Favorite Chris Cornell memory?
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I've got three in no specific order.
1994: backpacking through the new mexican desert for two weeks and I only could bring a few cassettes with my walkman. One of those tapes was super unknown by sound garden. At one point all 12 in the group were singing spoon man out loud in the middle of nowhere lol.
last year at msg as temple of the dog. chris brought it that night. I was amazed at his voice, it sounded so good.
Another favorite memory was traveling through wyoming, montana, idaho and colorado in 93. Again lots of cassette tapes but birth ritual and seasons from the singles soundtrack were played over and over and over again. Chris's voice was intense.
I've got three in no specific order.
1994: backpacking through the new mexican desert for two weeks and I only could bring a few cassettes with my walkman. One of those tapes was super unknown by sound garden. At one point all 12 in the group were singing spoon man out loud in the middle of nowhere lol.
last year at msg as temple of the dog. chris brought it that night. I was amazed at his voice, it sounded so good.
Another favorite memory was traveling through wyoming, montana, idaho and colorado in 93. Again lots of cassette tapes but birth ritual and seasons from the singles soundtrack were played over and over and over again. Chris's voice was intense.
I'll ride the wave where it takes me......
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Audioslave absolutely destroying MSG in 2005
PJ20 ToTD sets were a great surprise
ToTD at MSG was one of the best shows I ever saw
2010: Newark 5/18 MSG 5/20-21 2011: PJ20 9/3-4 2012: Made In America 9/2
2013: Brooklyn 10/18-19 Philly 10/21-22 Hartford 10/25 2014: ACL10/12
2015: NYC 9/23 2016: Tampa 4/11 Philly 4/28-29 MSG 5/1-2 Fenway 8/5+8/7
2017: RRHoF 4/7 2018: Fenway 9/2+9/4 2021: Sea Hear Now 9/18
2022: MSG 9/11 2024: MSG 9/3-4 Philly 9/7+9/9 Fenway 9/15+9/17
2025: Pittsburgh 5/16+5/18
Only saw him live once. Soundgarden played the Orpheum in Boston back in 2013. Wish I could say I enjoyed it more than I did. My fault. We had been watching football and bar hopping all day. By showtime I was spent.
Always figured I would get another chance...
"...I changed by not changing at all..."
in 2015, at the same venue in Delaware, I took the poster I bought at the AC show, and waited outside again all day. When he was almost there a big crowd developed and everyone was blocked off by security and I thought I was screwed. Right before he arrived, one of the security guys said "everyone back, except for you..he knows about you". He walked by with his sunglasses on at 8 PM, 30 minutes before show time, stopped, said hi, thanked me, and signed my poster. This meant the fucking world to me and I'd wait again if I had the opportunity. The poster is my prized possession and is proudly displayed in my house.
TOTD at the MSG was absolutely amazing.
Hearing Seasons live is one of my all time favorite concert moments!
The White Stripes were suppose to play in philly in July 2003 but cancelled. Few days later at Lollapalooza, Auidioslave covered "Seven Nation Army". He never said why they played it but after the show I was talking with a friend and told him I think they covered it cause of the cancellation. Did see Audioslave a few months before at the Electric Factory which was pretty awesome. I think after the second song started (I think it was Set it Off), I may have started a "mosh pit". Last time i saw them was in '05 in Camden. Fun show got to hear them cover 3 Soundgarden songs and 3 RATM songs including Sleep Now in the Fire which is my fav song from them. They also played at least one (maybe two) songs off Revelations which wasn't even out yet. Unfortunately I can't remember/find out what songs they were. I want to say Sound of a Gun though.
Never saw Soundgarden in the 90's but did catch them twice after they got back together. First show was in 2011 which was cool, although the second time i saw them in 2013 I thought they sounded better.
Never did see him perform solo which I'm kinda bummed about.
10/31/09- Philly
5/21/10- NYC
9/2/12- Philly, PA
7/19/13- Wrigley
10/19/13- Brooklyn, NY
10/21/13- Philly, PA
10/22/13- Philly, PA
10/27/13- Baltimore, MD
4/28/16- Philly, PA
4/29/16- Philly, PA
5/1/16- NYC
5/2/16- NYC
9/2/18- Boston, MA
9/4/18- Boston, MA
9/14/22- Camden, NJ
9/7/24- Philly, PA
9/9/24- Philly, PA
Eddie Vedder- 6/25/11- Philly, PA
RNDM- 3/9/16- Philly, PA
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Still not sure how this happened, but I won a contest through his fan club, and won a meet and greet with Chris before his last Benaroya solo show. I normally don't get star struck, but this was different, I was meeting my hero. This guy was part of the soundtrack of my youth. I tried to say "Really nice to meet you, I'm a huge fan". It came out as some mumbled mess of words nobody could understand.
"Looks like we have a drinker" Chris said with a smile.
After I was able to pull myself together and put together sentences, we talked about how Seattle had evolved. He couldn't have been nicer. I remember him saying he would always remember Seattle like it was in the John Wayne movie McQ. We talked about the classic cars we wanted to own. I remember him saying Seattle would always be home.
I've been crying all day.
I totally forgot about pj20 night 2...duh lol.
My best friend Dennis and I listened to the same mix tape on the bus on the way to school every day. And every day, we listened to My Wave and The Day I Tried To Live without fail. Soundgarden was a massive part of the soundtrack of my life, and will be for as long as I live.
i feel so so fortunate to have seen a Soundgarden performance in Las Vegas in 2014. Chris' voice always blew me away - but to hear him live and in person was unforgettable. They performed every song I ever wanted them to play that night. It was glorious. We will never again hear a voice like Chris', and that's something I will forever miss.
I missed a Pearl Jam show in L.A. in 2009. I had just returned from a business trip in Hawaii and I had the opportunity to drive straight to Los Angeles and see PJ the next day - but I was so exhausted. This was the show where Chris came out on stage and sang probably the most unique version of Hunger Strike that I had ever heard. This was the show where Matt, Kim, Ben and Chris huddled backstage and started the gears moving on a Soundgarden reunion. I wasn't there, but I always think of the show I missed that became truly legendary.
His influence on so many other artists - including Eddie - is incalculable. I can't imagine where he was in his own mind last night to do something so final...
We all can get down, and there are a lot of us who know the sadness, who know the depression, and have not yet let it get the best of us. We all get bad days, and we all get worse days. Sometimes it's minute to minute. I get that. I really do. No matter how bad it gets, live for the next day. Live for your friends. Live for your family. Live for the moments you've not yet experienced. Live for the people you have not yet met. You are needed here so much more than you could ever fathom. If you need help, please talk to someone. It's ok if you need help - we all do. There's nothing wrong with reaching out. Please take care of yourselves, friends. Theres a lot of love here. We need you.
We are going to miss you so much, Chris. A big part of us died with you, today. You never knew me, but you were there for me when I needed you. Thank you so much, Chris. We miss you.
6/29/06 - Milwaukee, WI
9/25/11 - Vancouver, BC
11/4/12 - (Eddie Vedder) Phoenix, AZ
11/1/13 - New Orleans, LA
11/19/13 - Phoenix, AZ
11/21/13 - San Diego, CA
10/12/14 - Austin, TX
10/22/14 - Denver, CO
8/22/16 - Chicago, IL (Wrigley 2)
5/9/22 - Glendale, AZ
5/18/24 - Las Vegas, NV
I was a little too young to see Soundgarden back in the 90s, so I was incredibly excited when they reformed and toured back in 2011. Having already seen him numerous times solo and previously with Audioslave, it was amazing to see Soundgarden back together and cranking on all cylinders. Ended up seeing SG 10 times since then, and after witnessing the TOTD reunion at PJ20, was so excited when their tour was announced last summer. Was incredibly lucky to snag Seattle tickets in the pre-sale, and it was a dream come true to finally get up there for a show. Trip was a long time coming and couldn't have been a better experience.
RIP Chris
2003 - Champaign, IL
2006 - Chicago, IL 1 & 2
2007 - Chicago, IL Lollapalooza
2009 - Chicago, IL 1 & 2
2010 - St. Louis, MO
2011 - East Troy, WI 1 & 2 (PJ20 Destination Weekend)
2012 - Atlanta, GA, Missoula, MT
2013 - Chicago, IL (Wrigley Field), Dallas, TX, Oklahoma City, OK
2014 - St. Louis, MO, Tulsa, OK, Moline, IL (No Code, IL), Saint Paul, MN, Milwaukee, WI (Yield, WI)
2016 - Greenville, SC (Vs, SC), Raleigh, NC, Columbia, SC, Boston, MA (Fenway Park 1), Chicago, IL (Wrigley Field 1 & 2)
2022 - Nashville, TN, St. Louis, MO, Oklahoma City, OK, Phoenix, AZ, Las Vegas, NV
2023 - St. Paul, MN 2, Fort Worth, TX 2, Austin, TX 1, and Austin, TX 2
2014 - Soundgarden Tinley Park, IL (with Nine Inch Nails)
2017 - Soundgarden Dallas (cancelled) RIP Chris Cornell
2023 - Jerry Cantrell Milwaukee, WI
damn
Then on may 17th last year, I was on holiday in Rome, when a couple passed me, the guy looked down at my Pearl Jam t-shirt, smirked a bit, looked at me and nodded ... 8.97 nanoseconds later I said to my friend: I'm pretty sure that was Chris Cornell, who just passed us.
So we ran after the couple and catching up to them, I stuttered: Excuse me, but are you Chris Cornell? Then the man said in the soothest of voices: ... Yeah! And I was blown away. I shook his hand and thanked him for the tunes, the shows and told him how much I loved his rendition of 'One' with Metallica's lyrics.
I remember how well he smelled, and how his (beautiful) wife kept looking at him with such pride ...
Afterwards there were so many things I wanted to tell him and ask him. I remember we kept our eyes out for him for the rest of the trip, but alas.
Then one year and one day this happens ...
I can´t believe there will be no more memories of him on stage, so so sad.
Pj20. I remember the buzz that weekend about just maybe a totd reunion. Then there were sightings, then Jesus walked out on stage. The chills and excitement I had. Say hello 2 heaven still haunts me from that weekend. What a killer show.
Totd at the garden!!! War pigs!!!
Taking my nephew to see soundgarden. I'm just rocking out and he didn't care a lick but he loved nin. Someday he will appreciate me taking him. He just doesn't know it yet.
-my dad after hearing Not for You for the first time on SNL .
Favourite memory would be seeing him on the Songbook tour in Wellington and hearing Sunshower live. And again on the Higher Truth tour with the amazing cellist on Fell On Black Days.
Sorry if this turns into a bit of a ramble, it's taking a while to write this and I'm just trying to get words out. I saw Soundgarden at the Reading Festival in 95. I've posted about this show a few times over the years but I still say that it was one of the all-time greatest festival line ups for me. So many of my favourite bands at the time in one place. Soundgarden were the penultimate band on the Sunday night - they played after Mudhoney and Pavement, and right before Neil Young and Pearl Jam (the last of the Mirrorball shows)
There was a power failure during Pavement's set. Some of the band took to jousting with drumsticks to keep us/themselves entertained while we waited for SG and then NeilJam. To be honest, it wasn't the best SG show. I remember it starting with Searching With My Good Eye Closed, then everyone going fucking mental when "Let Me Drown" was followed by Spoonman so early in the set. After that it was kind of flat; there was little energy from the crowd after Spoonman and I think the band could feel that. It was strange, almost like they didn't want to be there at times. This was also the first (and I think only?) time they ever played Kristi live. Of course we didn't know that at the time (it was only years later when I got hold of a bootleg that I realised that the song nobody had heard before was a one off) but it was a bit of a set killer at a festival.
But... this still counts as one of my favourite Chris Cornell memories because he was part of one of the greatest weekends of my life and nothing can ever change that. 18 years old, just finished school, with a bunch of friends at a festival far from home. 5 or 6 tents in a circle around a camp fire, with 24 packs of beer for seats, drinking and singing until the sun came back up. We were completely free, at a turning point in our lives. Some of them went to university a month or so later, there are 1 or 2 that I haven't seen since because life just got in the way. Sadly one is no longer with us - a good friend that died alone in the same way that Chris just did.
There were so many great frontmen/women at that festival to soundtrack this time of our lives. Shannon Hoon, Neil Young, Beck, Billy Corgan, a fairly nervous Dave Grohl at an early Foos show, even Courtney Love at her messiest was entertaining. And Chris Cornell was like a fucking god to me in 95. Even though I was a bit disappointed in the set, it was still an experience I'll always have. It was hard to take your eyes off him; he just had something else, even amongst all of the other singers on that bill that weekend.
Rest in peace Chris.
(Jeff Tweedy, Sydney 2007)
“Put yer good money on the sunrise”
(Tim Rogers)
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The humanity of a superstar -- and as JimmyV mentioned, this came through so strongly during the PJ20 movie.
Some people are more "real" than others -- and everything I saw showing CC displayed a very true person.
Sometimes reality is a real fucking kick to the nuts.
So sorry for his family.
i never really noticed how tall Chris was until i saw him standing next to ed at pj20! Lol
2 days later I had 104 fever and pneumonia....still totally worth it!