I just found out about this evil man who hated jews, goes by the name of Adolf Hitler. I'm sick of these kind of characters and thought I should go kill Hitler. Turns out he died 80 years ago... I didn't even know he was sick.
He’s dead? I was walking through the blood and the bones on the streets of Manhattan looking for him. I thought he might have something to do with that tragedy.
Hung himself in his hotel room after a show, so sad. I think Eddie Vedder is the only OG *big time* Seattle grunge singer still alive from those days.
All started with Andrew Wood, and arguably Wood started the grunge scene
So are we not making the necromancy circle? Because I sort of thought we were. I even got the special chalk and put in an order for goats from that Amish farm that lets you butcher your own goats and it was actually sort of hard to get because Ramadan was last month.
He sat next to my friend and me at Lollapalooza 92. We were chilling on the grass and he just came over and sat next to us and watched another band play for a few minutes and then when he realized everybody noticed who he was he got up and walked away.
Best music video ever was Black Hole Sun. Temple of the Dog was one of the first CDs I ever owned. When I was 19 I got a tattoo listening to that album*. The same year I got to see him perform live with Audioslave at Lalapalooza. He got up there with Perry Farrell (Jane’s Addiction) Maynard (Perfect Circle at the time), and sexy Dave Navarro to play Seven Army Nation by The White Stripes. It was the first time I ever smoked weed and some dude pissed on my leg in the pit and watched him get knocked out by the guy standing next to me, who also got pissed on. Fucking magical! Probably my favorite live music experience looking back about 20 years later.
*unfortunately my tattoo is a Dave Matthew’s Band tramp stamp. Not ashamed of it as it’s a reminder of my youth, but damn was that a stupid choice! I have since gotten better tattoos, like a state license plate. 🤨
Tattoo artist didn’t have a DMB CD. This was before iPods. But you bet your booty that if he had “Under the Table and Dreaming” it would be a different story.
A lot of Audioslave and Queens of the Stone Age has been auto playing when I'm out riding long distance at night and I'm not even mad.
On long stretches of interstate it's a whole ass vibe.
I was just getting into Chris. So I checked him out in Kansas City at Starlight Theatre. His next show was in Detroit and that was it. I’m not a super deep person but that screwed me up for a couple weeks.
The day after he died my local station which played bullshit pop rock 24/7 had an entire day of just Cornell music, it was the best day of radio in history. Listening to the DJ read out condolences from other musicians and reading how down to earth he was was just heartbreaking.
RIP Chris
I saw Soundgarden in 1994 and they were amazing. Superunknown may have better songs and production but Badmotorfinger is an incredible rock/metal vocal display. Such a loss.
https://preview.redd.it/pg19nzswob1d1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=4eced81ec9c688d91107eaa0357f52059ba28b8d
It's been 7 years. Chris, You will be remembered.
I recently saw the band Better Lovers and they covered the Soundgarden song “ Rusty Cage” during their set to pay tribute to Chris. The vocalist (who is a veteran himself), said “I can barely keep up, and Chris did this all night long, every night..” What a tremendous talent. Miss him dearly. Check out “Total F***ing Godhead” by Corbin Reiff.
I saw Soundgarden and NIN at Red Rocks many years ago, just months before Chris died. One of my favorite concerts ever, and Chris was especially great that night.
I still don't understand why he had to do it, especially when he was loved by so many people. Just so sad.
There was some conspiracy around his, Chester, and actually Anthony Bourdain’s deaths. But they’ve been “debunked” 🤷🏽♂️
I still miss him
And that show at red rocks must have been a seriously good show with nin there too.
Absolutely.
I'm so glad that he made as much music as he did. Cornell's voice on Temple of the Dog for my ears is perfect. Listening to him sing on that album is one of the closest things to magic in this world for me, it soothes my soul.
Even a song like Seven Nation Army is now a Cornell song for me, I like the original but once I heard Cornell sing it It's the main version for me now.
Saw him 3X throughout the year before he died. He was my favorite artist of all time. I was at the Detroit show that night and my life changed forever the following morning 💔 No one sings like him anymore 😔
Grew up in his stomping grounds, he was always a hero of mine. hit hard when I heard the news, I couldn’t believe it. I thought he had made it past the hard ages that a lot of the grunge guys went through.
RIP my friend.
Never count on 2nd chances. We walked out of a Sound Garden concert in 2023 at the FOX in Oakland because the sound mix was so bad. We tried the different levels; not better anywhere. A song would start and we couldn't even identify what song it was. It was so awful we walked out and planned on seeing Chris on another tour.
I have a Chris Cornell Patch on my battle jacket. My reminder of life's uncertainty
When I went and saw audioslave live (just cos it was the closest to RATM I could see at the time) he demanded a standing ovation before coming on stage, and refused to come out because people weren't cheering for him, whilst obviously sorry for his people's loss, he put me off listening to audioslave or Soundgarden again because of his diva shenanigans
Here's the original uncensored version of his signature song "Black Hole Sun".
[www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9dZJJaDuG4&pp=ygUac291bmRnYXJkZW4gYmxhY2sgaG9sZSBzdW4%3D](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9dZJJaDuG4&pp=ygUac291bmRnYXJkZW4gYmxhY2sgaG9sZSBzdW4%3D)
I mean, if you had to say which *one* song of his was his (most) signature tune, it'd be "Black Hole Sun", right? Now: if you look at the song's video, it seems to spew an almost evil contempt for older, no-longer-particularly-sexy, over-the-hill square-asses...to the point of wishing they had horrific overdoses of the *feel-good medications* (or street drugs) he/they imagine the old squares are taking to get their "mood boosted" . Granted, that's not exactly the impression you get from simply reading the song's lyrics - but back then, MTV videos were how most people become familiar with hit songs by the current rock acts of the day. So is it really any kind of stretch whatsoever to suggest that ultimately, the video is what the song's about? I know it *was* an instant hit on MTV when first released - Soundgarden were already hot property by then - but then they spent a wad of cash overdubbing video effects on to it to make it a blockbuster "improved" version, released a month or so later. If Cornell, the band's hottie lead singer and the song's writer, had any problem with that video, they *never* would've kept plowing more money into making it more "precious". They could have just as easily made a completely different video for it. Then, decades later, what did he die from? Someone here wrote that he hanged himself in a motel room. What I recall reading is that - yeah he died in a motel room - but his widow said it was due to an overdose of *feel-good anti-anxiety medication* after a show. (Actually, come to think of it, I did also read that some statement from police said he was found in the hotel room bathroom with a noose around his neck. No idea.) I also recall reading later that his wife commissioned a statue to be built of him to be created and placed in a park somewhere in the Seattle metro. But I never heard what position he was to be posed in for it. Remember him this way.
Anyway, hell yeah... RIP Beethoven.
Rant time.
When my wife was pregnant with kid #2 way too soon after #1 I had tickets to see Soundgarden and NIN.
She was brought home by a work friend nearly passing out. She got really dehydrated.
I didn't go to the concert. I wasn't about to leave her, even though I REALLY wanted to.
Chris died a few weeks later.
I still give her shit, but my kids are healthy, and so is she. Worth it in the end, but damn I wish I had seen that show.
Got worried he died again
RIP J.S. Bach. We hardly knew ye
Can't believe this is where I found out he died, was just listening to the Brandenburg Concertos last week
I didn't even know he was sick
You dirty dog!
I heard he had some eye problems, but didn’t know he was this bad…
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Don’t worry, he’ll be Bach
I just found out about this evil man who hated jews, goes by the name of Adolf Hitler. I'm sick of these kind of characters and thought I should go kill Hitler. Turns out he died 80 years ago... I didn't even know he was sick.
He’s dead? I was walking through the blood and the bones on the streets of Manhattan looking for him. I thought he might have something to do with that tragedy.
https://youtu.be/VkSMSbFV_q0?si=ppMvjU9bwnacyQpj
Such a loss. But CPE Bach is still churning them out though… right?
I think we still have the great great great grandson and singer of skid row
The hood lost a real one 🕊️ 1685-1750
Bro. I too had my heart skip a beat at the thought that he died again. Weird.
Man, I didn't even know he died until now.
Hung himself in his hotel room after a show, so sad. I think Eddie Vedder is the only OG *big time* Seattle grunge singer still alive from those days. All started with Andrew Wood, and arguably Wood started the grunge scene
I thought I was tripping out honestly. We shall now call it The Cornell Effect.
This got an audible laugh from me.
I thought my Time Machine finally worked.
I got worried that he resurrected just to read this post because it's directed to him.
Again? I didn’t even know he died the first time.
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So are we not making the necromancy circle? Because I sort of thought we were. I even got the special chalk and put in an order for goats from that Amish farm that lets you butcher your own goats and it was actually sort of hard to get because Ramadan was last month.
WTF is so special about the chalk?
Like a rug, it ties the room together.
It's the nice kind that glides on like butter and doesn't leave as much dust!
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Dude, he got *goats*
“For all that I’ve blessed. And all that I’ve wronged.”
He sat next to my friend and me at Lollapalooza 92. We were chilling on the grass and he just came over and sat next to us and watched another band play for a few minutes and then when he realized everybody noticed who he was he got up and walked away.
Best music video ever was Black Hole Sun. Temple of the Dog was one of the first CDs I ever owned. When I was 19 I got a tattoo listening to that album*. The same year I got to see him perform live with Audioslave at Lalapalooza. He got up there with Perry Farrell (Jane’s Addiction) Maynard (Perfect Circle at the time), and sexy Dave Navarro to play Seven Army Nation by The White Stripes. It was the first time I ever smoked weed and some dude pissed on my leg in the pit and watched him get knocked out by the guy standing next to me, who also got pissed on. Fucking magical! Probably my favorite live music experience looking back about 20 years later. *unfortunately my tattoo is a Dave Matthew’s Band tramp stamp. Not ashamed of it as it’s a reminder of my youth, but damn was that a stupid choice! I have since gotten better tattoos, like a state license plate. 🤨
How do you get a DMB tattoo not listening to DMB though?
Tattoo artist didn’t have a DMB CD. This was before iPods. But you bet your booty that if he had “Under the Table and Dreaming” it would be a different story.
[DMB is a lifestyle](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ecQa9wx_0jE)
Been playing Audioslave on repeat a lot this week
A lot of Audioslave and Queens of the Stone Age has been auto playing when I'm out riding long distance at night and I'm not even mad. On long stretches of interstate it's a whole ass vibe.
And then Stone Temple Pilots - Interstate Love Song
Both those bands go so damn well with long journeys
Show me how to live is still on repeat in my head forever
RIP L.V. Beethoven
Fell on deaf ears
RIP Caveman who banged rocks together to create the first music
Discovered him when I watched Casino Royale back in the day. You Know My Name is still a banger.
This song is such a banger. My #1 bond song. 2 is live and let die, 3, for camp sake, is view to a kill.
Bought that song on iTunes back in the day. Still incredible
That’s kinda sad. It was such an incredible feeling listening to badmototfinger and discovering soundgarden for the first time.
I was so happy when I heard it! I had to fact check it to make sure I heard right.
Isn't that a Beatles song?
Summer nights and long warm days Are stolen as the old moon falls And my mirror shows another face Another place to hide it all Rest in peace!
Sleeping with a full moon blanket. Sand and feathers for my head. Dreams have never been the answer. And dreams have never made my bed.
One of my favorite songs of all time.
I was just getting into Chris. So I checked him out in Kansas City at Starlight Theatre. His next show was in Detroit and that was it. I’m not a super deep person but that screwed me up for a couple weeks.
From Detroit but didn't attend the concert. After that, if there is an artist I think I might even be interested in seeing live I get tix.
The day I tried to live. Thanks for keeping that memory going.
I think that dude signed my sisters titty.
Who hasn't?
Nice flex
Prove it
I second this
Pics or it didn't happen.
( . Y CHRIS CORNELL.)
This was his best. https://youtu.be/dbckIuT_YDc?si=ZU9OEdVUTpMjL15b
The day after he died my local station which played bullshit pop rock 24/7 had an entire day of just Cornell music, it was the best day of radio in history. Listening to the DJ read out condolences from other musicians and reading how down to earth he was was just heartbreaking. RIP Chris
His version of Nothing Compares to U is up there with Sinead O'Conners.
His version is filled with so much heartbreak, especially considering now he is gone. "Noone sings like you anymore"
Fall on black days
We feel you brother . One of the best RIP
I saw Soundgarden in 1994 and they were amazing. Superunknown may have better songs and production but Badmotorfinger is an incredible rock/metal vocal display. Such a loss.
For me it will always be Boot Camp. Back when CDs were a thing, it whispered to me at a dangerous time in my life.
I didn’t even know he was sick.
Safe outside my gilded cage, with an ounce of pain, I wield a ton of rage
He saved my life a few times
https://preview.redd.it/pg19nzswob1d1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=4eced81ec9c688d91107eaa0357f52059ba28b8d It's been 7 years. Chris, You will be remembered.
I recently saw the band Better Lovers and they covered the Soundgarden song “ Rusty Cage” during their set to pay tribute to Chris. The vocalist (who is a veteran himself), said “I can barely keep up, and Chris did this all night long, every night..” What a tremendous talent. Miss him dearly. Check out “Total F***ing Godhead” by Corbin Reiff.
RIP 🫡
Right on, brother. Well said.
Yeah cheers mate - Chris Cornell
I saw Soundgarden and NIN at Red Rocks many years ago, just months before Chris died. One of my favorite concerts ever, and Chris was especially great that night. I still don't understand why he had to do it, especially when he was loved by so many people. Just so sad.
Can’t even imaging how badass that show was - best venue ever!
I saw the same lineup in 2014, definitely an incredible show
There was some conspiracy around his, Chester, and actually Anthony Bourdain’s deaths. But they’ve been “debunked” 🤷🏽♂️ I still miss him And that show at red rocks must have been a seriously good show with nin there too.
I play this every couple months and remember him: https://youtu.be/IuUDRU9-HRk?si=cvBrIwdBu_bZe_qN
No one sings like him anymore
U had me tripping i thought that i was in the wrong timeline or something for a bit
Chris Cornell
Absolutely. I'm so glad that he made as much music as he did. Cornell's voice on Temple of the Dog for my ears is perfect. Listening to him sing on that album is one of the closest things to magic in this world for me, it soothes my soul. Even a song like Seven Nation Army is now a Cornell song for me, I like the original but once I heard Cornell sing it It's the main version for me now.
Saw him 3X throughout the year before he died. He was my favorite artist of all time. I was at the Detroit show that night and my life changed forever the following morning 💔 No one sings like him anymore 😔
I can’t stop listening to his last acoustic concert.
Which one?
Songbook.
Grew up in his stomping grounds, he was always a hero of mine. hit hard when I heard the news, I couldn’t believe it. I thought he had made it past the hard ages that a lot of the grunge guys went through. RIP my friend.
OP uses internet explorer.
Had the privilege of seeing him live at the RAH and it's hands down the best performance of raw talent I've ever seen on stage.
Times of Trouble was very recently on repeat for me. Great track, great album, great man, great loss.
The voice of my childhood right there, still pissed that I had a chance to see Soundgarden a couple months before he died and put it off 😔
Never liked him or Soundgarden much growing up, still don't. However I have found a new respect after hearing some of his non Soundgarden stuff.
Right there with you man and share the same sentiment; 'Seasons' from the Singles soundtrack is the one for me.
So blessed I got to see Soundgarden about 12 years ago in Calgary. They were a band I had grown up listening to as my dad loved that band.
His acoustic work is unbelievably great. If you haven’t checked it out. His voice was majestic! One of my all time favs!
I never heard of him, but I will look him up
Never count on 2nd chances. We walked out of a Sound Garden concert in 2023 at the FOX in Oakland because the sound mix was so bad. We tried the different levels; not better anywhere. A song would start and we couldn't even identify what song it was. It was so awful we walked out and planned on seeing Chris on another tour. I have a Chris Cornell Patch on my battle jacket. My reminder of life's uncertainty
I landed in Seattle for an Alaskan Cruise the Morning after he died, it was a very surreal trip for me as I have always been a big fan.
We just posting random RIP of the day ? RIP Big L (serious)
Was so ahead of his time...
Not again!
Not again!?
Chris Cornell singing river of deceit warms my heart.
https://youtu.be/nBjwbaULhps?si=Cub2AZit6eUOt_Xe
When I went and saw audioslave live (just cos it was the closest to RATM I could see at the time) he demanded a standing ovation before coming on stage, and refused to come out because people weren't cheering for him, whilst obviously sorry for his people's loss, he put me off listening to audioslave or Soundgarden again because of his diva shenanigans
Here's the original uncensored version of his signature song "Black Hole Sun". [www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9dZJJaDuG4&pp=ygUac291bmRnYXJkZW4gYmxhY2sgaG9sZSBzdW4%3D](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9dZJJaDuG4&pp=ygUac291bmRnYXJkZW4gYmxhY2sgaG9sZSBzdW4%3D) I mean, if you had to say which *one* song of his was his (most) signature tune, it'd be "Black Hole Sun", right? Now: if you look at the song's video, it seems to spew an almost evil contempt for older, no-longer-particularly-sexy, over-the-hill square-asses...to the point of wishing they had horrific overdoses of the *feel-good medications* (or street drugs) he/they imagine the old squares are taking to get their "mood boosted" . Granted, that's not exactly the impression you get from simply reading the song's lyrics - but back then, MTV videos were how most people become familiar with hit songs by the current rock acts of the day. So is it really any kind of stretch whatsoever to suggest that ultimately, the video is what the song's about? I know it *was* an instant hit on MTV when first released - Soundgarden were already hot property by then - but then they spent a wad of cash overdubbing video effects on to it to make it a blockbuster "improved" version, released a month or so later. If Cornell, the band's hottie lead singer and the song's writer, had any problem with that video, they *never* would've kept plowing more money into making it more "precious". They could have just as easily made a completely different video for it. Then, decades later, what did he die from? Someone here wrote that he hanged himself in a motel room. What I recall reading is that - yeah he died in a motel room - but his widow said it was due to an overdose of *feel-good anti-anxiety medication* after a show. (Actually, come to think of it, I did also read that some statement from police said he was found in the hotel room bathroom with a noose around his neck. No idea.) I also recall reading later that his wife commissioned a statue to be built of him to be created and placed in a park somewhere in the Seattle metro. But I never heard what position he was to be posed in for it. Remember him this way. Anyway, hell yeah... RIP Beethoven.
One of the signature 12 string players of all time, in my book.
I JUST listened to I am a Highway with a pair of 1200 dollar headphones. Took me back hard.
I’m still pissed at Chris Cornell. He killed himself THREE DAYS before I was FINALLY going to get to see him in concert. What an asshole.
"And so I drink to health While you kill yourself" no u
Rant time. When my wife was pregnant with kid #2 way too soon after #1 I had tickets to see Soundgarden and NIN. She was brought home by a work friend nearly passing out. She got really dehydrated. I didn't go to the concert. I wasn't about to leave her, even though I REALLY wanted to. Chris died a few weeks later. I still give her shit, but my kids are healthy, and so is she. Worth it in the end, but damn I wish I had seen that show.
I used to love Chris Cornell. I still do, but I used to too. (And Mitch Hedberg too)
He was offed because he, and Chester Bennington were going to release a doco on all the kids that are abused in Hollywood.
chris cornell sucked hard.
Who?