{"id":597735,"date":"2026-08-19T04:40:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-19T04:40:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/597735\/"},"modified":"2026-08-19T04:40:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T04:40:11","slug":"hiro-yamamoto-talks-soundgarden-beginnings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/597735\/","title":{"rendered":"Hiro Yamamoto talks Soundgarden beginnings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SEATTLE \u2014 This November, Seattle-based Soundgarden will be inducted into the Rock &amp; Roll Hall of Fame.<\/p>\n<p>KOMO News Anchor Holly Menino spoke with bassist and founding member Hiro Yamamoto.<\/p>\n<p>He talks about how he, Chris Cornell, and Kim Thayil started the punk rock band and what it was like to be a pioneer of the grunge movement.<\/p>\n<p>He shares why he left and the interests he pursued after leaving Soundgarden.<\/p>\n<p>He also talks about the honor it is to be inducted into the Rock &amp; Roll Hall of Fame and how being inducted into the Asian Hall of Fame spearheaded him to get his music career going again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SEATTLE \u2014 This November, Seattle-based Soundgarden will be inducted into the Rock &amp; Roll Hall of Fame. KOMO&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":597736,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[93,61,60,278],"class_list":["post-597735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597735","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=597735"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597735\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/597736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=597735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=597735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=597735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}