CHRIS CORNELL: 'I Just Wanted To Get Out And Play'
April 14, 2007Jane Stevenson of Sun Media recently conducted an interview with former AUDIOSLAVE/SOUNDGARDEN frontman Chris Cornell. A couple of excerpts follow:
On touring in support of his second solo album, "Carry On", which isn't in stores until June 5:
"It doesn't really matter in a sense, either, that it's for a new album because I'm playing songs as far back as 1990 and just kind of covering music from my entire career.
"There's kind of two schools of thought. One is you let the record come out and see how people are feeling about it and then you choose where you want to go and how big a room you want to play — and that's sort of the cautious way of doing. And then the other school of thought is you just go out before the record comes out, boldly, and play new music and play old music and just get in the rhythm of touring."
On beng on the road:
"Really, I just wanted to get out and play 'cause it's been too long.
"I really like performing and I like travelling and I like road and most musicians don't, some do. But, you know, if you read stories about, say for example, the jazz musicians, pre-war and post-war, it's what they did. It's all they did. And I don't glamourize that in my mind. I've read extensively about what their lives were like, and I don't envy it. I do it in a much more comfortable fashion. But I would feel a little bit like a pretender, like a fake, if I wasn't out travelling around and playing music 'cause if I'm going to call myself a musician, that's what I feel like I should be doing."
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