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My Uncle Rick was the one that was teaching the hang glider! And Kim's mother was arguably my favorite teacher at Westwood Jr. High.

Great interview 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

nice work Phil!

I Remember Looking At A Picture Of Kim With His Arms Around Hiro And Initially Feeling Awkward But Then I Thought I Use To Hold My Little Brother Like That As A Kid Cuz I Loved Him So Much.

Musicians, for the most part are ant-racist. It was all about, "can you play?" If you can, regardless, you were in the club.

Those guitars: Kim’s Polara, Cornell’s Gibson and Ben Shepherd’s Mexican Fender Pbass

Hiro is one of my biggest musical influences. Ultramega and Louder are two of the greatest albums ever recorded ,and his work on them was amazing. I can still, 30 something years later, play every track.

I know its a lot of pressure, but can u guys save music? Thanks.

This presentation was a program of the Park Forest Historical Society.

Soundgarden are the high-water mark of human civilization. Love you guys. Great vid, thanks :)

Good job. More proof for me that you’d be a great narrator for the film.

where"s the whole film available?

This is great! Well done! Even though I was only in Park Forest from 8th grade through high school (Class of '81), living there created a solid foundation that I've carried with me ever since. When we were moving to the suburbs from the country, my parents gave my brother and I the option to go to Homewood Flossmoor High School or Rich East High School. My brother and I chose Rich East. One of the best decisions I ever made -- hands down.

My father in law grew up with Kim :)

I lived in Park Forest between 1964-1977 and went to Algonquin Elementary. I can't wait to see the full documentary The trailer is very moving and brings back so many memories. Thanks so much for bringing our community to the attention of the rest of the world.

Great job with this Phil!! Keep going 💪💪👍

This is awesome... I couldn't agree more ❤ lived it- Krotiak kid 💪❤️💪👍

in group racial preference by non-whites

Hiro Yamamoto's post Soundgarden band....TRULY were excellent! Their 1st album - Fast Stories...from Kid Coma...is an amazing LP!!! Check it out!

Great job Phil

A damn shame Hiro Yamamoto left the band, japanese rockers are not only cool but he was good af too.

In an era where it's a thing to try to look pass ones ethic identity it was these guys face card that made me give them a listen. Luckily they were outstanding in creating a Rock Sound that was uniquely them,& backing one of the best frontmen/songwriters in Rock's History.

I first saw a review of Soundgarden’s UltraMega OK with a rooftop pic of the band and Cornell was so tan I thought that Matt Cameron was the only white guy in the group.😂 Being a person of color, I gravitated to Soundgarden for Hiro and Kim- plus they were an amazing band.

I always wondered what happened to soundgarden's original bassist...I've never seen a pic of Kim without a beard! 🤣🤘

Soundgarden is OK. TRULY IS CULT! ❤

Thanks for sharing your story and our Rocket roots, Kim! We didn't realize it it that the time, but Park Forest was a special place to come of age. Programs like ALPS are needed more than ever today to inspire our young artists and future leaders. Cheers to you you and yours and thanks for paying it forward with your inspirational words.

not only did I know Kim, I used to be mistaken for him . PF was so white- I'm african american and Italian. The other guy was a Russian Jew. The three of us WERE the ethnic comnity!

Hiro’s band after Soundgarden was rockin’ too. Truly was good 3 piece band

Awesome man

It's great to see (and hear) Hiro. I was introduced to Soundgarden via their first two records, and much like Living Colour with Muzz Skillings, I love what came after but my heart is still where it was before. I thought his playing and writing added another dimension, with "No Wrong No Right" my favorite.

Good to see Hiro! I wish you would have stayed with the boys.

Glad they’re still friends. You wonder how that stuff shakes out sometimes since Hiro (if the stories are to be believed) just up and quit in them as they were on the verge of breaking the big time. It’s also something to wonder how they would have sounded if he stayed in the group, given Ben’s musical contributions were significant. Thanks for this.

It's nice to see Hiro!!! It's only been 30+ years he disappeared.

LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE

maybe i am wrong but most of these punk people seem like hippies to me but maybe i am wrong............

Not easy to be non-white in a notoriously racist country. And still, they managed to be one of the greatest rock bands in history while being themselves to the last bit. I have enormous admiration for these guys.

This is great. I, too, grew up in Park Forest and attended ALPS, though later (1980-82) than Kim and Hiro. ALPS was formative for so many of us; hoping a talented documentary maker undertakes a “Revisiting ALPS” project.

This is awesome. I grew up in Park Forest and had no idea how influential my home town was on the music I listen to. Thanks for sharing!

⚒️🪨Metal!!! 👹

interesting. It's so weird how in America everything is about race.

That's a Hiro,dude used to sang Circle of Power

One thing about Seattle that maybe isn't well known in other regions is that in the 1960s-1980s there were, and are, a lot of Asian Americans in the area, as many Asian American families had fairly long histories in the region, with many families even dating back to the 1930's or so. My suburban high school was maybe 25-30% Japanese and/or Chinese American, with a lot of Filipino Americans in the region as well. So, although the idea of Asian Americans making rock music wasn't super common, it also wasn't exactly a strange thing here either. Soundgarden, of course, was probably the first 'big' band from the city scene that had Asian Americans in prominent positions in the band. Interesting interview. Thanks for posting it.

This video is so cool. I've not seen this aspect of Soundgarden's character talked about before. I am from the UK, and was only a child when Soundgarden had already split up the first time. As a teenager, I ventured for the first time into the music section of the store where I would previously buy only video games, and checked out my first ever Soundgarden record. The photo on the sleeve of a band with an Indian guy and a Japanese guy looked so exotic, I knew just from this that the music must be coming from a unique place. Soon I started listening to a lot of '80s and '90s indie rock and hip-hop, when the indie rock bands were white and the hip-hop bands were black. As identity politics became more prevalent in the 2000s, there seemed to be a backlash as well. "Who cares what they look like? It's only the music that matters." But I always heard Eastern influences in Soundgarden's music, in the unusual rhythms and the droning guitars. Whatever the truth was, Soundgarden had an image as distinctive as their music, and they both rocked.

If I'd only known! As a kid from Seattle, I grew up spending my summers in Mt. Prospect, just outside of Chicago. Granted, these guys are a couple of years older than I am, but not that much. I could've learned so much from them! At least to a degree, in a way, I have.

genius people

Great interview 👍

I grew up in Olympia, Washington and got to play records at the TESC's KAOS radio station a few times. I saw an early version of Nirvana at a house party and I swear I saw Chris Cornell there. I went to a bunch of punk rock shows around Olympia when I was in high school. Not only that, my dad was a logger just like Kim mentioned, the stories of life in the PNW are something else.

That was cool. I actually grew up in Park Forest. Interesting interview.