Shaina Shepherd, the singer who fronted a profit efficiency that includes the members of Soundgarden final month, has addressed a few of the ongoing questions on whether or not her look with the band may result in one thing extra everlasting.
Again in December, Shepherd joined surviving Soundgarden members Matt Cameron, Kim Thayil and Ben Shepherd for an encore efficiency on the thirteenth Annual SMooCH profit for Seattle’s Youngsters’s Hospital. The band carried out beneath their pseudonym Nudedragons and performed a six-song set that additionally included a visitor flip from Weapons N’ Roses’ Duff McKagan.
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Naturally, the looks left followers with questions concerning the group’s future provided that they’ve carried out so not often within the aftermath of Chris Cornell’s dying. Music Journal Sizzling Metallic posed a query on their Fb web page after the efficiency asking whether or not or not Shepherd’s look with the band ought to be a extra everlasting factor and the Bearaxe vocalist herself received concerned into the feedback.
What Shaina Shepherd Stated About Fronting Nudedragons
When there have been some dissenting remarks within the feedback about her probably singing with the group, Shepherd responded, “Haters gonna hate whereas I stay my dream.”
When one individual defended their proper to specific their opinion with out being accused of “hate,” Shepherd responded, “Soundgarden is a revolutionary band that modified my life, your life, the world. I might by no means entrance Soundgarden. However I like making music with these guys. I did it for me, for them like another music endeavor.”
She added, “I don’t care what any of you assume – by no means did. I care what they assume – at all times will. This complete article is meaningless. Similar to your timeline.”
Soundgarden’s Put up-Chris Cornell Performances
As acknowledged, it has been the uncommon event that the members of Soundgarden have taken the state collectively since Chris Cornell’s 2017 dying. The primary such occasion happened on Jan. 16, 2019, when members from throughout the music world united to pay tribute to Cornell and the band’s music on the “I Am the Freeway” tribute live performance in Los Angeles.
At that present, the dwelling members of the band performed eight songs from their catalog with The Fairly Reckless’ Taylor Momsen, Zen Guerrilla’s Marcus Durant, Foo Fighters’ Taylor Hawkins and Brandi Carlile all taking activates vocals.
It was one other tribute that received the band members Kim Thayil and Matt Cameron again onstage collectively in 2022. This time they had been saluting the lifetime of late Foo Fighters drummer Taylor Hawkins, with the 2 Soundgarden musicians joined by Nirvana’s Krist Novoselic, Dave Grohl, Pat Smear and Taylor Momsen on vocals for performances of “The Day I Tried to Reside” and “Black Gap Solar.”
The union of Thayil, Cameron and Shepherd onstage with Shaina Shepherd on the SMooCh profit marked their third such outing since Cornell’s passing.
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