6 Songs for Bruce
| 6 Songs for Bruce | |
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| File:SoundGarden 6SongsForBruceDemo cassette.jpeg | |
| Demo album by Soundgarden | |
| Recorded | April 24, 1985 |
| Genre | Grunge |
| Language | English |
| Producer | Jack Endino |
6 Songs for Bruce, commonly known as 4-Track Demo, is an early single-sided demo tape by the American rock band Soundgarden.
Overview
The band, which at the time was a three-piece named Sound Garden, composed of guitarist Kim Thayil, bassist Hiro Yamamoto, and Chris Cornell on drums and vocals,[1] recorded the demo in Jack Endino's basement four-track studio,[nb 1] on April 24, 1985, for their friend Bruce Pavitt,[3] hence the name of the tape. "Incessant Mace" was featured on the 1986 C/Z Records limited edition cassette only compilation Pyrrhic Victory,[4][5] but was re-recorded in 1988 for the band's first full-length album Ultramega OK;[nb 2] while "Tears to Forget" was re-recorded in late 1985 for the C/Z Records compilation album Deep Six[nb 3] released in 1986, and was re-recorded a third time in 1987 for the band's debut EP Screaming Life.[nb 4] As a bonus song, the tape includes a Cornell's solo recording titled "The Storm", which was re-recorded with Endino in May 2014 as "Storm" for the band's rarities box set Echo of Miles: Scattered Tracks Across the Path.[nb 5][1] The side B of the cassette, humorously titled Zen Deity Speaks, contains no recordings. The demo tape was among many of the artifacts displayed at the EMP Museum's Nirvana: Taking Punk to the Masses exhibit in Seattle, Washington.[6]
According to Kim Thayil in Greg Prato's book Grunge Is Dead: The Oral History of Seattle Rock Music,[7] this was actually Soundgarden's second demo cassette. Their first demo, titled The First 15, was previously recorded in 1984.
Track listing
| Side A: 6 Songs for Bruce | |||
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| No. | Title | Artist | Length |
| 1. | "I Think I'm Sinking" | ||
| 2. | "Bury My Head In Sand" | ||
| 3. | "Tears to Forget" | ||
| 4. | "The Storm" (bonus track) | Chris Cornell | |
| 5. | "Incessant Mace" | ||
| 6. | "In Vention" | ||
| 7. | "Out of My Skin" | ||
| Side B: Zen Deity Speaks (blank side) | ||
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- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Kreps, Daniel (October 28, 2014). "Soundgarden Unveil Three-Disc 'Echo of Miles' Rarities Collection: The band also revive 30-year-old track for menacing new song 'Storm'". rollingstone.com. Retrieved January 12, 2016.
- ↑ "Soundgarden on Sub Pop Records". subpop.com. Retrieved March 15, 2016.
- ↑ (April 10, 2012). "The Grunge Scene: April 24, 1985 - Sound Garden (Soon to be...:". tumblr.com. Retrieved March 15, 2016.
- ↑ Tow, Stephen (2011). The Strangest Tribe: How a Group of Seattle Rock Bands Invented Grunge. Sasquatch Books. ISBN 9781570617430. p. 167.
- ↑ Various Artists, Pyrrhic Victory. discogs.com. Retrieved January 12, 2016.
- ↑ Lipp, Chaz (August 26, 2011). "Book Review: Taking Punk to the Masses: From Nowhere to Nevermind by Jacob McMurray". blogcritics.org. Retrieved January 12, 2016.
- ↑ Prato, Greg (2009). Grunge Is Dead: The Oral History of Seattle Rock Music. ECW Press. ISBN 9781550228779.
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