Soundgarden in Madrid

From now on I will always remember the night of May 25, 2012 as a special night, a night out. Many have an opinion contrary to mine - in fact attest that people came out pretty unhappy with that seen in the festival's main stage for Last Tour International - but with this humble chronic want, at least to show what I got to feel in one of the most historically important bowling so far this year.
Soundgarden stepping on European soil and Spanish. It sounded as utopia - do not know if you will be aware that you are more than fifteen years since the last time you went through Europe! - But finally the dream came true at the Sonisphere Getafe (Madrid) at 00:15 pm on Friday / Saturday, when Chris Cornell, Kim Thayil, Ben Shepherd and Matt Cameron took the stage while sounding background the beautiful introduction of 'Searching With My Good Eye Closed' topic that definitively opened this new stage of Soundgarden in the old continent.
With bright lights and generally look quite soberly, Monty decided to sound his set face toward the conquest of a nostalgic halo, exalted by those singles that have all we usually play on an almost weekly. That choice is that Soundgarden was to attack from the beginning with the size classics 'Spoonman' or 'Jesus Christ Pose', two real hoot castañazos who glimpsed this melancholic know how well define the references of the old scene that emerged in Seattle .
Life, and especially the appearance of these American musicians has changed significantly over the last ten years. Chris and his entourage and begins to collect wrinkles - and even the occasional "tick" in his walk that betrays his nearly fifty years old - but his spirit "grunger" still there, ready to prove that in this rock no age restrictions. And the truth is that seeing the figure of Cornell one understands that this does not matter: his voice is not as transparent as fifteen years ago but his self-confidence, attitude and heartbreaking vocal, has become a visible improvement over the last years. Another such is Matt Cameron, who showed us in Madrid that is even better battery bowling Soundgarden live in the Pearl Jam. The reason for this? The consistency of the items. Almost all the concert required a Cameron delivered, and that's exactly what we saw in 'Rusty Cage' or imposing 'Gun', songs that require a degree of technical attitude frankly greater than that required to interpret pieces of "Backspacer "PJ.
The set, an hour and twenty minutes long, had a few impressive moments. The sound first took shape at the initial score of 'The Day I Tried To Live', a perennial classic that still sounds today with a forcefulness and tenacity - blessed Thayil - hard to find in the rock scene. With 'Blow Up The Outside World' vibrated similarly: the cries of Cornell to the tune of "... I've givin 'everything I want ..." came to cause a multitude of emotions in the audience that had gathered on the main stage Sonisphere. And do not forget 'Black Hole Sun', possibly Soundgarden media production which had a faithful and sensitive interpretation by the creators of "Badmotorfinger" and "Superunknown."
Chris Cornell's band stepped Europe for the first time in a long time to show one of those direct tight, compact and full of hits that both longed staunchest fans of Soundgarden. True, the sound was not far from the best (especially for those at the back of the room) but that of hearing 'Spoonman', 'Gun' and 'Fell On Black Days' was the subject of leftovers that were to my bed outlining a broad and indelible smile. Soundgarden were, had been playing in Madrid and knew, for sure, that this was not a dream. So does that I can go to sleep peacefully.