Soundgarden Continues Comeback by Releasing First Live Album. Ever.

It must be that time in a music cycle when all of the bands from a previous era decide to get back together and see if they're still relevant. Just a few short years ago it was all of the hair metal bands. Now we have the Seattle scene starting with Alice in Chains a couple of years ago. Pearl Jam never really left just stayed out of the media eye. Dave Grohl and Krist Novaselic are colloborating for the next Foo Fighters album. And now we have Soundgarden who are staging a comeback. They played some shows last year and released Telephantasm which was basically a greatest hits and other goodies album. Now word is out that they are planning to release their first ever live album. Track list and release date after the jump.

1. “Spoonman”**
2. “Searching With My Good Eye Closed”**
3. “Let Me Drown”**
4. “Head Down”#
5. “Outshined”**
6. “Rusty Cage”+
7. “Burden In My Hand”++
8. “Helter Skelter”**
9. “Boot Camp”**
10. “Nothing To Say”#
11. “Slaves And Bulldozers”***
12. “Dusty”***
13. “Fell On Black Days”***
14. “Search And Destroy”#
15. “Ty Cobb”**
16. “Black Hole Sun”#
17. “Jesus Christ Pose”***

** Recorded live at Crosby Hall, Del Mar Fairgrounds, Del Mar, CA – November 30, 1996
*** Recorded live at Henry J. Kaiser Convention Center, Oakland, CA – December 5, 1996
+ Recorded live at Pacific National Exhibition Forum, Vancouver, BC, Canada – December 7, 1996
++ Recorded live at Salem Armory, Salem, OR – December 8, 1996
# Recorded live at Mercer Arena, Seattle, WA – December 18, 1996

The release date is March 22nd.

I'd be interested in hearing some new material personally. Though never a huge Soundgarden fan I liked quite a bit of tunes back in the day until they all started getting played to death after the band went defunct.