Chris Cornell Looks To Once-In-A-Lifetime Collaborations On Projekt Rev

Chris Cornell, singer songwriter for legendary bands Soundgarden, Temple of the Dog and Audioslave as well as being a solo artist, will spend his summer on the road with Linkin Park on their Projekt Revolution Tour. Chris Cornell, who is reportedly working in the studio with producer Timbaland on his upcoming album, will take some time away from the studio to get out on the road with his band. Cornell, who performs a set list which includes numerous hits like 'Outshined,' 'Black Hole Sun' and 'Hunger Strike' will also look to jump on stage with Chester Bennington and Linkin Park or any other band on Projekt Revolution if the opportunity presents itself.

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We caught up with Chris Cornell to get his thoughts on discussing some songs to sing with Chester Bennington and if he's looking forward to sitting in with Linkin Park this Summer while on the road.

Chris Cornell On Breaking The Ice At Projekt Revolution

"Absolutely, either surprise or on purpose. Yeah, Chester and I discussed picking some songs and actually going up. Yeah, I'd be into that anytime anybody wants to do something with me or vice versa performing. I think that's what makes these types of tours work better. That's when you really take advantage of it is when you got a lot of bands together breaking the ice and nothing breaks the ice better than when you're onstage together in front of 20,000 people. It doesn't get any more intense than that. Once you've gone through that with someone you pretty much gonna be pals."

Chris Cornell and Linkin Park will be joined by The Bravery, Busta Rhymes and Ashes Divide on the main stage and Atreyu, 10 Years, Hawthorne Heights, Street Drum Corps and Armour for Sleep on The Revolution Stage. Projekt Revolution North American tour dates start July 16th in Mansfield, MA and extend until August 24th in Woodlands, Texas.

Comments

[DarkBlueIce]

This is gunna be a sick tour!
LP and Cornell freakin rock!

[FaceTomorrow]

black WHOLE sun???

[Icarus166s]

I am so pissed that I'm gonna be out of the country when this tour lands in Tampa.

[godberry]

i think chris cornell sounds too soft now. anyways, i have so much respect for him. it's too bad i only like cornell and lp. otherwise i would consider projekt revolution.

[Wil256]

FaceTomorrow wrote:

black WHOLE sun???

+1

tho its a pitty that this tour isnt coming to europe and/or the UK (that i know of).

[DroptheBomb]

man this is some lame stuff w/e happened to Chris Cornell punk Background from back when he was in Soundgarden?

Linkin Park's a commercial hack.
major label money making greed machine

not to mention the guitarist completely blows.

Im sorry, "textural contributions" is not strumming a bunch of Downtuned power chords.

Want "textural contributions"? maybe try something more along the lines of someone like Larry Lalonde...

[frankv]

I never cared for Linkin Park, and not going to go to the Projekt Revolution tour. However the fact that he's collaborating with others is a good sign that a reincarnation of Temple Of The Dog being possible.

By the way, he looks like Brandon Boyd from Incubus with that hair. :O

[Antwan_the_Swan]

FaceTomorrow wrote:

black WHOLE sun???

Haha!

[sambargun]

Well done Chris. Youi couldnt stoop any lower. You had an amazing band in Soundgarden which you trashed because of songwriting issues. You formed a pretty good superband in Audioslave, which again you trashed because you wanted more money, and now this. You had to pick those pussy rockers to write songs with. Are you desperate to sell records? And that too at your age and after all the great work with your name on them? What next, collaboration with jay z and snoop dog? Money minded prick.....

[maninzil]

Brad Delson doesn't blow he plays simple stuff but thats the sound linkin park uses so just cause its different doesn't mean it blows. One step closer is one of the most recognizable riffs

[frankv]

maninzil wrote:

Brad Delson doesn't blow he plays simple stuff but thats the sound linkin park uses so just cause its different doesn't mean it blows. One step closer is one of the most recognizable riffs

The thing is, it isn't different. It's just really mediocre.

[mookie_baylock]

cornell cancelled his european summer festival tour for this??

[TastyMooglePie]

OPINIONS, OH NOES!!!

[Skarson]

Woahhhh. When did Busta Rhymes sign on for this?

[ratmblink123]

FaceTomorrow wrote:

black WHOLE sun???

Haha, I saw the same thing.

[Scourge441]

I stopped caring about Chris Cornell once he left Audioslave.

maninzil wrote:

Brad Delson doesn't blow he plays simple stuff but thats the sound linkin park uses so just cause its different doesn't mean it blows. One step closer is one of the most recognizable riffs

No, he actually does blow. Linkin Park have a drummer, a guitarist, and a bassist for no reason other than that they need a drummer, a guitarist, and a bassist. Just because Delson struck oil with the riff to One Step Closer doesn't mean he's good, it just means he's lucky.

Mike Shinoda is the only one in that band with real talent.

[FireHawk]

Mike Shinoda is the the only one with a lot of talent but I don't think Chester Bennington is that bad either. I love his voice.

[Person000]

Cornell is going down the drain..

[Person000]

Cornell is going down the drain..

[LordArbiter]

I heard a piece of a new song that'll be on this new LP, and it just sounds like Top 40 teen pop. I'm almost ashamed to see someone of amazing potential such as Cornell working with people like Timbaland who contribute to the dumbing down of music as an art. Such a waste.

[Guitar_Jester]

Going to see Linkin Park this month!

[perilouspete]

LordArbiter wrote:

I heard a piece of a new song that'll be on this new LP, and it just sounds like Top 40 teen pop. I'm almost ashamed to see someone of amazing potential such as Cornell working with people like Timbaland who contribute to the dumbing down of music as an art. Such a waste.

couldn't agree more.

[tim western]

What a toby-breath.

[Gh.]

Wtf is wrong with Cornell? I can understand that he will do some songs with Bennington(just hope that he'll do it without whole Linkin Park), but doing a long play with Timbeland? I'm wordless...

[Stefanz]

shit like this is why im addicted to cocaine.

[sithian476]

What close-minded opinions... whatever, at least this tour will be amazing in my opinion. Regardless of how rotten you believe Linkin Park to be, they put a lot more heart into their shows than most other bands out there today. If you've seen them live in person and deny that, then you're just being stubborn and need to stop being such a douchebag.

[Guitar~God]

He should really be touring with Rage Against the Machine, but this tour is still gonna be awsome!!!

[lordpaco18]

this is a ****in weird tour
i do looove chris cornell and linkin park, its just weird seeing them together

[guitgrinder]

Think CC is just trying to avoid a SG reunion? All the other "grunge" bands are doin' it ( at least the ones who're still alive...) PJ's been goin' forever, STP is playin', AIC are comin' back, Nirvana is gone, but FF have a big record right now... but where's Soundgarden, eh?

[roarinflames]

DroptheBomb wrote:
Linkin Park's a commercial hack.
major label money making greed machine

yeah i mean
its not like they donate an assload of the profits to charity or anything like that, lol

if you want to talk greedy money *****s, look to bands like kiss

[staind_dust87]

Chester Bennington is one hell of a singer if you like him or not, if you think he sucks, you just don't know talent at all. I think it would be badass to have him and chris on one song, he's also a great singer.

[fitter.happier.]

guitgrinder wrote:

Think CC is just trying to avoid a SG reunion? All the other "grunge" bands are doin' it ( at least the ones who're still alive...) PJ's been goin' forever, STP is playin', AIC are comin' back, Nirvana is gone, but FF have a big record right now... but where's Soundgarden, eh?

abbreviations are lame
but not as lame as cornell teaming up with timbaland. nothing more from you chris, unless you get your act together and reunite soundgarden.

[jahyarain]

staind_dust87 wrote:

you just don't know talent at all.

u summed up all but three posts with those seven words.

[paquiquinho]

sithian476 wrote:

What close-minded opinions... whatever, at least this tour will be amazing in my opinion. Regardless of how rotten you believe Linkin Park to be, they put a lot more heart into their shows than most other bands out there today. If you've seen them live in person and deny that, then you're just being stubborn and need to stop being such a douchebag.

Agreed my friend. And if you started with nu metal from the begining and that was your genre of choice along with grunge like myself this couldn't be better. Oh and I LOVE audioslave too. Really Linkin Park aren't bad just because they don't live of guitar! Gosh that's absurd! They have good lyrics and overall music. You might not like it but if you listen to every single song they have made and say they are generic then you are just being an a**... Sure shadow of the day, what I've done or even numb and all those s***y songs with jay Z are pretty bad but songs like somewhere I belong, faint, don't stay, papercut, runaway, in between, among many others are very nice in their own way. Just my 2 cents though. Oh and I'm gonna see them on friday along with The Offspring and the single Muse show till next year... AHAH kick ass can't wait

[csguitar]

this tour will be sik i will turn my back on hawthorne heights tho

[jakstar]

bad ass. thats all i have to say.

[DroptheBomb]

sithian476 wrote:

What close-minded opinions... whatever, at least this tour will be amazing in my opinion. Regardless of how rotten you believe Linkin Park to be, they put a lot more heart into their shows than most other bands out there today. If you've seen them live in person and deny that, then you're just being stubborn and need to stop being such a douchebag.

id be puttin a heart into my shows if i was making az much[undeservingly] money they make.

then again its not very hard to conform to the norm and make a style even more poppy and commercialized so i guess they have a lot of extra energy to put into their live with their obvious lack of talent and originality shows their prolly not puttin that energy into practicin or tryin to doin something different....

its because of bands like linkin park that killed Nu-metal in the first place.

[DroptheBomb]

roarinflames wrote:





if you want to talk greedy money *****s, look to bands like kiss

ill agree with u there KSS definatly number 1 greed machine i mean fuk u can get KISS condoms?! how much more commercialized can u get.

[boor]

Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain's ashes stolen
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Singer's remains taken from Courtney Love's home

Jun 1, 2008
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Kurt Cobain's ashes have apparently been stolen.

According to the News Of The World, the Nirvana frontman's remains – the location of which has previously been kept secret – were taken from the Los Angeles home of his widow Courtney Love.

The ashes were said to have been kept in a "pink teddy bear-shaped bag along with a lock of his hair" and were taken with some jewellery and clothes.

Love is quoted by the paper as saying: "I can't believe anyone would take Kurt's ashes from me. I find it disgusting and right now I'm suicidal. If I don't get them back I don't know what I'll do."

Some of the Nirvana frontman's ashes were previously scattered near his home in Washington State and some at a New York Buddhist temple, with his widow retaining the rest.

She added: "They were all I had left of my husband. I used to take them everywhere with me just so I could feel Kurt was still with me. Now it feels like I have lost him all over again."

[soul_power]

Chris Cornell and The Bravery would be awesome to see. LP, Busta, and Hawthorne...not so much.

[Scorge]

sambargun wrote:

Well done Chris. Youi couldnt stoop any lower. You had an amazing band in Soundgarden which you trashed because of songwriting issues. You formed a pretty good superband in Audioslave, which again you trashed because you wanted more money, and now this. You had to pick those pussy rockers to write songs with. Are you desperate to sell records? And that too at your age and after all the great work with your name on them? What next, collaboration with jay z and snoop dog? Money minded prick.....

wow.....someone's having a hissy fit..

Stefanz wrote:

shit like this is why im addicted to cocaine.

whoa.....reality check?

anyway, this is really a strange and unexpected collaboration. im down just as long as chris doesn't start rapping, or end up on rap records.

[devin_g94]

sambargun, uhh just shut up. you just trashed every single person you talked about. even chris. can't wait for that lp cornell stuff. two groups that i can't get enough of, together. proj.rev. is gonna be sweet this year. not as good as last year but...and since when did busta join.

[devin_g94]

Gh. wrote:

Wtf is wrong with Cornell? I can understand that he will do some songs with Bennington(just hope that he'll do it without whole Linkin Park), but doing a long play with Timbeland? I'm wordless...

hey now bennington is an awesome singer but without mike shinoda, he would be nothing. anything that mike is on is nothing without him. as for timbaland, he produces good stuff. but i hate his music.

[Snarl Dreadwood]

i saw him opening for lp earlier this year in New Zealand

most people i talked to didn't like him but he was awesome

he had a good selection of songs too

[bloodred16]

Wil256 wrote:

FaceTomorrow wrote:

black WHOLE sun???

+1

tho its a pitty that this tour isnt coming to europe and/or the UK (that i know of).

Projekt Revolution is coming to the UK, but it's only the one date at the Milton Keynes Bowl (June 29th) and none of the acts off the North American tour other than Linkin Park which sucks.

[megadethdefying]

linkin park are STILL around? oh dear.

i remember the days when they used to write their own songs and sing them themselves, instead of getting all these outside 'artists' like jay-z.

[thebrewfan]

All those who think that Chester is a good singer need to go to a studio and learn what autotune sounds like. Your opinion of him will drop substantially.

[Martin Blank]

Disgusting.

[LPFreak64]

thebrewfan wrote:

All those who think that Chester is a good singer need to go to a studio and learn what autotune sounds like. Your opinion of him will drop substantially.

All those who doesn't think Chester is a good songer need to go to a concert and learn what talent sounds like. Your opinion of him will rise substantially.

[koolfoolinapool]

LPFreak64 wrote:

thebrewfan wrote:

All those who think that Chester is a good singer need to go to a studio and learn what autotune sounds like. Your opinion of him will drop substantially.


All those who doesn't think Chester is a good songer need to go to a concert and learn what talent sounds like. Your opinion of him will rise substantially.

All of those who think Chester is a good singer need to go to hell. lmao

And all of those who think Cornell is weak now are right. Go listen to Badmotorfinger. That had to be one of the most powerful and true rock albums ever released.

But seriously. That autotune thing's right. Heard that Chester dude back up Cornell on Hunger Strike and he did terrible. He was straining and having difficulty with probably the easiest of notes. lmao