Hunter Benedict Shepherd (born September 20, 1968) is an American musician best known as the bassist of rock band Soundgarden. Shepherd has won two Grammy Awards as a member of Soundgarden. [ 1 ]

Mar 8, 2024 · On the line is Ben Shepherd, bassist with Soundgarden, and a man whose speaking voice sounds like Tom Waits were his batteries running down. With a truck driver’s abruptness and heavily creased look, ‘rustic’ would be a good word to describe him.

Aug 22, 2023 · In 2008, the band's storage facility was robbed, and thieves took a recording console, along with a number of guitars and bass guitars belonging to member Ben Shepherd. He was so disheartened and devastated by the theft that he quit playing music for two years.

Dec 15, 2024 · A hearty “Outshined,” the biggest Soundgarden hit they busted out, hit harder than a concrete slab dropped from the top of the Columbia Center, driven home by Shepherd’s commanding vocals.

Dec 15, 2024 · Soundgarden's Kim Thayil, Ben Shepherd, and Matt Cameron have reunited onstage in Seattle to play a short set of Soundgarden songs.

After the departure of Yamamoto and a brief stint by Jason Everman on bass, Ben Shepherd completed what now became the band’s classic lineup and Soundgarden became the first of the new generation of Seattle bands to sign to a major label.

Dec 5, 2024 · The surviving, non-singing members of Soundgarden -- guitarist Kim Thayil, bassist Ben Shepherd and drummer Matt Cameron -- are reuniting under their previous alias Nudedragons.

Ben Shepherd (born Hunter Benedict Shepherd on September 20, 1968) is an American musician, best known as the bass player in the grunge band Soundgarden from 1990 until the band's 1997 break-up. Ben Shepherd first auditioned for the role of bassist in Soundgarden in 1989, to replace Hiro Yamamoto, who had left the band.

Sep 6, 2013 · Ben Shepherd from Seattle survivors Soundgarden on his formative years, on getting the band back together and how he almost joined Nirvana after partying with Kurt Cobain

Ben Shepherd’s debut solo album In Deep Owl is out now. The collection of songs was recorded in the industrial neighborhoods of Georgetown and Interbay in Seattle, WA and was produced by Dave French, Ben Shepherd, Chad MacMurray, and Nathan Yaccino.