Soundgarden

unreal that all of these dudes are gone. Cornell, Weiland, Staley, Cobain.

don't forget andrew wood

fuck i wouldn't be anywhere near here probably without soundgarden cracking open my mental door between metal and "modern" rock (1990, you know)

Gutted, what a voice. I remember someone on ILX saying he was a better singer than Robert Plant, and I think they might have been right. Will play Superunknown loud this morning.

Oh man RIP.

Soundgarden was never my thing but there was never any denying Cornell's talent and presence.

well this sucks :(

wow this is unexpected. RIP.

this fucking sucks so hard

so so so so fucking sad. and not that this is why its tragic, but there was a new SG album coming too, I heard.

this hurts

This fucking sucks

Listened to this 10 times in a row already

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_xeFx4WG0CA

can't get my head around this at all

this is so sad, RIP. we saw him in brisbane about 18 months ago and he was great.

@stevie http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/7760610/chris-cornell-the-promise-soundgarden-album

i keep thinking of how life affirming the temple of the dog show was

so they were on tour at the moment and they'd played a show last night?

You were the first person I thought of, Maura. Damn.

"Mind Riot" was always the song I randomly defaulted to in my memory when I thought of them and him. Probably going to be doing so in general all day today.

Well...shit.

Have any details about the cause of his death emerged? Cause even though this was a long time ago it's kinda alarming (taken from that Billboard interview just upthread)

"I remember years ago, we were doing Badmotorfinger, and I saw some drama on the Holocaust with Willem Defoe as a boxer [Triumph of the Spirit]. I watched it late at night, and I woke up the next morning and we were flying from Sausalito back to Seattle. I got a migraine so bad that I had to be hospitalized. The blood vessels had expanded so much in my brain that I couldn’t really talk. I could see that this was blue [points to a bottle], but I couldn’t remember the word that was the symbol for the color blue. It was a scary thing and I’ve never had that since, but it’s stuck with me that there’s some part of me that has a hard time with that on some level that’s way more intense than I would have expected."

And yeah, realizing ALL those frontmen are gone from the era and place, all of whom were legit huge breakouts or on the verge of becoming one, is crazy to think about. (Saw them all live too aside from Wood.) Vender is the only one left, and when you think about how he started there precisely because Wood died -- I mean, I'd feel pretty damn weird if I were in his shoes.

Found in the bathroom, a band around his neck.

thanks, i can think of 10000 better ways of phrasing that

Quoting the police directly. You're welcome.

Damn! Quick story.. In a matter of a week I saw him in LA, played blackjack at the same table in Vegas
for a couple hours and then saw him at a bar in NYC. He remembered me, bought a round and we talked for a bit. He was a super nice and humble guy. Rip bro

I can't believe this. I just saw him at a phenomenal Soundgarden show like three weeks ago. He seemed full of life and in good spirits. He sounded great and seemed generally locked in, not going through the motions at all.

nobody ever outshined you, bro. RIP.

goddamn this sucks so much. Euphoria Morning was one of the first CDs I bought with my own money, weirdly

I was just thinking of "Seeking a Friend for the End of the World"

So so sad about this

I'll have to get off and stop Googling now, the last song they did yesterday was the extended version of Slaves & Bulldozers and he slipped in some lyrics from 'In My Time Of Dying' apparently, so sad.

aw what the hell

lanegan and arm are still around but yeah.

Ah shit. Awful news. I'd lost touch with what he'd been up to and didn't realise he'd struggled so badly with depression. It's taking too many. RIP.

I saw Shawn Smith on Saturday night and thought then about how many of that era had gone (particularly the constellation that surrounded Andrew Wood).

Louder than Love was one of my most played tapes in high school. Even had the t shirt. Dude was a monster and will be missed.

He was on such great form the last two times I saw SG.

I even loved a fair bit of King Animal.

Listening to Fresh Tendrils and the "Throw yourself away" refrain is giving me serious chills.

wow, stunned

ordered louder than love from Columbia House and really fell in love with it, saw them open for GnR on the Use Your Illusion tour

but yeah as Maura said they def along with Jane's probably deserve as much if not more credit than Nirvana kicking off alternative and bringing that to metal kids in the cornfields

RIP

WFT? I can't believe this. He was a genuinely nice guy, great singer. Always struck me as one of the 90s grunge folks who seemed the most together. I'm stunned.

Holy shit.

i always loved this song from the LOUDEST LOVE ep

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ktJ3pgdEHy4

this b-side to 'flower' was good too, very eerie and weird (it's from the SCREAMING LIFE sessions)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kpuiJPtE4a4

Amazing that Lanegan is outliving them all. First grunge show I saw was in 1989, Mudhoney with Soundgarden in support. Good times.

I saw Soundgarden co-headlining with Voivod, with Prong as the opener. Cornell walked on our shoulders and hands.

Damn, I haven't really listened to them in years but those 90s albums were my shit when I was 16-17.

Never mentioned it on this thread, but I bought the remix/remaster of Ultramega OK when it came out earlier this year and holy shit, it's amazing. If you haven't heard it, buy it.

xxxpost Not the same scene, but I was just thinking about how amazing it is that Reznor outlasted all of these guys.

Years back I wrote up the three times I saw SG in 1992 for a blog series I was doing -- good memories all

https://nedraggett.wordpress.com/2010/03/08/not-just-the-ticket-29-soundgarden-january-29-1992/

https://nedraggett.wordpress.com/2010/05/11/not-just-the-ticket-43-soundgarden-april-25-1992/

https://nedraggett.wordpress.com/2010/08/02/not-just-the-ticket-58-lollapalooza-92-sept-12-1992/

Favorite by default was the first time, but they were all fantastic.

Really gutted about this, Superunknown is one of my favourite rock albums. R.I.P.