It was the year 2002, I remember it perfectly. It began to sound very hard a song in which the vocalist had a powerful and peculiar voice, which reminded me at times to Eddie Vedder . The guitar also had a very marked wah-wah effect , with just one simply delicious. Like Stone , from the band Audioslave , led by the vocalist Christopher John Boyle , or better known as Chris Cornell , that was the song that made me fall in love with the band and admire each member, especially Chris and the virtuoso Tom Morello .
And since then I dedicated myself to know Cornell's work, both in his previous bands ( Soundgarden , Temple of the Dog ) and with Audioslave, and as a soloist as well. It became unwittingly one of my examples to follow, and although in previous bands where I wanted to co-create Like a Stone, the truth is that I was in trouble to reach the high pitched tones of Chris in that song, but still I kept learning of the.
A week ago, the world received a bitter and lamentable news: Chris Cornell had died, at the age of 52 years.
I could not believe it. It is true that he had problems with alcoholism, drug addiction, depression ... I do not know what was going on in his mind and possibly I do not want to know, as well as the causes of his death (if it was suicide, I'm not interested). I only know that one more talented rockstar leaves us, that his music is going to remain as his great legacy and that he will always be missed, even if he was not a type so known by the masses, for those who like the (** cofcofbuenacofcof **) music does impact us a lot, especially people like me who were looking forward to a possible return of Audioslave, after having many years of being dissolved.
Thanks Chris for everything you leave, for what I learned from you and above all, for tremendous songs created. See you soon, and always.