Kim Anand Thayil [1] (born September 4, 1960) [2] [3] is an American musician best known as the lead guitarist of the Seattle -based rock band Soundgarden, which he co-founded with singer Chris Cornell and bassist Hiro Yamamoto in 1984. As a co-founding member of Soundgarden, Kim Thayil has written and performed some of the hardest and heaviest riffs of all time, spanning the drop-D swagger of Flower to the relentless grind and pterodactyl squeals of Jesus Christ Pose.
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In 2017, Soundgarden frontman Chris Cornell tragically passed away, bringing the band to a final and sad end. It's a lot for any project to overcome, but thankfully now a project decades in the making has seen fruit and a the Kim Thayil Signature S-100 Polara is now finally being released unto the world - and it's not just one guitar either. Soundgarden 's Kim Thayil was caught unawares when he learned about the band's second Rock and Roll Hall of Fame nomination on Tuesday (Jan. 31). "It was not no my radar," Thayil, who. From Nirvana's 'Bleach' to 'God's Balls' by Tad, the guitarist shouts out records by Seattle-area bands. Soundgarden's Kim Thayil picks his 10 favorite grunge albums, including records by Nirvana. Interview: Soundgarden's Kim Thayil Chris Kies October 8, 2012 Kim Thayil, the dropped-tuning lord of heavy grunge, walks us through the thickets of distortion, swirling psychedelic vortexes, and eastern-flavored motifs on Soundgarden''s epic return to form, King Animal. Photo by Chris Kies
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Formed in Seattle in 1984 by Thayil, singer-guitarist Chris Cornell and bassist Hiro Yamamoto, Soundgarden pioneered an aggressively heavy and psychedelic sound that married the most walloping elements of heavy metal and punk, and the result soon became known as "grunge". Cornell, guitarist Kim Thayil, bassist Ben Shepherd and drummer Matt Cameron united to form an alt-rock leviathan that veered violently between devastating heaviness and psychedelic wigouts - it's this transcendent dynamism that's captured on new concert film Live From The Artists Den, a 29-song, two-and-a-half-hour document of the band's final stop on their 2013 King Animal tour. Soundgarden Kim Thayil Mudhoney Foundational guitarist thinks this group defines grunge's sound, style and attitude Formed in 1984, Soundgarden, whose best-known lineup is comprised of singer/guitarist Chris Cornell, guitarist Kim Thayil, bassist Ben Shepherd, and drummer Matt Cameron, was one of the bands that helped make "grunge" more than just another word for dirt.
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When the members of Soundgarden—singer and guitarist Chris Cornell, guitarist Kim Thayil, bassist Ben Shepherd and drummer Matt Cameron—reunited in 2010 after more than a decade apart, making a new album was the last thing on anyone's mind. According to Thayil, the band reconvened only to address some outstanding business matters. Few guitarists are as synonymous with Guild Guitars as Kim Thayil, yet owing to a series of twists of fate, a signature guitar never became a reality for the Soundgarden hero. Now, finally, Guild has announced the Thayil x Guild range of signature S-100 Polara models.
Kim Thayil has dismissed a review that called his guitar playing "sloppy" while detailing how his love for alternate tunings saw him disregard all he knew about shapes and scales. In an extensive interview with Pete Thorn, Thayil - arguably the most experimental guitarist to come out of the Seattle scene in the '90s - wasn't coy. In 2012 Total Guitar's Rob Laing spoke to both Chris Cornell and Kim Thayil in separate interviews about their comeback album King Animal. But they also delved deeper into their relationship with guitar, and how they viewed each other as players. Looking back this is an interview shadowed with sadness, not just because of Chris Cornell's.
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Soundgarden's Kim Thayil has opened up about his approach to the guitar and his thoughts on those who call him a "sloppy" player.. READ MORE: Ozzy Osbourne: "I've never felt comfortable about that title they put on me - 'metal'" The guitarist was speaking in a new interview with Pete Thorn where he discusses some of the online comments he's received for his work in Soundgarden. 2019. In 1981, Kim Thayil went for a drive that would change his life. At the time the 21-year-old was in a state of personal turmoil. The Chicago native's band Identity Crisis had split, his.
