"The name Soundgarden was evocative, and it was among a...

"The name Soundgarden was evocative, and it was among a list of names we were thinking of. A Sound Garden was a three-word name for a metal sound-sculpture on a beach here in Seattle. We derived the name from there, but we never were paying homage to the sculpture, never. Just liked the word garden as an element in a name. It's visually evocative and it's not overtly metal or punk or anything. It doesn't type us. A year later, we thought maybe we should change Soundgarden to Sungarden or...