Pearl Jam Member Talks ‘Grieving’ Chris Cornell And Grunge Icons: ‘Stop F**king Dying’

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Pearl Jam guitarist Mike McCready discussed Chris Cornell’s death, and the losses of other members of the Seattle Grunge scene, in a recent live KEXP Q&A discussing his new photo book Of Potato Heads and Polaroids.

McCready got emotional when he saw photos he had taken of Chris Cornell and Layne Staley, and said he is still grieving Cornell’s death.

“It’s everyones loss. I wish we didn’t have to talk about these pictures in that kind of sense, that certainly wasn’t the intent.”

“I think that’s the thing, we all know how amazing Soundgarden was and his solo things, and how great his voice was. He was incredible. We were on tour with him for Lollapalooza, and got to watch him every night, that was amazing. I’m still at a loss and grieving in terms of that.”

The interviewer, “We lost the voice of Seattle.”

He then said, “Yeah, amongst a bunch of others. Stop, stop fucking dying.”