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posted on 5-18-2017 at 02:01 PM
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posted on 5-18-2017 at 02:15 PM
This one hurts. I loved Soundgarden so much.
Paddlefoot
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posted on 5-18-2017 at 02:58 PM
Goddamn it. Way too young and too much left for him to do.
[Edited on 5/18/2017 by Paddlefoot]
You know, everyone says it's not supposed to make sense, like that's the whole point, dude. And I'm just saying, you know,
that's like an excuse for lazy storytelling. Just don't sell me shite and tell me it's gold, all right? I might be stoned, but
I'm not high. You know what I mean?
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anglefan85
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posted on 5-18-2017 at 03:16 PM
Say hello to Heaven, Chris Cornell. Rest in peace.
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posted on 5-18-2017 at 03:37 PM
Very sad... one of the best voices in Rock. He went way too young.
williamssl
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posted on 5-18-2017 at 03:51 PM
Fuck. Fuck. Fuck. This one hurts like no other I can remember.
Soundgarden
Temple of the Dog
Audioslave
His amazing solo stuff spanning 4 albums, 5 if you count the live acoustic one.
Will post more later. Don't want to be "crying guy on the bus"
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denverpunk
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posted on 5-18-2017 at 04:46 PM
An amazing version of their best song. What a voice.
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posted on 5-18-2017 at 04:59 PM
Yeah this one sucks. Soundgarden was amazing when I was in junior high/high school... and then he comes out and forms Audioslave which was the shit
for me when I was in college. Plus, I cared about that band about a bazillion times more than I ever cared about Rage, and all because of how good
Cornell was. Damn.
Is everyone mad here?
Of course they are, and you are too... otherwise, you wouldn't have come here.
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posted on 5-18-2017 at 07:20 PM
Unlike all my friends that were into Pearl Jam, Alice In Chains and especially Soundgarden were much more my, uh, jam of that era of the Seattle
Sound.
The last ride.....
Man, he still had....it.
"It will happen when it happens and not a moment before." - Me
Suicide by hanging. His wife has stated he showed no signs of being suicidal. Depression fucking sucks.
anglefan85
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posted on 5-18-2017 at 07:55 PM
Cornell...why? Why would you do such a thing?
How much pain were you suffering from?
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"Kurt Angle is like a living vortex of the surreal. On the off chance he's not doing, saying or thinking crazy things, people connected to him
act crazy by association, caught in the gravitational pull of his insanity."- Ringout from FAN Forums
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posted on 5-18-2017 at 08:03 PM
quote:Originally posted by bigfatgoalie
quote:Originally posted by bigfatgoalie
http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/soundgardens-chris-cornell-dead-at-52-w482882
Suicide by hanging. His wife has stated he showed no signs of being suicidal. Depression fucking sucks.
That it does. Depression doesn't care about your status in life, it doesn't care about what you've accomplished or the lives that
you've touched from your work. Its a horrible condition that I wouldn't wish upon anybody.
The WWE: Where no one wins, unless you like Cena, in which case you are a sad little fanboy who will never get laid, but we are happy to take your
money away-Moosehead Jack
"She is an estrogen molotov cocktail. It'd be in your best interest not to piss her off."- My thoughts on Firewoman
"Kurt Angle is like a living vortex of the surreal. On the off chance he's not doing, saying or thinking crazy things, people connected to him
act crazy by association, caught in the gravitational pull of his insanity."- Ringout from FAN Forums
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posted on 5-18-2017 at 08:25 PM
Fucking LOVED Soundgarden and Temple of the Dog back in the day. Even had a Badmotorfinger shirt with a monster/demon thing flipping the bird that I
still wonder how I got away with wearing it and my mom not noticing.
My girlfriend and I got to see him perform on his acoustic tour last year and it was goddamn electric. He was so laid back, joking with the crowd, no
rock star pretentious bullshit at all.
I'm going to go out on a limb and say he is my favorite male vocalist of all-time. And easily at the pinnacle of all-time vocalists, male or
female, genre be damned.
As echoed above, this one really sucks. Rest in Power, Chris.
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posted on 5-18-2017 at 08:42 PM
Probably forgotten is his small connection to WWE with Audioslave's "Be Yourself" being the entrance theme for Ashley Massaro.
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posted on 5-18-2017 at 09:01 PM
However it occurred I guess doesn't matter but I'm wondering if this is an Ian Stewart hanging or a David Carradine hanging. Anytime I
hear of someone hanging themselves I have to wonder.
I never saw him live and I was thinking about seeing them when they hit my city next week. Was just talking to the wife about it last night
(probably as he was on stage in Detroit).
Rest easy, friend.
janerd75
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posted on 5-18-2017 at 09:08 PM
Not that it makes it any better, and maybe his legacy would actually take more of a hit if true, but with no real signs of depression I wonder if he
pulled a Hutchence or Carradine instead. Yes, I know depression is a hidden killer but from all I read about him he didn't show any signs of
being suicidal. Regardless, it's a damned sad thing either way.
Eta: Just seen't CVD's post. I feel a little less creepy now.
[Edited on 5-18-2017 by janerd75]
"It will happen when it happens and not a moment before." - Me
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posted on 5-18-2017 at 10:14 PM
quote:Originally posted by CVD39
However it occurred I guess doesn't matter but I'm wondering if this is an Ian Stewart hanging or a David Carradine hanging. Anytime I
hear of someone hanging themselves I have to wonder.
quote:Originally posted by janerd75
Not that it makes it any better, and maybe his legacy would actually take more of a hit if true, but with no real signs of depression I wonder if he
pulled a Hutchence or Carradine instead. Yes, I know depression is a hidden killer but from all I read about him he didn't show any signs of
being suicidal. Regardless, it's a damned sad thing either way.
I've seen a couple of comments online today speculating this. His wife apparently said he showed zero signs of depression or being suicidal and
it does just strike me as odd that he would play a show and then decide to end his life two hours later (in some hotel room in Detroit while on tour,
no less). Then again, I'm no expert on depression, so maybe all of that isn't out of the ordinary for someone who is secretly suffering
from it.
And I read the news about his death late last night before going to bed and it's one of those things that didn't even seem real for about
ten minutes. I think the last time I really had that reaction to a rock star passing away was when Peter Steele died back in 2010.
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posted on 5-18-2017 at 11:36 PM
I'm very fortunate, living in Seattle, to have been able to seen Chris more and in more different ways/incarnations than many. I saw him twice
on acoustic tours including the most recent one for his Higher Truth tour. Both were at the venue that the Seattle Symphony plays at, which made for
unbelievable acoustics, in general and especially with his voice and range.
My high point with him came a few years back in a collaboration with the Seattle Symphony -
"Sonic Evolution - Mad Season" was 1-night only show that saw
him both fill in for Layne on vocals for 3 of Mad Season's songs + head a full Temple of the Dog reunion for 2 songs that would be the precursor
to the more recent TotD reunion tour.
I partially tore my ACL getting thrust into a mosh pit at Soundgarden's tour for Superunknown, which for me was their greatest end-to-end body
of work and in my top 5 albums of all time.
If I were to create a setlist from his commercially-available material that spanned all of his incarnations and fit on a disc, it would look like this
(# = order of play, not rank):
1) Silence the Voices - solo 2007 Carry On
2) Josephine - solo 2015 Higher Truth
3) Call Me a Dog - Temple of the Dog 1991
4) Sunshower - solo 1998 Great Expectations soundtrack
5) Doesn't Remind Me - Audioslave 2005 Out of Exile
6) Hands All Over - Soundgarden 1989 Louder than Love
7) Superunknown - Soundgarden 1994 Superunknown
8) Shape of Things to Come - Audioslave 2006 Revelations
9) The Day I Tried to Live - Soundgarden 1994 Superunknown
10) Disappearing One - solo 1999 Euphoria Morning
And as a bonus, picking one thing from stuff he's done live but never but on a disc, it would easily be his cover of the Beatle's A Day in
the Life, which I saw him perform once. It was the most hauntingly beautiful thing I've ever heard. I still haven't been able to listen
to it end-to-end today because I know I'll just lose it.
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posted on 5-19-2017 at 01:29 AM
Probably gonna seem fucked up to say it but, because Soundgarden was on of the last acts to put out albums that were worth listening from
beginning-to-end, my actual top-favourite song by Cornell and friends was Like Suicide. This isn't me being an idiot it's just that, from
Ravel's Bolero thru to Judas Priest's Victim of Changes to the 10-minute version of New Order's Perfect Kiss to The Verve's
Come On, the type of songs of more than five minutes length that are best described as a sweeping epic have always been the ones I love the most.
You know, everyone says it's not supposed to make sense, like that's the whole point, dude. And I'm just saying, you know,
that's like an excuse for lazy storytelling. Just don't sell me shite and tell me it's gold, all right? I might be stoned, but
I'm not high. You know what I mean?
- Cassidy from Preacher, commenting on The Big Lebowski and/or professional wrestling
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posted on 5-19-2017 at 02:38 AM
quote:Originally posted by janerd75
Not that it makes it any better, and maybe his legacy would actually take more of a hit if true, but with no real signs of depression I wonder if he
pulled a Hutchence or Carradine instead. Yes, I know depression is a hidden killer but from all I read about him he didn't show any signs of
being suicidal. Regardless, it's a damned sad thing either way.
Eta: Just seen't CVD's post. I feel a little less creepy now.
[Edited on 5-18-2017 by janerd75]
TNZ has posted video where Cornell tells the crowd "I feel a bit sorry for the next fucking place we
play":
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posted on 5-19-2017 at 03:41 AM
I'm too lazy to figure out how to embed videos, but a couple of my favorite Chris Cornell songs are neither Soundgarden, nor Audioslave, nor
even Temple of the Dog.
Cornell as featured vocalist on a hard rock song by country ensemble the Zac Brown Band:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWBm4Tx2bRo
Possibly my favorite Cornell song, over anything by Soundgarden et al.: The kick-ass theme from "Casino Royale." In my opinion, at least as good as,
and maybe better than, "Live and Let Die," which is usually cited as the best James Bond movie theme.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tUXjWeWuVSk
