Soundgarden guitarist Kim Thayil told Spinner in a new interview that he played with with former Nirvana bassist Krist Novoselic, former Queens of the Stone Age drummer Alfredo Hernandez, and Bubba Dupree from Void in a band that ended up never being heard during Soundgarden’s hiatus. Thayil said, “We were jamming on and off for a couple years but there was no singer. A lot of instrumental stuff and beer drinking.”

He also discussed avoiding joining other bands during Soundgarden’s break and being selective, “I avoided playing in another heavy rock band,” he says. “Which, if I’d pursued that, would have been a B-grade Soundgarden. I was perfectly comfortable denying the expected ambition of a successful pop culture participant.”