More news about Chris Cornell

Mayfly

I thought all of the CC Lovers/Haters might find this interesting.

This is from the DavidCookOfficial.com web site (David Cook is this seasons American Idol) regarding his new single that's about to be released...

"Light On” was co-written by one of rock music’s most influential innovators, Chris Cornell, lead singer and songwriter for Soundgarden and Audioslave, and acclaimed producer / songwriter Brian Howes, who has worked with superstar rock bands such as Hinder and Puddle of Mudd.


I don't know if this is good or bad (for either of them) but I thought I'd share.

Brain Of E

LOL, what did he join the Big Brothers program.

Marie Curie

It's funny because it seems he didn't write any songs on his new album, but he is writing music for this american idol guy...

eyedclaar

While still disappointing, in wake of recent events, this is probably about the classiest move he’s pulled in some time.

dunkman

eyedclaar wrote:

While still disappointing, in wake of recent events, this is probably about the classiest move he’s pulled in some time.

is it classier than the guy in here who started a thread saying he couldnt believe someone would get time off work because her dog had died the night before?

mole1985

dunkman wrote:

is it classier than the guy in here who started a thread saying he couldnt believe someone would get time off work because her dog had died the night before?

God no i hate that guy.......

OffHeGoes132

dunkman wrote:

is it classier than the guy in here who started a thread saying he couldnt believe someone would get time off work because her dog had died the night before?

Someone actually said/posted that? That's fucked up....

eyedclaar

mole1985 wrote:

God no i hate that guy.......

How could anyone hate Dunk? That's downright unamerican... wait, that's probably not quite right but still... Sure, he's the kind of guy you'd like to catch sleeping so you could fill his eyelids with rock salt, but hate? Why don't we save that for CC and his street team.

eyedclaar

OffHeGoes132 wrote:

Someone actually said/posted that? That's fucked up....

Total psycho! He once threatened to push down my new born kitten.

mole1985

eyedclaar wrote:

How could anyone hate Dunk? That's downright unamerican... wait, that's probably not quite right but still... Sure, he's the kind of guy you'd like to catch sleeping so you could fill his eyelids with rock salt, but hate? Why don't we save that for CC and his street team.

Just to be clear i was joking.

eyedclaar

mole1985 wrote:

Just to be clear i was joking.

Hey me too. What a small world this is...

OffHeGoes132

Whoops! *a tad embarrASSed* Anywho, back to Cornell. Yea, the new website sucks like everything else that has come down the pike this year concerning Chrissy Cornelli.

Marie Curie

Chris Cornell, Timbaland Announce Dates For West Coast Tour
Former Soundgarden/ Audioslave singer will play upcoming solo album, Scream, in its entirety.

Erstwhile Soundgarden and Audioslave frontman Chris Cornell will be hitting the road next month with the unlikely collaborator from his forthcoming solo LP — producer du jour Timbaland — for a string of eight live gigs, the first of which is scheduled for October 17 in Denver.

The rocker, who worked with Timbaland on Scream over a six-month period, said the shows will be similar to those he played around the release of his first solo effort, 1999's Euphoria Morning.

"I wanted to get out and do some special shows for fans, where it's just the new record and introducing that live, which isn't really the first time I've done that," he said. "With Euphoria Morning, I played pretty much nothing but my first album for the first tour, and with the first Audioslave record, we toured for a year and did nothing but that record. This is also a very special record."

Cornell will not be playing any tracks from his previous offerings on this brief Verizon Wireless-sponsored West Coast run, which wraps in his hometown of Seattle November 2. Cornell plans on playing the entire LP, from the first note to the last, without any pauses between songs.

"This album, I think, needs to be performed from beginning to end, because on the record, once the music starts, it never stops," he explained. "So it's literally a situation where you start playing the record from the first song, and it's just an hour's worth of music that keeps going until it's done, and it's something that's difficult to present in this day and age. Everything is sound bites and one song at a time, and people sort of downloading one song at a time, and more than any album I've ever made, this is an album that's really designed to be listened to from beginning to end, in one sitting.

"I think the smartest thing for me to do is go out and perform it that way, so people get it, because people haven't really understood that yet," Cornell continued. "I've been talking about it in interviews, and people need to understand that it's a different thing. Musically, definitely, it's a departure, not only for me but maybe for anybody. People are asking me what kind of music it is, and there's no real answer for that."

Cornell's forthcoming disc sounds nothing like his fans might suspect. It mixes elements of hip-hop (compliments of Timbaland) and rock in a rather unique manner.

"The initial conception and perception of this record was mixing two worlds — rock and hip-hop, or beat-based music with fuzzy guitars," Cornell explained. "But it really isn't just that at all. It's a mixture of a lot of different influences."

Timbaland said he's "so excited to be on the road with Verizon and Chris," adding that he "can't wait for everyone to hear [this] great new music."

Over the weekend, Cornell was in Brooklyn, New York, shooting a video for "Ground Zero," a song inspired by the tragic events of September 11.

"To me, it's sort of about the lingering aspect of [9/11] that is used to kind of create support for things that haven't been very good for our country or the citizens of our country," said Cornell, who now resides in Paris. "I've felt like, with the Bush administration, whenever they're in crisis, they'll suddenly pull out a terror alert — a code-orange scenario, which I run into constantly, because I'm in airports so often. They don't ever have to say why, just that it's a matter of national security. And with the conservative right, part of the platform right now in the election is 'Be afraid of terror, be afraid of terrorists. Look at 9/11 — we need an administration and a president who knows how to go out, kick ass, take names and keep us safe.' That's what got us into Iraq in the first place. [That tactic] certainly helped, and I think [9/11 was] a key factor in Bush winning a second term. To me, the song is about how awful 9/11 was, but stresses that we've got to let go of that to move on peacefully."

Chris Cornell/ Timbaland tour dates, according to Cornell's publicist:

» 10/17 - Denver, CO @ Ogden Theatre
» 10/18 - Salt Lake City, UT @ Avalon Theater
» 10/19 - Tempe, AZ @ Marquee Theatre
» 10/24 - Las Vegas, NV @ The Joint at Hard Rock Hotel & Casino
» 10/25 - Los Angeles, CA @ House of Blues
» 10/26 - San Diego, CA @ House of Blues
» 10/31 - San Francisco, CA @ The Fillmore
» 11/2 - Seattle, WA @ The Showbox

http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1595394/20080922/story.jhtml

eyedclaar

Marie Curie wrote:

Timbaland said he's "so excited to be on the road with Verizon and Chris," adding that he "can't wait for everyone to hear [this] great new music."


http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1595394/20080922/story.jhtml

This is my favorite part. So, is Verizon an actual person now, possibly the synth player? Or maybe just an entity so evil they don't want to piss it off by not mentioning it.

NewDamage

Not playing any songs from his previous catalog eh? Well, that does it. His saving grace WAS his live shows.

And the David Cook song probably has something to do with Timbaland too. I don't believe Cornell can think without him anymore

dharma69

The new CC website is pretty...(even if you do get assaulted with "Ground Zero" upon entrance.)


"Hey, this is Cornell. Welcome to my new website! This is the place to go to find out what I'm doing, where I will be appearing, and hear new songs from "Scream" before anybody else does.

Don't be surprised if I rant on this site. I have been keeping my mouth shut for a while about a lot of things that I intend to smear all over the pages of my new site with you, the viewers as Victim.

Enjoy!

Peace+CC"

OffHeGoes132

The final show for the Verizon tour wraps in Seattle......I wonder how his hometown fans will digest the new tunes??? Not so good I imagine....

eyedclaar

dharma69 wrote:

The new CC website is pretty...(even if you do get assaulted with "Ground Zero" upon entrance.)


"Hey, this is Cornell. Welcome to my new website! This is the place to go to find out what I'm doing, where I will be appearing, and hear new songs from "Scream" before anybody else does.

Don't be surprised if I rant on this site. I have been keeping my mouth shut for a while about a lot of things that I intend to smear all over the pages of my new site with you, the viewers as Victim.

Enjoy!

Peace+CC"

Is the nazi board back up and running as well?

NewDamage

OffHeGoes132 wrote:

The final show for the Verizon tour wraps in Seattle......I wonder how his hometown fans will digest the new tunes??? Not so good I imagine....

Man would I love to see that! Cornell will probably have screeners at the doors, not letting anyone in who knows pre-Superunknown material

Mojopin

I think I just threw up a little bit in my mouth...

RIP Chris.

Mojo

Grunge100

is all of this CC bashing necessary.

dharma69

eyedclaar wrote:

Is the nazi board back up and running as well?

Like it never went away!

All of the old threads seem to have transferred over nicely and it's business as usual.

I really do like the powder blue color, though.

eyedclaar

Grunge100 wrote:

is all of this CC bashing necessary.

Necessary - probably not

High-larious and justified - absolutely

muppet

Don't see how this is any different to when Eddie Vedder did backing vocals on that Daughtry track.

reeferchief

Marie Curie wrote:

Chris Cornell, Timbaland Announce Dates For West Coast Tour
Former Soundgarden/ Audioslave singer will play upcoming solo album, Scream, in its entirety.

Erstwhile Soundgarden and Audioslave frontman Chris Cornell will be hitting the road next month with the unlikely collaborator from his forthcoming solo LP — producer du jour Timbaland — for a string of eight live gigs, the first of which is scheduled for October 17 in Denver.

The rocker, who worked with Timbaland on Scream over a six-month period, said the shows will be similar to those he played around the release of his first solo effort, 1999's Euphoria Morning.

"I wanted to get out and do some special shows for fans, where it's just the new record and introducing that live, which isn't really the first time I've done that," he said. "With Euphoria Morning, I played pretty much nothing but my first album for the first tour, and with the first Audioslave record, we toured for a year and did nothing but that record. This is also a very special record."

Cornell will not be playing any tracks from his previous offerings on this brief Verizon Wireless-sponsored West Coast run, which wraps in his hometown of Seattle November 2. Cornell plans on playing the entire LP, from the first note to the last, without any pauses between songs.

"This album, I think, needs to be performed from beginning to end, because on the record, once the music starts, it never stops," he explained. "So it's literally a situation where you start playing the record from the first song, and it's just an hour's worth of music that keeps going until it's done, and it's something that's difficult to present in this day and age. Everything is sound bites and one song at a time, and people sort of downloading one song at a time, and more than any album I've ever made, this is an album that's really designed to be listened to from beginning to end, in one sitting.

"I think the smartest thing for me to do is go out and perform it that way, so people get it, because people haven't really understood that yet," Cornell continued. "I've been talking about it in interviews, and people need to understand that it's a different thing. Musically, definitely, it's a departure, not only for me but maybe for anybody. People are asking me what kind of music it is, and there's no real answer for that."

Cornell's forthcoming disc sounds nothing like his fans might suspect. It mixes elements of hip-hop (compliments of Timbaland) and rock in a rather unique manner.

"The initial conception and perception of this record was mixing two worlds — rock and hip-hop, or beat-based music with fuzzy guitars," Cornell explained. "But it really isn't just that at all. It's a mixture of a lot of different influences."

Timbaland said he's "so excited to be on the road with Verizon and Chris," adding that he "can't wait for everyone to hear [this] great new music."

Over the weekend, Cornell was in Brooklyn, New York, shooting a video for "Ground Zero," a song inspired by the tragic events of September 11.

"To me, it's sort of about the lingering aspect of [9/11] that is used to kind of create support for things that haven't been very good for our country or the citizens of our country," said Cornell, who now resides in Paris. "I've felt like, with the Bush administration, whenever they're in crisis, they'll suddenly pull out a terror alert — a code-orange scenario, which I run into constantly, because I'm in airports so often. They don't ever have to say why, just that it's a matter of national security. And with the conservative right, part of the platform right now in the election is 'Be afraid of terror, be afraid of terrorists. Look at 9/11 — we need an administration and a president who knows how to go out, kick ass, take names and keep us safe.' That's what got us into Iraq in the first place. [That tactic] certainly helped, and I think [9/11 was] a key factor in Bush winning a second term. To me, the song is about how awful 9/11 was, but stresses that we've got to let go of that to move on peacefully."

Chris Cornell/ Timbaland tour dates, according to Cornell's publicist:

» 10/17 - Denver, CO @ Ogden Theatre
» 10/18 - Salt Lake City, UT @ Avalon Theater
» 10/19 - Tempe, AZ @ Marquee Theatre
» 10/24 - Las Vegas, NV @ The Joint at Hard Rock Hotel & Casino
» 10/25 - Los Angeles, CA @ House of Blues
» 10/26 - San Diego, CA @ House of Blues
» 10/31 - San Francisco, CA @ The Fillmore
» 11/2 - Seattle, WA @ The Showbox

http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1595394/20080922/story.jhtml

This roughly translates into "I dont want all the good, powerfull music I used to make, make the sub standard shite I am about to release sound as bad as it does. So I'm only gonna play the shite."

dharma69

Grunge100 wrote:

is all of this CC bashing necessary.

It's either this or talk about the $700 billion government bailout.

Take your pick but adhere to the basic standards of entertainment value. No one wants to be bored.

NewDamage

muppet wrote:

Don't see how this is any different to when Eddie Vedder did backing vocals on that Daughtry track.

I'm not knocking him for it. Working with David Cook is the most respectible thing he's done lately

EDIT: Jesus Christ, did I really just say that???

eyedclaar

muppet wrote:

Don't see how this is any different to when Eddie Vedder did backing vocals on that Daughtry track.

Ed did what now? Good lord, has the whole world gone crazy!?!

The Good & Bad Cop

Scream will be the proof that Chris is the GG Allin of our time

eyedclaar

The Good & Bad Cop wrote:

Scream will be the proof that Chris is the GG Allin of our time

Well, he's certainly already spread the feces all over himself...

teskeinc

Although The Joint at the Hard Rock is my favorite spot in town for a concert, I'm going to have to pass on this one. I'm sure House of Blues wouldn't book him since the last solo show barely sold half of the tickets, and thats the smallest venue unless you start playing dive bars.