Fell on a Black Day

Do not sway and always remember the 17th of May!  

That day was a day of mixed emotions as I woke up at 7:30am to the news that one of my all time favorite musicians had passed away.  Back in the 90's, I was very much into the grunge sound with my small group of eclectic friends!  We would spend hours listening to Nirvana, Soundgarden, Temple of the Dog, Alice In Chains, MotherLoveBone, Mad Seasons, Mudhoney, Brad, Satchel and more!  Our days would be spent searching the Record/CD stores around St Mark's Place for that distinctive Seattle sound!  We wore plaid shirts, torn up jean shorts to get a sense of inclusion and even bought $50 guitars.  It was an amazing time as I would become more in tune with my emotions and found my escape through the music!

Then in 2001, I became subservient to the tonalities of Audioslave!  Once again I fell in love with the sound of Chris Cornell and Rage against the Machine.  The mix of Morello's guitar and Chris Cornell's melancholic lyric would once again touch us all with songs like "I am a Highway", "Shadow of the Sun, "Be Yourself", and "Like a Stone"!  As the decade progressed, Cornell released a solo album with Timbaland called Scream!!! I happen to love the fact that he wasn't afraid to mix his lyrics with the rhythms of Timbaland but he caught a lot of slack for doing that one! I applauded him for doing something different!

So much can be said about his music and how it touched so many lives.  I for one was shocked to hear the news as I was just listening to "Like a Stone" on that past Saturday with my cousin J!  It made me think of those lyrics and how he was waiting for death, like a stone!

You will be greatly missed, from this world to the next, rest in peace...