“Chris was in a very fragile part of his life. He started playing bass… He got so into it he started bleeding. I said, ‘This is the man you want.’ And then he died”: Alex Van Halen reveals his and Eddie’s secret jams with Chris Cornell

Chris Cornell performs live next to Alex and Eddie Van Halen performing live.

As good-time rock legends and solemn grunge trailblazers respectively, Van Halen and Soundgarden might feel like two bands at either side of the rock spectrum, but Alex Van Halen has revealed that he and Eddie Van Halen held secret jams with late Soundgarden frontman Chris Cornell.

The revelation comes in Alex Van Halen’s new interview with Rolling Stone regarding Brothers, his tell-all book about his relationship with his brother, Eddie.