Chris Cornell has died aged 52

[Hatchetaxe&saw]

This hit me hard this AM. Him and SG were the bridge for a lot of rockers to cross into grunge. Their sound, his voice, just immense.

 

The cool, good looking kid in school has moved to a new town.

[fraroc]

Yes. Suspected suicide.

 

My guess it was the Michael Hutchence kind of suicide...this sounds like it was an accident

 

It almost seems more like a Robin Williams sort of deal :(

[Rushman14]

This one hitting me hard. Saw Soundgarden a few times back in the day and Temple Of The Dog last year.

 

RIP

[GabesCavesOfIce]

Reportedly, his final live performance last night was a cover of Zeppelin's In My Time of Dying. This is playing out like a Hollywood movie...

 

:(

 

 

This makes it too brutal...his final setlist...

 

Ugly Truth

Hunted Down

Non-State Actor

Searching With My Good Eye Closed @Tape

Spoonman

Outshined

Kickstand

Black Hole Sun

By Crooked Steps

The Day I Tried to Live

My Wave

Been Away Too Long

Fell on Black Days

Mailman

A Thousand Days Before

Burden in My Hand

Blow Up the Outside World

Jesus Christ Pose

 

Rusty Cage

Slaves & Bulldozers [w/ "In My Time of Dying" refrain]

 

@Info[Final show with their singer Chris Cornell before he passed away on the 17th of May 2017.]

[Rushman14]

Reportedly, his final live performance last night was a cover of Zeppelin's In My Time of Dying. This is playing out like a Hollywood movie...

 

:(

 

 

This makes it too brutal...his final setlist...

 

Ugly Truth

Hunted Down

Non-State Actor

Searching With My Good Eye Closed @Tape

Spoonman

Outshined

Kickstand

Black Hole Sun

By Crooked Steps

The Day I Tried to Live

My Wave

Been Away Too Long

Fell on Black Days

Mailman

A Thousand Days Before

Burden in My Hand

Blow Up the Outside World

Jesus Christ Pose

 

Rusty Cage

Slaves & Bulldozers [w/ "In My Time of Dying" refrain]

 

@Info[Final show with their singer Chris Cornell before he passed away on the 17th of May 2017.]

 

What an epic setlist :(

[J2112YYZ]

That is a f***in good final setlist. Damn.

[cygnify]

Very sad news. RIP Chris.

 

Apparently he was upbeat and rocking in his last show; hard to believe it was a planned suicide after a great show and in the middle of the tour. But I know depression is a m***********.

[Stormtron]

Damn. What a loss. RIP.

[Rushman14]

http://i493.photobucket.com/albums/rr300/Fatorgan/Screen%20Shot%202017-05-18%20at%207.58.37%20AM_zpssby4wqon.png

[Na na na]

Beyond sad...

[Tick]

As a 52 year old man, and a vocalist of 30 years this has me extremely sad. Chris is truly one of my vocalist heroes!

[sullysue]

This news is devastating and unreal. I can't believe he's gone.

[Mystic Slipperman]

I'm still in shock.

[Fordgalaxy]

Cobain, Staley, Weiland, now Cornell. Too much, way too soon.

 

Someone please tell Eddie Vedder to stay indoors or something.

I think he's mostly mentally stable and doesn't shoot heroin so he's probably ok.

[toymaker]

Just found out. Sucks.

[librarian]

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO :( :( :( I'm here at work and I jump on yahoo news on and i see this. Goddamitt!!!!!!

That is just messed up.

[HemiBeers]

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/18/arts/music/chris-cornell-dead-soundgarden.html

 

"found with band around neck"

 

mother f***ing suicide.

 

I truely can't identify with mental illness or depression that causes one to snap like this. Especially when you have so much in your life like a wife and kids. If he didn't want to continue to perform, or felt he wasn't up to standard, then f**k that and just do something else.

 

One of the best tracks on Down On the Upside. This will probably make you cry if you play it.

 

3. Zero Chance

 

 

I think I know the answer

I stumbled on and all the world fell down

And all the sky went silent

Cracked like glass and slowly

Tumbled to the ground

They say if you look hard

You'll find your way back home

Born without a friend

And bound to die alone

 

I'm thinking of your highness

And crying long upon the loss

I've found

And on the plus and minus

Zero chance of ever

Turning this around

 

Why doesn't anyone believe

In loneliness

Stand up and everyone will see

Your holiness

 

They say if you look hard

You'll find your way back home

Born without a friend

And bound to die alone

[stoopid]

Cobain, Staley, Weiland, now Cornell. Too much, way too soon.

 

Someone please tell Eddie Vedder to stay indoors or something.

I think he's mostly mentally stable and doesn't shoot heroin so he's probably ok.

 

My impression of Eddie and Chris are reverse. I recall Eddie having a history with H but no memory of Chris having any drug issues. I don't usually keep track of such things, as whether or not someone has a drug problem doesn't matter to me when I listen to their music.

 

Should also note that addiction comes in many shapes and sizes. Not everyone who becomes addicted is or started out "unstable". Nowadays all you need is a toothache to end up a heroin addict.

Edited May 18, 2017 by stoopid

[Segue Myles]

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/18/arts/music/chris-cornell-dead-soundgarden.html

 

"found with band around neck"

 

mother f***ing suicide.

 

I truely can't identify with mental illness or depression that causes one to snap like this. Especially when you have so much in your life like a wife and kids. If he didn't want to continue to perform, or felt he wasn't up to standard, then f**k that and just do something else.

 

One of the best tracks on Down On the Upside. This will probably make you cry if you play it.

 

3. Zero Chance

 

 

I think I know the answer

I stumbled on and all the world fell down

And all the sky went silent

Cracked like glass and slowly

Tumbled to the ground

They say if you look hard

You'll find your way back home

Born without a friend

And bound to die alone

 

I'm thinking of your highness

And crying long upon the loss

I've found

And on the plus and minus

Zero chance of ever

Turning this around

 

Why doesn't anyone believe

In loneliness

Stand up and everyone will see

Your holiness

 

They say if you look hard

You'll find your way back home

Born without a friend

And bound to die alone

 

You are fortunate you can pull yourself out of it.

[Mithrandir]

https://www.nytimes....oundgarden.html

 

"found with band around neck"

 

mother f***ing suicide.

 

I truely can't identify with mental illness or depression that causes one to snap like this. Especially when you have so much in your life like a wife and kids. If he didn't want to continue to perform, or felt he wasn't up to standard, then f**k that and just do something else.

 

One of the best tracks on Down On the Upside. This will probably make you cry if you play it.

 

3. Zero Chance

 

 

I think I know the answer

 

I stumbled on and all the world fell down

 

And all the sky went silent

 

Cracked like glass and slowly

 

Tumbled to the ground

 

They say if you look hard

 

You'll find your way back home

 

Born without a friend

 

And bound to die alone

 

 

I'm thinking of your highness

 

And crying long upon the loss

 

I've found

 

And on the plus and minus

 

Zero chance of ever

 

Turning this around

 

 

Why doesn't anyone believe

 

In loneliness

 

Stand up and everyone will see

 

Your holiness

 

 

They say if you look hard

 

You'll find your way back home

 

Born without a friend

 

And bound to die alone

 

I think that you need to do some research on depression and suicide. In a state of depression the mind does not function properly, hence the suicide.

 

A person in a depression severe enough to commit suicide cannot simply "do something else".

[LedRush]

My colleague just told me about this and I couldn't believe it. I wanted so desperately to see Temple of the Dog perform last fall and I just couldn't make it happen.

 

As others have noted, his voice was in a class of its own, and judging by what I saw of him in Temple of the Dog, it was still amazing at his age. He was also an amazing song-writer. He played in many different genres, and his voice worked in all of them.

 

I was really taken aback by this.

[Segue Myles]

https://www.nytimes....oundgarden.html

 

"found with band around neck"

 

mother f***ing suicide.

 

I truely can't identify with mental illness or depression that causes one to snap like this. Especially when you have so much in your life like a wife and kids. If he didn't want to continue to perform, or felt he wasn't up to standard, then f**k that and just do something else.

 

One of the best tracks on Down On the Upside. This will probably make you cry if you play it.

 

3. Zero Chance

 

 

I think I know the answer

 

I stumbled on and all the world fell down

 

And all the sky went silent

 

Cracked like glass and slowly

 

Tumbled to the ground

 

They say if you look hard

 

You'll find your way back home

 

Born without a friend

 

And bound to die alone

 

 

I'm thinking of your highness

 

And crying long upon the loss

 

I've found

 

And on the plus and minus

 

Zero chance of ever

 

Turning this around

 

 

Why doesn't anyone believe

 

In loneliness

 

Stand up and everyone will see

 

Your holiness

 

 

They say if you look hard

 

You'll find your way back home

 

Born without a friend

 

And bound to die alone

 

I think that you need to do some research on depression and suicide. In a state of depression the mind does not function properly, hence the suicide.

 

A person in a depression severe enough to commit suicide cannot simply "do something else".

 

I survived December only because I was taken to a hospital.

 

That's all.

 

I feel for his family right now.

[LedRush]

Cobain, Staley, Weiland, now Cornell. Too much, way too soon.

 

Someone please tell Eddie Vedder to stay indoors or something.

I think he's mostly mentally stable and doesn't shoot heroin so he's probably ok.

 

Yeah, Cornell was an addict at age 13, relapsed again after Soundgarden broke up, but I didn't think he had had a re-relapse. Vedder is a raging alcoholic, though, so his liver may commit suicide soon.

[Mystic Slipperman]

Those of you who can't relate to mental illness and depression that could drive even the most successful person to suicide...

 

all I can say is: Be grateful that you can't.

 

 

Yes, it's awful and tragic and senseless. But a depressed or mentally ill mind CANNOT and DOES NOT see this.

[bluefox4000]

https://www.nytimes....oundgarden.html

 

"found with band around neck"

 

mother f***ing suicide.

 

I truely can't identify with mental illness or depression that causes one to snap like this. Especially when you have so much in your life like a wife and kids. If he didn't want to continue to perform, or felt he wasn't up to standard, then f**k that and just do something else.

 

One of the best tracks on Down On the Upside. This will probably make you cry if you play it.

 

3. Zero Chance

 

 

I think I know the answer

 

I stumbled on and all the world fell down

 

And all the sky went silent

 

Cracked like glass and slowly

 

Tumbled to the ground

 

They say if you look hard

 

You'll find your way back home

 

Born without a friend

 

And bound to die alone

 

 

I'm thinking of your highness

 

And crying long upon the loss

 

I've found

 

And on the plus and minus

 

Zero chance of ever

 

Turning this around

 

 

Why doesn't anyone believe

 

In loneliness

 

Stand up and everyone will see

 

Your holiness

 

 

They say if you look hard

 

You'll find your way back home

 

Born without a friend

 

And bound to die alone

 

 

not to steer this conversation this way. but you are lucky to never feel that way.

 

i have and many others have tooo.

 

some are able to pull back and find some solace.

 

some just can't. Depression can cripple. people who never have felt it.....just can't grasp it.

 

Mick