Where are you getting this?

He's talking about the INXS scenario, not Cornell.

just fucking awful

Oh....dammit my brain is so fucked up right now. Sorry.

Well said. A famous person is just someone you recognize. An artist adds to your life, to the whole world. Chris added a lot.

according to tmz, his wife says she spoke to chris before and after the show last night, and he was not at all depressed.

but who really knows. either way, this doesn't make any sense

This is terrible. I've been casually listening to SG almost as long as PJ but never really considered them "my band" in the same way I do PJ or, back in high school, the Pumpkins. There was just something larger than life and old school rock god-like about SG -- Chris especially -- that made it hard for an angsty teen to connect with them. The TOTD tour/reissue inspired me to go back and dig a little deeper. The past few months alone I've spun that album and Badmotorfinger dozens of times. It was fun to watch the PJ guys have so much fun backing up Chris, and to think about the music they might make in the future. Just a tragedy all around. I hope for his family's sake it was an accident. RIP Chris.

read it was a guitar string around his neck....

crazy, sucks, terrible

This fucking sucks.

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Fucking crushed. Like some of you mentioned, SG wasn't nearly as big of a band for me as PJ or others, but Chris's voice and a lot of his lyrics were and are cemented into my life like a name carved into a tree. The loss of Chris feels like the death to a part of my past and who I was, and who I became. Goddammit I'm tearing up while typing this.

RIP Chris

Thoughts to his family and loved ones

Horrendous news.

Goddamn, radio is playing "When I'm Down"

Listening to Cornell songs this morning, this is hitting me way harder that I expected.

Soundgarden wasn't quite as big for me as PJ, but they were definitely number 2, this has crushed me like no celeb death ever has.

The acoustic albums with him talking in between songs are really getting to me.

If anyone is interested in writing up their thoughts for the main page please let me know. I don't know that I am the right person for this moment, and I think people enjoy reading/take comfort in an articulate reaction

They were my transition from heavy metal to "grunge". They had that heavy feel but with more emotion in the singing and lyrics thanks to Chris. His voice is probably just after Layne's for me. Loved it.

I still can't fathom a suicide--there are like no recent signs that would hint to anything of the kind. I mean you never truly know how much depression can take its toll on you, but he's seemed so goddamn happy for years now that I thought he would grow into an old man. 52 is quite simply tragic. Fuck