He googled ‘one lyrics’ only to be confronted with the words to Metallica’s lament to a World War 1 soldier who loses all his limbs and senses after stepping on a landmine. Cornell explains that the amalgam came about when searching for the lyrics to U2’s melancholy yet uplifting anthem. Special plaudits should go to his cover of One, a fusion of the U2 and Metallica songs that both share the same title. Not many artists can cover some of the greatest music of the 20th century and get away unscathed, but tonight, Cornell takes on songs by The Beatles, Prince, Led Zeppelin, Michael Jackson and Bob Dylan and plays them all as if they were his own. When he unleashes that voice, you can feel the molecules in the room shift, as if everyone were afraid to breathe through fear of making the slightest sound. Keeping an audience of 5,000 people enthralled and hushed throughout a 25 song, 2 hour 20 minute set, Cornell manages to shrink the large environs of the Hall, treating those in attendance like guests in his living room (at one point, even graciously pausing mid-set to take a selfie with some over-eager fans). To that list, we should now add Chris Cornell. And who can blame him, with the 19 th century building having played host to some of the most legendary performers in music Led Zeppelin, Frank Sinatra, Leonard Cohen, Deep Purple, Shirley Bassey, Dusty Springfield, the list of one-in-a-million true greats that have played momentous shows at this esteemed hall is vast. We tried to get help from online communities like Reddit’s Photoshop sub to fix some of the possibly salvageable photos for the other fans, but we’re definitely grateful that ours came out at least somewhat okay.Īnother highlight…when signing the book, Chris asked “are you Jaye ?” (referring to Jaye English, one of the creators of the book), and when I said “No, Jeff” he said “Oh yeah that’s right, you’re Jeffgarden”, despite us not bringing that up (or wearing the website shirts) this time.Chris Cornell admits fairly early on this evening that the whole purpose of booking his latest UK / European tour was to play the prestigious Royal Albert Hall. Our photo (above) ended up coming out the best (although still quite blurry) but most of the other photos were so bad you literally couldn’t tell who was in the photos (they sent everyone’s photos to entire email list so we all saw each other’s photos). Other than us not being allowed to take photos during the meet, which I get, but was still quite unfortunate…they also insisted on having the security guard take the photos with Chris on his horrible phone. He and Meghan spoke about the Apple Watch for a while before his security guard let him know he needs to get ready and end the meet and greet. He then put it in his sleeve and shook everyones’ hands with it and waved to us.
FORUM CHRIS CORNELL SONGBOOK FULL
We brought our copy of the Photofantasm book, and a promotional robotic hand from the Hands All Over single.Ĭhris had a lot of questions about the hand (for which we didn’t have too many answers as it was just passed down to us from a “grunge museum” so we didn’t know the full story behind it). Once we got backstage with Chris, there were no photos or videotaping allowed, but Chris spent a good deal of time just talking to everyone and signing what they brought in for him.
We had won the backstage pass from a “send proof of purchase of Chris’s album” contest, and others had won various radio call-in and online contests. At the Chris Cornell Songbook show in Miami (), we had another meet and greet, this time with about a dozen other fans.
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