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Chris Cornell dead at 52

#1 Post by bman » Thu May 18, 2017 6:08 am

Fuck! He was on tour and possible suicide?

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#2 Post by kv » Thu May 18, 2017 6:24 am

Aww that sucks

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#3 Post by guysmiley » Thu May 18, 2017 6:40 am

Fuck..... :nyrexall:

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#5 Post by Pandemonium » Thu May 18, 2017 7:29 am

Jeeze, what shitty news to wake up to today.

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#6 Post by JOEinPHX » Thu May 18, 2017 11:33 am

Yep. Suicide.

WTF.

I am just so at a loss for words.

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#7 Post by Pandemonium » Thu May 18, 2017 12:06 pm

I saw Soundgarden during the 2nd Lollapalooza run and Audioslave during their 3rd album tour. Cornell wasn't 100% during that Audioslave show but he was still pretty fucking amazing and I consider him to have been among the very best hard rock singers of the past 25-30 years. He had an instantly recognizable, really powerful voice. "You Know My Name" from the "Casino Royale" opening credits is my favorite Bond theme. Unlike a lot of artists these days, he was always putting out a record or touring on his own or with whatever band he was in at any given time. Just a really prolific guy. Of all the so-called grunge icons, he was the person I figured would be around until old age, even outliving Eddie Vedder.

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#9 Post by farrellgirl99 » Thu May 18, 2017 1:59 pm

so sad. one of my favorite voices. superunknown is one of my favorite albums.

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#10 Post by blackula » Thu May 18, 2017 7:23 pm

Great voice. Such a reminder that depression can impact anyone. He was on tour. No shitty YouTube clips went viral. No OD's. Guy kept cranking shit out and performing live. Maybe I'm naive but I'd never expect this from a dude with such a continuous output that looked so healthy. Sad for his family.

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#11 Post by JOEinPHX » Thu May 18, 2017 7:29 pm

I decided to listen to some Soundgarden today. I put on my favorite album: Down on the Upside.

1st song: Pretty Noose. :nyrexall:

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#12 Post by kv » Thu May 18, 2017 9:17 pm

Chris Cornell ended the last performanc ... index.html

Damn he closed the show with Led Zeppelin's "in my time of dying"

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#13 Post by SR » Fri May 19, 2017 6:42 am

I am reading reports that are citing that CC had a prescription for Ativan. Benzos are not usually prescribed for admitted junkies or alcoholics except in the immediate stages of weaning off of intense cocaine use (or other uppers) or alc withdrawals. One of the reports quotes his wife as saying that in a conversation with CC, he mentioned that he may have taken one or two more Ativans than normal and his speech was slurred. Who knows if any of this is true, but I know of no physicians that would prescribe this med or type of med to a junkie or alky. Mine certainly wouldn't....ever.

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#14 Post by Warped » Fri May 19, 2017 7:59 am

Just read that too. I am so incredible touched by this. Cried a lot today.

So that would make sense to me as i still can't believe that he did that intentionally. Leave his kids and wife alone. No.
And then hanging himself - what a horrible way of taking your life....well if you are psychotic or something like that...maybe...

Well my hubby gets meds against depression too and one doctor told me that those meds can lead to psychosis ...other doctor said no. What can i believe? It is always a hard situation which can change from day to day.
Still its a pretty fucked up illness. The meds also make you tired all the time. I am happy my hubby is seeing his doctor/psychiatric at least once in two weeks until he gets therapy sessions which may take some time to begin as such sessions are not easy to get. :sad:

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#15 Post by Pandemonium » Fri May 19, 2017 10:13 am

Warped wrote:Just read that too. I am so incredible touched by this. Cried a lot today.

So that would make sense to me as i still can't believe that he did that intentionally. Leave his kids and wife alone. No.
And then hanging himself - what a horrible way of taking your life....well if you are psychotic or something like that...maybe...
This reminds me when the frontman for Big Country, Stuart Adamson committed suicide in much the same way. He had a wife and kids, had just finished a farewell tour with Big Country and just disappeared one day without explanation. His manager and bandmates were posting on the official website that he was missing and a week later, he was found in a hotel room in Hawaii dead from hanging himself. I don't think he left a note but in hindsight, there were signs he was suffering from long term depression.

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Re: Chris Cornell dead at 52

#16 Post by SR » Fri May 19, 2017 10:42 am

I fear that CC will become another surface level rallying point for right wing fear factory fucks for further defunding mental health rhetoric issues as a non issue ....drop dead gorgeous rock star, healthy, active, rich, famous, beautiful wife, beautiful family, talented....etc....irredeemable....dead.... :blah: :blah: :blah: :blah: Hope I'm wrong, but I put nothing past these cretins.

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#17 Post by SR » Fri May 19, 2017 12:17 pm

Heartbreakingly close to getting there in time.....

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/ ... th-w483238

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#18 Post by Larry B. » Fri May 19, 2017 12:40 pm

SR wrote:Heartbreakingly close to getting there in time.....

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/ ... th-w483238
Fuck. Just two hours after finishing the show. Some people might've still be in their cars on the way home, buzzing about the concert, and Chris was already dead in a hotel bathroom.

What a world we live in, people.

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#19 Post by SR » Fri May 19, 2017 1:04 pm

Less. He was onstage at 11:30 finishing the show and pronounced dead at 1:30. Apparently the doors were being broken down around 1 am. Hotel security delayed the entry (they had the key, but the chain latch was secured) because of privacy issues which the bodyguard/friend then ignored. Just minutes away. I dunno....it just makes it seem that much more tragic to me. :noclue:

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#20 Post by Warped » Fri May 19, 2017 1:39 pm

That makes it even more tragic..how horrible for the wife on the phone...I can't imagine that...so fucking sad.

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#21 Post by Pandemonium » Fri May 19, 2017 4:10 pm

Perry via Twitter: "A shining voice in music has left us in the midnight. He was a complex and gentle soul #ChrisCornell has flown into the black hole sun."

Ugh.

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#22 Post by JOEinPHX » Fri May 19, 2017 5:47 pm

Pandemonium wrote:Perry via Twitter: "A shining voice in music has left us in the midnight. He was a complex and gentle soul #ChrisCornell has flown into the black hole sun."

Ugh.
I'm not surprised that is the only Soundgarden song that Perry knows.

There's no way that dude has listened to a rock song since he started dating Etty.

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#23 Post by kv » Fri May 19, 2017 6:24 pm

That just looks written with the intent of making entertainment tonight or some shit :essence:

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#24 Post by creep » Fri May 19, 2017 7:01 pm

Yeah that was sort of cheesy but I thought this was a decent tribute and pretty coherent for Perry.
Jane’s Addiction’s Perry Farrell Remembers ‘Super Talent’ Chris Cornell (EXCLUSIVE)

Chris Cornell, singer for Soundgarden and Audioslave, died on Wednesday night in Detroit. Jane’s Addiction’s frontman Perry Farrell spoke to Variety contributor Steve Baltin about his longtime friend and contemporary.

I first met Chris Cornell in 1992. It was the first time Soundgarden played Lollapalooza, and at that time, I was in Porno for Pyros and they didn’t know who I was. The band was walking to their hotel room, they were about to get into their elevator and just to f— with them, I bumrushed the elevator, going, “Oh, man, it’s Soundgarden.” And I jumped into their elevator just to freak them out and Chris goes, “Oh, I thought you were one of them.” We had a good laugh about that.

Chris was one of the most talented singers of my life, and f—ing good looking. I was envious as hell of his nose, what a great nose. [Laughs.] His eyes were great. His dad, I remember, was debonair — tall, handsome, had a cane, and wore a suit. I just thought, “Wow, what an incredible family.”

Then we became friends later on. Soundgarden had done Lolla two or three times, but Audioslave toured with us. They brought Lollapalooza back in 2003, so we again toured together and I got to know him a lot better on that tour. He brought his family out, he was newly married. We’d watch him every night and I used to marvel. … You know me, I’m a wild man on the stage flying all over the place, just trying to impress people. He stood there and the girls’ jaws would all be dropped, including my wife and the dancers we were traveling with.

I used to laugh, my wife would be like, “Oh, I really just want to hear this one song.” I’d kid around with her, like, “Oh, I think they are about to play your song, you better get out there.”

But the funniest memory I have of Chris goes back to Christmas time, maybe seven years ago. I’m in Culver City, [Calif.], of all places. It’s almost Christmas Eve, and I’m walking through a Toys “R” Us. Everything had been picked through. Nobody was really shopping because it was two hours before Christmas Eve and I see this guy — tall, super-handsome dude and he’s over picking through the girls’ section. I got my shopping cart and all my toys are for boys and there’s Chris, and his shopping cart has dolls and princess outfits. He’s looking at my shopping cart with baseball bats and footballs and he says to me, “I got the very last Sleeping Beauty Castle. Sold out.” He was so proud, he was trying to brag to me he got the very last fairy princess castle.

It’s such a bummer. There weren’t — and there aren’t still — very many that could sing the way Chris can. Certainly very few rock performers, and even pop performers. People just don’t have it, that’s a God-given talent. In addition to that, he had this coolness about him, which made him even more compelling for women, but it was very natural.

I don’t know what did Chris in, but I hope he’s in a good place now. He was a super talent and the world should be happy they got to hear him. To anyone reading this: listen today to “Black Hole Sun,” a song that reached a level that few groups achieve. That was a song that I always loved.

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#25 Post by JOEinPHX » Fri May 19, 2017 7:48 pm

Dude can't go 5 minutes without mentioning his wife. :eyes:

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