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"Contrary to convention, Soundgarden&amp;#xA0;began their Superunknown tour months before the album&amp;apos;s official release date. Early in 1994, the band traveled to&amp;#xA0;Australia, New Zealand and Japan to play the record for countries where it hit stores early. A brief European&amp;#xA0;leg followed, and on May 29th they made their U.S.&amp;#xA0;return with a hometown show at the Kitsap Country Fairground just outside Seattle.\r\n\r\nSoundgarden opened most of these gigs with &amp;quot;Jesus Christ Pose&amp;quot; and new single &amp;quot;Spoonman,&amp;quot; but&amp;#xA0;before taking the stage,&amp;#xA0;they&amp;#xA0;prepped audiences with a&amp;#xA0;bizarre, semi-narrative&amp;#xA0;short film. The clip&amp;#xA0;opens with close-ups of a children&amp;apos;s bicycle and a blue man with an hourglass, then follows the boy as he rides the two-wheeler away from a car, passes life-like scarecrows and enters a foggy forest. Watch this all unfold above.\r\nThe music is a song called &amp;quot;Night Surf&amp;quot; written by&amp;#xA0;bassist Ben Shepherd, whose brother Henry directed the clip. Despite Shepherd&amp;apos;s specialty, the track mixes in organ and percussion, most notably&amp;#xA0;a crash cymbal that rattles across nearly every beat of the climax. Those looking to own the instrumental should seek out last fall&amp;apos;s Echo of Miles, a six-disc collection of rare and unreleased tracks. Those looking to own the instrumental on picture-disc wax&amp;#xA0;should seek out the all-vinyl edition set&amp;#xA0;to be released on May 19th.\r\n&amp;quot;Those who were in attendance and attentive to the intro at a Soundgarden concert during this tour have been the only ones fortunate enough to view and hear &amp;apos;Night Surf,&amp;apos;&amp;quot; guitarist Kim Thayil tells Rolling Stone. &amp;quot;The film had been buried in storage, and only recently was it located, dusted off and remastered for its debut here, online or anywhere.&amp;quot;\r\nBack in 1994, Rolling Stone&amp;apos;s Kim Neely visited Soundgarden&amp;#xA0;to write a cover story documenting their recent record&amp;#xA0;and Paris tour stop. Within a month of Superunknown&amp;apos;s release, the band is already trying to come to terms with its blockbuster success. &amp;quot;That&amp;apos;s the ultimate compliment and the ultimate insult,&amp;quot; Chris Cornell says&amp;#xA0;of claims that the album is the band&amp;apos;s best. &amp;quot;It makes you feel good to hear that, but at the same time, it&amp;apos;s kind of like &amp;apos;Oh, so our other records sucked?&amp;apos;&amp;quot;"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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