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Scraping Genius Off The Wheel

SUPERBADMOTORFINGER

 Tuesday, February 17th, 2009 at 10:40am by

As threatened previously, I have decided to see Chris Cornell live in concert this Spring, my perverse fascination getting the best of me. Apparently, he did a handful of North American gigs last year, including an autumnal jaunt through select Western U.S. and Canadian cities. From glancing at some of those setlists, it appears that most of those performances were exclusive showcases of material from Scream, the delayed Timbaland-produced album now due out this March. (Those who buy a ticket to these shows will get a free digital copy of the album upon release.)

What’s truly unsettling, however, is what else I stumbled upon in my Intarweb searching: a Verizon-sponsored website that allows fans to create horrible mash-ups of new Cornell tunes and Soundgarden classics. Trust me: you will never think of “Jesus Christ Pose” the same way again.

-GS

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  • lmarcellot

    Why the PR campaign? They are selling the concept harder than they are selling the music!

  • Vaginasaur

    fuck the mashups, but some of those loops are awesome to jam guitar to…

  • farktard

    if this isnt the finest of example of how stealing music and entitled remix culture is destroying music then im not sure what is…

  • earthsherm

    i saw chris cornell when he came through vancouver on november 6, he played only 3 new songs the rest were soundgarden audioslave temple of the dog and a few from euphoria morning and carry on, the new songs got polite responses, but man were the old ones amazing, i wasnt expecting his voice to sound as good as on old records but i swear it was better than i had ever heard. excellent show, songs like gun and rusty cage live, still out heavy most any generic breakdown i have ever heard. he can still do it, he’s just gotta smarten up and listen to his heart. not his wife.