Audioslave’s Cornell Given A New Lease On Life
Former Soundgarden, current Audioslave frontman Chris Cornell spoke with The Las Vegas Review Journal about his decision to stop drinking two years ago. When Jeff Buckley died — after Mother Love Bone’s Andrew Wood and Nirvana’s Kurt Cobain, and before Alice In Chains singer Layne Staley — Cornell felt like, “I’ve had it.” He admitted, “And that was the beginning of a very, very rough period. Eventually I went from someone who drank occasionally to someone who was pretty much daily an alcoholic, and then taking other drugs, because I was sick from being an alcoholic. And then having problems with those prescription medications. And then a mental deterioration occurred. A huge depression. I had trouble doing anything, or wanting to do anything. … I stopped really playing (guitar) for two years.” Read more.
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