|
Off Topic Off Topic - General non-Corvette related discussion. |
|
Share | Thread Tools | Search this Thread |
05-18-2017, 5:23am | #1 | ||||||
Barn Stall Owner #28
Join Date: Nov 2009
Location: Dow,IL
Posts: 7,554
Thanks: 1,559
Thanked 1,731 Times in 1,193 Posts
Gameroom Barn Bucks: $1346307
|
RIP-Chris Cornell, Soundgarden and Audioslave Frontman, Dies at 52
Chris Cornell, Soundgarden and Audioslave Frontman, Dies at 52
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/18/a...rden.html?_r=0 Chris Cornell, the powerful, dynamic singer whose band Soundgarden was one of the architects of grunge music, has died at 52. Mr. Cornell died Wednesday night in Detroit, said his representative, Brian Bumbery, in a statement that called the death “sudden and unexpected” and that said the singer’s family would be “working closely with the medical examiner to determine the cause.” Mr. Cornell was born in 1964 in Seattle and helped form Soundgarden 20 years later. The then-fledgling record label Sub Pop released the group’s first single, “Hunted Down,” in 1987, as well as two subsequent EPs. The group’s debut album, “Ultramega OK,” came a year later. “Badmotorfinger,” released in 1991, benefited from the swell of attention that was beginning to surround the Seattle scene, where Soundgarden, along with Nirvana and Pearl Jam, were playing a high-octane, high-angst brand of rock ’n’ roll. Three of the band’s studio albums have been certified platinum, including “Superunknown,” from 1994, which featured “Black Hole Sun,” “Fell on Black Days,” “Spoonman” and “My Wave.” Soundgarden — which includes the guitarist Kim Thayil, the bassist Ben Shepherd and the drummer Matt Cameron — disbanded in 1997, but it reunited in 2010 and performed regularly since then. In a review of the band’s 2011 concert at the Prudential Center in Newark, The New York Times chief pop critic Jon Pareles called Soundgarden “one reunited band that can pick up right where it left off.” The group played at the Fox Theater in Detroit on Wednesday night, and it was set to perform in Columbus, Ohio, on Friday at the Rock on the Range festival. Mr. Cornell appeared to be active on social media in the hours before his death. A post on his Twitter account on Wednesday announced that the group had arrived in Detroit, and a clip of the group’s 2012 release “By Crooked Steps” was posted to his official Facebook page hours before his death. Mr. Cornell had admitted in interviews to struggling with drug use throughout his life. In a 1994 Rolling Stone article, he described himself as a “daily drug user at 13,” who had quit by the time he turned 14. After Soundgarden disbanded in 1997, Mr. Cornell returned to heavy drug use, he told The Guardian in a 2009 interview, describing himself as a “pioneer” in the abuse of the opiate OxyContin, and saying that he had gone to rehab. Mr. Cornell released five solo albums during and after his time with Soundgarden, starting with the 1999 LP “Euphoria Morning.” He contributed the song “Seasons” to the soundtrack of “Singles,” Cameron Crowe’s love letter to the Seattle music scene, and performed alongside other members of Soundgarden in the film. In 2001, after Rage Against the Machine’s lead singer, Zack de la Rocha, left the group, Mr. Cornell and members of the band formed Audioslave. The group released three albums before announcing its split in 2007. Rage Against the Machine posted a message on Twitter honoring Mr. Cornell shortly after news of his death began to spread online. In November 2016, Mr. Cornell hit the road with another supergroup of sorts, Temple of the Dog, which features a blend of members of Soundgarden and Pearl Jam for the first time. The group was formed a quarter-century ago as a tribute to Andrew Wood, the lead singer of the Seattle bands Malfunkshun and Mother Love Bone, who died in March 1990 of a heroin overdose. Speaking to The New York Times, Mr. Cornell said the group had decided to finally bring its songs to life to honor Mr. Wood. “I thought, well, this is one thing that I can do to remind myself and maybe other people of who this guy is and was and keep his story and in a way his life with us,” he said. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/18/a...rden.html?_r=0 |
||||||
05-18-2017, 6:05am | #2 | ||||||
Barn Stall Owner #2112
Fantasy Football Champ '14,'16,'20 Bantayan Kids '13
Join Date: Jan 2011
Location: WHERE I LAY MY HEAD IS HOME - REHO BEACH DELAWARE
Posts: 42,419
Thanks: 6,373
Thanked 10,607 Times in 6,383 Posts
Gameroom Barn Bucks: $3043611
|
Wow..... Just wow.
|
||||||
05-18-2017, 6:30am | #3 | ||||||
Barn Stall Owner #74
Barn Raising II Bantayan Kids '13,'17
Join Date: Jan 2011
Location: On an island somewhere
Posts: 23,667
Thanks: 3,832
Thanked 14,870 Times in 6,558 Posts
Gameroom Barn Bucks: $10393746
|
They were supposed to headline an all day festival here in St Louis on Saturday
|
||||||
05-18-2017, 6:54am | #4 | ||||||
Barn Stall Owner #13
Barn Raising II,III,IV NCM Supporter '13,'14,'16,'17,'19,'20 Bantayan Kids '13,'15,'17 GTMS ‘18
Join Date: Jan 2012
Location: Ypsilanti, Mi
Posts: 13,301
Thanks: 7,793
Thanked 2,641 Times in 1,956 Posts
Gameroom Barn Bucks: $425244
|
Soundgarden's Chris Cornell has died in Detroit - Story | WJBK
Local news is reporting possible suicide, he was supposedly found with something around his neck |
||||||
05-18-2017, 7:14am | #5 | ||||||
Barn Stall Owner #28
Join Date: Nov 2009
Location: Dow,IL
Posts: 7,554
Thanks: 1,559
Thanked 1,731 Times in 1,193 Posts
Gameroom Barn Bucks: $1346307
|
|
||||||
05-18-2017, 7:15am | #6 | ||||||
Bantayan Kids '13,'15
Join Date: Apr 2012
Location: (nor/mal)
Posts: 8,971
Thanks: 1,224
Thanked 3,555 Times in 1,954 Posts
Gameroom Barn Bucks: $1037769
|
Holy shit!
|
||||||
05-18-2017, 7:29am | #7 | ||||||
Administrator
Barn Stall Owner #7 Barn Raising I,II,IV NCM Supporter '13,'14
Join Date: Oct 2009
Location: Pewaukee,WI
Posts: 8,218
Thanks: 1,044
Thanked 5,035 Times in 2,239 Posts
Gameroom Barn Bucks: $30682687
|
Damn.
|
||||||
05-18-2017, 8:30am | #8 | ||||||
Barn Raising II,III
NCM Supporter '13 Bantayan Kids '17
Join Date: Oct 2009
Location: I could never live there.
Posts: 339,934
Thanks: 200,281
Thanked 30,508 Times in 14,293 Posts
Gameroom Barn Bucks: $108033784
|
Not a fan, but it's still a shame.
|
||||||
05-18-2017, 9:07am | #9 | ||||||
Vette Barn Crew
Join Date: Mar 2014
Location: Denver
Posts: 728
Thanks: 230
Thanked 192 Times in 96 Posts
Gameroom Barn Bucks: $103376
|
if he killed himself, not pity here!!!!!
|
||||||
05-18-2017, 11:20am | #10 | ||||||
Barn Stall Owner #23
Barn Raising I
Join Date: Oct 2009
Location: THE Lone Star State
Posts: 9,499
Thanks: 3,269
Thanked 5,881 Times in 2,031 Posts
Gameroom Barn Bucks: $144580
|
Shit.
|
||||||
05-18-2017, 1:34pm | #11 | ||||||
Barn Stall Owner #3
Barn Raising I NCM Supporter '11, '12
Join Date: Jan 2011
Location: Texas City, TX
Posts: 12,098
Thanks: 830
Thanked 4,155 Times in 1,854 Posts
Gameroom Barn Bucks: $2324642
|
|
||||||
05-18-2017, 2:11pm | #12 | |||||||
Barn Stall Owner #79
Join Date: May 2011
Location: King Arthur's Court
Posts: 8,581
Thanks: 2,550
Thanked 2,694 Times in 1,581 Posts
Gameroom Barn Bucks: $955
|
Quote:
Damn, that's a tough way to go. |
|||||||
05-18-2017, 3:38pm | #13 | |||||||
Barn Stall Owner #120
Join Date: Jan 2011
Location: Southern California
Posts: 10,583
Thanks: 2,217
Thanked 6,096 Times in 2,574 Posts
Gameroom Barn Bucks: $9282448
|
Quote:
Always enjoyed this song and video. |
|||||||
05-18-2017, 4:47pm | #14 | ||||||
Goldilocks
Barn Stall Owner #905 Bantayan Kids '13,'15
Join Date: Jan 2011
Location: My butt's been wiped.
Posts: 30,981
Thanks: 5,227
Thanked 16,607 Times in 7,133 Posts
Gameroom Barn Bucks: $1009320
|
F'ing horrible news. He was EASILY my favorite modern era singer. The best thing to come out of that whole Seattle thing was this guy. What a drag.
|
||||||
05-18-2017, 6:23pm | #15 | ||||||
Barn Stall Owner #2112
Fantasy Football Champ '14,'16,'20 Bantayan Kids '13
Join Date: Jan 2011
Location: WHERE I LAY MY HEAD IS HOME - REHO BEACH DELAWARE
Posts: 42,419
Thanks: 6,373
Thanked 10,607 Times in 6,383 Posts
Gameroom Barn Bucks: $3043611
|
It's amazing the impact that Led Zeppelin had on so many.
Cornell was 52 and I'm 53, so we were at the apex of some of the best music ever made, back in the day. Here is the last song that he ever performed in Detroit. Is anything Worse than Detroit? (Another Plant song). It's all coming together... RIP man... In My Time Of Dying, lyrics; In my time of dying, I want nobody to mourn All I want for you to do is take my body home Well, well, well, so I can die easy [x2] Jesus, going to make up Jesus, going to make up my dying bed Meet me, Jesus, meet me Meet me in the middle of the air If my wings should fail me, Lord Please meet me with another pair Well, well, well, so I can die easy [x2] Jesus, going to make up Somebody, somebody Jesus going to make up Jesus going to make you my dying bed Well, well, well, so I can die easy Jesus, going to make up Somebody, somebody Jesus going to make up Jesus going to make you my dying bed Oh, Saint Peter, at the gates of heaven Won't you let me in I never did no harm I never did no wrong Oh, Gabriel, let me blow your horn, let me blow your horn Planned to a T..... Just damn... |
||||||
05-18-2017, 6:47pm | #16 | ||||||
Barn Stall Owner #2112
Fantasy Football Champ '14,'16,'20 Bantayan Kids '13
Join Date: Jan 2011
Location: WHERE I LAY MY HEAD IS HOME - REHO BEACH DELAWARE
Posts: 42,419
Thanks: 6,373
Thanked 10,607 Times in 6,383 Posts
Gameroom Barn Bucks: $3043611
|
A few drinks and outside to piss in the gorgeous 80° sunny weather.
Blue sky, birds, the sounds of nature .... Thoughts of other friends who "left early".... Sadness. Suicides, drug OD's, car accidents....... Enjoy that deep breath and thank God that I'm still breathing.... Stuff like this really gives me pause as I come back to reality and walk back inside. Life is a funny thing. You just never know what makes another person tick. Never. |
||||||
05-18-2017, 7:15pm | #17 | ||||||
Charter Member
Barn Raising I
Join Date: Oct 2009
Posts: 11,591
Thanks: 6,027
Thanked 3,353 Times in 1,611 Posts
Gameroom Barn Bucks: $10432620
|
Unbelievable. So sad.
|
||||||
05-18-2017, 9:06pm | #18 | |||||||
Barn Stall Owner #327
NCM Supporter '16,'17,'19,'20 Bantayan Kids '13,'14,'15,'17 GTMS ‘18
Join Date: Jan 2011
Location: Zionsville,PA
Posts: 49,171
Thanks: 25,834
Thanked 21,890 Times in 8,908 Posts
Gameroom Barn Bucks: $5976008
|
Quote:
My good friend and neighbor Vic was the perfect example. |
|||||||
05-18-2017, 9:29pm | #19 | ||||||
Bantayan Kids '13,'15
Join Date: Apr 2012
Location: (nor/mal)
Posts: 8,971
Thanks: 1,224
Thanked 3,555 Times in 1,954 Posts
Gameroom Barn Bucks: $1037769
|
I don't get it...
This dude had it all. What he did to his wife and kids and every other person that knew and loved him...sheesh... And from what I gather from the published chain of events, he had it all planned out..didn't reach out to anyone to let them talk him out of it. It's hard not to be really angry...what an effing waste... |
||||||
05-19-2017, 6:27am | #20 | ||||||
Bantayan Kids '13
Join Date: Jan 2011
Location: Louisville, KY
Posts: 4,079
Thanks: 1,230
Thanked 1,425 Times in 727 Posts
Gameroom Barn Bucks: $123317
|
|
||||||
|
|
Support the Barn: |
Download the Mobile App; |
Follow us on Facebook: |
||