![]() I might as well have been a pole to her.”Īnd then, immediately thereafter, Mark Arm (no relation), frontman for beloved Seattle scuzz-rock band Mudhoney, says, “This might be coming from a place of jealousy, but the shirtlessness seemed contrived. Did she know who she was rubbing up against? Probably not. A guy named James Burdyshaw, who played guitar in the fantastically named Seattle band Cat Butt, says, “I remember one Soundgarden show where this girl was so enthralled with Chris that she was dancing like crazy and rubbin’ her rear end against me, all while staring at him. In the author Mark Yarm’s fantastic 2011 book, Everybody Loves Our Town: An Oral History of Grunge, Cornell’s early shirtlessness is discussed at some length. ![]() Right? Soundgarden formed in Seattle in 1984, and once he switched from drummer to frontman, the first five years or so of the Cornell live experience are defined, in retrospect, by lascivious tales of his shirtlessness. This is superficial, and also subjective, but not really: I feel like you can tell, just by listening to Chris Cornell sing, that he is (a) the best pure singer and rock star to emerge from the fabled Seattle scene, and he is also (b) the hottest. We’re getting too heavy too fast, actually. And that record starts with Chris crooning and moaning and wailing and howling a song he wrote for Andy called “Say Hello 2 Heaven,” and holy shit, man, Chris Cornell’s voice. And actually, let’s start here, because this very morning, while bumbling around my house watching my 2-year-old daughter, I put on the Temple of the Dog record, from 1991, Temple of the Dog being the Seattle supergroup Chris convened in Andy Wood’s honor. Andy’s death hit Chris extraordinarily hard. It’s like, ‘I don’t wanna wear these fucking things from people who died.’”Ĭhris is referring, of course, to his dear friend and former roommate Andy Wood, frontman for the major proto-grunge Seattle rock bands Malfunkshun and Mother Love Bone Andy died of a heroin overdose on March 19, 1990, shortly before the release of Mother Love Bone’s debut album, Apple. Because the other thing I wore was this ring that belonged to Andy Wood, who died. He says, “I really liked it, but I stopped wearing it after he died. I’d say Denny’s is more fast casual, but it’s still funny. fast-food chain,” which is very funny to me. During a fan Q&A in Kerrang magazine in 1997, Chris says, “It was given to me by the late Shannon Hoon, who fashioned it out of a fork he got in Denny’s on the first tour Blind Melon ever did, which was opening for us.” Kerrang is a British magazine, so they feel compelled to clarify parenthetically that Denny’s is “a U.S. Once again my long and baffling digressions are unexpectedly validated after the fact. I didn’t know this-I didn’t find out about this until literally just now-but Chris Cornell is wearing a bent-up fork as a necklace in the 1994-viral “Black Hole Sun” video, and it turns out that Chris received that fork necklace as a gift from Blind Melon frontman Shannon Hoon.
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