C/D: King's X

Finally hearing Gretchen for the first time and I need to get this to all my Rush-loving friends STAT.

"Pleiades" is a really, really excellent song.

Okay, now I've seen everything. According to this, Pinnick is going to be appearing in...the sequel to Manos: The Hands of Fate.

How is it I'd not ever heard of this Tres Mtns project before just now (they're performing on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon)? It's Doug Pinnick and Mike and Jeff from Pearl Jam.

Not spectacular or anything now, but 20 year-old me would've been freaking out.

Oh, I guess it's just Tres Mts.

I started a thread about them - a new one because I wasn't sure what thread I should put it in.

I also didn't remember starting *this* thread nearly 4 years ago...

I guess Mike's not an official member then, but he was handling the bulk of the guitar playing on tv.

soundgarden really owed a lot to this band, I was thinking today, particularly 'summerland' on Gretchen.

I think Cornell has admitted as much, in some format that's apparently google-proof. Or at least Doug SAYS Cornell admitted as much, in some interview somewhere. MY FAVE BAND EVAH, btw. Here's something I wrote for a Christian site about Faith, Hope, Love.

"It's Love" was a really great single.

soundgarden really owed a lot to this band, I was thinking today, particularly 'summerland' on Gretchen.

― akm, Wednesday, September 7, 2011 1:28 AM (4 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

oddly listening to this band in the first time in forever and i've never been a big fan
anyway gretchen goes to nebraska and out of the silent planet are pretty great! (nebraska has a little less dated production)...but yeah i def hear echoes of a lot of 90s-post grunge rock in this band

BraveWords: I remember when I interviewed you a while back, you mentioned that you and Chris Cornell have discussed working on a project together from time to time. Would you still like to work together?

Doug Pinnick: “I’d still love to. I haven’t spoke to Chris in a couple of years. Every now and then, he changes his phone number and doesn’t tell anybody, and give him another year, and he’ll get back to you. So I’ll get a message from him, going, ‘Is this Pinnick?’ I’ll go, ‘Who’s this?’ And he’ll go, ‘Cornell!’ And we’ll start chatting again. You know how those super rock stars are – they have to change their numbers all the time. I don’t have to – I’ve had the same number since 1985!”

BraveWords: I always thought that would be an interesting pairing, because similar to you, Chris Cornell also has a soulful voice – as heard on the Temple of the Dog material.

Doug Pinnick: “Oh yeah – we’re huge fans of each other. We love each other’s voices – we always tell each other that. It would be fun.”

i can't find it but there's some much attributed quote all over having Jeff Ament of Pearl Jam saying "King's X invented grunge" on MTV once

also listened to Gretchen earlier today and was hearing Alice in Chains, esp in the vocal harmonies

man Doug Pinnick knows more about harmony than all the grunge bands put together

You've never heard Seven Mary Three's rendition of "Surf's Up"

I went to school with Seven Mary Three. Do not mention them ever again.

haha woah! ez you know i can't help but be irrationally interested in this now so please come to mpls soon so i can ask you annoying questions abt seven mary three at the bar

i wonder if there are hardcore fans called "sevenheads"

https://books.google.com/books?id=JheoECFjDqMC&pg=PA32&dq=seven+mary+three&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwj0qYL7gd_KAhVBI2MKHWGHB4EQ6AEIIDAB#v=onepage&q=seven%20mary%20three&f=false

I promise to tell you my story next time I'm in town.

Now back to King's X.

I remember when Faith Hope Love came out I thought they'd finally break out and be the next Rush. Still sad they never got that big.

if there's a Seven Mary Three/Bruce Hornsby crossover story I'm gonna flip

I don't have one. Though there might have been a Seven Mary Three/Travis Morrison encounter or two.

Dogman is a cool album, used to jam out to that one a lot

New song sounds OK

New song? Who knew
I remember the ugly chick who knew about music in high school recommending Gretchen back in the day

jesus (no pun etc) doug pinnick is 66 years old

Yeah, he was already a vet by the time King's X popped up.