sebastian troen

It’s not often you get to see a true rock legend play a packed small club like the Commodore. Thanks to Molson Canadian (shameless plug!) I got to see Chris Cornell, former frontman for grunge gods Soundgarden and later Audioslave, rock the house.

Talk about stage presence, talk about intensity, talk about a great rock show. Mixing in material from his new solo album with a veritable greatest hits collection from his previous bands, Cornell owned the stage for close to 2 hours. Highlights for me included the night-ending Black Hole Sun, No Such Thing and of course the classic Spoooooooonmannnnnnnnnnn!!

There were some glitches with the sound quality and it was pretty funny to watch some kid try to crowd surf to a ballad (!!) but at the end of the night it was a damn impressive show and it was great to see a true rock star rock the Commodore.

The show will be featured on Sympatico MSN’s site in the next few days. I encourage you to check it out. Chris’ new album, Carry On, is out as well and it has some great, mature songwriting and some real rockers. His stripped down, deconstructed cover of Michael Jackson’s Billie Jean is worth the price alone.

The Sympatico MSN Chris Cornell site is here: http://entertainment1.sympatico.msn.ca/Music/Molson/ChrisCornell

Chris’ myspace page is here: http://www.myspace.com/chriscornell

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