Eddie Van Halen recorded the guitar elements for a deliberate Chris Cornell collaboration.
One in every of Soundgarden frontman’s former collaborators, Pete Thorne – who toured with Cornell and performed guitar on a number of the songs from their 2009 album Scream – has claimed that the 2 rockers got here near engaged on a observe collectively. Have been.
Showing on ‘The Mitch Laffon and Jeremy White Present’ podcast, he mentioned: “They had been mates … Eddie at all times wished to do one thing musical with Chris.
“He beloved his voice and he’d be like, ‘Man, I really like that. We might at all times speak about doing one thing collectively.'”
Through the ‘Scream’ classes, Thorne helped produce variations of ‘Lengthy Gone’ and the title observe, and Cornell thought of Van Halen to hitch him at the moment.
He added: “[Cornell and I were] I bear in mind listening to him in my automobile in a car parking zone, and he checked out me and he mentioned, ‘Hey, what do you suppose if we bought Eddie to work on this?’ ,
Thorne met Van Halen on the late Legend’s 5150 studio, and he ended up laying the guitar for “Scream.”
Nevertheless, he defined: “I do not need to get anybody excited considering it is ever over, as a result of it did not.
“However he labored on it. And, you already know, I will be going over there within the subsequent couple of weeks, and he had performed on that.
“I’d hearken to it and be like, ‘I am unable to consider that is taking place. It is me and Eddie on a observe.’ ,
Nevertheless, Cornell by no means voiced his voice over the track, though a reel with a recording of Van Halen’s “Someplace” exists in studio 5150.
He continued: “It is a lengthy story, however Chris by no means articulated it. , it was what it was.
“Ed bought busy doing the subsequent Van Halen document at the very same time and constructing issues up… it by no means ended.”
Cornwell tragically took his personal life in Could 2017 on the age of 52, whereas Van Halen handed away in 2020.
