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DOWN ON THE LOW SIDE

SOUNDG ARDEN HAD DRAWN attention for their use of alternate tunings prior to the release of 1994's Superunknown. But the album saw the group take the practice to new extremes.

“We started doing these bizarre things on when Ben introduced some open tunings and slide tunings,” Kim] Jeff Ament — it was sort of a joke or a challenge, but Chris tried to see what would happen. It was brilliant. We continued that on .”

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