Soundgarden Audio Bootleg - "Reformation - King Animal Live Audience Recordings"

Soundgarden Audio Bootleg - "Reformation - King Animal Live Audience Recordings"

(Photo: Soundgarden @ Jones Beach, NY - July 9, 2011 | Photo Credit: Jeffgarden.com)

Hey now!
I’m just as surprised as you to see an update here! Sorry? Can’t get rid of “us” that easy…

Here’s an audio bootleg that was kindly sent to me by someone whose name I rudely forgot. At least the tracks have some limited credit given in the attached text.

What do you want from me!?

Anyway…here you go, enjoy some live Soundgarden audio

(Note: the text between this line and the start of the actual tracks is from the bootleg itself. So if you have any questions about any of it, you're on your own). Scroll down for stream and download links. Wav and MP3 formats! Jeez, you guys are so lucky to have a 25 year old website that updates once every few years.  You're welcome.

Soundgarden

REFORMATION CD1: "KING ANIMAL live audience recordings"

01 By Crooked Steps
02 Attrition
03 Taree
04 Blood on the Valley Floor
05 Non-State Actor
06 Live to Rise
07 Blind Dogs
08 Been Away Too Long
09 Worse Dreams
10 Bones of Birds
11 Rowing
12 Eyelid's Mouth (w/ Raymond Cameron)
13 Tighter & Tighter (w/ Mike McCready)
14 A Thousand Days Before
15 Black Saturday
16 Halfway There
17 Black Rain
18 Zero Chance

Tracks 1-7: The Pageant, St. Louis, MO 21.5.13
Tracks 8-11: The Fonda, Hollywood, CA 27.11.12
Tracks 12-13: Paramount Theatre, Seattle, WA 7.2.13
Track 14: O2 Apollo, Manchester, UK 13.9.13
Track 15: The Wiltern, Los Angeles, CA 15.2.13
Track 16: Sound Academy, Toronto, ON 25.1.13
Track 17: Bill Graham Civic Center, San Francisco, CA 21.7.11
Track 18: Orpheum Theatre, Minneapolis, MN 2.2.13

Notes:
Compilation of audience recordings from around the King Animal tours circa 2012-13.
Bootlegs originally sourced from torrents but have been ripped from my cdr's so that step has been added to the lineage -
I know some people are particular about these things hence the mention!

Most important criteria was sound quality - there are likely better performances on inferior recordings (such as my own Dublin recording), but is it worth it?
Several of these songs have soundboard versions circulating but I wanted this bootleg to be as cohesive as possible so everything's audience sourced here.
Also, only songs ever performed from 2010 onwards are included. Older songs are on CD2.
Note that the 3 older songs (BD, T&T, ZC) were never played live on Soundgarden's original 1984-1997 run.
I reduced the bass and increased the treble on 'Halfway There' and 'Zero Chance', but didn't touch any of the other tracks apart from adding fades.

Chris Cornell: "MY son, this time... Mike McCready - well at least we're both Irish!"

Thanks to the Tapers:
Tracks 1-7: cptncrash76
Tracks 8-11,15: BLG
Tracks 12-13: TwistersTapes (matrix of his 2 sources)
Track 14: ?
Track 16: ?
Track 17: ?
Track 18: alzeppelin

Download Any/All Tracks (from both “Sides” Here In MP3 or WAV Format
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One more time around…
The notes between this line and the streaming links are from the bootleg itself so if anything seems out of place, that’s just the way of the world. Sorry if anything is incomplete, just try to enjoy your time in the universe (and yes, that does say ballsdeep)

Soundgarden

REFORMATION CD2: "2010-2017 live audience recordings"

01 Flower

02 Ugly Truth

03 Hunted Down

04 Loud Love

05 Pretty Noose

06 Get on the Snake

07 Big Dumb Sex

08 Waiting for the Sun

09 Hands All Over

10 Drawing Flies

11 Incessant Mace

12 Room a Thousand Years Wide

13 New Damage

14 Rhinosaur

15 Never the Machine Forever

16 I Awake

17 Kyle Petty, Son of Richard

18 All Your Lies

Tracks 1-8: Showbox, Seattle, WA 16.4.10

Tracks 9-10: Paramount Theatre, Seattle, WA 7.2.13

Tracks 11-12: Paramount Theatre, Seattle, WA 8.2.13

Track 13: The Pageant, St. Louis, MO 21.5.13

Tracks 14-15: 02 Apollo, Manchester, UK 13.9.13

Track 16: Sidney Myer Music Bowl, Melbourne, AU 1.2.12

Tracks 17-18: Amalie Arena, Tampa, FL 28.4.17

Notes:

Compilation of audience recordings (older songs only) from across the bands reformation years, from the first gig (2010) to the last tour (2017).

Bootlegs originally sourced from torrents but have been ripped from my cdr's so that step has been added to the lineage -

I know some people are particular about these things hence the mention!

Most important criteria was sound quality - there are likely better performances on inferior recordings (such as my own Dublin recording), but is it worth it?

I also left off any songs which were on the "Live on I-5" album, as well as 'Gun' and 'Beyond the Wheel' as their Showbox versions were officially released.

No Superunknown songs either as there's a circulating soundboard of that album played in full from Austin, TX in 2014 - that in itself could be considered CD3!

Volume boosted on tracks 16-18 and fades added to all tracks in Audacity.

Thanks to the Tapers:

Tracks 1-8: mziegler

Tracks 9-12: BLG

Track 13: cptncrash76

Tracks 14-15: ?

Track 16: ?

Track 17-18: ballsdeep

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