A Chris Cornell and Eddie Van Halen collaboration got here very near occurring

One in every of Chris Cornell‘s former collaborators has claimed the late Soundgarden and Audioslave frontman got here near recording a music that featured guitar elements by Eddie Van Halen.

Throughout an look on The Mitch Lafon and Jeremy White Show podcast, Thorn – who toured as a guitarist with Cornell, and recorded extra guitars on a handful of tracks from Cornell’s 2009 album ‘Scream’ – recounted simply how shut a collaboration between the 2 rockers was to changing into a actuality.

“They have been buddies… Eddie at all times wished to do one thing with Chris, musically,” Thorn mentioned. “He beloved his voice and he was like, ‘Man, I really like him. We have been at all times speaking about doing one thing collectively.'”

Thorn helped produce variations of ‘Scream’ cuts ‘Lengthy Gone’ and its title monitor, and it’s throughout these periods that Cornell had the concept of enlisting Van Halen to report some elements. “[Cornell and I were] in a parking zone listening to them in my automotive, I bear in mind, and he checked out me and he mentioned, ‘Hey what do you assume if we bought Eddie to work on this?'”

Thorn was in a position to get in touch by way of Friedman Amplification founder Dave Friedman, and ended up assembly Van Halen on the legendary guitarist’s 5150 Studios. After being proven the tracks in query, Van Halen ended up laying down guitar for the title monitor, however the collaboration by no means noticed the sunshine of day.

“I don’t need to get anyone excited considering that this ever bought completed, as a result of it didn’t,” Thorn clarified in the course of the interview. “However he did work on it. And, you understand, I'd go up there over the following couple of weeks, and he had performed on it. I'd hearken to it and simply be like, ‘I can’t consider that is occurring. That is myself and Eddie on a monitor.'”

“It’s an extended story, however it by no means bought a vocal on it by Chris. You understand, that was what it was,” Thorn defined. “Ed bought busy doing the following Van Halen report proper round then and producing issues… It simply by no means ended up getting completed.” In line with Thorn, “someplace” at 5150 Studios there’s a reel with Van Halen’s recording on it, that he’d “like to” hear once more.

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Cornell died lower than a decade after ‘Scream’ was launched (following Soundgarden’s ‘King Animal’ in 2012 and solo report ‘Greater Reality’ in 2015), whereas Van Halen handed away in 2020. In Could, on the fifth anniversary of Cornell’s loss of life, tributes have been paid to the musician by his Soundgarden bandmates, Rage Towards The Machine, his widow Vicky Cornell and extra.

Final month, Purple Scorching Chili Peppers honoured Eddie Van Halen by releasing ‘Eddie’, a tribute to the guitarist lifted from their forthcoming thirteenth album, ‘Return Of The Dream Canteen’. In an announcement on the time, frontman Anthony Kiedis defined how the music was prompted by Van Halen’s passing.

“The day after his loss of life Flea got here into rehearsal with an emotional bassline. John, Chad and I began taking part in alongside and fairly quickly with all our hearts, a music in his honor effortlessly unfolded,” Kiedis mentioned. “It felt good to be unhappy and care a lot about an individual who had given a lot to our lives.” Over the weekend, the band debuted the monitor stay whereas acting at Austin Metropolis Limits.