RIP Chris Cornell

GW12074

And all my love and support to Matt, Jeff, and PJ.  We have some idea how tough this is for you.

morello

"Slaves & Bulldozers" came on my music on the bus home from work this evening & the tears came back. So sad to think that's the last song he played(I think I have that right) :'-(

giventofly69

I'm still feeling so out of sorts about this ...
Sad about the loss, grateful for his gift of music to us, heartbroken for his family and close friends.

cp3iverson

Its affecting me weirdly.  Even the gossip has just bummed me out to the point where im not wanting to listen to certain stuff. Been playing a ton of SG and Cornell tho.  

PJammer4life

Jerry Cantrell kinda nailed it when he said Cornell was the "last guy in the world I thought that would happen to. That's not the way that book was supposed to end. And it was not the way that book was going."

RS65573

Im a member of both the SG and CC fanclubs as well, and I guess that just goes away...this summer, effing sucks.

Merkin Baller

RS65573 said:

Im a member of both the SG and CC fanclubs as well, and I guess that just goes away...this summer, effing sucks.

That's been a hard thing for me to accept. After the TOTD tour last fall, it wasn't unreasonable to think these guys could do more - I believe Chris even said they may do more tour dates, and all that's out the window. That's hard enough to take as a fan, I can't imagine how his SG bandmates are feeling. In addition to losing a friend/ bandmate etc. they've also permanently had the plug pulled on the band & its future. Like Nirvana, SG can't go on without him, that's the end of it. (maybe we'll get some unreleased material, or some live releases, but no more tours, no more new albums, no future - that's got to be brutal)
I imagine it's a tough pill to swallow on top of losing someone you've worked with for over 30 years - granted, they did take an approximate 12 year hiatus, but they've been back together for a solid 7 or 8 years, and as far as I know there was no reason to think their future wasn't bright.

I understand, this all pales in comparison to the loss the family is feeling, but it's definitely another aspect to what a tragedy this is.

2-feign-reluctance

Mike really said it for all of us last night. "Stop fucking dying".

HughFreakingDillon

2-feign-reluctance said:

Mike really said it for all of us last night. "Stop fucking dying".

where did he say that?

HughFreakingDillon

disclaimer: the following post is pure selfishness and pales to the loss his family and friends feel.

part of it for me is the loss of possibilities. TOTD. Soundgarden. Solo. He played Mad Season and TOTD songs with DUFF MCKAGAN OF GUNS N ROSES. 20 years ago the idea of them sharing a stage would have seemed laughable. he has recorded with Slash, Santana, Timbaland. The possibilities to his creativity were endless. Really, honestly, endless. I was always so excited to find out what he was going to to do next, even if I didn't always like it. With our other heroes, it's usually pretty much all the same stuff. Same bands, same bit players and collaborations. Chris was different. He'd work with anybody on anything. 

I was really, really looking forward to more TOTD dates and possible music.

Gern Blansten

Merkin Baller said:

RS65573 said:

Im a member of both the SG and CC fanclubs as well, and I guess that just goes away...this summer, effing sucks.

That's been a hard thing for me to accept. After the TOTD tour last fall, it wasn't unreasonable to think these guys could do more - I believe Chris even said they may do more tour dates, and all that's out the window. That's hard enough to take as a fan, I can't imagine how his SG bandmates are feeling. In addition to losing a friend/ bandmate etc. they've also permanently had the plug pulled on the band & its future. Like Nirvana, SG can't go on without him, that's the end of it. (maybe we'll get some unreleased material, or some live releases, but no more tours, no more new albums, no future - that's got to be brutal)
I imagine it's a tough pill to swallow on top of losing someone you've worked with for over 30 years - granted, they did take an approximate 12 year hiatus, but they've been back together for a solid 7 or 8 years, and as far as I know there was no reason to think their future wasn't bright.

I understand, this all pales in comparison to the loss the family is feeling, but it's definitely another aspect to what a tragedy this is.

I think we'll see a final SG album...

2-feign-reluctance

HughFreakingDillon said:

2-feign-reluctance said:

Mike really said it for all of us last night. "Stop fucking dying".

where did he say that?

KEXP live stream on Facebook last night re: his new Poloroid book.

2-feign-reluctance

The host told him he was sorry for his loss, and Mike said something to the effect that he was sorry for 'our loss' as well. It was an unexpected moment - could tell he struggled especially when they showed pics of Layne and Chris.

HughFreakingDillon

wish I had known about that. 

2-feign-reluctance

HughFreakingDillon said:

wish I had known about that. 

It was more helpful than I'd imagined - unexpectedly so, to hear him say a few things and echo a shared sentiment. A shared cathartic moment for me and maybe others. I logged onto Facebook and it alerted me of the event. I had to turn off the comments though - man there are some annoying and weird fans out there.

HughFreakingDillon

2-feign-reluctance said:

HughFreakingDillon said:

wish I had known about that. 

It was more helpful than I'd imagined - unexpectedly so, to hear him say a few things and echo a shared sentiment. A shared cathartic moment for me and maybe others. I logged onto Facebook and it alerted me of the event. I had to turn off the comments though - man there are some annoying and weird fans out there.

usually those facebook live things are viewable afterwards too. I'll have to see. Thanks Chris. 

2-feign-reluctance

HughFreakingDillon said:

2-feign-reluctance said:

HughFreakingDillon said:

wish I had known about that. 

It was more helpful than I'd imagined - unexpectedly so, to hear him say a few things and echo a shared sentiment. A shared cathartic moment for me and maybe others. I logged onto Facebook and it alerted me of the event. I had to turn off the comments though - man there are some annoying and weird fans out there.

usually those facebook live things are viewable afterwards too. I'll have to see. Thanks Chris. 

: )

OnWis97

HughFreakingDillon said:

disclaimer: the following post is pure selfishness and pales to the loss his family and friends feel.

part of it for me is the loss of possibilities. TOTD. Soundgarden. Solo. He played Mad Season and TOTD songs with DUFF MCKAGAN OF GUNS N ROSES. 20 years ago the idea of them sharing a stage would have seemed laughable. he has recorded with Slash, Santana, Timbaland. The possibilities to his creativity were endless. Really, honestly, endless. I was always so excited to find out what he was going to to do next, even if I didn't always like it. With our other heroes, it's usually pretty much all the same stuff. Same bands, same bit players and collaborations. Chris was different. He'd work with anybody on anything. 

I was really, really looking forward to more TOTD dates and possible music.

That's how I feel and it's OK to look at it selfishly...there's no question that this is my worst celebrity death ever for selfish reasons.  I was looking forward to some of the same stuff...I was at the Wisconsin festival five days before he died thinking about a short festival setlist and how I looked forward to seeing Soundgarden headline a "regular" show, hopefully in the not-to-distant future.  The little hints about the possibility of an Audioslave tour (I never saw them), hope for more TOTD (my midwestern location hurt for that one), more SG, more solo shows.  Most of my sorrow comes from the degree to which I was a fan and the fact that I lost a lot more from this death than any other death of a person I don't know.  And it's OK to feel that way.  For the stuff that really matters (family and friends), this is no sadder than Paul Walker or John Ritter.  And I get that.  But I did not really lose anything from those and I don't think humans have the capacity to feel deep loss/sorrow for the loved ones every time they hear about someone's death.  

Because I'm a fan, I'm sad for the way he felt much of his life (and that I assumed everything was A-OK) but I'm also sad for my own loss.  I say that with no guilt; we're humans.

RS65573

Because I'm a fan, I'm sad for the way he felt much of his life (and that I assumed everything was A-OK) ...

Well said, I like that.

HughFreakingDillon

OnWis97 said:

HughFreakingDillon said:

disclaimer: the following post is pure selfishness and pales to the loss his family and friends feel.

part of it for me is the loss of possibilities. TOTD. Soundgarden. Solo. He played Mad Season and TOTD songs with DUFF MCKAGAN OF GUNS N ROSES. 20 years ago the idea of them sharing a stage would have seemed laughable. he has recorded with Slash, Santana, Timbaland. The possibilities to his creativity were endless. Really, honestly, endless. I was always so excited to find out what he was going to to do next, even if I didn't always like it. With our other heroes, it's usually pretty much all the same stuff. Same bands, same bit players and collaborations. Chris was different. He'd work with anybody on anything. 

I was really, really looking forward to more TOTD dates and possible music.

That's how I feel and it's OK to look at it selfishly...there's no question that this is my worst celebrity death ever for selfish reasons.  I was looking forward to some of the same stuff...I was at the Wisconsin festival five days before he died thinking about a short festival setlist and how I looked forward to seeing Soundgarden headline a "regular" show, hopefully in the not-to-distant future.  The little hints about the possibility of an Audioslave tour (I never saw them), hope for more TOTD (my midwestern location hurt for that one), more SG, more solo shows.  Most of my sorrow comes from the degree to which I was a fan and the fact that I lost a lot more from this death than any other death of a person I don't know.  And it's OK to feel that way.  For the stuff that really matters (family and friends), this is no sadder than Paul Walker or John Ritter.  And I get that.  But I did not really lose anything from those and I don't think humans have the capacity to feel deep loss/sorrow for the loved ones every time they hear about someone's death.  

Because I'm a fan, I'm sad for the way he felt much of his life (and that I assumed everything was A-OK) but I'm also sad for my own loss.  I say that with no guilt; we're humans.

I kind of lashed out at my wife a little saying "see! I should have gone to see TOTD when I had the chance!". They came nowhere near Winnipeg, and it would have been a big expense to travel to it. But if there was one bucket list band for me, that was it. I really wanted to see SG again as well, but I did get to see them in 1995. AND was backstage and met Matt. 

Thanks for the comments. Makes a lot of sense.