The grunge veterans were among the 2023 nominees announced on Wednesday morning.<\/p>\n
Soundgarden\u2018s Kim Thayil was caught unawares when he learned about the band\u2019s second Rock and Roll Hall of Fame nomination on Tuesday (Jan. 31<\/p>\n
It was not no my radar,\u201d Thayil, who co-founded the group during 1984 in Seattle, tells\u00a0Billboard<\/em>. \u201cI hadn\u2019t been thinking about it, so it\u2019s a very pleasant surprise. Very cool.\u201d<\/p>\n What was cool about (2020) was just the recognition of the acknowledgement,\u201d Thayil explains. \u201cIf you\u2019re involved with your bandmates and fellow musicians in your peer group, you can sometimes get isolated from the general historical context of how the band has evolved and became part of the broader community of music and musicians. So I think that acknowledgement and that recognition was a reminder that, hey, they work that you did with your partners was part of a continuity and a history of music. That\u2019s kind of cool.\u201d<\/p>\n Thayil adds that it was Cornell who helped Soundgarden get some appreciation of the Rock Hall after he inducted Seattle rock precursors Heart in 2013. \u201cHe lived the experience and said the enthusiasm of the fans was eye-opening for him, and understanding how important that was\u2026 And Matt seconded it. And I think that\u2019s always been a context in which Soundgarden would understand its work; we always wanted to be the kind of band for our fans that we looked up to and inspired us. We wanted to be that kind of band would make decisions with regard to that community that had supported us or that we had worked to build, and I think we did a great job of that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The grunge veterans were among the 2023 nominees announced on<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":270,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[16,33,65,19],"class_list":["post-269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-chris-cornell","tag-kim-thayil","tag-matt-cameron","tag-soundgarden-news"],"yoast_head":"\n\n