Chris Cornell : Ex-Audioslave vocalist

brainofPJ

bovy_j wrote:

As much as I liked Audioslave and I'm horribly sad to hear that Cornell has gone..haven't gotten the chance to see these boys live, like I would have hoped to...

....I loved Rage even more!! Let's hope that the 1 show that Rage has in April or whatever the date is...will turn into another album and a whole new tour! Viva la Rage!

why would rage get back together? didn't they break up for the same reason Audioslave did? irreconcilable differences?

rage sucked any ways....enough of tom and his BORING solos...Audioslave was good because of Cornell, can't wait to see him solo sometime.

cellophanehand

wasn't the last audioslave album bo-ring? hasn't cornell found his fortune singing bond themes? doesn't he want to sing more songs in french??
methinks it's time for ratm once more - international political quandry... zach's been waiting for this since 1995-ish, and the others have probably been bored since the first audioslave album... so what's the problem??! bring it on.

ii44

pearlfanjam wrote:

Being a longtime fan of Chris I will continue to support whatever he does although I am puzzled about the Billie Jean remake mentioned in the article The jury is out on that until we hear it. /quote]

If it's anything like the Live in Sweden version it will kick ass.

backseatlover

thank god i saw them 4 times. the 2003 show at the paramount in seattle is still one of the hardest-rocking concerts i've been to this decade. you were great guys, now bring on RAGE!! holy shit, i never thought i'd be seeing them again. people are gonna get trampled, so be careful..

edit: Revelations was their most complete, best work. getting so much better on repeated listening. I'm pissed at them for not touring in support of it.

lars

macgyver06 wrote:

I make Music, your post makes me sick

Just shut the fuck up and play your harpe....you´re a nothing

Pearl Jam and toast

To agree with what a few have said in this thread..

I think we should send a huge group greeting to RATM at choachelle..

short and sweet..

"WE NEED YOU BACK, THE GOVERNMENT IS FUCKING US, BRING IT ON RAGE"

They'll get the point..

you guys going to coachelle.. make signs, spread the word.. i bet it would be easy as cake to start a chant.

Marie Curie

yet another article, he says some interesting stuff about Carry On, which made me even more excited about it



Chris Cornell to 'Carry On' Without Audioslave

On Thursday, the same day that Chris Cornell announced the release of his second solo album, 'Carry On,' he also made official his departure from the rock supergroup Audioslave. The singer cited "irreversable personal differences" with bandmates Tom Morello, Tim Commerford and Brad Wilk, all of whom were previously in agitpop band Rage Against the Machine.

"I think at this point in my life I'm a person that probably shouldn't be in a band," Cornell told Spinner. "Someone that writes songs as much as me and has the energy and focus in terms of songwriting and performing is probably someone who's more akin to a solo artist than someone who should be in a band." Still, he admits to no regrets about his Audioslave tenure. "Audioslave was a great experience. We made three great records."

With that part of his life now behind him, Cornell is ready to move ahead with 'Carry On,' an album he says covers a wide array of styles, including heavy rockers like 'No Such Thing' and 'Poison Eye,' which evoke the sound of his previous band, Soundgarden. Cornell said he made a point of not writing any riff-rock songs in Audioslave or on his 1999 solo debut album, 'Euphoria Morning,' because he wrote his fair share while in Soundgarden. "But there's enough distance between now and Soundgarden's last record," he said to Spinner. "I got to really write some riff-oriented heavier songs, which I haven't done in a long time. It was exciting."

http://www.spinner.com/2007/02/16/chris-cornell-to-carry-on-without-audioslave/

Pearl Jam and toast

OOOO a throwback to his soundgarden days on Carry On ???

Wonderful news.

Marie Curie

bump

VEDHEAD27

As always, thank you for posting this Marie Curie.

Pearl Jam and toast wrote:

OOOO a throwback to his soundgarden days on Carry On ???

Wonderful news.

HOLY SHIT I knooooow! Riff-oriented heavier songs? :eek:
WOW! Just when I thought I couldn't possibly get anymore excited about this release.

DOSW

Marie Curie wrote:

Cornell is ready to move ahead with 'Carry On,' an album he says covers a wide array of styles, including heavy rockers like 'No Such Thing' and 'Poison Eye,' which evoke the sound of his previous band, Soundgarden. Cornell said he made a point of not writing any riff-rock songs in Audioslave or on his 1999 solo debut album, 'Euphoria Morning,' because he wrote his fair share while in Soundgarden. "But there's enough distance between now and Soundgarden's last record," he said to Spinner. "I got to really write some riff-oriented heavier songs, which I haven't done in a long time. It was exciting."

http://www.spinner.com/2007/02/16/chris-cornell-to-carry-on-without-audioslave/

Alright, alright... after months of indifference, that paragraph just put me on the Carry On bandwagon.

Tasty.

Manstis1604

culot4 wrote:

Thats probably what Cornell is afraid of. Instead of him being the odd man out if Rage decides to reunite for the long term, he'll quit first in order to preserve his ego. He made a lot of money pumping out a crappy Audioslave album every year and it wasn't going to last forever. Thats one of the reasons I disliked them so much. They had absolutely no integrity, and it was all about getting paid.

Yeah that's what you get when a producer puts you together. Of course Morello's reasoning for bringing Rage back to oust president Bush is stupid too, what the hell is Rage going to do, get Bush impeached? He's out in 2 years guys, he can't get reelected.

enharmonic

What's so wrong with getting paid?

Artistic integrity and 10 cents will get you cheese on a Whopper at Ye Olde Burger King

Pearl Jam and toast

Manstis1604 wrote:

Yeah that's what you get when a producer puts you together. Of course Morello's reasoning for bringing Rage back to oust president Bush is stupid too, what the hell is Rage going to do, get Bush impeached? He's out in 2 years guys, he can't get reelected.

It's not about that. We're really aching for a band to just get up and fucking lead some sort of political movement.. Like Dylan did in the sixties. RATM was (is?) a powerful band that has the ability to inspire HUGE amounts of people. It's not like they're gonna hogtie bush and throw him out of the white house.

PJamGrunge10

Pearl Jam and toast wrote:

It's not about that. We're really aching for a band to just get up and fucking lead some sort of political movement.. Like Dylan did in the sixties. RATM was (is?) a powerful band that has the ability to inspire HUGE amounts of people. It's not like they're gonna hogtie bush and throw him out of the white house.

I think the problem with that is that a lot of people who want to see them don't care about their message but just like the music... which includes myself.

elmer

audioslave were a bit crappy, maybe cornell can ressurect his songwriting but i doubt it............think hes burnt out and he smells

A Surprise Left

Pearl Jam and toast wrote:

It's not about that. We're really aching for a band to just get up and fucking lead some sort of political movement.. Like Dylan did in the sixties. RATM was (is?) a powerful band that has the ability to inspire HUGE amounts of people. It's not like they're gonna hogtie bush and throw him out of the white house.

its completely naive to think a rock band is going to make any sort of real difference to a political movement. some people will become more aware of issues but for the most part you are merely preaching to the converted.

lars

TheGossman wrote:

you are crazy, I rank is solo stuff up with soundgarden, but then again I wouldn't expect any less from someone named Lars

Just by ranking his solo stuff to soundgarden made you clown of the day....now who can ever take anything you say seriously

Pearl Jam and toast

A Surprise Left wrote:

its completely naive to think a rock band is going to make any sort of real difference to a political movement. some people will become more aware of issues but for the most part you are merely preaching to the converted.

Once again, that's not the point. The point is inspiration. It doesn't matter if they do anything or not, but they inspire people - make them feel (whatever it is they're feeling).

bigbadbill

The new album's fourteen tracks offer the bluesy and soulful "Safe and Sound", psychedelic "Scar On The Sky", country-flavored "Finally Forever", paeans to persistence in "Disappearing Act" and a slow-grind cover of MICHAEL JACKSON's "Billy Jean" that gives the familiar song a completely new feeling More personal selections include "Ghost", "Arms Around Your Love" and "She'll Never Be Your Man" and alt-rock experimentations "Killing Birds", the anthemic "Silence the Voices"). Fans of SOUNDGARDEN and AUDIOSLAVE will appreciate the harder edge of "No Such Thing" and "Poison Eye" and the redemptive "Your Soul Today".


Pearl Jam has a "Ghost"

What other groups have PJ song titles also:
P.O.D. - Alive
*STP - Down
*Def Leppard - Animal
Audioslave - Ghost

* Pearl Jam had these song titles after they did.