Chris Cornell’s grave was featured in the Season 5 finale of the Showtime series Ray Donovan, as star Liev Schreiber’s title character walked past Cornell’s resting place at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery.
Artis the Spoonman discussed Chris Cornell’s death earlier this year with MySA.
“Chris just …. who sings like that?” Artis said. “I think he had the greatest voice, truly. It wouldn’t have mattered if he was singing opera or standards.”
“[Cornell] introduced me to the whole freaking planet,” Artis said. “It was years after I started, and I’d already done a lot of things. I’d recored with Zappa by then and did the Letterman show and a lot of national TV shows in other countries — Japan, England and such. But nothing like that of course, really. Who gets that?”
Artis, who struggled with suicidal thoughts in the past, had a hard time getting his head around the idea that Cornell took his own life shortly after finishing a show at the Fox Theatre in Detroit.
“You can really be pretty freaking high on the energy when you come off the stage,” Artis said. “Things can really affect you. I wonder if something… you never know.”
The two last saw each other about a decade ago when Artis performed “Spoonman” with Cornell and Audioslave. When asked about about a specific memory of Cornell he would most cherish, a personal touch came to mind.
“He picked me up one time on stage, hugged me,” he said. “Just picked me right off the ground. I was flabbergasted.”
