Red Mosquito

thesound wrote:I didn’t know Chris Cornell auditioned for Shadow and was rejected!
Perhaps he auditioned as a drummer and not for vocals??

lecherouslittlestump wrote:

thesound wrote:I didn’t know Chris Cornell auditioned for Shadow and was rejected!
Perhaps he auditioned as a drummer and not for vocals??

The rejection was the inspiration for Audioslave's Shadow On The Sun IIRC. Cornell is directly talking to McCready in the lyrics.

He [Mike] said that when Shadow was looking for a singer a small guy in an army jacket auditioned. Apparently Mike didn’t like the way the audition went so he and the rest of the band decided against going with the army jacket guy. That guy ended up being Chris Cornell. Chris and Mike didn’t know each other at the time of the audition. When Chris formally met Mike as a member of Pearl Jam he would later say to him “I was sort of worried about you because you were one of those Shadow guys.”