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Chris had the ultimate "metal scream." One song that shows it off really well is the iconic Spoonman. It's really sad when someone takes their own life. My sympathy to his family.
Chris had the ultimate "metal scream." One song that shows it off really well is the iconic Spoonman. It's really sad when someone takes their own life. My sympathy to his family.
If it's suicide as news is now indicating (death by hanging), it's sad but also makes you wonder about what an individual could bottle up inside. Wasn't Robin Williams death pretty much a surprise too? I wonder if his last encore song hours before his death, Led Zeppelin's "In My Time of Dying", was some sort of message. Supposedly that song was not the listed encore song, although I know bands can change it up at any time.
Robin Williams and Scott Weiland's deaths were surprises.
I was not the biggest Soundgarden and Audioslave fan (though I am more on the Soundgarden side of the fence with regard to his two main bands), but I greatly respect what this guy did for hard rock music! Hell, even many metalheads respected this guy greatly! He will sorely be missed by the hard rock/metal community! RIP Chris! Hope you are having a blast jamming with the other departed greats now!
Chris had the ultimate "metal scream." One song that shows it off really well is the iconic Spoonman. It's really sad when someone takes their own life. My sympathy to his family.
I LOVE his vocals on Spoonman. this is just an awful, awful thing, I can't watch the videos of his last performance just yet. Seeing him so relaxed and at ease with his fans...Rest In peace, brother, break your rusty cage...and run.
For me it all started in the late 80s with the Louder Than Love album. I wore that album out and I was hooked to their sound for good. I am speechless over his death. It truly doesn't make sense.
Statements from Chris' wife and police suggest that an overdose of Ativan (2 tablets after the show, possibly one before the show), which he took for anxiety, might have messed with his frame of mind in the hour before his death.
One side effect of the drug is that it can intensify suicidal thoughts.
Although this hasn't been confirmed (and probably never can be), it is kind of what I was suspecting all along. Cornell used to have his drugs and alcohol rock star days, but by all accounts he had been clean and sober for years. He wasn't known to be suicidal, and his Twitter feed had sweet messages to his mother and family this past week. I was thinking that perhaps he was on some kind of anti-depressant that might have triggered something dark in his mind. This is one reason why I try to avoid pharmaceuticals whenever possible...
RIP Chris. It really sucks if Ativan was to blame.
What a dark place he must've been in to take his own life with a 12 year old boy, a 13 year old girl and another 17 year old girl. So very sad.
He was a unique talent and I loved his work. Rest In Peace Chris Cornell.
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