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That is so sad... he gave a lot of great music to the world. Superunknown, Badmotorfinger, and Down on the Upside got me through many days back in school. Audioslave was huge in my life later on, as well. He will be missed.
Man, this was unexpected. I know he had issues but you didn't hear about it as much as Scott and Layne. All of my teenage heroes are dead. Eddie is like the only one left. Please take care of yourself Eddie. I won't be able to take that one. Every one I cry a little bit but I can't take anymore.
This one hurts. Saw Soundgarden on tour w/NIN in 2014 and they sounded unbelievable, Cornell still had all of the range/power in his voice. His first solo album is a masterpiece.
Utterly heartbreaking... one of my favorite singers of the last 30 years, and it's crazy to think that the only two of the major voices of Seattle grunge/90s alternative rock left are Eddie and Jerry (Cantrell). I'll never forget how he blew me away opening for NIN a couple of years ago, his voice was almost as good as it was in the 90s and his stage presence was great.
Post by LoveLuckLaughter on May 18, 2017 8:38:21 GMT -5
The last song they played last night was "Slaves and Bulldozers" with the refrain of "In My Time of Dying". He knew.
I'm shook up today, especially since we just saw him at Beale St. I commented how great he looked and sounded. Looking California but feeling Minnesota, I suppose. Proof that you can be adored and admired by the masses, and in the company of thousands nightly, but if you can't formulate a sense of self-love and peace, none of it matters and the loneliness can remain inescapable. Fuck.
We're all a mess of paradoxes. Believing in things we know can't be true. We walk around carrying feelings too complicated and contradictory to express. But when it all becomes too big, and words aren't enough to help get it all out, there's always music.
Ugh, been having a rough week with life and death in general, this doesn't help. The Day I Tried To Live is one of my favorite songs OAT, and it was pretty hard to listen to this AM.
He has had well documented struggles for a long time and the sudden nature of this leads to speculation that it's related.
It's such a shame. He had one of the most powerful, primal voices in rock in the 90's.
I should say that it would be shocking to me if it is confirmed to be a suicide. Not if it was related to years of substance abuse, as I initially assumed.
He has had well documented struggles for a long time and the sudden nature of this leads to speculation that it's related.
It's such a shame. He had one of the most powerful, primal voices in rock in the 90's.
I should say that it would be shocking to me if it is confirmed to be a suicide. Not if it was related to years of substance abuse, as I initially assumed.
I should say that it would be shocking to me if it is confirmed to be a suicide. Not if it was related to years of substance abuse, as I initially assumed.
So, this morning, you woke up at 4AM to the news of his passing? I was getting ready to go back out with them. Dillinger has been doing weekends. At 4AM, I was about to start packing and I started to get texts and calls like, “Yo, this just happened.” So, I’m laying in bed with my wife, and when someone calls at 4AM when you’ve got a newborn baby, either you’re going to hear something really bad or you’re gonna say, “I’m gonna kill you.” [Laughs] And it was bad. I thought it was a dream. Here I am looking at the guy, staring at him five feet in front of me onstage just a couple of days ago, getting ready to go back out and do more shows. And Dillinger’s done. We don’t need to go make new fans; we don’t give a fuck. If it wasn’t Soundgarden, we wouldn’t be out there. It’s a pain in the ass for us, flying into these shows in the Midwest and playing these sheds where people look at us like we’ve got a thousand heads. We’re there because we love Soundgarden. That’s it. I have no care about not being [able] to play, but I am really upset about not being able to watch that band ever again. And I am really sad for everybody in that camp.
Post by abefroman1 on May 18, 2017 21:53:50 GMT -5
So sad. Never saw Soundgarden but did see an acoustic set of his in 2013. Was probably the most intimate show I've ever seen. Would do those solo tours travelling with his wife and kid. Really feel for them.
I got to see Soundgarden live twice. Soundgarden was the 90s band i liked the most when i started getting into good music in like 5-6th grade. Like there were all the obvious ones (Nirvana, Metallica, Pearl Jam, etc) but they all got kind of annoying and overplayed on the radio. Soundgarden and Primus were the ones for me. Soundgarden was so much heavier than those others and felt so underrated. I guess it was because they had been broken up for a decade. My friends and i listened to Badmotorfinger so much in 7th grade. It always kind of pissed me off that they wouldn't reunite. Then in 2010, they finally announced they'd reunite! I had been going to Lolla for a couple years up to that and knew they'd be highly likely to reunite there, and then they did, and we went. I think they were up against Arcade Fire but it was such a no brainer to see them. Seeing Chris do an actual Jesus Christ pose while performing Jesus Christ Pose was epic as fuck! A couple older dude's next to me were surprised i was there and asked if i wanted a boost to crowd surf. At first i was very hesitent, but after a few seconds (that felt so much longer, it's like i can just go back to that moment in my head, it was during Ugly Truth) i finally gave in and was like fuck yeah let's do this. I've crowd surfed a bunch at smaller shows since but never again at something such large scale. It was such an adrenaline rush. I was like 15. Then next thing i know, i'm being pulled down by the security dudes and right in front of the stage. I paused for a sec to take it all in before finding my way back into the crowd. It was probably one of the first times my face was truly melted. If i could've ever met Chris Cornell, i for sure would've thanked him for that experience. RIP Chris Cornell.
This one isn't hitting me quite as hard as Prince or Bowie or MCA, but I'm an enormous fan of his. This was such terrible news to wake up to yesterday morning.
Soundgarden's music was, and still is, one of the few things that can cut through the noise of my depression and anxiety, and that's due in large part to the tremendous power of Cornell's voice. There will never be another rock singer as great as he was. I've spent most of the weekend listening to Soundgarden and Temple of the Dog when I've been in the car. It all holds up so well.