As you can see, no other than Chris Cornell himself is now writting in our blog. We are very pleased with his participation in this little project (of Saving Chris Cornell). But the best part of having Chris with us now, other than those eloquent blogs he writes, is that we now have an exclusively insight to some behind the scenes stories from Scream, coming from Chris himself, who was kind enought to share these stories with us. Forget everything you read about Scream in the media, this is what actually happened.
Part I - How the Scream project really came about
It all started with a simple phone call between CC and Timbaland. We are not really sure why Chris called Timbaland. It seems that he was forced to do it, but he refuses to tell us who made him do the call. Anyway, this was the conversation that followed:
CC: Yo Tim!
Timbaland:Errr, who's this?
CC: It's me, Chris
Timbaland: Chris who?
CC: Chris Cornell!
Timbaland: I'm sorry... Chris who?
CC: Cornell! From Audioslave, Soundgarden, Temple...
Timbaland: Errrrr....
CC: I wrote Black Hole Sun! You know...
*CC starts singing*
Black Hole Sun, won't you cooooomeeee!!
Timbaland: Ah, yeah, of course, rock, grunge, Seattle, Ozzfest... right?
CC: Yeah
Timbaland: So, what you want, man? I'm very busy
CC: I need some career advice dude, my last solo album tanked and...
*Timbaland interrupts*
Timbaland: Listen bro, I charge for the hour on career advice, it's very expensive, but I'm worth it! Are you sure you can afford it?
CC: Yeah, I'm rich dude
Timbaland: OK, it's 7:15, I'm keeping track of time... GO!
CC: So, my last album was failure and I want to be popular again, you know, popular with the kidz, sell ringtones and stuff...
Timbaland: Sure, sure! I think that this tired grunge sound needs help and...
CC: Dude, what are you talking about? Grunge is dead since 1994...
Timbaland: What you mean? What about those bands, Nickelback and stuff, and those kids who go to Ozzfest, isn't that grunge?
CC: No...listen, I'm paying for this, can we go back to the subject?
Timbaland: OK, listen, I've got some Timberlake b-sides lying around somewhere
CC: Do you think that would work?
Timbaland: Of course dude! Do you know who are you talking to? I'm the king man... I'm like a composer and stuff, I'm a genius!
CC: Sure, sure, go ahead...
Timbaland: So, I produce your next album, but you won't have to write anything, we'll use those Timberlake b-sides... And I have a whole team of songwriters,
there are like 50 of them, so you won't need to worry about it. Just sing.
CC: OK
Timbaland: Then, what we do is market it like it's the 21st century version of Pink Floyd's Dark Side Of The Moon, very groundbreaking stuff, so the rock fans
will eat it...are you following me?
CC: Yeah...
Timbaland: You'll sell your soul... errr... I mean, you'll sign a contract with my label, and we'll do this!
CC: OK, I'm in!
Timbaland: Great, my lawyer will call you soon, there will be some contractual obligations that go along with this..
CC: Like what?
Timbaland: Like, every time you mention me in a interview, you'll have to call me a genius, OK?
CC: Ok...
Timbaland: You won't regret it, this album is gonna sell millions!!
CC: Great! So, how much is this gonna cost me?
Timbaland: Are you sitting down?
