Chris Cornell...dead

[Nickdfresh]

What age are you? 14?

Pretty much, the age he stated drinking heavily...

[jacksmar]

What the fuck does that have to do with anything?

It was a pretty obvious reference to grunge music. It's all the same no matter who is playing it.

Grunge is the new Spinal Tap dead drummer joke. Cobain, Cornell, Staley, Weiland. These guys would still be alive if they had a jazz background. Or if no one had tried to intervene.

Anyway, I've heard that one of Chris Cornell's favorite movies was --------------------------------------Good Will Hanging...........

[jacksmar]

What age are you? 14?

Look at it this way sesh: He beat Bobby Brown to death.

[jacksmar]

Jerksmear wants it all, but he can't have it.....

[jacksmar]

Pretty much, the age he stated drinking heavily...

While proudly showing off his new apartment to friends late one night, the drunk led the way to his bedroom where there was a big brass gong. "What's that big brass gong for?" one of the guests asked. "Why, that's the talking clock" the man replied. "How does it work?" "Watch", the man said, giving it an ear-shattering pound with a hammer. Suddenly, someone on the other side of the wall screamed, "For fuck sake, you asshole, it's 2am in the fucking morning!!"

[Seshmeister]

Obviously an unfunny irrelevant 'joke' but the thing that shows how fucking old it is 'talking clock'.

You got some good Nixon gags as well?

[cadaverdog]

It was a pretty obvious reference to grunge music. It's all the same no matter who is playing it.

Alanis Morrisette is a grunge musician?

[FORD]

Alanis Morrisette is a grunge musician?

Only in the same sense that Brett Michaels is a "metal" musician.

(Though to be fair, "Jagged Little Pill" was a better record than anything Poison ever did)

[FORD]

FUCK Big Pharma!!

nbcnews.com
Chris Cornell’s Wife Disputes Suicide Ruling, Says Medication Could Have Played Role
by Mary Emily O'Hara
3-4 minutes

As music fans everywhere mourn the sudden loss of Soundgarden frontman Chris Cornell, his family is raising questions about the circumstances behind his death.

Cornell, 52, was found dead late Wednesday after a concert in Detroit, Michigan. The Wayne County medical examiner's office declared his death a suicide by hanging.

The renowned, Grammy-winning Seattle grunge rocker left behind a wife and three children.

Early Friday, Vicky Cornell issued a statement in which she expressed concerns that her husband's medication — the anti-anxiety benzodiazepine known commercially as Ativan — may have impacted his judgment.

"When we spoke after the show, I noticed he was slurring his words; he was different," she said in the statement. "When he told me he may have taken an extra Ativan or two, I contacted security and asked that they check on him."

Kirk Pasich, an attorney for the Cornell family, said in the statement that the rocker was a recovering addict and speculated that he may have taken more benzodiazepines on Wednesday than the dosage recommended.

"The family believes that if Chris took his life, he did not know what he was doing, and that drugs or other substances may have affected his actions," said Pasich.

No toxicology reports had been concluded by Friday.

"What happened is inexplicable and I am hopeful that further medical reports will provide additional details," said Vicky Cornell. "I know that he loved our children and he would not hurt them by intentionally taking his own life."

Anti-anxiety medications are common in the United States and widely prescribed for a range of anxiety disorders. A 2015 study by Columbia University psychiatrist Mark Olfson, published in JAMA Psychiatry, showed that 60 percent of all retail pharmacies in the U.S. had filled a benzodiazepine order in 2008 alone.

It's unclear exactly why Cornell was prescribed the medication, what his dosage was supposed to be or how long he was taking the medication.

Vicky Cornell said in the statement that just before his death, her husband Chris had spoken of vacation plans over the phone.

"When we spoke before the show, we discussed plans for a vacation over Memorial Day and other things we wanted to do," said Cornell, stating that Cornell had taken a break from the tour to fly home for Mother's Day and had flown to Detroit on Wednesday, the day of his death.

She called the death "inexplicable" and said Chris Cornell was a "devoted father and husband."

"The outpouring of love and support from his fans, friends and family means so much more to us than anyone can know," Vicky Cornell said. "Thank you for that, and for understanding how difficult this is for us."


For fucks sake...... the man lived in a state where the best anti-anxiety medication on the planet is completely legal. Why was he taking that garbage?

[Kristy]

Most likely a heroin fuckwit who couldn't control himself

[FORD]

I'm reasonably certain he got off that horse a long time ago. probably even before Andrew Wood died.

[Von Halen]

Most likely a heroin fuckwit who couldn't control himself

You can relate, drug addict?

[vandeleur]

Dr Vandy suggests depression and too much Lorazepam,a drug thats side effect can be suicidal thoughts is not a great combination.

[FORD]

Depression sucks.... especially for us Cascadians, since that natural source of Vitamin D only appears in the sky 2 months out of the year (if we're lucky). Of course that's probably the case in the UK too (which explains where The Smiths, The Cure, and Joy Division came from)

Today was supposed to kick off a full week of sunshine. Didn't happen.... god damn it.

[FORD]

Chris Cornell's Life As Grunge's True Seattle Son

Chris Cornell's Life As Grunge's True Seattle Son
Charles R. Cross
The Record : NPR



Of course it's a story about death and Seattle music.

I woke up this morning after bad dreams last night, only to find the real nightmare — that Chris Cornell of Soundgarden was dead. As with all these losses it seems surreal, untrue, unimaginable. But there it is.
Death Of Chris Cornell, Powerhouse Voice Of Soundgarden, Ruled A Suicide

If there was one Seattle band of the "grunge" era that seemed more "Seattle" than any other, it was Soundgarden. Nirvana was actually from Aberdeen, and not a single member lived in Seattle until 1992; Pearl Jam didn't become a band until Eddie Vedder arrived from San Diego. But Soundgarden was truly Seattle. Chris Cornell went to high school ten blocks from my house, though for accuracy, that's just outside the Seattle city limits (and, for accuracy, he dropped out of that high school).

Soundgarden also started before all those bands. The Screaming Life EP, which came out on Sub Pop on October 1, 1987, beat all those other bands to the punch. I was editor of the Seattle music magazine The Rocket in those days, and we were the first place to publish on Soundgarden, putting them on our cover when they were playing to just twenty people. That was probably appropriate, in that our magazine was located in the Belltown neighborhood of Seattle (now dominated by Amazon), which was low-rent and filled with taverns. Soundgarden made one of these, the Ditto Tavern, one of their homes. Seeing them there early on, you had the sense they truly had something, but there honestly would be only a dozen people in the audience.

Cornell, however, had a singing voice that sounded like stardom. We once put him on the cover of the The Rocket and headlined it "Golden Throats." During a photo shoot for another cover story we had the members of Soundgarden stand in Green Lake covered with mud, an homage to Mudhoney (another Seattle band in that era still trying to find an audience). Soundgarden was a slow burn, and nowhere near an overnight success. The band was on three record labels before it broke, and its biggest year was 1994, after Kurt Cobain died and when many saw the Seattle scene ebbing. But Superunknown was a record that could not be denied, and "Fell on Black Days" may be my favorite vocal of that entire era.

When they finally got through, Soundgarden's members had already done their ten-thousand hours — they'd been a band for almost a decade by the time they topped the charts. "We didn't make four records that all sounded the same and the fourth one sold a lot," Cornell told me in 1995. "If anyone looks back at our history, our fans who have been around know we're not going to pull the rug out from under anybody.

"It could be that it's taken us so long to reach this level of success that our own perceptions haven't really caught up with it yet," he told me.

Soundgarden had a few more good years after that, but temporarily broke up in 1997. Cornell joined Audioslave, then did some solo records. There were gems in his post-Soundgarden songs. A few miscues. I wrote a negative review of his attempt to cover Michael Jackson's "Billie Jean," and he was unhappy about the review. That didn't really change our relationship. I was the hometown writer, the guy he knew had been at the Ditto Tavern. I interviewed him a bunch after that still, and wrote bio material for Audioslave, and the Temple of the Dog reissue last year.

It was no secret that he had always struggled with depression, but drugs were also something he admitted to the press he'd battled with. That story for Chris — for Seattle, for anyone who has battled with addiction — is so complicated it can't be easily distilled. We don't know the full story yet, and words almost can't capture the level of the loss.

Sometimes that feels like it is a story unique to Seattle music — darkness equals Seattle — but it is not a linkage of just one city and loss. It's a human story.

Often it was loss that Chris and I talked about, either in official interviews, or when the tape recorder wasn't running. Andrew Wood of Mother Love Bone had been Chris's roommate when Andrew overdosed, and that loss forever shaped Chris as a musician and as a person. Sometimes you thought that Chris's entire career — and not just the Temple of the Dog album — was a tribute to Andy.

In one of those conversations, Chris told of me Andy, "I don't know that we understood the full power of his aura and what he meant to all of us.

"It wasn't just like that I lost a friend," he said. "It was bigger than that."

Later in that same talk, in 2011, Chris looked up and seemed to be grabbing his thoughts, having a hard time keeping it together.

"There are a lot of fallen soldiers out there," he said.

Today, my bad dream from last night tells me there is one more.

Charles R. Cross is the author of nine books, including three New York Times' bestsellers. His 2001 biography of Kurt Cobain, Heavier Than Heaven, won the ASCAP Timothy White Award, and has been published in dozens of countries. Cross was Editor of The Rocket, the Seattle music magazine, from 1986 through 2000, which helped launch and break the grunge movement. As a journalist he was written for hundreds of newspapers and magazines including Rolling Stone, Esquire, Spin, Spy, Entertainment Weekly, Guitar World, Us, Salon, The London Times, The Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, Playboy, Q, Mojo and many more.