Soundgarden frontman Chris Cornell wants to clear the air. On Sunday, the singer made some nasty comments when Kanye West took the stage 45 minutes late and interrupted Soundgarden’s performance at Australia’s Big Out Festival. Agitated by the noise of West’s soundcheck, Cornell announced to the crowd, “Sounds like there’s children playing music there, retarded children, retarded as in held back. There’s no other word for it.”
While the comments seemed to be aimed at West, Cornell took to his Twitter account to name the real culprit, tweeting, “My comments @ BDO were directed solely at inadequate tour production. Kanye had nothing to do with it! We love him."
Meanwhile, Big Day Out Festival organizer Ken West posted a message on the festival’sblog to defend Kanye’s late start. "Stop picking on Kanye, the technical problems that delayed his start time by 45 minutes were from rain damaging our equipment," wrote Ken West. "The fact that he had the biggest crowd of the day and delivered an incredible performance with the huge crowd staying to the end of set even though it was 45 minutes later than scheduled is a testament to what a great artist he is.”
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