A Chris Cornell and Eddie Van Halen collaboration came very close to happening
nme.comChris Cornell‘s former collaborators has claimed the late Soundgarden and Audioslave frontman came close to recording a song that featured guitar parts by Eddie Van Halen.During an appearance on The Mitch Lafon and Jeremy White Show podcast, Thorn – who toured as a guitarist with Cornell, and recorded additional guitars on a handful of tracks from Cornell’s 2009 album ‘Scream’ – recounted just how close a collaboration between the two rockers was to becoming a reality.“They were buddies… Eddie always wanted to do something with Chris, musically,” Thorn said. “He loved his voice and he used to be like, ‘Man, I love him.
We were always talking about doing something together.'”Thorn helped produce versions of ‘Scream’ cuts ‘Long Gone’ and its title track, and it’s during those sessions that Cornell had the idea of enlisting Van Halen to record some parts. “[Cornell and I were] in a parking lot listening to them in my car, I remember, and he looked at me and he said, ‘Hey what do you think if we got Eddie to work on this?'”Thorn was able to get in contact via Friedman Amplification founder Dave Friedman, and ended up meeting Van Halen at the legendary guitarist’s 5150 Studios.
After being shown the tracks in question, Van Halen ended up laying down guitar for the title track, but the collaboration never saw the light of day.“I don’t want to get anybody excited thinking that this ever got finished, because it didn’t,” Thorn clarified during the interview. “But he did work on it.
And, you know, I would go up there over the next couple of weeks, and he had played on it. I would listen to it and just be like, ‘I can’t believe this is happening.
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