http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/7800264/chris-cornell-obit
QuoteRocker Chris Cornell, who gained fame as the lead singer of the bands Soundgarden and later Audioslave, has died at age 52, according to his representative.
Cornell, who had been on tour, died Wednesday night in Detroit, Brian Bumbery said in a statement to The Associated Press.
Bumbery called the death "sudden and unexpected" and said his wife and family were shocked by it. The statement said the family would be working closely with the medical examiner to determine the cause and asked for privacy.
With his powerful, nearly four-octave vocal range, Cornell was one of the leading voices of the 1990s grunge movement with Soundgarden, which emerged as one of the biggest bands out of Seattle's emerging music scene, joining the likes of Nirvana, Pearl Jam and Alice in Chains.
Formed in 1984 by Cornell, guitarist Kim Thayil and bassist Hiro Yamamoto, Soundgarden's third studio album, "Badmotorfinger," in 1991 spawned enormously popular singles "Jesus Christ Pose," ''Rusty Cage" and "Outshined" that received regular play on alternative rock radio stations.
Cornell also collaborated with members of what would become Pearl Jam to form Temple of the Dog, which produced a self-titled album in 1991 in tribute to friend Andrew Wood, former frontman for Mother Love Bone.
Three years later, Soundgarden broke through on mainstream radio with the album Superunknown, which debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 and was nominated for a Grammy for Best Rock Record in 1995. It included hit singles "Spoonman," ''Fell on Black Days," ''Black Hole Sun," ''My Wave" and "The Day I Tried to Live."
Soundgarden disbanded in 1997 due to tensions in the band, and Cornell pursued a solo career. In 2001, he joined Audioslave, a supergroup that included former Rage Against the Machine members Tom Morello, Brad Wilk and Tim Commerford. The band released three albums in six years and also performed at a concert billed as Cuba's first outdoor rock concert by an American band, though some Cuban artists have disputed that claim.
Yeah, fuck it. Music has died a little today.
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What shit news to wake up to. RIP Chris Cornell.
Only 52, godsdamnit.
RIP Chris. :(
This one really fucking hurts. Goddammit.
RIP. :(
Love the build up in this song.
52? What the hell happened? Damn, RIP, Chris.
Damn.......gut punch....RIP Chris.
Awful news. RIP.
RIP Chris.
being investigated as a possible suicide
http://www.wxyz.com/news/region/detroit/ap-rocker-chris-cornell-from-soundgarden-has-died-at-age-52-in-detroit
Very sad. :'( But if I lived in Detroit, I probably would've committed suicide long ago.
Quote from: Sir Slash on May 18, 2017, 09:10:45 AM
Very sad. :'( But if I lived in Detroit, I probably would've committed suicide long ago.
he didn't live there; he'd just played a concert there last night
the only guitar solo I'd ever learned / played live note-for-note with the original
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Quote from: bayonetbrant on May 18, 2017, 10:04:59 AM
Quote from: Sir Slash on May 18, 2017, 09:10:45 AM
Very sad. :'( But if I lived in Detroit, I probably would've committed suicide long ago.
he didn't live there; he'd just played a concert there last night
I would not want Detroit to be the last place I saw.
probably my favorite Audioslave tune
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So many great tunes. I have to admit to tearing up about this. Beloved by so many yet still so much pain for him. Horrible.
http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2017/05/18/chris-cornell-lead-singer-soundgarden-dead-at-52-after-hanging-himself.html
This one hurts. I was a big fan of a lot of musicians who have died over the past year or two, but Soundgarden was one of the first bands I really got into when I was younger. I feel like a remaining shred of my youth died. :-[
You said it well.
Especially sad when anyone commits suicide.
(Unless he was trying to do something else, in which case it's more of a Darwin Award.)
Very sad. RIP.
excellent summation, if you can make it through
https://thefirsttenwords.wordpress.com/2017/05/20/its-not-what-you-think/
Good piece.
Quote from: bayonetbrant on May 22, 2017, 06:39:15 AM
excellent summation, if you can make it through
https://thefirsttenwords.wordpress.com/2017/05/20/its-not-what-you-think/
Damn, that was a good article
Thanks for sharing