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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 ...
Soundgarden guitarist Kim Thayil’s Guild S-100 is getting two new signature versions – here’s why he wanted to help Guild bring it back.
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 ...
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.
May 11, 2022 · 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.
Mar 8, 2022 · While his own band, along with Nirvana and Pearl Jam, are undoubtedly the most widely-known grunge bands in the world, Thayil believes that the Seattle underdogs Mudhoney are the quintessential grunge group.
Jan 14, 2024 · Soundgarden 's guitarist Kim Thayil recently opened up to Killer Guitar Rigs about the scene pre- Nirvana, revealing a vibrant tapestry of influences and a unique identity brewing before...
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...
4 days ago · Deep Six With Kim Thayil. Preview E. Jun 27 · Bandsplain. Save on Spotify. The C/Z Records Deep Six compilation is a thing of legend. An early document of a nascent Seattle scene that would be ...
