such a shame we keep losing great artists.

is it just me or is it getting more frequent lately?

some has to do with aging early rockers, but obviously we've had many go before their time....

How did my college dorm room posters become a shrine to a bygone era???

Alice In Chains is still kicking, and doing it well. It's obvious how much Alice in Vhains was really Cantrell.

I just read today, Cornell's wife said she was trying to get someone to check on him b/c he was slurring his words while on the phone with her and he told her he thought he took one or two more Ativans than he should have. Makes sense, given all his positive tweets, the fact that he looked/sounded high during the last song and that he basically went back to his room and immediately killed himself.

I think we can chalk this one up to another acceidentl death due to medication... like Prince.

A stepping stone maybe, but Andrew was definitely not a grunge vocalist.

Because more are alive than dead, and still productive.

Agreeing that heroin hit the early-mid 90s very, very hard, and we're not handling depression and despair in middle aged white men at all well. But he's being rather insulting to a lot of working musicians.

and him only because he offed himself.

That doesn't make these losses less poignant for those who were.

Stop shitting in the punchbowl.

What was on MTV and the 'album' and 'pop' radio stations, the 'big hair' professional rock shows.

Suddenly, Nirvana and Pearl Jam and Alice in Chains - Soundgarden.

It was a revolution!