MUSIC VIDEO
SOUNDGARDEN Motorvision (Polygram)
Well, if you'd like to see close ups of various members of Soundgarden's dental work, bleak shots of Seattle from inside their tour van, along with, of course, witty bits from the Soundgardens themselves (they drive past a place where they burn cats, Kim got two maybe three cats from there) hur! hur! comments about the band and their habits by other folks and Bruce Pavitt (woop!) and not forgetting footage of the two shows they did at the Paramount Theatre in their home town of — dowh! — Seattle, over two consecutive nights, and if you also like Soundgarden per chance, then this is a jolly digger of a video for you.
Of the actual concert footage, the band doesn't really 'go oofff' until 'Little Joe' from their first EP Screaming Life and it's from here that it really does start to 'go ooff' and the sound also improves immensely. The first three or so songs are a bit shaky and the sound is not the best, but 'Jesus Christ Pose', 'Mind Riot' and 'Slave and Bulldozers' all give you a damn good punch up the poopa, and the last track 'Slaves and Bulldozers' purges and dribbles down to a minimalist type of affair with Chris yelling 'Jesus is my friend', in the best possible way.
All the band members have ahh... interesting mannerisms on stage, Ben the Bass player has his bass nearly strung around his ankles and plays it like it's a very hot roast lamb that he's wrestling with, and in some bits he's on his bot-bot pushing himself around the floor with his feet. My word! All the while Kim the guitarist is stock still, but has a very unstable head (try making your cat copy this one), and Matt Cameron's drumming is faultless and just damn ... damn, and of course Chris Cornell is the modern "grunge" (vommy) sex god that all the new "grunge girls" that dress by Vogge and Bazaar are just discovering. Anyways this is the last video of him before he cut all his sex tresses off, but who wants to hear about that anyway, right?
SHIRLEY CHARLES
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Rip It Up, Issue 190, 1 May 1993, Page 28
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360MUSIC VIDEO Rip It Up, Issue 190, 1 May 1993, Page 28
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