“After I got the call about the Guns N’ Roses tour, I went to where they were,” Soundgarden’s former manager, Susan Silver, explained in Mark Yarm’s oral history of the Seattle grunge scene, Everybody Loves Our Town. “I remember walking in, I had a box of T-shirts, I was so excited: ‘Hey guys! I have something to tell you! We got an offer today… to go… on tour… WITH GUNS N’ ROSES!” They didn’t say a word. After about 30 seconds – it felt like an eternity – one of them said, ‘What’s in the box?”
“I’m a punk rocker, man,” Shepherd added in the book. “I like Black Flag and way more hardcore stuff. That kind of butt rock, I don’t like. I want nothing to do with that kind of world. I’m not a rock star, I don’t like rock stars, and I don’t want to be around them… the tour was a full-on metal extravaganza.”
Soundgarden drummer Matt Cameron said that there were a few times on the tour that people were nervous “a riot was going to happen” after he claimed Guns ‘N Roses frontman, Axl Rose, threatened to break the band up while they were performing. By the end of the tour, Rose was allegedly unhappy with how things were unfolding and he began referring to Soundgarden as “Frowngarden.”
“Why’d we get called Frowngarden? Because we weren’t party monsters,” Shepherd assumed. “We weren’t motherf--king rock stars. We were not like that. We were there to play music. We weren’t there for the models and the cocaine. We were there to blow your doors off.”
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