{"id":786,"date":"2026-06-26T07:57:55","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T07:57:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sportprocess.co.uk\/?p=786"},"modified":"2026-06-26T07:57:55","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T07:57:55","slug":"breaking-news-soundgarden-guitarist-kim-thayil-collapsed-on-stage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sportprocess.co.uk\/?p=786","title":{"rendered":"Breaking news: Soundgarden guitarist Kim Thayil collapsed on stage&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"e194fd6b4de42b4223d4d3c7945e8263\" data-index=\"1\" style=\"float: none; margin:10px 0 10px 0; text-align:center;\">\n<div class=\"hb-ad-inpage\">\r\n    <div class=\"hb-ad-inner\"> \r\n    <div class=\"hbagency_cls hbagency_space_107374\"><\/div><\/div> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Kim Thayil has always felt like an outsider. For example: the Soundgarden guitarist has lived in Seattle, a city infamously addicted to coffee, for more than four decades, but only started drinking the stuff himself during lockdown. \u201cI was pretty against-the-grain to my Seattle friends, who always wanted to meet up at coffee shops,\u201d he grins, cradling a freshly brewed cup of java in his kitchen. \u201cMy girlfriend in the 80s and 90s even worked at the original branch of Starbucks and made coffee with a French press every morning. But I drank tea, because my parents are Indian.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Thayil\u2019s Indian heritage also set him apart from his peers. In his new memoir, A Screaming Life, he writes that when he and bassist Hiro Yamamoto formed Soundgarden in 1984, the group was \u201ctwo-thirds Asian\u201d, and that \u201cas liberal and accepting as the punk scene was, it was still largely white, and I was ever aware of that\u201d. Nevertheless, Soundgarden went on to become pioneers of Seattle\u2019s grunge movement, a multiplatinum-selling, critically acclaimed, Grammy-winning group whose breakthrough hit, Black Hole Sun, transcended their gnarly milieu to become an enduring anthem.<\/p>\n<p>Thayil and Yamamoto hailed from Park Forest, a suburb of Chicago. \u201cWe grew up as immigrants and outsiders,\u201d Thayil says. \u201cI was raised on American culture: the Monkees and the Brady Bunch and Superman comics. But there was this distance \u2013 I wasn\u2019t necessarily a member of this club.\u201d This distance wasn\u2019t entirely a bad thing, especially when he got into weird, heavy music. \u201cI had no obligations to these subcultures I was not a member of. 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