Melvins frontman Buzz Osborne discussed playing at the ‘I Am The Highway’ Chris Cornell tribute show in a new Rolling Stone interview. He said Cornell’s death will ‘haunt’ him for the rest of his life.
“[Superunknown] is probably my second favorite album from them. I like a lot of songs on that record. We covered ‘Spoonman’ at the Chris Cornell tribute because I thought we could do a good job of it, and I didn’t think anybody else would play that song. And I wasn’t wrong about that; it’s a weird song to play.
The thing is, the Soundgarden guys are good players, and the music they play is, like I said before, very sophisticated. It’s not just jive-ass crap in 4/4. It’s far superior to that. Those guys had four songwriters in that band, all contributing to what they were doing, and it really shows.”
He later said, Playing that [Cornell] tribute show was fucking heavy, man. It was like, “This is the end. This is it for these guys.” And it was tough. It was really hard to feel good about that. It’s closure to some degree, but there is no closure on that. It’s not like he died of cancer, you know. It’s a different kind of thing, and it’s not something I’ll ever be able to get my head around. Him or the Nirvana thing. I will never get over that stuff, and it will haunt me for the rest of my life.
