Episode #177 | 05.23.24 | SOURCES
Chris Cornell (All Access): Bad Trips, Crooked DEA Agents, and Four Octaves of Sheer Power
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As a teenager, Chris Cornell was traumatized by a bad PCP trip that turned him into a recluse for years. Music pulled him out of the darkness when he discovered his four-octave voice by accident. A voice he used to incredible effect as the frontman for both Soundgarden and Audioslave. But the darkness never really went away – it was there in his hometown of Seattle, where tragedies closed the chapter on grunge, and in his music, which was authentic to the very end.
*illustration by Avi Spivak @avispivak