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Chris Cornell dead at 52 (1 Viewer)

I'm sure this has been said many times, but a comment from my FB page:

Chris Cornell, Layne Staley, Andy Wood, Kurt Cobain, Scott Weiland, Shannon Hoon ... Eddie Vedder should probably go get a checkup.
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I'm stunned by this news.  :(  His voice is one of my favorites among all singers in any genre. May he rest in peace. 

 
Evilgrin 72 said:
True story: I learned that OJ Simpson was on the run from the law in a white Bronco from Chris Cornell. I thought he was f**king with me when he told me. 
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I'm in the dark...unpack why you were running around with Cornell.

And yeah, this is no bueno.  Sick range.  Was on Zac Brown's last studio album, and I absolutely LOVED his James Bond theme.   He's been great in every band that ever was lucky enough to have him.

 
Wow. Can't believe this one. Saw them a few times in concert. One of the great rock voices left. Always viewed him as a survivor of that scene. Sad

 
Saw Soundgarden in a small bar in Albany when they opened up for Living Color way back in the 80's.  Heaviest show I ever saw. They were acid rock back then and there wasn't a whole lot of singing.  It is by far the most memorable show I have ever been to.  He was my favorite rock vocalist. RIP.

 
Franknbeans said:
Saw Soundgarden in a small bar in Albany when they opened up for Living Color way back in the 80's.  Heaviest show I ever saw. They were acid rock back then and there wasn't a whole lot of singing.  It is by far the most memorable show I have ever been to.  He was my favorite rock vocalist. RIP.
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Mine too

 
MarvinTScamper said:
I'm in the dark...unpack why you were running around with Cornell.

And yeah, this is no bueno.  Sick range.  Was on Zac Brown's last studio album, and I absolutely LOVED his James Bond theme.   He's been great in every band that ever was lucky enough to have him.
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Yes

 
Dinsy Ejotuz said:
I'm sure this has been said many times, but a comment from my FB page:

Chris Cornell, Layne Staley, Andy Wood, Kurt Cobain, Scott Weiland, Shannon Hoon ... Eddie Vedder should probably go get a checkup.
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Seeing them all lined up like that, it's like the late 60s/early 70s are replaying all over again.

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Nothing pithy to say. Cornell is a huge loss ... an artist who was still vibrant and had much to share. Recquiescat in pace.

 
Saw him in all his incarnations (really glad I got to see the TOTD show at MSG).  Definitely got more comfortable on stage as time progressed, but always crushed it vocally.  This just sucks and once again reminds me that this is going to occur more and more as I get f'n older myself...RIP CC... :sadbanana:

 
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Loved that Mmmmmm.Mmmmmmm.Mmmmmmm.Mmmmmmm song he did about the boy who had an accident and couldn't go to school. Shame, IIRC...Eddie Vedder's the only one left from the 90s grunge sound. 

 
McGarnicle said:
Suicide seems even less likely to me than an accidental OD. It's dumb to presume to know someone you've only seen perform, but WTF, the guy seemed so happy and full of life. And that article now says the police call it an "apparent" suicide, so that's as close as you get to a confirmation at this point. JFC what a waste. :(  
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He was last night man, he really was. I know Detroit gets a lot of crap but he was pumped when the show started. He mentioned how he had loved coming to Detroit for 30 years near the start of the show and how he couldn't wait to come back again near end of show. He brought out full vocals for Outshined...so good it seemed like his album version voice. I thought he was in amazing shape for early 50's. The long hair, the plain gray t-shirt...just perfect grunge attire for the show.

I know no one cares about this but on a personal note I was gambling at MGM casino pre-concert last night. I also parked there since it was free parking (most parked in the ramp next to Fox Theater). The hotel he died in was within MGM casino. I walked back to the casino my car after the show....hell, there's a chance we were entering the casino around the same as I got back to my car. Super creeped out by all of this.

 
Cornell was at the heart of two of my all-time favorite memories/experiences:

First, I moved to Seattle the day I graduated from college, and the night I drove into town, I went down to Seattle Center (where the Space Needle is) to just be down there and check out the new city. There's an outdoor soccer stadium there and as I walk up, I hear Cornell's voice just booming out over everything and I walk in free to my first Soundgarden show. A night I'll never forget.

Then, at PJ 20 in Alpine Valley, there were all the rumors swirling that Cornell would be there. We stayed at the resort right at the concert venue and got there the night before it all started, as did a bunch of other fans. We all sat out in the parking lot of the resort chilling and having a good time when the various sound checks started up a few hundred yards away. You couldn't see anything, but you could hear it all. Finally PJ gets up there and starts doing a couple songs when all of the sudden... Hunger Strike starts up and Cornell is there. One of the greatest nights ever.

 
Damn.  One of my favorite vocalists in rock music.  In the world of music--not many people have voices and sounds that are clearly unique and recognizable.  Cornell was one of the rare musicians who had this rare combination.  RIP

Edit: I see that some posters are posting fun/great memories about Cornell.  This is more of a funny memory that I have. Being that I'm from Southern Cali--I remember when the Audioslave video for Cochise was in the news out here because people in the area were reporting possible explosions or a terrorist attack.   It was just the massive amount of pyrotechnics used in the video. 

 
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BeTheMatch said:
Cornell was at the heart of two of my all-time favorite memories/experiences:

First, I moved to Seattle the day I graduated from college, and the night I drove into town, I went down to Seattle Center (where the Space Needle is) to just be down there and check out the new city. There's an outdoor soccer stadium there and as I walk up, I hear Cornell's voice just booming out over everything and I walk in free to my first Soundgarden show. A night I'll never forget.

Then, at PJ 20 in Alpine Valley, there were all the rumors swirling that Cornell would be there. We stayed at the resort right at the concert venue and got there the night before it all started, as did a bunch of other fans. We all sat out in the parking lot of the resort chilling and having a good time when the various sound checks started up a few hundred yards away. You couldn't see anything, but you could hear it all. Finally PJ gets up there and starts doing a couple songs when all of the sudden... Hunger Strike starts up and Cornell is there. One of the greatest nights ever.
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I'm amazed at how well their voices play together in Hunger Strike, seeing it live blew me away.

 
McGarnicle said:
Suicide seems even less likely to me than an accidental OD. It's dumb to presume to know someone you've only seen perform, but WTF, the guy seemed so happy and full of life. And that article now says the police call it an "apparent" suicide, so that's as close as you get to a confirmation at this point. JFC what a waste. :(  
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Robin Williams seemed pretty happy too.

Man, suicide sucks major donkey balls.

RIP Chris Cornell

 
Chris Cornell, Layne Staley, Andy Wood, Kurt Cobain, Scott Weiland, Shannon Hoon ... Eddie Vedder should probably go get a checkup.
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Suicide?, overdose, overdose, suicide, overdose, overdose. F**ked up when you type it out like that.

 
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MarvinTScamper said:
I'm in the dark...unpack why you were running around with Cornell.

And yeah, this is no bueno.  Sick range.  Was on Zac Brown's last studio album, and I absolutely LOVED his James Bond theme.   He's been great in every band that ever was lucky enough to have him.
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I wasn't (unfortunately) running around with him, but he did give me that news.

The night OJ went on the run, Soundgarden was playing the New York State Armory in Manhattan.  I was at the show with my then-girlfriend, her best friend and my best friend.  The Knicks were playing the Rockets (IIRC) in the NBA Finals that night and as the show wore on, Chris was giving occasional score updates from the stage to the delight or dismay of the largely pro-Knicks crowd.  My lingering memory from that show is that the place was packed and had no A/C, it was roughly 136 degrees in there.  Soundgarden played for about 2 hours, I think they played Superunknown in its entirety, and towards the end of the show, I thought I'd die of dehydration.  Clearly, my countenance belied my condition because right near the end of the show, I felt a tap on the shoulder and turned around to see one of the sound guys holding an ice cold bottle of Heineken out, prompting me to take it.  You know you have to look like you're on your last legs for one of the board ops to single me out in a huge crowd and say : "This guy needs a beer."  I think it took me 8 seconds to drink it, down from the normal 14.  Still the best beer I've ever had.

Fast forward an hour later and we're headed back to my buddy's car to drive back to NJ when he realizes he's locked his keys in the car in the parking garage.  Great.  So, we head out to find a pay phone to call a 24 hour locksmith and we come upon Soundgarden's tour bus.  Cornell is standing just outside the door.  Quickly, I try to think of something to say to him rather than just geeking out and looking like a dork, so I walk over and say : "Hey, who's winning the game?"  He replies (paraphrased): "I don't know, they've got news on every channel.  Apparently OJ Simpson killed 2 people and now is running from the police in LA and they're broadcasting it live."  It was so off-the-wall that I just laughed and said thanks and walked on.  I figured he just had an odd sense of humor, it never occurred to me that he might be telling me the truth, it was so outlandish.

Fast forward a couple hours and we get back to NJ and arrive at my other friend's house, who is having a party.  I walk in expecting to hear music, people bonging beers, etc.. and everyone is crowded into the living room watching the news...  :lol:

 
Evilgrin 72 said:
True story: I learned that OJ Simpson was on the run from the law in a white Bronco from Chris Cornell. I thought he was f**king with me when he told me. 
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Were you at the show at the Armory in NYC?

I was going with a group of friends to see them that night and we were pre-gaming at one's apartment watching the Knicks game when the OJ Bronco chase news broke in. We were fascinated of course and didn't want to leave but popped a tape in the VCR and left (watched the rest of he chase afterwards).

That show was insane as the Armory did not have air-conditioning. It was 95 degrees outside and about 120+ inside. People were constantly being carried out from exhaustion/dehydration. I remember leaving and it was still 90 plus outside but I got goosebumps as it seemed cold.

My buddy Jeb, threw his Gamecocks (it said "COCKS" in big bold letter) cap up onstage when Tad (opening band) was performing and the lead singer put it on. His sister saw them a few days later down south and he was wearing the cap.

RIP Chris. He was a unique talent and Soundgarden was a hell of a band. Also saw them open up for Neil Young and Crazy Horse and Guns N' Roses on two other occasions.

 
Kilgore Trout said:
Suicide?, overdose, overdose, suicide, overdose, overdose. F**d up when you type it out like that.
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A lot of times, I think musicians that really resonate with disenfranchised youth do so because they have their own very real demons and can draw from that in their music.  Once they become successful, some people think that means all their problems are over but you can't buy your way out of clinical depression.  I get annoyed when I hear people say things like : "What is this guy (whining/so pissed off) about?  You're a millionaire, you're famous...why are you so angry?"  A lot of times, these people have real problems that becoming wealthy or famous does not allay.  Sometimes it may even exacerbate the issue (Cobain comes to mind.)

 
Clayton Gray said:
Agreed except for Cornell. Only Vedder passing early would be more shocking.
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Yeah, you'd think once you cross into your 50s, you've figured out enough that you don't make that mistake.  I have a buddy who's dad took his own life when he was 18.  I've told it before - he found him hanging from the rafters in their basement with a rope.  Had to lift him down and remove the rope before his little brother and sister came down.   His dad was late 40s...like wtf?

 
Dr. Octopus said:
Were you at the show at the Armory in NYC?

I was going with a group of friends to see them that night and we were pre-gaming at one's apartment watching the Knicks game when the OJ Bronco chase news broke in. We were fascinated of course and didn't want to leave but popped a tape in the VCR and left (watched the rest of he chase afterwards).

That show was insane as the Armory did not have air-conditioning. It was 95 degrees outside and about 120+ inside. People were constantly being carried out from exhaustion/dehydration. I remember leaving and it was still 90 plus outside but I got goosebumps as it seemed cold.

My buddy Jeb, threw his Gamecocks (it said "COCKS" in big bold letter) cap up onstage when Tad (opening band) was performing and the lead singer put it on. His sister saw them a few days later down south and he was wearing the cap.

RIP Chris. He was a unique talent and Soundgarden was a hell of a band. Also saw them open up for Neil Young and Crazy Horse and Guns N' Roses on two other occasions.
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You were DEFINITELY at that show.

I had no idea what was going on with OJ, we left hours before the show to head up to the city, so the first I heard of it was when Cornell told me.

 
Evilgrin 72 said:
A lot of times, I think musicians that really resonate with disenfranchised youth do so because they have their own very real demons and can draw from that in their music.  Once they become successful, some people think that means all their problems are over but you can't buy your way out of clinical depression.  I get annoyed when I hear people say things like : "What is this guy (whining/so pissed off) about?  You're a millionaire, you're famous...why are you so angry?"  A lot of times, these people have real problems that becoming wealthy or famous does not allay.  Sometimes it may even exacerbate the issue (Cobain comes to mind.)
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Unfortunately, musicians are wired differently from the "normal" folks.  They tend to be weird souls that think oddly and struggle with life.  As EG pointed out, it does not matter if they are rich or famous.  They are always miserable and must feel like they do not belong in this world.   

I was not a big fan of SG or Audioslave.  Superunknown was pretty cool but I only listened to those bands because of Cornell's voice.  He had a fantastic rock & roll voice and did come across as a cool rock star.  Awful that he took his own life if that is the case.    RIP dude. 

 
DocHolliday said:
Unfortunately, musicians are wired differently from the "normal" folks.  They tend to be weird souls that think oddly and struggle with life.  As EG pointed out, it does not matter if they are rich or famous.  They are always miserable and must feel like they do not belong in this world.   

I was not a big fan of SG or Audioslave.  Superunknown was pretty cool but I only listened to those bands because of Cornell's voice.  He had a fantastic rock & roll voice and did come across as a cool rock star.  Awful that he took his own life if that is the case.    RIP dude. 
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not just musicians.  ALL right brain types.  Writers, performers, artists, painters, anything where you create content out of your synapses.   The ones firing ALL the time, or differently enough to attract attention seem to be the ones we lose.

Van Gogh cut his own ear off, many a great comedian died the same way.

 
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DocHolliday said:
Unfortunately, musicians are wired differently from the "normal" folks.  They tend to be weird souls that think oddly and struggle with life.  As EG pointed out, it does not matter if they are rich or famous.  They are always miserable and must feel like they do not belong in this world.   
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There is a certain auora of existentialism to most grunge era writers in particular.  

 
BeTheMatch said:
Cornell was at the heart of two of my all-time favorite memories/experiences:

First, I moved to Seattle the day I graduated from college, and the night I drove into town, I went down to Seattle Center (where the Space Needle is) to just be down there and check out the new city. There's an outdoor soccer stadium there and as I walk up, I hear Cornell's voice just booming out over everything and I walk in free to my first Soundgarden show. A night I'll never forget.

Then, at PJ 20 in Alpine Valley, there were all the rumors swirling that Cornell would be there. We stayed at the resort right at the concert venue and got there the night before it all started, as did a bunch of other fans. We all sat out in the parking lot of the resort chilling and having a good time when the various sound checks started up a few hundred yards away. You couldn't see anything, but you could hear it all. Finally PJ gets up there and starts doing a couple songs when all of the sudden... Hunger Strike starts up and Cornell is there. One of the greatest nights ever.
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It was a magical night...and they ran it back again the next night.  While PJ20 was a few years ago, I have to imagine those two nights had alot to do with the Temple reunion shows last year.  Wish I could have made one.

 
Tom Skerritt said:
In college, I had this song on repeat. One of my all-time favorites. Gonna listen to this all day.
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They closed their main set with that song at the show I was just talking about, if memory serves.  I know they played it, I had always really liked the song but after seeing it live that night, I LOVED it.  The part where the distorted guitars kick in about half way through rattled the walls of that venue.  GD, they were amazing.  I've seen them many times, but they never sounded better than inside that sauna in 1994.

 
Evilgrin 72 said:
You were DEFINITELY at that show.

I had no idea what was going on with OJ, we left hours before the show to head up to the city, so the first I heard of it was when Cornell told me.
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It was a night that I always remember for all the confluence of events. Yeah I was living in Hoboken so four of us PATH trained it in and we had a friend who had an apartment a few blocks away so went there to watch the start of the Knicks game and down a few beers. It was surreal to see the OJ chase and then walk into the hottest ####### place I've ever been. One of my buddies left after Tad played due to the heat and wanting to walk to a local bar to continue watching the OJ cahse but the rest stuck it out. It was a great show even though, like you we were all so drained afterwards.

One other time we saw them was at the Garden State Art Center in NJ and it was Blind Melon, SoundGarden and Neil Young and Crazy Horse - the same buddy Jeb was running around the venue the whole time wearing a kilt (which garnered a ton of attention of course). Old Man Neil outlived Hoon and Connell, surreal.

Very sad news. 

 
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Also, anyone out there who loves metal (Clayton...) has probably annoyed the crap out a bar at one point or another by putting music you like on a jukebox.  I'ver had a number of bars turn the volume down during my jukebox selections and heard a few displeased groans in my day, but only once have I ever been unceremoniously cut off, and it was Soundgarden that did it.  I forget the name of the bar, but it was in Hoboken, NJ and I put "Limo Wreck" in the jukebox.  Of all Soundgarden songs, maybe the one LEAST conducive to pleasing a drinking crowd, it's such an intense dirge of a song.

It got to about the 3:30 mark (this place had the juke up LOUD too) before the bartender came out from behind the bar and yanked the plug out of the wall to a smattering of applause from some bar patrons.  Only time I've ever had that happen and it wasn't Slayer, Pantera, or Metallica, it was Soundgarden.

 
Dr. Octopus said:
It was a night that I always remember for all the confluence of events. Yeah I was living in Hoboken so four of us PATH trained it in and we had a friend who had an apartment a few blocks away so went there to watch the start of the Knicks game and down a few beers. It was surreal to see the OJ chase and then walk into the hottest ####### place I've ever been. One of my buddies left after Tad played due to the heat and wanting to walk to a local bar to continue watching the OJ cahse but the rest stuck it out. It was a great show even though, like you we were all so drained afterwards.

One other time we saw them was at the Garden State Art Center in NJ and it was Blind Melon, SoundGarden and Neil Young and Crazy Horse - the same buddy Jeb was running around the venue the whole time wearing a kilt (which garnered a ton of attention of course).

Very sad news. 
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:thumbup: I was at that show at GSAC too.

I've been to over a thousand club shows in some of the smallest, dingiest rock clubs from CBGB to places in Texas, Utah, Wyoming, Idaho, California, even in Hawaii.  That was the hottest venue I have ever been in, hands down.  There's no way to really accurately describe to anyone who wasn't there just how insane that was.  I described it as "roughly 136 degrees" and I'm sure people chuckled at the exaggeration, but it probably isn't even that far off.

 
Evilgrin 72 said:
Also, anyone out there who loves metal (Clayton...) has probably annoyed the crap out a bar at one point or another by putting music you like on a jukebox.  I'ver had a number of bars turn the volume down during my jukebox selections and heard a few displeased groans in my day, but only once have I ever been unceremoniously cut off, and it was Soundgarden that did it.  I forget the name of the bar, but it was in Hoboken, NJ and I put "Limo Wreck" in the jukebox.  Of all Soundgarden songs, maybe the one LEAST conducive to pleasing a drinking crowd, it's such an intense dirge of a song.

It got to about the 3:30 mark (this place had the juke up LOUD too) before the bartender came out from behind the bar and yanked the plug out of the wall to a smattering of applause from some bar patrons.  Only time I've ever had that happen and it wasn't Slayer, Pantera, or Metallica, it was Soundgarden.
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My favorite shtick when leaving a bar was to always load up the juke box with the worst songs they had

 
Screaming Life/Fopp was my first Sub Pop record, which might have been more important in getting me into indie music than the man himself. Ultramega OK was the next, immediately the next week.  

Kim Thayil and Chris Cornell were never greater than Ultramega OK and Louder Than Love.  

Great records. Great, great chops. RIP. 

 
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