According to WENN.com, the SOUNDGARDEN reunion could not have come at a better time for bassist Ben Shepherd, who confessed he's broke and "technically homeless".

In an interview with Spin magazine, Shepherd admits he has been sleeping at friends' homes after breaking up with his girlfriend.

He tells the publication, "I've been sleeping on studio couches and at friends' houses. I'm totally broke."

But Shepherd, 41, admits his current predicament is nothing compared to the low he experienced when Soundgarden split in the late 1990s.

He recalls, "My whole life seemed over. Soundgarden broke up; my other band, HATER, broke up; my fiancee broke up with me, and then I broke three ribs. I got addicted to pain pills, drank a ton, and wound up OD'ing on morphine. I was laid out in my house for five days, and no one knew it. It was a fucking horrible time."

On September 28th, Soundgarden will be releasing a new two-CD/one-DVD retrospective called Telephantasm. It includes songs from all of their albums and EPs, including 'Black Rain', an unreleased track from the Badmotorfinger sessions. Check out the track at this location.

Telephantasm tracklisitng:

Disc: 1

'All Your Lies'

'Hunted Down'

'Fopp'

'Beyond The Wheel'

'Flower' (BBC Session)*

'Hands All Over'

'Big Dumb Sex'

'Get On The Snake' (Live)

'Room A Thousand Years Wide' (Single Version)*

'Rusty Cage'

'Outshined'

'Slaves & Bulldozers'

Disc: 2

'Jesus Christ Pose' (Live)

'Birth Ritual

'My Wave

'Superunknown

'Spoonman

'Black Hole Sun

'Fell On Black Days (Video Version)

'Burden In My Hand

'Dusty

'Pretty Noose (Live on SNL)*

'Blow Up The Outside World (MTV Live `N' Loud)*

'Black Rain'

Disc: 3

'Flower'

'Hands All Over'

'Loud Love'

'Jesus Christ Pose' (Original Version)

'Outshined'

'Rusty Cage'

'My Wave'

'Spoonman'

'The Day I Tried To Live' (Uncensored)

'Black Hole Sun'

'Fell On Black Days'

'Pretty Noose' (Uncensored)

'Burden In My Hand'

'Blow Up The Outside World' (Uncensored)

'Spoonman' (Mash-up Version)

'The Day I Tried To Live' (European Version)

'Superunknown'

'Pretty Noose' (International Version)

'Pretty Noose' (Alternate Ending)

'Blow Up The Outside World' (Censored)