Hearing this made me a sad panda... IMO his best work was with Audioslave, which had become one my all-time favorite bands over the last few years. There was even talk of them getting back together... O well.
Really a head-scratcher.. he had fame, money, family, I have NONE of that, and I'm still here!
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Sat May 20, 2017 11:53 am
I have a little bit of inside info about his death as I go to MGM Grand every week, mostly.
Less than 2 weeks before his death someone else killed themselves in the EXACT same room.
It seems he took an extra dose of Ativan and side effects of an overdose are slurred speech, paranoia, and suicidal thoughts. He hung up on his wife, Vicky, and she called a family friend, also his bodyguard, and said he had slurred speech and seemed "off". If you want you can look at the concert and see he was just not well off... very listless, none of his usual energy, and his voice was AWFUL. He forgot words, in the middle of a song he went backstage for 5 minutes and when he came back they restarted the song.
Not sure if it's in this youtube video because it says full show but they did an hour of encores also.
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Sat May 20, 2017 12:21 pm
Oh, and I never knew this, when Chris Cornell formed Temple of the Dog as a tribute to Andrew Wood, who was singer for a band called Mother Love Bone, and Chris Cornell's roommate, he was in a sense forming Pearl Jam. He used Stone Gossard and Jeff Ament (founder of Mother Love Bone) from Wood's band, and Gossard went to school with McCready so they signed him up. Matt Cameron, who was in Soundgarden, would become the drummer, and eventually, in 1998, he joined Pearl Jam.
Last, but not least, they hired a backup singer, from San Diego, named Eddie Vedder. so 4 of the 5 members of Pearl Jam started playing together as Temple of the Dog.
I always thought they were both bands and joined to do the tribute album to Andrew Wood, but in fact Temple of the Dog pre-dated Pearl Jam.
There was talk of a new album from Temple of the Dog, as well as some concert dates with Audioslave, in Cornell's future but now we will never get to see it.
Find peace up there Chris!
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