This Verizon guy will give a test at the door. If you pass, you don't get in.
Back to the Ed doing backing vocals, someone fill me in. I hadn't heard that before.
He didn't do any backing vocals. It just seems that a common argument against Cornell criticsim is "well, Pearl Jam did this..."
TBF, the best that I've seen is "Well, Pearl Jam started to make music videos again so you could say they're a sellout." Which is not saying very much.
The sad thing is that I'm far more interested in hearing the David Cook song than the Timbaland stuff. American Idol is less commercial than the Timba-machine.
He didn't do any backing vocals. It just seems that a common argument against Cornell criticsim is "well, Pearl Jam did this..."
TBF, the best that I've seen is "Well, Pearl Jam started to make music videos again so you could say they're a sellout." Which is not saying very much.
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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
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“Life is life everywhere. Life is in ourselves and not outside us. There will be men beside me, and the important thing is to be a man among men and to remain a man always, whatever the misfortunes, not to despair and not to fall - that is the aim of life, that is its purpose.”
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
I agree though, it would have to be one hell of a dense crowd from them to go negative on Chris, you know what you're paying for.
I think most of the crowd on theses show will be Timbaland fans. Chris wasn't selling a whole lot of tickets when he was touring on his own and playing stuff from his entire career. That's the reason he's touring with Timbaland. If he would do this on his own, only playing Scream, no one would show up.
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Geez this Cook song sounds really crappy too. I agree about the Cornell autopilot road and the fact that it sounds an awful lot like Long Gone. I can't stand Cook's voice either; or that dodgy key change after the guitar solo.
Geez this Cook song sounds really crappy too. I agree about the Cornell autopilot road and the fact that it sounds an awful lot like Long Gone. I can't stand Cook's voice either; or that dodgy key change after the guitar solo.
I really doubt Chris had much to do with this song. This was just done so he could get some name recognition through the American Idol franchise while David Cook gets some "rock cred".
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Don't see how this is any different to when Eddie Vedder did backing vocals on that Daughtry track.
Except that never happened, nor would Ed ever do that.
So basically, Chris is doing a short tour playing ONLY songs off of "scream". That sounds pretty much terrible. Not to mention he looks like a complete tool with that hair and clothing. Good job CC, did you have fun smashing those guitars? Nice symbolism.
Good job CC, did you have fun smashing those guitars? Nice symbolism.
I'm glad I'm not the only one who thought that. Couldn't he just have worn a shirt that said, "That's right, now I'm a douche" and given me those guitars?
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I heard he used songs he found in a manuscript someone gave him!!! !!! :eek:
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Don't go there and get another CC thread shut down. Please. Unless you are a street teamer and then I'll at least understand your motivation.
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Back to the Ed doing backing vocals, someone fill me in. I hadn't heard that before.
haha. Yeah I shouldn't throw that accusation around. Personally, I'd rather be called a motherfucking douchebag than a cc street teamer.
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He didn't do any backing vocals. It just seems that a common argument against Cornell criticsim is "well, Pearl Jam did this..."
TBF, the best that I've seen is "Well, Pearl Jam started to make music videos again so you could say they're a sellout." Which is not saying very much.
What does TBF mean?
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it never happened...
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lol, I want to go to the show in Seattle.
Why?
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I really doubt anyone would pay to do that...
By the way, the aforementioned song CC wrote for the American Idol dude is here:
http://www.popeater.com/music
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The dude can sing, but the song is a snore-fest, just about what I would expect from Chris Cornell when he's writing on auto-pilot.
I heard Raine Maida from Our Lady Peace was helping out on David Cook's new record too - let's hope his efforts are better than this!
Hmmm, pretty generic but at least it has real instruments being played. It's better than anything I've heard off Scream.
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Sad....but true! You can hear snippets of two more atrocious songs here:
http://www.screamliveconcerts.com/downloads/index.html
I have a thing for surreal trainwrecks.
I agree though, it would have to be one hell of a dense crowd from them to go negative on Chris, you know what you're paying for.
You made it through to the chorus?! Wow, you're a brave soul...
The chorus of which song? Hell, does it even matter?
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I think most of the crowd on theses show will be Timbaland fans. Chris wasn't selling a whole lot of tickets when he was touring on his own and playing stuff from his entire career. That's the reason he's touring with Timbaland. If he would do this on his own, only playing Scream, no one would show up.
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I really doubt Chris had much to do with this song. This was just done so he could get some name recognition through the American Idol franchise while David Cook gets some "rock cred".
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Except that never happened, nor would Ed ever do that.
So basically, Chris is doing a short tour playing ONLY songs off of "scream". That sounds pretty much terrible. Not to mention he looks like a complete tool with that hair and clothing. Good job CC, did you have fun smashing those guitars? Nice symbolism.
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I'm glad I'm not the only one who thought that. Couldn't he just have worn a shirt that said, "That's right, now I'm a douche" and given me those guitars?
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