Final evening, on the annual Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony in Cleveland, Ohio, Soundgarden had been inducted by Jim Carrey. The ’90s grunge rockers had been joined by Brandi Carlile, Taylor Momsen, Pearl Jam guiarist Mike McCready, and Alice in Chains guitarist Jerry Cantrell to carry out “Rusty Cage” and “Black Gap Solar.” Toni Cornell, the daughter of late Soundgarden frontman Chris Cornell, additionally sang an acoustic rendition of “Fell on Black Days,” with accompaniment from Coronary heart’s Nancy Wilson. Watch all of it go down under.
In 1996, Carrey hosted an episode of Saturday Night time Reside with Soundgarden because the musical visitors. Whereas inducting the band, he informed a narrative of being gifted Cornell’s guitar after the present. “Once I heard Soundgarden for the primary time, I wasn’t simply excited,” Carrey shared. “I wished to place a flannel shirt on and run into the streets screaming, ‘My mom smoked throughout being pregnant!’”
Carrey additionally introduced out Cornell’s different daughter, Lily, who mentioned of her father, “I understand how a lot function that gave him, and the way a lot it’s meant to individuals who have heard that music. That’s what I’ll be holding in my coronary heart tonight.”
Following their efficiency, guitarist Kim Thayil, drummer Matt Cameron, and bassists Ben Shepherd and Hiro Yamomoto all gave speeches. “Chris Cornell, we’re so lacking you tonight on this stage,” Yamamoto mentioned. “Due to my mother and father, whose story as Americans who had been rounded up and positioned into jail camps, only for being Japanese throughout World Struggle II—effectively, that affected my life vastly, and it actually echoes strongly at this time. Let’s not add one other story like this to our historical past.”
This 12 months’s different Rock Hall inductees are the White Stripes, OutKast, Cyndi Lauper, Unhealthy Firm, Chubby Checker, and Joe Cocker, with Warren Zevon and Salt-N-Pepa receiving the Musical Affect Award.
