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Soundgarden reunion fell into place by chance

As rock’n'roll reunions go, the current reemergence of Soundgarden after a 13-year split is sadly short of salacious intrigue.
The four members of the hard rock band, working on a new album and preparing to begin a month long North American tour in July, did not have to complete prison terms or rehab stints.
And, despite a report in
the satirical newspaper The Onion, lead guitarist Kim Thayil was not working as a daytime supervisor at a Cinnabon baked-goods store.
Thayil, 50, who did indeed keep a low profile after the band fell apart in 1997 amid internal tensions, told Reuters on Friday that the foursome remained good friends.
They frequently saw each other socially in their Seattle hometown, including at bars, concerts and each others’ homes.
“Any acrimony was toward the band as a collective, not toward any individual,” he said. “We’re just too interconnected, going back to the ’80s with so many mutual friends and family in common.”
Still, with singer Chris Cornell pursuing an intermittent solo career and drummer Matt Cameron firmly ensconced in Pearl Jam, any chance of a reunion by one of the biggest bands of the 1990s “grunge” era seemed remote.
Cornell inadvertently dropped the first hint on the first day of 2010 when his cryptic tweet about the relaunch of the band’s website and merchandising efforts was misinterpreted as a reunion announcement. Thayil was inundated with calls from people who had read frenzied news reports on the Internet.

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