The surviving members of Soundgarden have reunited as Nudedragons for a Seattle benefit concert – watch footage of the gig below.
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Members Kim Thayil, Matt Cameron and Ben Shepherd reunited for a performance at the Showbox in Seattle on December 14. Billed as Nudedragons, the band name is an anagram of Soundgarden and is the same name they used in 2010 when they reunited to play their first show since 1997.
The Nudedragons members were joined by singer Shaina Shepherd at the 13th annual SMooCH concert that helps benefit the Seattle Children’s Hospital uncompensated care fund. They were also joined by Guns N’ Roses‘ Duff McKagan for their two final songs.
Nudedragons and Shaina Shepherd performed four Soundgarden tracks to kick off the performance: ‘Hunted Down’, ‘Outshined’, ‘Flower’ and ‘Beyond The Wheel’. For the two final songs, they enlisted McKagan for Soundgarden’s ‘Kickstand’ and closed out the nearly 30-minute set with a cover of MC5‘s ‘Kick Out The Jams’.
Watch fan-shot footage of the full Soundgarden/Nudedragons gig below.
Soundgarden’s (Nudedragons) set was:
‘Hunted Down’ with Shaina Shepherd
‘Outshined’ with Shaina Shepherd
‘Flower’ with Shaina Shepherd
‘Beyond The Wheel’ with Shaina Shepherd
‘Kickstand’ with Shaina Shepherd and Duff McKagan
‘Kick Out The Jams’ (MC5 cover) with Shaina Shepherd and Duff McKagan
On the show’s website, the band’s performance was described as a “brief encore performance.” The three surviving members have only performed together twice since frontman Chris Cornell’s 2017 passing. They appeared together during a tribute show for Cornell in 2019 and again in 2021 when they appeared with Brandi Carlile.
Cornell died by suicide on May 18, 2017. He was 52 years old.
In 2021, the Chris Cornell estate released ‘No One Sings Like You Anymore: Volume One’, a collection of cover songs handpicked by the late Soundgarden and Audioslave frontman and sequenced to celebrate artists and songs that inspired him. At the time, Vicky revealed that there was still a lot of music remaining in the vault and that there were plans to release a second volume.
It also featured a cover of Guns N’ Roses‘ ‘Patience’, which earned Cornell his first ever solo Billboard Number One.
