RIP Chris Cornell 1964 - 2017

[bada]

I don't know what Stay With Me was on but that's a pretty fitting caper on his solo career.

[Biff Pocoroba]

I love listening to some of the solo acoustic comps but there’s always a sadness that comes still.

[JuanHamm]

I love listening to some of the solo acoustic comps but there’s always a sadness that comes still.

Yes, struggle to listen to Chris without getting sad these days. It doesn't help that so many of his lyrics are about depression.

[VinylGuy]

Blasting Euphoria Mourning now...Cant Change Me is a masterpiece.

[lecherouslittlestump]

Never heard this one before - new leak?

https://youtu.be/Wp9RAE2iROM

Outtake from the 90s soundtrack Beautiful Girls apparently. Another variation on The Curse/Ferry Boat.

[warehouse]

i listened to him a bunch the other day. i don't care what anyone says, i still like the timbaland song. that cover w/ cat stevens is incredible. i also listened to him doing 'a day in the life' BY HIMSELF. i threw in some temple of the dog songs and them covering 'war pigs'. of course, 'seasons' is one of my favorite songs ever. god damn it i miss this guy.

[VinylGuy]

Never heard this one before - new leak?

https://youtu.be/Wp9RAE2iROM

Outtake from the 90s soundtrack Beautiful Girls apparently. Another variation on The Curse/Ferry Boat.

this is pretty cool

[daft twat]

7 years. I listened to Say Hello 2 Heaven this winter on headphones. It is in the conversation of my favorite song of all time.

[VinylGuy]

Yeah I listened to my cd of temple of the dog two weeks ago, I love it so much.

As for Chris’ death it really took me by surprise. I was sleeping and a friend texted me something bout him and I thought it was about him touring here again.

Still makes no sense how he died really.

[tree_]

Actually it does make sense if you think about it

[warehouse]

Actually it does make sense if you think about it

with all due respect, shut the fuck up

[96583UP]

RIP Chris

love you

[warehouse]

Yeah I listened to my cd of temple of the dog two weeks ago, I love it so much.

As for Chris’ death it really took me by surprise. I was sleeping and a friend texted me something bout him and I thought it was about him touring here again.

Still makes no sense how he died really.

i remember my wife waking me up with "did you hear chris cornell died?" from the other room. i jumped out of bed and asked her wtf she just said to me. i checked the news online and i think when i read the cause of death is when i really got upset. it was weird, i've never gotten that emotion when a celebrity died before or since.

i've been listening to his one/one mash up and now whenever i play those u2 chords i cant help but sing metallica lol. i listened to EV cover 'seasons' yesterday before listening to cornell do a bunch of covers. the guy was brilliant

[VinylGuy]

Yeah I listened to my cd of temple of the dog two weeks ago, I love it so much.

As for Chris’ death it really took me by surprise. I was sleeping and a friend texted me something bout him and I thought it was about him touring here again.

Still makes no sense how he died really.

i remember my wife waking me up with "did you hear chris cornell died?" from the other room. i jumped out of bed and asked her wtf she just said to me. i checked the news online and i think when i read the cause of death is when i really got upset. it was weird, i've never gotten that emotion when a celebrity died before or since.

i've been listening to his one/one mash up and now whenever i play those u2 chords i cant help but sing metallica lol. i listened to EV cover 'seasons' yesterday before listening to cornell do a bunch of covers. the guy was brilliant

Yeah at first it was “Cornell died” and I was what ? Soundgarden played yesterday…” and then we found out how he died and it was grim as fuck.

It also had a very big emotional impact to me.

Incredible to think he did it at a SG tour too.

[Jammer XCI]

I got woken up by the news when it happened by my ex gf too, but I have a friend whose name is incredibly similar sounding so at first I thought my friend died, then I was relieved for like 2 seconds when I figured out it was Chris Cornell and not him, then I was immediately floored by the news registering in my sadly just woken up head.

I never got to see him live with any of his projects and that will always bum me the fuck out.

I spun Badmotorfinger and Superunknown again over the weekend, but those are 10/10 all timers that I listen to a lot anyway. When the solar eclipse happened last month I blasted “Black Hole Sun” while the totality was happening. I did watch my Telephantasm DVD and Live At the Artist’s Den blu ray yesterday though, those are great too.

[VinylGuy]

I think I’ll deep dive into SG today

I’m very lucky I saw him live in different settings, the best one being in the Teatro Colón in a very historic performance

I also saw temple at pj20 twice and SG twice, once in Chile and the other in BA.

[daft twat]

I think I’ll deep dive into SG today

I’m very lucky I saw him live in different settings, the best one being in the Teatro Colón in a very historic performance

I also saw temple at pj20 twice and SG twice, once in Chile and the other in BA.

My 2 biggest missed concert regrets are not asking for time off in 96 to see them at Lolla and not just going to a different TotD show when I didn’t get Seattle tickets.

That said, I was very lucky. I was at those two PJ20 shows, third row for one of them. I was also at the Bridge Benefit shows where SG and Pearl Jam played and did Hunger Strike both nights.

Saw Soundgarden two other times, once on the King Animal tour from the front row and once just a few days before he died. They did Kyle Petty, Son of Richard!

Saw Audioslave 3 times.

Saw Cornell with hired hands once. Missed him another time because of the birth of my first son.

But if you saw Chris on any Songbook tours, they were the absolute best. I saw him 3 times over the years that way, and they were beautiful experiences. He was so personable. “Who keeps yelling Birth Ritual? Do you come to every show?’ I saw him do Footsteps. Jesus!

[Kevin Davis]

But if you saw Chris on any Songbook tours, they were the absolute best. I saw him 3 times over the years that way, and they were beautiful experiences. He was so personable. “Who keeps yelling Birth Ritual? Do you come to every show?’ I saw him do Footsteps. Jesus!

I only saw him twice, once with Audioslave at Lollapalooza in 2003, and again solo in 2016, less than a year before he died. The Audioslave show was kind of a mess -- he wasn't at his best, obviously, but the Rage guys also clearly just didn't have the musical range to really bring out the best in him. The solo show was beautiful -- hearing him do "When I'm Down," singing over a crackly vinyl record playing the isolated piano track from the studio version, was such a weird, gorgeous moment in my concertgoing life.

[Buby]

Only caught him once during the Soundgarden & NIN 2014 tour. What a bill though.

Anyone know of a good Chris fan made compilation?
There's gotta be something in the vein of the Green Habit or Ridleybradout comps, right?

*Edit: In case someone's interested, there's a pretty decent recording of his 2015 Benaroya Hall

[zeb]

Saw him with Soundgarden six times and Audioslave once.

Met him and the rest of the band in 1997 prior to this show, only a few weeks before they broke up in Hawaii.

Here's a photo of Chris I took in Sydney in 2015 - the show was an absolute gem in terms of set list, they opened with Incessant Mace and Hunted Down, sprinkled in deep cuts like Kyle Petty, Blind Dogs and Birth Ritual, and gave us a bunch of my personal favourites (A Thousand Days Before, Beyond The Wheel, Ugly Truth):



I regret not seeing him on his Songbook tour. I felt like he would be around for a lot longer than he was.