Kim Thayil In-Studio on Jonesy's Jukebox

Soundgarde guitarist, Kim Thayil, drops by the Jukebox to talk about Flat Earthers and recall how they met!
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[@hinjurock]

Kim is such a cool humble dude. I'm a fellow East Indian rocker who's been a huge Soundgarden fan since 1990 ;)

[@Trainy2]

He's one of my favorite guitarists and has one of the most unique sounds ever.

[@bamb1123]

@@Trainy2 underrated guitarist.

[@lieut89]

Kims mom was one of my jr. high school teachers back in 79'-80'. Watched Kim play in our hometown on many occasions.

[@danielblauw2978]

That's really cool Kim is my favorite guitar player

[@danielblauw2978]

How was Kim back in the day

[@lieut89]

@@danielblauw2978 He is on guitar here with his band Identity Crisis back in 1980. kzbin.info/www/bejne/pKK1aIuhfc2fors

[@Epitaphforyesterday]

@@lieut89 thank you! very cool of you.

[@HSTRTGMS]

We're all from the same exact town

[@highonsleep4219]

Cantrell and Thayil are two of the best guitarists to come out of the early 90s seattle scene.

[@alpur214]

I love Kim's subtle dry humor. Seems like an awesome dude to chill with

[@danielblauw2978]

Us 90s kids like me hold Soundgarden close to there heart there music help us through a troubled youth

[@hydrolaural]

amen to that

[@kikeheebchinkjigaboo6631]

daniel blauw any sound garden video, I always looked at Kim. He was more exotic

[@R3TR0R4V3]

*their

[@golden_eldorado]

90's kids united!

[@shadowstalker1515]

Believe it or not, I was made fun of for listening to Soundgarden. Though I have no idea why 🤷‍♂️

[@crash8563]

I miss Soundgarden sooo much

[@danielblauw2978]

Soundgarden is my favorite band there music helped me through a troubled youth

[@dlynn101]

@VenusRising you sound like a jackass

[@CoolInOlympia]

Me, too!!!!

[@exoticgirl1]

Me toooooo. But I'm enjoying the legacy that band left us and I hope to see the other 3 doing something together, even if it's just now and than.

[@pownbnull]

Me Too! ..Wow the difference in intelligent conversation between Kim and Jonesy is wide...sometimes Jonesy talks like a moron...😊

[@michaelblaine6494]

“The world went dark” gave me a shiver

[@blinddog1212]

That got me right in my heart.

[@vikinglord7545]

Both these dudes are chill AF, and I just noticed that Kim kinda sounds like Neil Degrasse Tyson.

[@colico14]

He's super intelligent like NDT, too. Philosophy major. You're right, he has that vibe. I've had the pleasure of running into him a couple of times-nice, funny (dry humour) guy.

[@priya16591]

Now that you mention it, I can't unthink it!

[@mano1971music]

Thank you Kim Thayil for making an appearance last night at the Wiltern Theatre to introduce the film. I was there in the balcony section....it was unfortunate that technical difficulties affected the first 3 songs of the concert film. The sync between the image and audio was waaay off (almost a 2 second delay) which made it difficult to watch. However once the technicalities were straighten out, OMG.....SOUNDGARDEN was on fire that night back in 2013!!

[@iceynipyt7790]

why you saying it like hes there...

[@TVoltG]

Kim is my guitar hero. He's truly amazing.

[@markblackwell9486]

GREAT to see Kim on!

[@blinddog1212]

If Kim had a podcast, I'd listen in a second. Super smart but down to earth guy. Doesn't need a specific theme. Just Kim talking about random subjects. :)

[@sittnonchrome]

Love Kim. I wished Jonesy would have asked about the Soundgarden masters that were supposedly burned in the Universal fire.

[@winstonjaquez3996]

sittnonchrome Jeez, i hope that aint true!

[@sollyharr]

@@winstonjaquez3996 It is unfortunately

[@hamupinhere]

That kills me. I know it's just music, but to me, it's right up there with the Notre Dame cathedral.

[@aaronmadrigal4626]

@@sollyharr no fucking way

[@anthonyjaswinski5732]

Always amazing to listen to true musicians discuss guitar and life.

[@waltersobchak926]

one of my favourite guitarists & a great bloke. thanks, Jonesy

[@PositiveWordMeditation]

Me too

[@speedking7224]

Two legendary guitarists Jones and thayil

[@rumglas]

Life goal: have a beer with mr.Thayil

[@111RAMONES]

Kim is a super cool dude! I would see him in Seattle all the time.

[@calvinaustin81]

Klos 95,5 is my favourite radio talk show. And Jonesy is just wonderful!

[@chadcassidy1580]

Kim does say his last name rhymes with smile. I've been saying it wrong.

[@alexvanroth175]

Saw SG open for GnR in Houston 1993. They came on at 8 pm .Played 40 minutes. GnR came on at 11:30.I was pissed by then. That was the only time i saw SG.Great band.

[@damnyou01]

i saw that tour in Dayton! i only went cause my friends were going to GnR and i was invited to come, and i was a huge soundgarden fan (saw them many times).. soundgarden killed it and the GnR fans were clueless. they just didn't get it. heard lots of sh!tty comments. i kinda figured they wouldn't.. still had a good time. GnR actually started pretty close to on time. however.. the band still had to fill time with cover songs as snowflake went off doing whatever for about a half hour or so.

[@llm4187]

I have seen them 6 X never opened for anyone. Small and medium clubs.

[@joedelreal5378]

Thanks Kim Thayil sounds like smile. Rock Professor

[@danielduenez6072]

The best grunge guitarist of all time! Soindgarden number one band

[@ReneAlexisPenalozaMunoz]

Amazing guitar player!

[@kiracameron7078]

MY FAVORITE PPL ALIVE R MY HUSBAND MY 2 CHILDREN AND KIMMY THAYIL!!!!

[@dawgboybinley6128]

You can tell by the speed and wit of his responses that he's a super smart dude. And playing a humble role even though I think he doesn't need to be in this situation.

[@erichammond2466]

Under rated....great guitarist

[@adspur]

We love you Kim!

[@brotzmannsax]

I would be interested in watching Jonesy with Brother Wayne Kramer for about an hour.

[@tedkay_music]

Yes!Jonesy is back!

[@taimeuppe6174]

Such a cool relaxed dude... guitar god

[@taimeuppe6174]

Jonesy must be stoned forgot to rhyme with smile

[@swordofgod2835]

I’m so glad they reunited. I saw them at the Wiltern in 2013 I believe. I hope to hear new music

[@exoticgirl1]

Man, how cool is he! In videos he always looks zen but he is so freaking nice and has a beautiful smile and laugh.

[@philspill6854]

Witty smart dude

[@lancashirebomber9744]

kim thayil, king of the riff.

[@utubeutube4761]

BB KING was the old blues man that told Billy Gibbons that. He was playing a guitar of Billys & said "man its nice, but you're working too hard." Then went on to tell him about amplification & how he didnt need to roll with thicker strings because of it...

[@youjoker9647]

Yes that's the story Billy told on this show

[@sonicjet7759]

SOUNDGARDEN WILL ALWAYS ROCK ON , GOD BLESS THE LATE CHRIS CORNELL. KIM , BEN AND MATT SHOULD CONTINUE ON WITH MAKING MUSIC. GOODLUCK GENTLEMEN

[@libbyhowes2284]

Love Kim!! A guitar God

[@danielblauw2978]

All hail Soundgarden the only band that matters

[@LorneVignettes]

Kim is such a Cool Guy. It would be super cool to Jam with him as well.

[@colico14]

Great rapport with these two.

[@JorgeMuhammad]

Missed U man...

[@allisonmaryatt5400]

Love this. Laughing out loud at Kim's witticisms.

[@michaelblaine6494]

Dinosaur joke,classic Kim. I love how he clarified what he meant😆

[@christar9527]

I’m odd and 50.👏🏻😆

[@Ariel_thenotsolittlemermaid]

"That's when the world went dark" Kim, Matt and Bem don't like talking about what happened in 2017 (understandably), but you can tell they were hurt a lot. Losing such a longtime friend in that manner, especially having been some of the last people to see him... and finding out about that through social media probably made the trauma even worse.

[@16voyeur]

I love his laugh!

[@enochtyle]

Tha-eel! The Indian pronunciation.

[@katherinerivera3507]

Thank you!

[@ameoana1258]

stuff 'about social media it's pretty understandable :) P.S. my son who is 16 years of age, actually thought me how to pronounce Kim Thayil's name... it felt really amazing to be outshined, at last...

[@XXthekingofyouXX]

Jonsey is starting to look like Joey Diaz and Kim sounds like Dave Attell.

[@doctorskull8197]

Nice interview. Fun time.

[@jackienemecheck4676]

Yeah and not one mention of C.C. by name. The day the world went dark he said. In Detroit a couple times. I bet he told Jonesy " No talk about Chris ". It was kind of weird. He knows.....

[@16voyeur]

I think so too.

[@christar9527]

VK? Probably.

[@HankTheDwarf]

Would you want to constantly talk about your dead close childhood friend at every turn? Neither does he probably.

[@16voyeur]

@@HankTheDwarf Good point!

[@kiracameron7078]

SOUNDGARDEN IS STILL HERE DON'T MISS THEM KISS THEM HAHAHAHAH I'LL KISS KIM THAYIL AND MATT CAMERON WON'T YOU TOO? LOL HI KIM THAYIL!!!!! IT'S ME KIRA SANDERS FROM YOUR CONCERTS I'M COMING TO SEE YOU AUGUST 30 2019 KICK OUT THE JAMS!!! BUT YEAH I MISS SOUNDGARDEN TOO I LOVE THEM SO MUCH HAHA

[@bryanc.8441]

I love Kim .

[@wattjones9547]

Kim is a great guy..I had the privilege of driving him one evening in Tampa around 3 weeks before Chris died.

[@justinecarter3064]

welcome back jonesy

[@Danimal77]

He didn't stay long.

[@kevinnevada5342]

Yorkshire 79.

[@rajbroh4334]

Kim should be a commentator too, like comments on anything men, i would watch it

[@jamesmadore3234]

i pronounce his name "captain awesome pants'

[@markfrear7629]

Sweet

[@phillippehrson4908]

13:45 "some old blues guy" was B.B.King

[@timewarped2the80s]

😂🤣🤣

[@keepinitkawaii]

That hurt a little 😂

[@davysaltcoats]

medievil turtles and that`s him sober fucking brilliant .....

[@bertgetner9397]

Poor Kim. To sit thru that.

[@blinddog1212]

He was a good sport.

[@danielduenez6072]

Much love Kim thatil from dago

[@kiracameron7078]

KIMMY THAYIL I HAVE SEVERAL ARABIC TATTOOS I'M FROM PAKISTAN IF THEY DEPORT ME I'LL STILL JAM WITH YOU!!!!

[@priya16591]

Pretty inane question when he asks "so you guys were still together"

[@elsoundgarden]

I would live to just sit down in a bar have a couple beers and talk w Kim about music.

[@priya16591]

Can't wait to see Ben Matt and Kim make more music, maybe with a new band name

[@markblue5375]

TROUBLE from Chicago was a major influence on SOUNDGARDEN . Give credit where credit is long over due !

[@kiracameron7078]

KIM THAYIL I'M PRITNTING OUT PICTURES IN COLOR OF YOU AND MATT CAMERON AT THE CARNEGIE PENNSYLVANIA LIBRARY!!!! SOUNDGARDEN "JESUS CHRIST POSE" "OUTSHINED" "BURDEN IN MY HAND" "FLOWER" "RUSTY CAGE" "BLACK HOLE SUN" LOVE YOU SONGS HUNNY

[@edwardedwards6785]

“The lame list” needs to include the last couple years on earth. Always liked Kim. Greetings from northwest.

[@BeatlesFan1975]

Holy shit, Jonesy played Thin Lizzy's "Black boys on the corner"?????

[@samcorcoran470]

"Dark ages Dinosaurs " band name, I call it!

[@llm4187]

Great song title ‘It’s all green and gray!’

[@drewflanagan4296]

I'm always amazed by the caliber of guests that come on this show juxtapose to the utter unpreparedness and unprofessionalism of Mr. Jones.

[@mineralt]

Drew Flanagan agree... he has gotten by on his charm his whole life. Jonesy don’t sweat details...Dave Lee Roth II

[@deanbroad5719]

If you're an English punk rocker Steve Jones is a fuckin legend

[@-dugair]

@drewflanagan4296 Jonesy's guests are not being paid to show up. Jonesy's getting paid a lot to show up. Jonesy's has a staff to do the prep work for him so all he has to do is show up. You are the audience that keeps coming back. Is it juxtaposition to be jealous and entertained? I'm amazed that you pick this interview to make this comment. With Kim stumbling and bumbling his way through the whole thing not even knowing his own career.

[@davidelkington117]

Ultra Mega Ok interview

[@edwardbliss8931]

Something tells me his real last name is Thayilarandu or Thayilarajah, although there will be no record of it

[@kingkeefage]

Sure, there COULD be, but speaking in terms of absolutes, there is no reason to believe there will be no record, whatsoever.. At some point, if it was shortened, there will be a first person to have done it.

[@robroyce6845]

RiP:SoundGardens' Black Whole Son Chris Cornell!!

[@riknaddal2231]

BHS...wont you come...& wash away the rain...

[@R3TR0R4V3]

Black "WHOLE SON"? LOL.. Ffs. Black Hole Sun

[@jacobbaker3564]

@@R3TR0R4V3 Black Whole Son sounded better than Dark Entire Male Child. 😂😂😂

[@R3TR0R4V3]

True that! 😅

[@Boudosaved]

KRAFTWERK!!!

[@williamr3840]

Jonesy's got a round head... "Wham it in the back of the net!". :0)

[@blackspring3207]

i feel like they drank lean before this interview.

[@kiracameron7078]

I LOVE YOU KIMMY THAYIL SO BEAUTFUL SEEING YOUR BEAUTIFUL BODY AND FACE IN NORTH PARK!!!! OUTSHINED JESUS CHRIST POSE HANDS ALL OVER

[@youjoker9647]

Why would Billy lie? Please, that's insulting.

[@TheTurkey79]

Yeah man, i use 11-52's LTHB's :)

[@chickeastwater9883]

Chris Cornell - where are you ? Funny - how - 28 mins - no Mention of CC

[@jejmoss11]

It's not that kind of show and that's how the flow of conversation went.

[@reinforcedpenisstem]

It's about a band, not a single member.

[@chickeastwater9883]

Ryan G Kim, spoke on Matt Cameron - had written a Few songs - for Sound Garden

[@softytop1000]

Jonesy is the man. Theres no point mentioning Chris, its a sore one, its done now move on!

[@chickeastwater9883]

softytop1000 yah its Over , thats why Kim Thayil is there promoting a 3 hr. Movie about SG - ha ha haa its my Comment - you move On

[@daves7079]

25:45 Steve's classic laugh

[@PJVila]

OSHO

[@235azrael]

its " Tha yyi il" common keralite family name

[@phantomopera5525]

F...ing legend!

[@scott7521]

Bush is not good

[@Danimal77]

Steve seemed so out of it in this interview.

[@dynjarren7523]

The Flat Earth society is a fun group because it’s fun to go against the grain! If you are just joking, it’s fun! But the satellite 🛰 images from space and the Space Station show regular recordings of the Big Blue Marble. And it’s a Round 🌎 Earth! Here’s the question you can ask these Flat Earth Dopes! Is the Moon 🌝 Flat? If the Moons Round as you can plainly see by looking up in the sky with your naked eye, how and why can the Earth be Flat? The answer is, It can’t! The End!

[@derOssiGuitar]

when kim mimes the air guitar he does it like a lefty....but he does play it the right way in real life, dont he??? interesting....

[@derOssiGuitar]

@Thomas Farrell so have you been forced to use your right hand at school for writing etc.? in germany there is a big sad tradition of that, up to the kids of the early nineties when it was considered as an unhealthy crime to do so...

[@hinjurock]

@Thomas Farrell I'm bi-dextrous - I do some things righty and some things lefty. I write and play guitar lefty, but eat and shoot basketball righty.

[@rollacoastaride1937]

amazing Phil Lynott lookalike

[@youjoker9647]

Are you joking?

[@martymartin2894]

Yeah like chalk and cheese.

[@MCConfuz]

12:29 COVID TRANSMISSION!!!

[@blackdot3538]

well that was awkward.

[@williamr3840]

Trying to get your new double bed up into your bedroom, you mean?

[@youjoker9647]

Brewers Droop? Get over it,

[@alwaysright3718]

The Earth is flat...

[@dynjarren7523]

I feel bad for this guy because he just lost his friend and his band is finished now without Chris! Just like Inxs is done without Hutchence! They dominated their bands. Without them singing, the others are just sidemen! But he’ll probably be okay because of the catalog!

[@kikeheebchinkjigaboo6631]

Kim sounds like a robot

[@kiracameron7078]

KIMMY THAYIL I TAUGHT ARABIC FOR 4 YEARS I'M ISLAMIC

[@Epitaphforyesterday]

and dying for a response? there, you got one.

[@R3TR0R4V3]

😅 Nutty as a squirrel!

[@d.bcooper7819]

Jonsey needs to shut his mouth more so we can hear the guests.

[@vernetexon4914]

Don't like eastern people, don't trust them. Actually, I don't trust anyone, ha, ha, ha, ha. But Kim Thayil is an interesting guitarist, I like what he does..