Last night (Monday, April 27), former SOUNDGARDEN/AUDIOSLAVE singer Chris Cornell played a sold-out show at Seattle's Showbox SoDo. Good friend and former SOUNDGARDEN bandmate Kim Thayil was at the concert, as was former QUEENSRŸCHE guitarist Chris DeGarmo (see photo below).

Cornell commented to the Washington Post's "Post Rock" column about the recent Seattle show at which three quarters of SOUNDGARDEN — guitarist Kim Thayil, bassist Ben Shepherd and drummer Matt Cameron — reunited to play three of the band's songs with local grunge icon Tad Doyle. Cornell said, "I thought it was cool that they'd actually get together and rehearse some songs. I was kind of surprised by it, to be honest (laughs). And I love Tad. We toured with Tad; I've always felt he was a really amazing person and a really talented guy. So I just really thought it was a cool thing for them to do. They were just getting up there and doing it for fun, and I think that's great. The only thing I didn't like is that I wasn't there to see it. If I was there, I probably would've gotten up on stage."

Asked whether a true SOUNDGARDEN reunion could be in the works, Cornell said, "You never know."

Cornell himself has been on the road in support of his latest solo album, "Scream", which has been blasted by critics and fans for ditching hard rock in favor of an electronic R&B style.

Asked whether he was "stung" by the reactions to the record, Cornell told the Post, "I would be stupid to assume that (all my fans) would like it. I would be stupid to think that everybody would, like, get into something that's really sort of an electronic rock record. In terms of its instrumentation, it's entirely different than what they're used to or what they might even ever want to hear. It doesn't sting at all."

Cornell also remarked on the album being slammed on Twitter by NINE INCH NAILS frontman Trent Reznor, calling the idea of doing that "childish." He added, "To be honest, if I wanted to go out to blast records that I hate, I would be sitting on Twitter 24 hours a day blasting 96 percent of what comes out . . . There's a lot of music that I don't like."

Video footage of Cornell performing the song "Scream" acoustically can be viewed at this location.