Uploaded January 2021 | Updated September 2026, 2 hours ago
Chris Cornell and Sebastian Bach Mess around during a show while on tour with Skid Row.
“We were on our Slave to the Grind Tour, with Pantera opening. Then they took a break and we said, “Who’s the next heavy, killer band coming up now?” It was Soundgarden, and they came on the road with us for three weeks. During the day, it was about trading cassettes of obscure punk bands. Chris didn’t sound like anybody, and he didn’t move like anybody, either. In heavy metal, we’d try to run and jump around the stage, do these moves and shit. When I’d ask Chris to jam with us at the end of the night on “Train Kept A-Rollin’ ” by Aerosmith, he’d look at the stage like a track meet, running in a figure eight and doing somersaults. I’d turn around, and he’d be behind my back, faking so I couldn’t see where he was. And he’d be on a trampoline doing jumps behind the drum riser. I could tell he was sending up the sort of heavy-metal performance we were trying to do, always with a twinkle in his eye, laughing.”
—-Sebastian Bach
Chris Cornell and Sebastian Bach Mess around during a show while on tour with Skid Row.
“We were on our Slave to the Grind Tour, with Pantera opening. Then they took a break and we said, “Who’s the next heavy, killer band coming up now?” It was Soundgarden, and they came on the road with us for three weeks. During the day, it was about trading cassettes of obscure punk bands. Chris didn’t sound like anybody, and he didn’t move like anybody, either. In heavy metal, we’d try to run and jump around the stage, do these moves and shit. When I’d ask Chris to jam with us at the end of the night on “Train Kept A-Rollin’ ” by Aerosmith, he’d look at the stage like a track meet, running in a figure eight and doing somersaults. I’d turn around, and he’d be behind my back, faking so I couldn’t see where he was. And he’d be on a trampoline doing jumps behind the drum riser. I could tell he was sending up the sort of heavy-metal performance we were trying to do, always with a twinkle in his eye, laughing.”
—-Sebastian Bach
