I think they played a couple shows.  The one you're talking about is Live at the Moore.

How about Sean Hayes (the guy who played Jack on Will and Grace) 'coming out' of the closet. 

I saw an interview where Morello talked about the beginning of the song. He said he always fucks around with his guitar to make weird sounds for fun.  And one day he loosened up the strings a little and started pounding on the strings really hard right at the base and to him it sounded like helicopters.  Everyone else in the band liked it so they used it as the intro to Cochise and the record. 

It's one of those obscure off the wall type things.

No.  Sure, the songs on AFD deal with what was happening at the time in LA, all the sex and the drugs and the corruption, but it's seen through the eyes of innocence.  They were all new to it, and their innocence was still intact.  It's when you hit the Illusions that you see that the cold reality had started to set it. 

James, you are dead on about Layne.  He was way too far gone and he had damaged his body so much with drugs there was no saving him. 

The Mad Season record is so haunting.  The first time we get to hear a whole album of Layne's lyrics and it still gives me chills. 

My pain is self-chosen
At least, so the prophet says
I could either burn
Or cut off my pride, and buy some time
A head full of lies is the weight, tied to my waist
The River of Deceit pulls down,
The only direction we flow is down
Down, oh down
My pain is self-chosen
At least I believe it to be
I could either drown
Or pull off my skin and swim to shore
Now I can grow a beautiful shell for all to see

That part always gets to me. 

And then he writes Get Born Again and Died which are both amazing songs lyrically.  Get Born Again at times seems like he's singing about himself, and Died is just so raw and honest.  It's a shame that we lost such a wonderful talent.

when i waken
and i'm achin
'time for sleepin', yeah

when i'm sayin'
time to go and
i've been hurtin', yeah

when i'm layin'
i'm still trying
concentrating on dyin', yeah

you're right as rain
but you're wrong to blame
agreed my crime's the same
my sins i'll claim
give you back shed pain
go find a place for own shame,
yeah
so you can deal
with this thing unreal
no one made you feel any hurt,
yeah

body's movin'
only provin'
no one needed to move

still believin'
yet mistaken
all god's children, yeah

and i must say
i was stupid
selfishly she consumed, yeah

and you must change
patterns all we trained
or never regain peace you seek
now you hear me
for the things i see
yeah, i believe in inner peace, yeah

This song was one of the few that have even brought me to tears.  The way he sings it, and the way the words flow with Jerry's wonderful guitar work... this songs still gives me chills when I listen to it.  The first time I heard it was during this huge rain storm.  I remember it was a year after my grandpa passed away, and my cousin had just died a couple days ago, and my fiance of almost 2 years had just left me, and I was staring at the window and this song came on.  I had never been moved like that before by any song ever.

This has turned into a damn good thread.

Kudos for bringing up such a wonderful Jerry solo song.  I love that song, it struck me from the first time I heard it.  It's a wonderful song about leaving and realizing that you really had nowhere to go in the first place and all those dreams and rosy pictures you held in your mind will never come to pass. 

Due to the fact that I've never really felt like I've had a home, my world isn't seen through rose colored glasses. 

I've never really thought of it, but AFD, while an amazing record, is also a very shallow record.  Everything you need to know about their outlook at the time can be seen in the outro to Rocket Queen.  It's optimistic and cheery.  The rest of the album is much the same as the beginning to the video for Welcome to the Jungle where this farm boy steps off the bus and sees that girl.  The world is viewed through the eyes of the innocent. 

That's what attracts me to Cornell's work so much.  The world isn't viewed through innocence.  The innocence is lost and the world is seen as a scary place, but one that is also inevitable.  No amount of optimism is going to change this fate. 

That's what I like about Depredation Trip, that album has the same sense of lost innocence. 

I hate to say it, but with Chinese Democracy even, it seems like there's still a lot of innocence attached there.