When Soundgarden walked into the Paramount Theater on March 5, 1992, they were ready to transform into the rock superstars they were destined to be.
The fall of 1991 was revolutionary for grunge. In August Pearl Jam’s Ten came out, in September Nirvana’s Nevermind arrived, and in October Soundgarden’s Badmotorfinger bum rushed the show. Also that fall, Metallica releases the Black album with the ominous “Enter Sandman” and Guns N’ Roses follows up on Appetite for Destruction with the double album Use Your Illusion I & II.
Rock music was abundant, loud, weird, and being expanded by Seattle longhairs, and few were as heavy as Soundgarden, despite Chris Cornell’s dreamy eyes.
The quartet had spent the December of ’91 and January of ’92 opening up for Guns in packed basketball arenas around the US, learning firsthand what its like to rile up tens of thousands of rockers, many of whom were seeing grunge for the first time.
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