The Chickens Concert Series 5: Chris Cornell

You may remember Chris Cornell from such bands as Sound Garden (1984-1997) and Audioslave (2001-2007). Soundgarden released seven albums over the years and Audioslave released 3 and Chris has also released 2 solo albums so far (Euphoria Morning in 1999 and his new album Carry On). He also was the founder and frontman for Temple of the Dog which released a self title album in 1991. And he has contributed and played with many bands including Alice in Chains under the band name "Alice Mudgarden" in 1992 (that's for Kim, the Mud part is because the song also involved Mark Arm from Mudhoney on vocals). He has many credits for contributing to soundtracks for movies and video games too (like the title song for Casino Royale). There is a bio, among other things, on the official website. Anywho, let's just say he is friggin' awesome and so was his concert! Woohoo! Oh and the base player was wicked (he's on the right but I forget his name), at one point Chris was singing at him and he was playing back what he sang! It was sweet, but Kim totally missed it because she was distracted by a jerk. Of course the whole band was amazing, great guitar and some pretty cool drum solos (during which the whole band would throw things at him but they couldn't break his concentration). Chris played so many great songs it's hard to say a favorite, Kim will extol the virtues of the acoustic medly of songs that he played in the middle of the concert, I was just pleased that he played Hunger Strike (I love that song). I couldn't find a video from the concert but here is one from when he was in Winnipeg: