This Amount of Time
This Amount of Time
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Check out our videos related to the production of "This Amount of Time," a documentary about race relations growing up in Park Forest, IL (former titled "Revisiting Utopia").
Our Park Forest story includes well-known public figures such as social activist and former Chicago Bull Craig Hodges, Soundgarden cofounder and lead guitarist Kim Thayil, Soundgarden cofounder and bassist Hiro Yamamoto, former A&R Representative Tom Zutaut (who discovered Motley Crue and Guns N' Roses), former NCAA Basketball Championship Coach Steve Fisher, Grammy-winning opera singer Dawn Upshaw, many former professional athletes and more!
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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!
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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.
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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
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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.
You TOOK THE WORDS straight OUTTA MY MOUTH www.youtube.com/@KyleKalevra
Soundgarden without Hiro was NOT AS GOOD!
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?
Coming soon!
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 :)
Wow! In Park Forest? What years did he live there?
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.
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Great job with this Phil!! Keep going 💪💪👍
Thanks, Tim!
This is awesome... I couldn't agree more ❤ lived it- Krotiak kid 💪❤️💪👍
Thank you Tim!
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
Thanks J!
A damn shame Hiro Yamamoto left the band, japanese rockers are not only cool but he was good af too.
It is a shame but I've been digging into Ben Shepherd's Bass lines and songs...Ben was a MONSTER bassist! He also brought the crazy tunings and songs like "Jesus Christ Pose" (it was his riff-the verse-that started the jam). Hiro was/is amazing but Ben is SUPER underrated...His bass lines are EXTREMELY complex and creative! Its funny too because I thought of him as just the mean, weird guy in the band (he openly has stated that he was spiraling into mental illness back then).
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.
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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.
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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.
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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!
What years did you live there? In 1973, there were 2,144 Black residents, according to an annual census
Hiro’s band after Soundgarden was rockin’ too. Truly was good 3 piece band
Yes, it had Mark Pickeral who left the Screaming Trees for the same reason as Hiro- didn’t want to do massive touring that major labels require.
Awesome man
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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.
I was lucky enough to meet Hiro ( and Matt Cameron) at the Royal Room in Seattle. He was seriously the nicest dude there, Matt also. Soundgarden has been my favorite band for decades.
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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.
Hiro left to go to college, if I remember correctly. He got a master’s in physical chemistry!
@@ripperplaysclon152I think he just retired. I saw an piece recently.
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It's nice to see Hiro!!! It's only been 30+ years he disappeared.
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Hiro hasn't totally disappeared! Have you heard him featured on Down by the Water by Maki Mae? kzread.info/dash/bejne/e3iq3MZwqNnFodo.html
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maybe i am wrong but most of these punk people seem like hippies to me but maybe i am wrong............
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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.
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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.
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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!
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@@ThisAmountOfTime Will do. I graduated from Marian class of 92. I grew up across from Rich East the corner of Sauk Trail and Indianwood.
@@user-io1hy9il6k I grew up on Shabonna and Minocqua.
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interesting. It's so weird how in America everything is about race.
It is a documentary about race relations growing up in Park Forest, IL.
That's what happens when laws regarding race are part of the founding laws and for hundreds of years of subsequent laws.
That's because it is "the melting pot of the world!"...all races are initially welcomed but when they don't assimilate,they are singled out and ostracized...yes it's strange indeed!
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.
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Yea pretty sure both thayil n Hiro met in Chicago. Maybe their parents wanted out of the intense inter asian dynamics there. Been to both cities and lived in Seattle for awhile. Just typical self loathing Asians who think they are better just cuz they speak American English. N Seattle is a hard city to live in, as you say, gotta live in the suburbs
@@taytyty7444 Interesting perspective on the Seattle Asian community. I went to school with a lot of Asian Americans, didn't sense any self loathing among them. They interacted with the whites the same way they did with each other. As I said, Japanese, Filipino, and Chinese Americans have a long history here in the NW. A lot of the families have been here longer than most of the whites here now. Not sure what time frame you were here, but there definitely have been a lot of migrations here from the Asian continent since 1990 -- Punjabis, Sri Lankans, Taiwanese, and a lot of SE Asians, some of whom are in their second and third generations here by now. They may have a different attitude, although the ones I met during my second go-round in college in the mid 2000's didn't seem to be any different. Just typical Seattle people, really.
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.
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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.
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genius people
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Great interview 👍
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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.
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That was cool. I actually grew up in Park Forest. Interesting interview.
Thanks, Alec! What high school did you go to?
Hey. I was in the Will County section of PF, so I went to Crete-Monee. Most of the town is in Cook Cty. Rich East was our big rival. I believe they actually closed Rich East a few years ago.
@@AlecSmith-jk5mb What year did you graduate? Are you still in the Chicago area? Email me at [email protected], if you prefer. Thanks!
I graduated in 1988. I live in Bradley, about 25 miles south of Park Forest.
So the Seattle local government creates this alternative learning system and it has to be part of the reason for all this creativity to come out of the area. Unbelievable. This is back when our government loved us, and didn't view us as something to bleed and control. We need to get back to being a country like this. How do we do it?
The alternative learning system Hiro and Kim attended was in Park Forest, their hometown, in Illinois.
@@ThisAmountOfTime oh wow, i missed that
Lol
Evergreen self destructed from its woke nonsense good riddance