*****SOUNDGARDEN***** 2014 06 10 (June 10 2014): Tivoli, Utrecht, The Netherlands. TRACKLISTING: (01 Intro tape) 02 Searching With My Good Eye Closed 03 Spoonman 04 Flower 05 Outshined 06 Black Hole Sun 07 Jesus Christ Pose 08 Like Suicide 09 Been Away Too Long 10 The Day I Tried to Live 11 My Wave 12 Superunknown (with Mike McCready, Pearl Jam's lead guitarist) 13 Blow Up The Outside World 14 Fell On Black Days 15 Pretty Noose 16 One Thousand Days Before 17 Burden in my Hand 18 Rusty Cage 19 Fourth of July-->encore break 20 Let Me Drown 21 Taree 22 Beyond the Wheel TAPING/POST-PRODUCTION NOTES: Core Sounds cardoid stereo mics-->Edirol R09HR at 44.1khz/16 bit WAV file--> Goldwave (maximise levels only)-->CDWave for track splitting, track naming and saving as WAV, FLAC (level 8) and 320 kbps mp3's. Taped from the floor, approx 3 rows back from the stage, in front of stage right hanging PA stacks. Complete show. (No cuts or misisng audio.) The venue is the brand new and built-for-purpose Tivoli complex: this show occurred before the venue had even had its official launch night. It's a bigger room than the old Tivoli (R.I.P.)-I know this because I saw Brad play in the old Tivoli on their 2013 European jaunt-but I think this new Tivoli may have more than one venue within it's walls (ie. a smaller room than the one Soundgarden played this night.) I'd guess the capacity for this gig was 1000-1500, although the floor was rammed, I think there was some space on the balcony. Despite the room being built for purpose, my recording is a little heavy with crowd noise. The band were loud, but the kids up front were going bananas. (My recording of the following night's show in Tilburg is much better-nearly as good as an audience tape can get.) SHOW NOTES: This tour was, ostensibly, to promote the re-release and 20th anniversary of Soundgarden's 1994 album, "Superunknown". Matt Cameron did not play most of this European tour (I *think* he played the final show of the tour in London, but I'm willing to stand corrected on this). The drummer for these dates was the wonderful Matt Chamberlin. For those who are unaware, besides briefly touring with Pearl Jam in 1991 (and refusing an offer by that band for a full-time gig; reportedly to join the TV show "Saturday Night Live" as house drummer), Matt Chamberlin is also session drummer extraordinaire. Pick 20 random rock albums from the 1990's, and Chamberlin is more than likely going to have played on more than one of them. Although I never really checked out Jacob Dylan's music, I seem to recall an album called "Bringing Down the Horse" that had a few hit singles (even in Australia!) and was a huge hit way back when. I recall looking at the CD in the record store at the time, and I think Chamberlin played on that record...I'm sure there's some sort of website that details his discography-and if there's not, he should make one! Like most Soundgarden fans, I did not think this band could exist without Matt Cameron in it. Much is made of Cameron's technical prowess and Soundgarden's (in terms of the craft of songwriting), weird time signatures and sophisticated arrangements. My mind was kind of changed in this regard back in 2007. Chris Cornell toured his solo record "Carry On" with a white hot backing band of young session players. I saw two shows on that tour: in May at the Astoria in London and September in the Academy in Birmingham. Those lads played those old Soundgarden songs tighter and with more passion and energy than either of the Soundgarden shows I saw in the '90's.The lads in Cornell's backing band on that tour showed me that these songs can be played-and played well-by folks not in Soundgarden (particularly the drums). [As an aside: I attended the shows in Adelaide on each of the only two Australian tours they did prior to their 1997 dissolution: the 1994 and 1997 Big Day Out festivals. The band seemed like they were all mentally *somewhere else* at the 1994 show, and the only way I can describe the 1997 set (which was their fourth to last gig) is "lonely". The band seemed all alone up on that big stage. Like the audience wasn't there at all. It felt like I was watching a rehearsal or a soundcheck. The shows I saw in Europe in the years after they reformed, but prior to this June 2014 tour were a mixed bag: Le Zenith in Paris, France on May 29 2012 seemed like a new and improved Soundgarden; they played like they wanted to be there (and it probably didn't hurt that Chris Cornell's wife is from there and he has a house there), and was much better than than the 1990's shows. It wasn't amazing, but at least the audience could hear and see the band fighting a poor sounding room. The Forum in Copenhagen, Denmark on September 9 2013 was back to the '90's: a seemingly disinterested band playing to a far-from-full airplane hanger (although the European debut of rarity "Blind Dogs" was very welcome for a die-hard like me.) The Point in Dublin, Ireland later that same September (September 16 2013) exhibited a re-energised Soundgarden- they basically played a *nearly* amazing show: much better than all of the previous gigs I had seen. Still, it was *amazing* compared to my previous history with this band as a live act. ] Still, I had my doubts about Soundgarden touring without Matt Cameron. Turns out, I could not have been more wrong. Matt Chamberlin was a choice pick: I didn't know this band actually *had it in them* to really swing and groove. If all things remain the same, except one, to what does one attribute this change? Never have I seen a band become such a vastly superior live act due to the replacement (however temporarily) of one member. (The other was Brad, who were always messy as a live proposition, but with the addition on bass of Keith Lowe, they became immeasurably better as a live act.) Matt Chamberlin bought a whole new dynamic to the band as a live entity. He approaches the instrument as a jazz drummer does: holding one stick between the fingers and the other in the ordinary way. Which is to say, his approach to the instrument is very different to Cameron's-he has a totally different feel- and I guess is a major contributing factor to the music swinging and breathing in a way I didn't think it *could*. Regardless, the band had a blast at this show, and the audience was going apeshit. In preparation for their own European tour, Pearl Jam were doing production rehearsals in Amsterdam the week of these Soundgarden shows. So Mike McCready hopped up and (literally) ran in circles around the band while soloing during Superunknown's title track, and stopped and took a selfie with Chris, at Chris' request, (he later uploaded the snap online), before nodding at the audience, waving, and leaving the stage. Beyond the Wheel is a towering, behemoth of a tune-and one that is nearly 13 minutes long on this occassion (granted, half of that is Ben and Kim inducing feedback by facing their amps, before (finally) leaving the stage. Taped by Randall Higgins (AKA phantomanddevil)