Soundgarden -- London, England -- July 13th, 2012
 

Hard Rock Calling Festival
Venue: Hyde Park

[b]Black Stone Cherry[/b] (16:50-17:30)
Maybe Someday
Blind Man
Yeah Man
Soulcreek
In My Blood
Like I Roll
White Trash Millionaire
Rehab jam / Blame It On The Boom Boom
Lonely Train
30 Seconds of Death Metal

[b]Red White & Blues[/b] (17:35-18:00)
Shame Shame
Set My Sights On You
The Road To Hell
Let It Shine
Red White & Blues
Stand Up For Rock 'N' Roll

[B]Iggy & The Stooges[/b] (19:10-20:05)
Raw Power
Search And Destroy
Gimme Danger
1970
Fun House
Night Theme
Beyond The Law
I Wanna Be Your Dog
I Got A Right
No Fun
Johanna
Kill City
Open Up And Bleed

[B]Soundgarden[/b] (20:35-22:25)
Searching With My Good Eye Closed
Spoonman
Gun
Jesus Christ Pose
Black Hole Sun
Outshined
Hunted Down
Drawing Flies
Blow Up The Outside World
Fell On Black Days
Ugly Truth
My Wave
The Day I Tried To Live
Beyond The Wheel
Let Me Drown
Pretty Noose
Superunknown
4th of July
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Rusty Cage
Slaves & Bulldozers

wat

That bill is beautiful. How was Iggy?

[QUOTE=brutal_descent;476910]wat

That bill is beautiful. How was Iggy?[/QUOTE]

The bill is shit. Might as well have just been a Soundgarden show with Iggy supporting.

Iggy was awesome. Best performance of the day.

4th of July and Slaves? WOW!

[QUOTE=ravenheart;476912]The bill is shit. Might well as just been a Soundgarden show with Iggy supporting.

Iggy was awesome. Best performance of the day.[/QUOTE]

Didn't notice BSC and RW&B, but Iggy and 'garden are a great combination!

[QUOTE=jhdeity;476914]4th of July and Slaves? WOW![/QUOTE]

Great songs, but not unusual on the reunion tour since 2010 as far as I know

[QUOTE=brutal_descent;476915]Didn't notice BSC and RW&B, but Iggy and 'garden are a great combination![/QUOTE]

I added them once I got home ;)

Those were basically the four good bands on the whole bill all day.

Albeit I know some people here dig The Mars Volta, who were on at the same time as Iggy. Hawk Eyes also played, who I like, but they clashed with BSC.

[QUOTE=jhdeity;476914]4th of July and Slaves? WOW![/QUOTE]

Yeah, they play them all the time. The rarity is Superunknown.

[QUOTE=ravenheart;476919]Yeah, they play them all the time. The rarity is Superunknown.[/QUOTE]

They played it pretty much every night on their last N.American tour.

Soundgarden's set looks OK on paper but they don't really sound that good anymore.

[QUOTE=ijwthstd;476933]Soundgarden's set looks OK on paper but they don't really sound that good anymore.[/QUOTE]

Have you actually seen them since they reunited? They are [I]solid[/I] live.

[QUOTE=marker;476926]They played it pretty much every night on their last N.American tour.[/QUOTE]

They haven't been on this tour.

[QUOTE=brutal_descent;476934]Have you actually seen them since they reunited? They are [I]solid[/I] live.[/QUOTE]

Yep. Seen them twice on this tour, both sounded great.

[QUOTE=ijwthstd;476933]Soundgarden's set looks OK on paper but they don't really sound that good anymore.[/QUOTE]

All kinds of wrong right here.

[QUOTE=ravenheart;476975]Yep. Seen them twice on this tour, both sounded great.[/QUOTE]

Wasn't asking you :tongue:

No Live To Rise? I actually like that song.

[QUOTE=elturtleboy;477004]No Live To Rise? I actually like that song.[/QUOTE]

Yeah, I was surprised too. They had time as well, except that they always spend the last five minutes of their sets fucking around with feedback.

They did start five minutes late though due to Iggy & The Stooges running over slightly.

How was the sound for you Andy?

Heard from a few people it was too quiet, which is something that's taken the edge off every show I've seen at Hyde Park.

Couldn't make it myself as had the folks visiting this weekend. I'd have caught Skindred aside from those you listed.

Sound was fine for Soundgarden, but yes I agree it was too quiet for everyone else on the main stage before them. My guess would be they didn't want to drown out the shitty little stages that were close by, but after about half an hour of Soungarden's set there was no one else playing.

I watched the first four songs of Skindred's set, but their sound was so poor I couldn't be bothered with the rest and went in search of food. Skindred annoy me though. Massively heavy and bags of groove live, basically an indie band on record.

It's always quiet due to the sound limit. Actually was mentioned in an article in the Evening Standard today...

[url]http://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/madonna-told-the-plug-will-be-pulled-on-her-just-like-springsteen-if-she-overruns-during-hyde-park-gig-7946097.html[/url]

I found if you weren't near the front sound got drowned out by the "day trippers" chatting through the bands. Worse still when they know the odd song and all you can hear is them singing out of tune.

[QUOTE=wroed;477251]It's always quiet due to the sound limit. Actually was mentioned in an article in the Evening Standard today...

[url]http://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/madonna-told-the-plug-will-be-pulled-on-her-just-like-springsteen-if-she-overruns-during-hyde-park-gig-7946097.html[/url]

I found if you weren't near the front sound got drowned out by the "day trippers" chatting through the bands. Worse still when they know the odd song and all you can hear is them singing out of tune.[/QUOTE]

I was down the front for most of Soundgarden. Seriously, you haven't heard heavy until you've heard them do 'Gun'. I've seen doom bands with less bottom-end. :drool:

[QUOTE=brutal_descent;476934]Have you actually seen them since they reunited? They are [I]solid[/I] live.[/QUOTE]

Pulling up Ugly Truth on You Tube last year and hearing vocal echo effects kinda ruined it for me when prior to the reunion everything was completely pure. (Or maybe it wasn't but I tend to avoid any live stuff post 1992 - they never really looked or sounded comfortable after that).

They sound great, play well, and look completely happy and comfortable doing it. Obviously continue skipping them if you prefer, but you're wrong.

More on the Hyde Park issues on Classic Rock site this morning....

[url]http://www.classicrockmagazine.com/news/why-we-cut-off-springsteen-and-mccartney/[/url]