Ted Keedick, who worked with Chris Cornell for the last decade as his house engineer and tour manager, tells TMZ in a new article that Cornell was not himself during Soundgarden’s final show in Detroit last week.
“Chris was out of character from note 1 of the show. I’ve never heard or seen him that way before, at least if we did not cancel a show.”
Keedick says Chris seemed “high” and “f***ed up,” but not depressed. In fact, Keedick says during sound check Chris was in good spirits. It’s consistent with what Chris’ widow says of her phone conversations with Chris before and after the show.
Keedick says Chris was off during the entire show, saying, “I’d never heard his voice that way before. He was having serious control problems.”
Keedick was positioned in the middle of the audience with his mixing board, and at one point during the concert he was so concerned he phoned someone backstage and asked what was wrong with Chris.
