I hope this is fake news about Chris Cornell
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Soundgarden is one of my favorite bands. The only time I saw them was in 1990 at the Cuban Club in Tampa. They were supporting the Louder Than Love album.
Very sad. A friend wanted me to go see them in Atlanta a couple weeks ago and I wasn't up for it. Kind of wish I had gone now.
Yeah, just saw that on the news and reported by his publicist, so not fake. 52...man. Did he have a drug history like the rest of the Seattle musicians? Never came across like that to me.
Being reported as suicide.
Sources tell Local 4 Cornell's wife called a family friend and asked him to check on the singer. That friend forced open the hotel room door where Cornell was found dead in the bathroom with something around his neck.
http://www.clickondetroit.com/news/rocker-chris-cornell-has-died-at-age-52-in-detroit
Sources tell Local 4 Cornell's wife called a family friend and asked him to check on the singer. That friend forced open the hotel room door where Cornell was found dead in the bathroom with something around his neck.
http://www.clickondetroit.com/news/rocker-chris-cornell-has-died-at-age-52-in-detroit
Second best voice to me behind Peter Steele, another muscian lost way too early.
What a talent. Here he is singing Nothing Compares 2 U.
Man, I literally just saw him at Rockville a couple of weeks ago.
Dude had some pipes. Such an influential person in the rock world. Audioslave, Soundgarden, Temple of the Dog, he will be missed.
Damn that sucks. Hopefully it is not suicide but sadly either that or OD would be the likely cause
Temple of the Dog had a great song called Times of Trouble, that basically was saying don't killl yourself. That you can't take it back. Sad.
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Andy Wood( Mother Love Bone), Curt Cobain( Nirvana), Lane Staley( Alice In Chains), Scott Weiland( Stone Temple Pilots) and now Chris Cornell( Sound Garden)
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Let's slow down a bit. The Melvins (originators of the whole sound and movement) are still together and Buzz Osborne is still alive. Ditto with the Mudhoney and Mark Arm.
No love for STP and Scott Weiland? STP and Soundgarden were my two favorites out of Seattle.
STP were a California band and never really grunge. They got lumped in because of timing and their first album had some grunge elements to it.
The Melvins were very influential to the movement, but not anymore originators than Mother Love Bone.
I should have added STP and will edit. They were not from the Seattle area though.
I thought they definitely had a grunge sound and would be considered Grunge. They were not from Seattle though like you said
"Plush" was probably responsible for that. Sounded a bit like Weiland impersonating Eddie Vedder.
Melvins started literally five years before Mother Love Bone and their first major album was five years before Mother Love Bone's. There was even a movie made about the Melvin's creation of the Seattle music scene 3 years before Mother Love Bone was in existence. Buzz Osborne literally created Nirvana as we know it by introducing Kurt Cobaine to Dave Grohl as Nirvana and the Melvins shared the same drummer early on.
Like many originators, I don't consider the Melvins the best of the bunch as the followers are frequently better musicians, but they are definitely the parents of the Seattle grunge movement.
Guess that's why you shouldn't trust the ole memory. I remember them being very intertwined with the movement even if not from there.
Will be putting Temple of the Dog on Spotify repeat today.
I heard this at 6am this morning by a frieND of mine that has collaborated on music with him.
Last night's performance of Black Hole Sun - I'm not sure if that's his normal style these days but he seems kind of out of it.
I'm going to see Band of Horses tonight in Tallahassee. So excited for the show!
Given that they're both Seattle acts (Band of Horses and Chris Cornell), even if they don't really have much in common, I imagine we'll get a tribute song of some sort. I wish I knew CC's catalog better, but I confess I really only know his hits.
Given that they're both Seattle acts (Band of Horses and Chris Cornell), even if they don't really have much in common, I imagine we'll get a tribute song of some sort. I wish I knew CC's catalog better, but I confess I really only know his hits.
Bummer. Many hours playing RoadRash listening to Outshined, Rusty Cage and Super Unknown.
