Chris brought his daughter Toni out onstage for You Know My Name and covered Springsteen's Atlantic City, telling the audience that Nebraska is his favourite Bruce album.

Let Me Drown - Outshined - Show Me How to Live - Rusty Cage - You Know My Name - No Such Thing - Spoonman - Hunger Strike - Out of Exile - Say Hello 2 Heaven - Sunshower - Atlantic City - Like a Stone - Finally Forever - Doesn't Remind Me - Cochise - Jesus Christ Pose - Ty Cobb - Black Hole Sun - Slaves & Bulldozers

by Monique

After the opening band left, time moved quickly and before you know it the band was coming onto the stage and CC started singing "Let Me Drown" …… it was awesome. I do want to tell you that I was surprised as to the quantity of empty seats there for being a sold out show (Borgata uses tickets as comps and not everyone wants to go…this is good)....I found some empty seats in the 8th row and we were just in heaven during the concert.

Chris sang so many Soundgarden and Audioslave songs I couldn't keep count. His voice was top form and the acoustics of the place were great. I went all the way up to the back and checked the sound out…EXCELLENT!

The cutest part was when Chris brought his daughter, Toni, out onstage to sing "You know my Name" with him. She is just simply adorable and very animated. I saw Vicky, CC's wife, sitting on the side of the stage with the biggest grin on her face. They are such a beautiful family. I'll bet little CC was sleeping safely somewhere. Anyway, CC's vocals were just top form and the band of course jammed out like they have been throughout the tour.

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Press Of Atlantic City

Cornell shows power, versatility at Borgata

Chris Cornell, the former lead singer of the Seattle rock band Soundgarden, returned to his solo career this year. It suits him well.

Cornell’s headlining performance Friday in the 1,000-person capacity Music Box at the Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa was his first engagement in the city as a solo act. He appeared here in concert in 2005 as a member of Audioslave, the second band he sang lead for, also at Borgata.

By leaving Audioslave, Cornell can now put on concerts that show his full range as a songwriter and singer. He sang Soundgarden tunes that hadn’t been performed in years. He cherry-picked the best Audioslave material that he recorded during his tenure in the band, from 2001 until earlier this year. He also sang songs from his all-star, once-in-a-lifetime collaboration with members of Pearl Jam — Temple of the Dog.

Soundgarden and Audioslave performed as four-piece rock bands with Cornell as the front man. For Cornell’s solo act, he hired two guitarists — Yogi Lonich and Peter Thorn — to play the riffs originated by Soundgarden’s Kim Thayil and Rage Against The Machine’s Tom Morello.

As the 2-hour, 10-minute concert went on, Cornell’s touring band proved equally adept at playing the 1990s grunge rock of Soundgarden, from the Black Sabbath-influenced heaviness of “Slaves & Bulldozers” to the fast and more punkish “Ty Cobb”, and even the more mainstream hard-rock Audioslave material from this decade.

Cornell’s voice is truly remarkable and powerful. One of the greatest voices rock produced during the last 20 years, Cornell is one of a select group of singers who sounds as good or better live as he does on recordings. The material Cornell, 43, performed skipped only the first four years of his 20-year recording career.

Even though the first half of the concert featured such notable songs as Soundgarden’s “Outshined” and Temple of the Dog’s “Hunger Strike,” the second half topped it. Cornell strapped on an acoustic guitar and sang Bruce Springsteen’s “Atlantic City” by himself, as he did when Audioslave performed here. He also did more Soundgarden songs, including “Black Hole Sun” and “Spoonman.”

Cornell came to town with his second solo CD, “Carry On,” released just last month, but out of a 22-song set, he performed only three songs from it. Unfortunately, he sang the Soundgarden songs “Fell on Black Days” and “The Day I Tried to Live” earlier this month in Minneapolis, but not here. For anyone fond of the grunge sound, Cornell, Pearl Jam and the revamped Alice in Chains with a new lead singer William DuVall are among the few original practitioners left still making this music.

The up-and-coming New York City power trio Earl Greyhound opened the show. Their six-song set matching classic rock with pop hooks caused many people stand and applaud in appreciation in the orchestra when their set ended.

- Vincent Jackson, Press Of Atlantic City

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