RIP Chris Cornell

Posted by: dayjay on 18 May 2017

 

Sad to hear that Chris Cornell, of Soundgarden and other groups, has passed away at the age of 52. 

Posted on: 18 May 2017 by iiyama

Terrible news, 52 is so young.

RIP

Posted on: 18 May 2017 by Dan43

Early US reporting, unverified, he was found in Hotel room after Concert in Detroit, early signs it is perhaps unfortunately suicide, real shame if true and 52 too young. 

http://www.clickondetroit.com/...at-age-52-in-detroit

 

Posted on: 18 May 2017 by dayjay

A sad thing in any event, at 52, but if it is indeed suicide then even sadder.  He was a great singer in some super bands and 52 is too young

Posted on: 18 May 2017 by james n

Great voice. Great music - RIP. 

Posted on: 18 May 2017 by Singlespeed

Was very sad to hear about Chris's passing today - RIP & keep on rocking!

Posted on: 18 May 2017 by ianrobertm

So sad. Seems its now confirmed that he killed himself.

'In my time of dying, want nobody to mourn..
All I want for you to do is take my body home..'

Posted on: 18 May 2017 by lyndon

Very shocked and saddened 

seen him with Soundgarden loads of times, although I slightly preferred Audioslave 

a few years ago at Donnington a group of people well up the front had a banner which read "We've come all the way from Seattle just to see Soundgarden "

lyndon

 

Posted on: 18 May 2017 by CSI_Basel

Another tough day when the musical heroes of my youth are departing this plane of reality.... there have been too many days like this recently!

All the singers from Nirvana, Alice in Chains, Stone Temple Pilots and now Soundgarden are no more....only Eddie Veder from Pearl Jam is left from the Seattle grunge scene. 

Posted on: 18 May 2017 by spurrier sucks

https://youtu.be/Hg7qw31xeXk

Posted on: 19 May 2017 by Adam Zielinski

I was stunned yesterday (still am...).  Grunge was part of my youth, still represents a significant part of the music I play with my band.
Creative daemons claimed yet another life - much too early, much too early...

The Great Gig In The Sky just got better....

Posted on: 19 May 2017 by lyndon

Adam 

very much with you there, it was Soundgarden by having that crossover between metal and grunge that re-kindled my interest in the early 90's

of course we all knew Nirvana and Alice

it was only after Soundgarden that I started delving deeper and found the likes of The Melvins and Mudhoney and so I kept on looking and ended up back to 1960 with The Sonics - arguably the start of Grunge 

if anyone wants to argue check out 

The Witch by The Sonics 1960

lyndon