Hey, good morning, everybody.

We are Toucher and Rich, 985, the Sportsup, Town Fair Tired Studios.

And the reason for the Soundgarden is Chris Cornell.

The lead singer of Soundgarden is dead at 52.

He died in Detroit, so at least he died happy. Yeah. Although this is audio slave. I mean, I don't know why you go audio slave. Well, because Soundgarden stuff wasn't ready. Like, this is something that the stage's always played. I've been loading him in all morning. I don't know. Yeah. I don't know why you go to the slave on people. And also that's something that obviously many Bruins fans are familiar with.

That is the voice of Chris Cornell that pretty much starts off every Bruins game. Right. So, yeah, this sucks. So he was 52 years old. They still haven't determined his death. I'm going to take a wild guess. Yeah. You know what the... And it's kind of too, because I think in the past, geez, what has it been like almost 15 years, kind of ever since the audio slave thing.

And I know he came in studio a few times and couldn't have been nicer.

But I think that his whole story was that he had turned his life around and he was one of these guys that kind of went the way that duff did

you know he found yoga he found some sort of um clean living and who knows whether that's

the cause or not but that just happened so many times he's 52 he's ripped yeah i'm going to guess

that it was in he had no pre-existing condition that the family's talking about i'm going to guess that it was, and he had no pre-existing condition that the family's talking about.

I'm going to guess that he died of drugs.

Top three voices, as far as just pure talent in singing, I think, of that generation.

Without a doubt.

Matter of fact, I can't, I mean, there's very few people that you could say had the chops that he had in the range.

And I remember this is a story I've told you guys many times before. But when my band back in the day was lucky enough to actually go and we recorded with a guy who worked with Rick Rubin. He was like his right-hand man. He was the sound engineer. And at the time, when we went out to California, he was working on this new band called Audio Slave.

Now, there had been talk about Chris Cornell fronting the guys from Rage Against the Machine,

but the album had not come out yet.

And so he brought one day into the studio what was to be the new audio slave album,

what you just heard right there.

But what it was, it was just Chris Cornell had not written the lyrics yet. It was the band playing and him scatting, just making fake words up as the song would go. So for like, Coach Eze would be like, yeah, yabandah, la du-da-da-da-da-da-da. So he had not come up with the actual words. But I was asking about what's it like to record these guys? And he goes, Chris Cornell is one of the strangest musicians I've ever recorded. He goes, because you know he's got that massive voice? Like just an enormous, you would think that, you know, you've got to stand up and scream as loud as you can into the microphone and you really have to have this, you know, pose to get right in the mic. He goes, here's what he does.

He sits down in a chair, gets comfortable, and says, all right, now bring the microphone to my mouth. And he sings all of those songs sitting down, which might be the most, the strangest pose to hit notes that big and that strong.

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