Far Out Magazine - “The ‘complete idiot’ Chris Cornell wished he never worked with: ‘It didn’t really sound like us’”
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“Production-wise, it didn’t really sound like us.”
Tim Coffman looks back at the making of Soundgarden’s debut album Ultramega OK and Chris Cornell’s frustration with producer Drew Canulette, who got the job because SST had used his mobile recording unit for a live Black Flag record. Cornell later said the album didn’t capture the band and that their earlier Seattle demos with Jack Endino sounded much better.
The piece frames that early misstep against the risks Cornell kept taking throughout his career, from Audioslave’s Rick Rubin-produced records to his collaboration with Timbaland.
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