Where did the name Soundgarden come from?
This from Kim in Rip, 1990: “It’s a name that conjures up powerful visual images, although at one point we thought it might be too soft. But there was something about the name we liked. One of our hopes is that people come to see us thinking they’re gonna get something pretty, and then get their heads blown off…”. The real physical inspiration for the name came from “A Sound Garden”, a pipe sculpture that stands in Sand Point Park in Seattle. A music of sorts is produced when wind whistles through the structure’s hollow metal pipes.
