Soundgarden

Man - I really dug Chris Cornell in Soundgarden and Temple of the Dogs (that was him in temple of the dogs, right). I didn't care too much for him in Audioslave - but he's still one of the best singers of all time.

Chris Cornell (Soundgarden and Audioslave) Chris Conrell’s New Bar is a Supermodel Hotspot. Name of Bar: Black Calavados (BC) Location: Paris, France Audioslave frontman Chris Cornell has undergone an extreme career makeover, signing on as the face of John Varvatos' menswear line and opening a posh restaurant in Paris, France. The former Soundgarden singer launched his restaurant and bar, Black Calavados (BC), earlier this month, during Paris Fashion Week. The notoriously reluctant heart-throb rubbed shoulders with the fashion superstars during the opening of BC, including John Galliano and Balenciaga's Nicholas Ghesquiere. The restaurant has become the new hotspot for supermodels and the fashion elite in Paris. Chris Cornell will also perform at the designer's 4th Annual Stuart H

Soundgarden made a place for heavy metal in alternative rock. Their fellow Seattle rockers Green River may have spearheaded the grunge sound, but they relied on noise rock in the vein of the Stooges. Similarly, Jane's Addiction were too fascinated with prog rock and performance art to appeal to a wide array of metal fans. Soundgarden, however, developed directly out of the grandiose blues-rock of Led Zeppelin and the sludgy, slow riffs of Black Sabbath. Which isn't to say they were a straight-ahead metal band. Soundgarden borrowed the D.I.Y. aesthetics of punk, melding their guitar-driven sound with an intelligence and ironic sense of humor that was indebted to the American underground of the mid-'80s. Furthermore, the band rarely limited itself to simple, pounding riffs, often making detours into psychedelia. But the group's key sonic signatures -- the gutsy wail of vocalist Chris Cornell and the winding riffs of guitarist Kim Thayil -- were what brought them out of the undergroun

Soundgarden fue una banda de rock procedente de Seattle que ayudó a definir el sonido que sería denominado grunge. Se les suele considerar como una de las cuatro grandes bandas del grunge junto a Nirvana, Alice in Chains y Pearl Jam.La banda fue formada en 1984 por Chris Cornell e Hiro Yamamoto, ocupándose Chris de la batería al mismo tiempo que era vocalista, mientras que Yamamoto se encargaría del bajo. Más tarde se uniría al grupo Kim Thayil como guitarrista. Éste se había trasladado a Seattle desde Illinois con Yamamoto y Bruce Pavitt, quien fuera más tarde co-fundador del sello discográfico Sub Pop. La banda obtuvo su nombre a partir de una instalación artística conocida como The Sound Garden, ubicada al aire libre y que producía sonidos espeluznantes cuando el viento atravesaba unos tubos de metal de la misma. Esta obra artística es propiedad de la NOAA, con sede cercana al parque Magnuson de Seattle.Al comienzo, Cornell tocaba la batería mientras cantaba, hecho q