Timbaland and Chris Cornell are teaming up for a new tour. The tour is scheduled to hit locations around the nation including Colorado and Seattle. But the surprising part of this is that Cornell, former lead singer of Soundgarden, and Timbo are putting together a full length album.
“I wanted to get out and do some special shows for fans, where it’s just the new record and introducing that live, which isn’t really the first time I’ve done that,” Cornell told MTV. “With Euphoria Morning, I played pretty much nothing but my first album for the first tour, and with the first Audioslave record, we toured for a year and did nothing but that record. This is also a very special record.”
He also spoke on what fans can expect from this collaboration on the LP.
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“The initial conception and perception of this record was mixing two worlds — rock and Hip Hop, or beat-based music with fuzzy guitars. But it really isn’t just that at all. It’s a mixture of a lot of different influences.“
“This album, I think, needs to be performed from beginning to end, because on the record, once the music starts, it never stops. So it’s literally a situation where you start playing the record from the first song, and it’s just an hour’s worth of music that keeps going until it’s done, and it’s something that’s difficult to present in this day and age. Everything is sound bites and one song at a time, and people sort of downloading one song at a time, and more than any album I’ve ever made, this is an album that’s really designed to be listened to from beginning to end, in one sitting.“
Cornell also explained that he understands the confusion folks have with their duo. He hopes that is all settled with the live show.
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“I think the smartest thing for me to do is go out and perform it that way, so people get it, because people haven’t really understood that yet. I’ve been talking about it in interviews, and people need to understand that it’s a different thing. Musically, definitely, it’s a departure, not only for me but maybe for anybody. People are asking me what kind of music it is, and there’s no real answer for that.“
Cornell, now a resident of Paris, also has a track dedicated to 9/11 and the consequences of that day. He spoke on his inspiration for the track, as well.
“I’ve felt like, with the Bush Administration, whenever they’re in crisis, they’ll suddenly pull out a terror alert — a code-orange scenario, which I run into constantly, because I’m in airports so often. They don’t ever have to say why, just that it’s a matter of national security. And with the conservative right, part of the platform right now in the election is ‘Be afraid of terror, be afraid of terrorists. Look at 9/11 — we need an administration and a President who knows how to go out, kick ass, take names and keep us safe.’ That’s what got us into Iraq in the first place. [That tactic] certainly helped, and I think [9/11 was] a key factor in Bush winning a second term. To me, the song is about how awful 9/11 was, but stresses that we’ve got to let go of that to move on peacefully.”
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Chris Cornell/Timbaland tour dates are as follows:
» 10/17 – Denver, CO @ Ogden Theatre
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» 10/18 – Salt Lake City, UT @ Avalon Theater
» 10/19 – Tempe, AZ @ Marquee Theatre
» 10/24 – Las Vegas, NV @ The Joint at Hard Rock Hotel & Casino
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» 10/25 – Los Angeles, CA @ House of Blues
» 10/26 – San Diego, CA @ House of Blues
» 10/31 – San Francisco, CA @ The Fillmore
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» 11/2 – Seattle, WA @ The Showbox
