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Everything has its place, but above all, everything has its time.
You think you can recover a 25-year memory gap, or rather an experience not lived (their concert at Studio 2 in Turin in the late '80s), you firmly believe that Beyond the wheel is one of the most unattainable tracks of that era, and at the end of this evening, it remains there, in a state of dormancy. And perhaps it's right that it's this way.
At the entrance to the path leading to the asphalt of this rather sad location, T-shirts stand out, including those with Cornell shirtless, boots, very long hair, poster that adorned the front cover of Ultramega OK. Instead, you come out dressed as a flashy wooden doll in white like the duke. And already, a first iconoclastic element goes away... They play, they play well. But there is nothing dirty, of that beautiful sound that clashed with that unique sense of disorder, even though the guitar exchanges work as well as Sheperd's pulsating bass and Matt Cameron's drumming. Clean sounds, too clean. Kim Thayil has his precise style with a woolen cap like Jon Mascis. Except for Hunted Down, not one track from the first two albums. Not one! And frankly, it's disappointing for those who have been waiting for them for 25 years. Or maybe my expectations are simply exaggerated, or I haven't digested the porchetta sandwich... I don't know. The more it goes on, the more this reunion seems like a marketing ploy... that Audioslave no longer worked, and so Cornell and Morello each started to gather what they had done well in the past before receiving the last rites? I am aware of the harshness of these lines, but I assure you, and not to defend myself, it is not animated by spite or gratuitous taste for criticism in the slightest.
They present the single written for The Avengers (Live to rise). One of those things: we really couldn't do without it. The concert in the end is also enjoyable, but I expected much more than just a run of tracks that, even back then, except for Rusty Cage, Jesus Christ Pose and little else, I found not very noteworthy. Soundgarden for me are represented by those two albums: "Screaming life" and "Ultramega ok". Period. The rest might as well not exist in the opinion of the writer. They would still be on the grunge scene's Olympus just as Nirvana had been with Bleach even before any of their other releases. Not remembering them is like denying your own history, and I find this frankly intolerable. Rock is not just entertainment, it has to move something more. It can also be "amarcord" like celebrating an event as the Pixies did for the twentieth anniversary of Doolittle.
But there, it makes sense.
I leave like many others before the encore. Not just alone. My attention is caught by a T-shirt of a guy with the words: " It has to start somewhere It has to start sometime What a better place than here, What a better time than now..." taken from Radio Guerilla of RATM. Beautiful. Deep. True. Ethical. Zack de La Rocha, above all, believed it.
And we return to the starting point. The revolution, whatever it is (cultural, social, artistic), you can feel it at the moment it's made. There you can appreciate it in its form and expressive content.
Not 25 years later.
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