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May 11, 2005
Rolling Stone Mag on Audioslave in Cuba
Blind Boy Grunt passed on a link to "Airborne With Audioslave: Behind the scenes of one rock band's invasion of Cuba," by Vanessa Grigoriadis
It's a great article that captures the essence of Audioslave: the band's strident politics attached to a pure rock star singer. And how Cuba can change everyone, even Chris Cornell...
I enjoyed the last graph best:
On the windswept patio of the Hotel Nacional, Cornell assesses the experience. "I'm more shocked than I thought I would be," he says of the visit. "You can't come here and not look at Cuba strictly on a human level and feel some nervousness and some shame and some anger at being American." He thinks about what he'll take home from all this. "When it comes to writing lyrics, every aspect of human life is going to be part of the palette for me," he says. "This experience would be something that I would write about in a song, or some songs. You can look at a band like U2, which is not overtly political, but Bono gets a lot done. I think we can be that way, too."Emphasis added.
Posted by cj at May 11, 2005 03:17 PM