The tour started and Soundgarden were unfailingly kind and supportive toward me, even if their audience was uninterested in me and the music I was playing. I was playing a very loud, fast punk-rock and heavy-metal set, but in the eyes of most Europeans I was a techno musician, even when I wasn’t playing techno. Night after night I’d play to Soundgarden’s European fans, who sat or stood, dismissive and bored. They were there to see the last Seattle rock gods standing, not a newly bald techno guy who’d decided to make a lo-fi punk-rock record with a drum machine.
