“What happened with Kurt Cobain was the worst example.” Chris Cornell said “punk rock guilt” contributed to the Nirvana guitarist’s suicide

“What happened with Kurt Cobain was the worst example.” Chris Cornell said “punk rock guilt” contributed to the Nirvana guitarist’s suicide

Rage Against the Machine guitarist Tom Morello has often used the phrase “punk rock guilt” to describe one of the great contradictions of the grunge explosion: musicians raised on underground, anti-establishment music suddenly found themselves at the center of the mainstream.In a 2006 interview, Soundgarden frontman Chris Cornell suggested that the same conflict may have been part of the pressure surrounding Kurt Cobain.Cornell was speaking whil…