Chris Cornell: 6 Degrees of Separation

Published: May 19, 2017, 7:03 a.m.

b'There\\u2019s a misconception that it takes a lot of people to come together to create a viable music scene\\u2026not true\\u2026\\n\\nThe original punk scene in New York consisted of a few dozen weirdos who hung out at places like CBGB, the mudd club and Max\\u2019s Kansas city in the uglier end of town\\u2026\\n\\nThe UK punk scene started with a similar number in the fall of 1976, pretty much every London punk fit into a single club on oxford street for a two-night music festival\\u2026capacity at the 100 club was official 350, but there was plenty of room to move around\\u2026\\n\\nThe start of the english technopop scene focused around the few people who hung around the blitz club in Covent Garden\\u2026\\n\\nThe same can be said for a dozen other scenes that resulted in sounds that eventually spread around the world\\u2026that includes grunge\\u2026\\n\\nGrunge started with maybe a dozen people in and around Seattle\\u2026that\\u2019s it\\u2026but within a few years, it expanded to became the dominant sound of western rock for much of the 90s\\u2026\\n\\nTo become this in such a short period of time, this required a swift and steady change reaction\\u2026among those dozen or so people were artists who were not only to form successful bands but multiple successful bands\\u2026and every one of these groups exploded with a force great enough to prompt other neighbouring music to do the same\\u2026\\n\\nTo prove my point, i would like to trace one of those chain reactions\\u2026and for the purposes of this show, we will call the singularity of this chain reaction \\u201cChris Cornell\\u201d\\u2026a lesson in grunge physics coming up\\u2026\\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices'