hair like his and he didn't like that.

[CabooseBabyshit]

well he shouldnt have. he lost his voice when he cut his hair off

[JoeSidhu]

No he didn't

[soundgarden86]

well

in 1994 his voice wasn't as powerful as in 1992

[JoeSidhu]

Actually he sung just as well.

Go look up that one JCP performance in 94. It was almost perfect compared to the studio version.

[ninjachipzanuff]

there's only one good version of JCP floating around on youtube, and its from motorvision or louder than live

all the others he sounds like he's dying

[JoeSidhu]

lol

He did an almost studio-perfect one live in 1994. I consider it his best live JCP performance.

check it out.

[eyesofforever]

the night to remember video in san diego?

[Edelien]

Wow, didn't know that. Thanks for telling.

Long hair looks cool, but it gets in to places it shouldn't go when it's too long......Talking from experience here.

[tayejay18]

He said he was goning to kill himself if he didnt. It was just buggin him, everyone needs change.

[jassmijn01]

reminds me about the terminator:P

[TheBrazilianFreak]

the hey jude intro is too funny!

[brovold72]

Saw these guys (for the first time) in Feb of 1992--a Valentine present to my girlfriend. Soundgarden was opening for--get this--Skid Row. Ugh. How those posers had the frikkn' audacity to even come out on stage after Cornell & Co. is beyond me. Liquid courage I'm guessing. We left halfway through the second song ("I Remember You"). Ha!

[phiaman]

im sorry if some of you get pissed cuz i say this..but cornell, defintely back in the early days, is a more powerful and diverse singer than robert plant...basically i think hes the baddest fuckin singer thats ever lived..

[soulpower111]

i agree ... totally, more power

[brovold72]

Steve Vai once said something informative about Jimmi Hendrix--essentially that there's nothing Hendrix DID that he can't DO, but the fact that he invented it in the first place is the thing. Soundgarden would be the first to admit the debt they owed to Sabbath and Zeppelin, the Stooges, and others. So while Plant took the frontman thing where it had never gone before, Cornell is certainly the real deal in his own right.

[quathar]

I would say that he ows a lot more to Dio than to Plant.

[brovold72]

My gut reaction is to be annoyed, but on a purely singing level that's a pretty good point. I think they have a drastically different outlook, artistically-speaking, but the vocals are metalmetalmetal. Related note: great Ozzy impersonationn/send-up on the Soundgarden version of "Into the Void"; check it out!

[quathar]

Interestingly enough, Dio himself thinks that Cornell is a great singer (when asked about singers of today). That's in a way giving yourself a pat in the back, heh. I don't know if Cornell was directly influenced by Dio (although why not, he was in sabbath for a while after all) - but he sure shares some vocal characteristics (and with Coverdale aswell).

[slaptasticdave21]

why are we praising robert plant? theres no debate over whether cornell or plant is better.

[Edelien]

Yeah, they both rock & both "changed."

[timekillerinhere]

the set for this gig was awsome : Searching with My Good Eye Closed, Flower, Face Pollution, Gun, Little Joe, Big Dumb Sex, Drawing Flies, Room a Thousand Years Wide, Rusty Cage, Nothing to Say, Outshined, Hands All Over, Mind Riot, Beyond the Wheel, Into the Void(Sealth), Jesus Christ Pose, Birth Ritual, Somewhere, Slaves and Bulldozers

[illuminati576]

do u think birth ritual got recorded? if so someone has to post it!

chris is truly a rock god, especially true during his hard rock/metal phase. I would kill to beable to sing this but i simply cant reach those notes let alone belt them. someone help teach me to use head voice!

[ninjachipzanuff]

wait were you there for this

[rosco73]

Thanks for posting this!!!!!!

I saw them 5 times back in the good ol days this totally takes me back. One of the greatest bands ever! got any video from Detroit????

[thecj19]

one of the most ridiculous songs ever. cornell is up there with robert plant, maybe even better!

[slaptasticdave21]

for sure better

[Pgkaralis]

Wow, I just looked up the lyrics...that certainly is one of the things that makes Cornell so great.

[spoonman462]

this is fuckin amazing

and as a side note, i always considered them as probably being a very big influence on Tool, especially with their earlier work, as u can definitely hear it with this song

[chazverado]

I totally agree with you.

[dirty2walk]

to Operator's lead singer......

[Gwenwhyfer]

Fucking A!

[schumatrix]

How a person can sing this way, so powerful and amazing just confounds me. Chris is the greatest male vocalist ever right beside Robert Plant. I can't wait to see him live in Houston.

[JoeSidhu]

Yeah me too.

H-Town. lmao.

[commercep]

That is f'n ungodly. The whole band at all cylinders. The Seattle bands all had that special something, and this video captures some of that. Please reunite, even if you guys suck it would be better than the majority of the crap on the radio today.

[Ordbrukaren]

thanks all of you who are posting good ol soundgarden vids!!!

[lorivig]

THAT is some kick ass footage!!!

[tunamint]

once again, Fuck Yeah! gotta have a copy?

[cowdeath]

my chin just dropped to the fuckin floor

[rivariad]

what da fuck! I think I saw the god of rock

[lorivig]

you did

[Grazydine]

This guy would wake up the dead..

[FanaticDrummer]

ben was the worst replacement for bass after hiro left.And no one can replace chris cornel or kim thayil.Soundgarden was amazing.

[SoundgardenReunion]

actually everman was, then ben came along, but ben is very good, listen 2 "ty cobb" thats fuckin amazing bass playing. and u forgot matt cameron, possibly the best drummer in decades

[FitoCornell]

Cornell.. i wanna be you!!! fuuuckkk! Regalame tu vooooozzz!! You're my idol.... NUMBER ONE FOR EVER AND EVER

[rajhansakima]

Best version I've heard so far. Better than that 94' version by far.

[rubenshakkamacher]

No, Ben Shepard was the coolest - that "I'm having a fit because my strap doesn't fit" routine is basically the prototype for every emo-neo-core-death-punker out there now...

[timekillerinhere]

in LA 92 the setlist was awsome

[timekillerinhere]

if this gig was in LA in this gig was also played Birth Ritual

[NOC4SFV]

no offence to the garden or anythin, but i think ben shephard looks like a retard a lot of the time with how he jumps around

[commercep]

You don't understand, Ben doesn't play bass, the bass plays him. That's how good he is.

[NOC4SFV]

hahaha, good one. well, he ain't my favourite bassist they had anyway, hiro is. i like all their stuff, but prefer the earlier, more raw heavy stuff. also, matt seemed to do more dynamic stuff on the drums too.

[st3ve]

How is he not worshipped around the world?? Why were they not the most succesful band ever?!?! How can someone so incredible at singing be so underrated?!? Ill just never know...

[predatordes]

Two basic rules of life when it comes to music:

1.) People are idiots.

2.) The music industry is ran by those idiots, and even more idiots buy whatever they feed them.

[broker010]

Random thought on a YouTube poster: 1.) This particular post was written by someone so stupid that he doesn't even know HE'S the idiot. (Please, when calling others stupid, try to show a basic understanding of the written English language.)

[williameasterbrook]

I don't know man...I completely agree. Miss those days.

[Chrotisofus]

They're four Gods, we must obey..

[commercep]

holy shit! That's god singing right there. I love the hey jude intro, it fits. This is soundgarden at their peak. f'n godhead.

[UMMSIMM]

give us more!!! jooooder!!

[ucicreus]

we are not worthy!

[Chrotisofus]

No, we aren't... But nowadays, Chris Cornell seems to have forgotten his roots completely..

[ucicreus]

nah, i think he grew up.

[Chrotisofus]

Perhaps.. His maturity doesn't pay off very positively then. Sad, because his earlier work was inspiring and powerfull. It seems to have turned into rather commercially based popsongs..

[ucicreus]

in a sense you're right... however one can argue that his commercial success whether it be pop oriented or not, is inspirational and powerful. it depends a great deal on whose doing the listening, in your case you're comparing the past with the present.

[Chrotisofus]

I agree. I shouldn't compare past with present. He plays for a different audience and his voice has become harsher, surely. May i say that i liked his older work So Much Better?

[ucicreus]

you may

[Badmotorfinger8]

I'm just puzzled why he seems so opposed to doing a reunion show. I realize he's touring now but he has revealed many times he has zero intention of a reunion on any level.

[kooljsl]

i think Chris might want to do his own thing cause with Audioslave he had the hip hop rock with RTAM type of music..and now he wants to do his own thing..thats what i think anyways.

[tayejay18]

Kim & Ben (not sure about Matt) dont talk with Chris anymore.

Something about hes got his head stuck up his ass.

but don't take me word for it. Please don't bite my head off. I love Soundgarden & im somewhat of a Chris Cornell fan.

[JoeSidhu]

Actually they do speak.

They're all still friends and all.

They're just not bandmates anymore.

Cornell's mentioned that they chat and stuff.

[tayejay18]

Thats cool

Its just my friend from Seattle knows Ben & Kim he tells me that there really not that close with Chris anymore. Im sure they chat up here and there but there just not that great of friends. :(

I dont know much about Matt or Chris.

[JoeSidhu]

That's pretty cool on the info source.

I guess it's true when they live in Seattle and Cornell is living in Paris.

I could never see the Cornell in this vid doing some of the stuff he's done lately. Like modeling, living in Paris, and all that.

But I guess it's all aging and the responsibilities of a family and stuff.

What ever happened to Kim. I heard he's collaborated on albums for others but not much else.

He's gotta get back out there and do something with that guitar talent he has.

[Grazydine]

With music that powerful, you can't help but be successful and become a caricature of yourself.

[topdogkiller]

FUck Yeah!

[eosinface]

HELL YES!!

[vetfel]

Holy Shit!!!Awesome.