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Kim Anand Thayil (born September 4, 1960) 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. Cornell and Thayil remained as the original members of the band until Cornell's death in 2017, and the band's subsequent ...
Learn how Kim Thayil, the lead guitarist of Soundgarden, developed his unique style and tone with the Guild S-100, a guitar model that was discontinued in 1978. Find out how he worked with Guild to bring back the S-100 and launch his signature Polara model.
Oct 11, 2018 · Seattle Times music writer. After months of crate digging, he finally found it. Back in the mid-’70s, Kim Thayil was a Chicagoland teen listening to bands like Kiss and Aerosmith, and whichever...
Oct 8, 2012 · Learn about the guitarist's gear, style, and influences on Soundgarden's comeback album, King Animal. Thayil talks about his Guild S-100s, chorus pedals, mandolin, and more.
Dec 14, 2021 · 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”.
May 5, 2024 · Soundgarden’s reunion in 2010 and subsequent comeback album King Animal two years later marked the return of one of the most successful and influential bands of the last 30 years. In 2014, guitarist Kim Thayil sat down with Metal Hammer to look back over the Seattle band’s rollercoaster career.
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Dec 18, 2023 · 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 ...
