Drummer Matt Cameron, a longtime member of each Soundgarden and Pearl Jam, will quickly be a two-time inductee into the Rock & Roll Corridor of Fame, due to his legendary work with each Seattle bands. Nonetheless, he says his upcoming induction with Soundgarden might be “a little bit extra significant” than his 2017 induction with Pearl Jam.
Soundgarden made the minimize as a part of the Class of 2025, and might be inducted November eighth throughout a ceremony on the Peacock Theater in Los Angeles, airing dwell on Disney+. Whereas Cameron spent 27 years in Pearl Jam previous to exiting the band earlier this summer time, he seems like he made a larger contribution to Soundgarden.
“It’s an enormous honor,” Cameron advised Billboard of Soundgarden’s upcoming induction. “I haven’t actually wrapped my head round it, and it’s not misplaced upon me that it’s fairly actual to get in there two instances. I’m feeling nice about all the things.”
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He added, “They’re each big honors, after all. For me, personally, I helped construct Soundgarden from the bottom up, and I helped create the sound, I feel, a little bit bit greater than I did with Pearl Jam, which was positively extra of a longtime factor that I got here into. So in that sense [Soundgarden’s induction] is a bit more significant for me as an artist and musician and songwriter to go in with a band that I helped set up itself.”
Whereas he wasn’t Soundgarden’s very first drummer, Cameron joined the band in 1986, and performed on each one in every of their studio albums. He remained a member till singer Chris Cornell’s loss of life in 2017 successfully ended the band, though he and the opposite surviving members are at the moment engaged on a brand new album that includes Cornell’s posthumous vocals.
With Pearl Jam, Cameron grew to become their drummer in 1998, and didn’t seem on any of the band’s traditional albums of the Nineties. His first look on a Pearl Jam studio album was on 2000’s Binaural.
Together with Soundgarden, the Rock & Roll Corridor of Fame’s Class of 2025 consists of The White Stripes, OutKast, Cyndi Lauper, Dangerous Firm, and extra.