RIP Chris Cornell.....damn that's sad

[undertow2]

HUGE HUGE Cornell fan along with any of thise bands from Seattle and that era... Def am not going to speculate on the cause, but the last song he picked to sing to close the show last night def gives me chills and border line spooky... I am sorry for his family and will miss the shit out of hearing that voice...

[Alaskan Rover]

The guy was a true god.

If he was a surfer, he would have just as easily been a surfing god. Or if a climber, a climbing god.

One of the kind of guys you spoke of in hush, whispered tones.

Respect.

[Peruvian]

Ha! Last Exit on Brooklyn brings back some memories. It was right around the corner from the Dorm I lived in one year. Went in a few times. It was a lot newer back then.

I lived in Lander in '91 and remember hanging out at the Last Exit and seeing Artis at the University Street Fair busking in the middle of the closed Ave.

I'm not sure that SG ever played the OK Hotel, but I know they played the Off Ramp and RCKNDY.

[Mofro261]

they've been playing a tribute all morning on the radio, been doing songs in order of last nights set list on kexp for the last hr.

Link to accessible replay from their archives: http://kexp.org/archive

[buttahflake]

I only caught them once, opening for Guns n Roses, 1991 Worcester Centrum. I can picture him with really long hair and no shirt, giving it all. I vividly remember the Rusty Cage from that night.
Sad stuff

[AK47bp]

Vedder's the only one left I think.

[frorider]

Nothing To Say was one of my favorites live. 1988 or so. Super heavy.

I think one time they followed that with Communication Breakdown.

30 yrs ago almost. Damn.

[Meathelmet]

Oh man...

Kid of ´90s and grunge scene, this really fucking sucks. Living at the other side of the globe, MTV really bought in much needed stoke at that time. NINs Head Like A Hole was literally that. Rusty Cage, Interstate Love Song, Today etc were the songs that basically were the soundtrack of my youth. When I finally got my drivers license and moved away the shitholetown I was living in, Super Unknown was basically stuck in the CD player...for months. In the end literally, as the eject stopped working.
Still have the CD. One of those early thick and heavy early ones, like vinyl record, nowadays scratched beyond redemption.
Still have it.

Godspeed.

Basically ones left behind are Vedder and Corgan.

[BmillsSkier]

Vedder's the only one left I think.

Billy Corgan would be vehemently disagree with you.

[Buster Highmen]

Mark Arm too.

[MagnificentUnicorn]

I don't consider Corgan and Smashing Pumpkins "grunge", definitely part of the early '90s alternative rock scene but not "grunge". Mark Arm, uh yeah, as grungy as it gets.

[BmillsSkier]

I don't consider Corgan and Smashing Pumpkins "grunge", definitely part of the early '90s alternative rock scene but not "grunge". Mark Arm, uh yeah, as grungy as it gets.

Exactly my point/joke.

Billy being Billy, (at least up until this nicer side showed up in the past year) would argue his relevance to being "one of the remaining" alongside Vedder.

It's just who he is - And I'm a big fan.

[Mofro261]

I keep meaning to start a Mark Lanegan appreciation thread, his vocals along with Cornell's are the two that stick out the most for me from that era. And his solo work and new stuff continues to blow me away. I'd almost put Greg Dulli up there too.
I lost interest in Smashing Pumpkins somewhere after Gish, Siamese Dream was meh and I flat out couldnt listen to what they'd become by Melencollie.

[HankScorpio]

From reading the various articles the whole thing sounds strange. He was active on social media, looked great at the show the night before with no indications of weirdness. "He was found unresponsive on the bathroom floor" in his room at the MGM casino in Detroit with a "band around his neck". The perverted mind goes to some sort of auto-asphyxia sexual adventure gone bad. Such a bummer. Leaves 3 kids and a wife behind.

I knew all those guys way back when too. Blah blah blah.

This is what has been bugging me all day.

You can't get inside someone's head but Cornell had a wife and kids he posted about, a consistently good career, no drug problems (anymore) and he kills him self in the middle of a tour. Doesn't make any sense.

He'll be missed, that's for damn sure

[Buster Highmen]

I keep meaning to start a Mark Lanegan appreciation thread, his vocals along with Cornell's are the two that stick out the most for me from that era. And his solo work and new stuff continues to blow me away. I'd almost put Greg Dulli up there too.

Yup, Screaming Trees in that era were core.

I lost interest in Smashing Pumpkins somewhere after Gish, Siamese Dream was meh and I flat out couldnt listen to what they'd become by Melencollie.

I was surprised at how much talent Corgan had in his hair.

[MagnificentUnicorn]

First time I saw Screaming Trees was in Anacortes at the Depot. First time I took acid too. The brothers Conner were huge.

[FLS]

Really really sad to hear. Rest in peace Chris. Condolences to his family and friends.

[AK47bp]

Billy Corgan would be vehemently disagree with you.

Yea. Maybe Siamese Dream. Mudhoney wasn't in the same fame level as Nirvana, Alice In Chains, Soundgarden, Pearl Jam in my opinion. But yea, they were good.

[Mofro261]

Yea. Maybe Siamese Dream. Mudhoney wasn't in the same fame level as Nirvana, Alice In Chains, Soundgarden, Pearl Jam in my opinion. But yea, they were good.

I saw more Mudhoney shows than probably all those others combined. They never really broke through so they kept playing the cheap dive bars.

[abraham]

they've been playing a tribute all morning on the radio, been doing songs in order of last nights set list on kexp for the last hr.

Link to accessible replay from their archives: http://kexp.org/archive

I caught a few bits of this driving around today. There was a great Black Sabbath cover that I never heard before

[ACH]

they've been playing a tribute all morning on the radio, been doing songs in order of last nights set list on kexp for the last hr.

Link to accessible replay from their archives: http://kexp.org/archive

Thanks for posting, listening to it now...

RIP Chris, I hope you are in a better place now.

I keep meaning to start a Mark Lanegan appreciation thread, his vocals along with Cornell's are the two that stick out the most for me from that era. And his solo work and new stuff continues to blow me away. I'd almost put Greg Dulli up there too.
I lost interest in Smashing Pumpkins somewhere after Gish, Siamese Dream was meh and I flat out couldnt listen to what they'd become by Melencollie.

Also on that list for me, Layne Staley...

[BmillsSkier]

This is what has been bugging me all day.

You can't get inside someone's head but Cornell had a wife and kids he posted about, a consistently good career, no drug problems (anymore) and he kills him self in the middle of a tour. Doesn't make any sense.

He'll be missed, that's for damn sure

Yeah, from the casual, admittedly uninformed view it doesn't make any sense.

The comments from the photog at last night's show are eerie.

http://detroit.cbslocal.com/2017/05/...death-detroit/

Saw this recent interview posted today as well

http://loudwire.com/chris-cornell-te...k-hall-status/

Just seems like he had so much going on and was excited about it all.

How much you wanna bet there's a Soundgarden nomination for the Rock Hall next year?

Yup, Screaming Trees in that era were core.

I believe I'll be hearing them when I watch Singles tonight.

I was surprised at how much talent Corgan had in his hair.

Bwah! I tuned them out for a good decade after Iha and Chamberlain left the band (Chamberlain is the driving talent in their music imho) but caught them a couple years ago in a small venue and then again last year in a really small venue - with Iha and Chamberlain back - and they rocked. Like 1994 all over again. None of that weird shit they veered off to those years in the desert.

Even played Gish all the way through and really relished playing the old stuff. It was a kick ass show.

So yeah, the rogaine must be working.

[wolfelot]

So sorry to hear this.

[AK47bp]

'memba Candelbox?

Now May-be

[BmillsSkier]

'memba Candelbox?

Now maybe...

EDIT: DAMNIT!!!