Susan Silver
{{Short description|American music manager}}
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| birth_place = Seattle, Washington, U.S.{{cite web|url=http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/seattletimes/obituary.aspx?n=emmogene-molly-silver-jean&pid=183789650|title=Emmogene Molly (Jean) Silver|work=Legacy.com|date=January 23, 2017|access-date=December 21, 2018|archive-date=December 22, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181222173119/https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/seattletimes/obituary.aspx?n=emmogene-molly-silver-jean&pid=183789650|url-status=live}}
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| education = University of Washington
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- Music manager
- entrepreneur}}
| years_active = 1983โpresent
| spouse = {{marriage|Chris Cornell|1990|2004|end=divorced}}
| children = 1
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Susan Jean Silver (born July 17, 1958) is an American music manager and businesswoman, best known for managing Seattle rock bands such as Soundgarden, Alice in Chains and Screaming Trees.{{cite web |url=http://web.stargate.net/soundgarden/misc/ssilver.shtml |title=Susan Silver |access-date=December 21, 2018 |work=Stargate |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170602235157/http://web.stargate.net/soundgarden/misc/ssilver.shtml |archive-date=June 2, 2017 |df=mdy-all }}{{cite web|url=https://archive.seattletimes.com/archive/19910106/1259221/faces-to-watch-in-91----a-look-at-up-and-comers-who-will-be-helping-to-shape-the-arts-this-year |title=Faces To Watch In '91 -- A Look At Up-And-Comers Who Will Be Helping To Shape The Arts This Year |work=The Seattle Times |date=January 6, 1991 |access-date=December 21, 2018 |url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170603104210/http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/archive/?date=19910106&slug=1259221 |archive-date=June 3, 2017 |df=mdy-all }} Silver also owns the company Susan Silver Management,{{cite web |url=https://www.mixonline.com/recording/recording-academys-pacific-northwest-chapter-elects-leadership-373610 |title=Recording Academy's Pacific Northwest Chapter Elects Leadership |work=Mix Online |date=August 25, 2003 |access-date=December 21, 2018 |archive-date=December 22, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181222082031/https://www.mixonline.com/recording/recording-academys-pacific-northwest-chapter-elects-leadership-373610 |url-status=live }} and co-owns the club The Crocodile in Seattle. Silver was named "the most powerful figure in local rock management" by The Seattle Times in 1991.
Biography
= Early life =
Silver was born in Seattle, Washington, on July 17, 1958, to Samuel and Emmogene (Jean) Silver. She is the oldest of three children. Her father was Jewish and came from Russia.{{Cite web |title=Jewish Telegraph - ๐๐ต๐ฟ๐ถ๐ ๐๐ผ๐ฟ๐ป๐ฒ๐น๐น'๐ ๐ฑ๐ฎ๐๐ด๐ต๐๐ฒ๐ฟ ๐๐ฎ๐ป๐๐ ๐๐ผ ๐ฒ๐ ๐ฝ๐น๐ผ๐ฟ๐ฒ ๐ณ๐ฎ๐บ๐ถ๐น๐'๐ ๐๐ฒ๐๐ถ๐๐ต ๐ต๐ฒ๐ฟ๐ถ๐๐ฎ๐ด๐ฒ |quote=The daughter of legendary rock singer Chris Cornell has clarified, for the first time, her familyโs Jewish lineage โ and admitted she wanted to explore it more. Speaking to the Jewish Telegraph about her new Instagram interview series Mind Wide Open, Lily Cornell Silver, whose father was lead singer with rock bands Soundgarden and Audioslave before committing suicide in 2017, aged 52, explained: โMy mom Susanโs dad โ his whole family is Jewish and from Russia. โThey emigrated to Ellis Island in America from there. โThere is Jewish heritage on my dadโs side, as my grandma โ his mum โ does talk about it. โThey were raised Irish Catholic, Chrisโs dad was Irish Catholic, but there is definitely some Jewish heritage there, but none of us really know for sure, and itโs something I really do want to learn about.โ |url=https://www.facebook.com/jewishtelegraph/photos/a.10150360181797832/10158013358692832/ |access-date=June 12, 2023 |website=Facebook |date=September 22, 2020 |language=en}}
Silver majored in Chinese at the University of Washington{{cite web |url=http://www.jaehakim.com/articles/music/backbeat/bb_silver.htm |title=Susan Silver steers careers toward rock stardom |date=April 27, 1997 |access-date=December 21, 2018 |work=Chicago Sun-Times |author=Jae-Ha Kim |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20041125052641/http://www.jaehakim.com/articles/music/backbeat/bb_silver.htm |archive-date=November 25, 2004}} and had been to all the major concerts in Seattle since she was 15. She started by booking for the club The Metropolis and Sub Pop co-founder Jonathan Poneman's club parties.{{Cite web |last=Groร |first=Torsten |date=February 23, 2022 |title="Godmother Of Grunge" Susan Silver im Interview: "Ich bin glรผcklich, ein Teil der Bewegung gewesen zu sein" |trans-title="Godmother Of Grunge" Susan Silver Interviewed: "I'm Happy To Have Been A Part Of The Movement" |url=https://www.musikexpress.de/godmother-of-grunge-susan-silver-im-interview-ich-bin-gluecklich-ein-teil-der-bewegung-gewesen-zu-sein-2117331/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220224180930/https://www.musikexpress.de/godmother-of-grunge-susan-silver-im-interview-ich-bin-gluecklich-ein-teil-der-bewegung-gewesen-zu-sein-2117331/ |archive-date=February 24, 2022 |access-date=May 12, 2022 |website=musikexpress.de |language=German}}
= Career =
Silver started working as a music manager in 1983. Her first clients were the bands The U-Men and First Thought. In 1985, Silver met Soundgarden, whose lead vocalist was her then-boyfriend Chris Cornell, and in the following year she started managing the band. Back then, Silver was also managing Screaming Trees. Silver said she became a manager because she wanted to help musicians achieve their dreams.
At the same time that she was managing rock bands, Silver was also the manager of a John Fluevog shoe store in Seattle.{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OLDSFWwRKf0C&q=kevin+martin+the+seattle+scene+Susan+Silver&pg=PA355 |title=Everybody Loves Our Town: An Oral History of Grunge |publisher=Three Rivers Press |author=Mark Yarm |pages=355โ356 |date=September 6, 2011 |isbn=9780307464453 |access-date=November 21, 2020 |archive-date=April 22, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210422200923/https://books.google.com/books?id=OLDSFWwRKf0C&q=kevin+martin+the+seattle+scene+Susan+Silver&pg=PA355 |url-status=live }} The store would become famous years later for selling the Dr. Martens boots worn by several members of Grunge bands from Seattle. One of Silver's co-workers at the store at the time was Kevin Martin, lead vocalist of Candlebox.
In 1988, Silver met music manager Kelly Curtis. Curtis and his friend Ken Deans owned a company, and Deans was the manager of the band Alice in Chains. Deans gave Silver a cassette tape of Alice in Chains and she liked it.{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OLDSFWwRKf0C&q=susan+silver+manager&pg=PA177 |title=Everybody Loves Our Town: An Oral History of Grunge |publisher=Three Rivers Press |author=Mark Yarm |page=177 |date=September 6, 2011 |isbn=9780307464453 |access-date=November 21, 2020 |archive-date=April 22, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210422200922/https://books.google.com/books?id=OLDSFWwRKf0C&q=susan+silver+manager&pg=PA177 |url-status=live }} Silver then went to an Alice in Chains concert and thought they were fun and very energetic. When Curtis became interested in working with the band Mother Love Bone, Deans decided that he did not want to work with Alice in Chains anymore, so he offered the managing job to Silver and Curtis, who started co-managing the band. Curtis and Silver passed on the Alice in Chains demo tape The Treehouse Tapes to Columbia Records' A&R representative Nick Terzo, who set up an appointment with label president Don Ienner.{{cite AV media notes |others=Alice in Chains |title=Music Bank |year=1999 |publisher=Columbia Records |id=69580}} Based on that demo, Terzo signed Alice in Chains to Columbia in 1989. Some time later, Curtis started managing the band Pearl Jam, and Silver became the sole manager of Alice in Chains.
In May 1990, record label Sub Pop sent Nirvana a new proposed contract, but vocalist Kurt Cobain was reluctant to sign it, complaining about the label's lack of promotion for their debut album, Bleach. Cobain and bassist Krist Novoselic consulted Silver for advice, and she looked at the contract and told them they needed a lawyer. They met Silver in Los Angeles and she introduced them to agent Don Muller and music business attorney Alan Mintz, who specialized in finding deals for new bands. Mintz started sending out Nirvana's demo tape to major labels looking for deals. MCA Records expressed interest, but the band ended up choosing DGC (part of Geffen Records) following advice from Sonic Youth, and the label released their hit album Nevermind in 1991.{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=byoPYMdJ150C&pg=PA191 |title=Nirvana: The Biography |author=Everett True |publisher=Da Capo Press |pages=191โ192 |date=March 13, 2007 |isbn=9780786733903 |access-date=December 17, 2019 |archive-date=November 12, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201112022217/https://books.google.com/books?id=byoPYMdJ150C&pg=PA191 |url-status=live }}{{cite book|first=Charles R.|last=Cross|author-link=Charles R. Cross|title=Heavier Than Heaven|publisher=Hyperion Books|location=New York City|date=August 15, 2001|isbn=0-7868-6505-9 |pages=486โ488}} Kurt Cobain and Krist Novoselic offered her the opportunity to manage them, but she refused because she was too busy with her bands. "There aren't many things I regret about my life, but of course not managing Nirvana was a mistake", Silver said in 2022. When Nirvana was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2014, Novoselic thanked Silver during his speech for "introducing them to the music industry properly".{{Cite magazine |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/read-nirvanas-rock-and-roll-hall-of-fame-acceptance-speech-242181/ |title=Read Nirvana's Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Acceptance Speech |date=April 11, 2014 |magazine=Rolling Stone |access-date=December 17, 2019 |archive-date=June 13, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190613173931/https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/read-nirvanas-rock-and-roll-hall-of-fame-acceptance-speech-242181/ |url-status=live }}
In 1995, Silver supported Krist Novoselic's political-action committee, Joint Artists and Music Promotions (JAMPAC), to defend the rights of artists and their fans.{{Cite magazine |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wgsEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA12 |title=Nirvana Bassist Forms Artist, Fan Action League In Seattle |last=Russell |first=Deborah |date=February 18, 1995 |magazine=Billboard |access-date=December 17, 2019 |archive-date=June 30, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140630235621/https://books.google.com/books?id=wgsEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA12 |url-status=live }}
In 1996, Silver was featured on the Doug Pray documentary Hype!, talking about the Seattle music scene.{{Cite web |url=http://www.hypethemovie.com/film.html |title=Hype! Film |website=hypethemovie.com |access-date=December 30, 2018 |archive-date=December 8, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171208052116/http://www.hypethemovie.com/film.html |url-status=live }}
Among Silver's clients in the 1990s were the bands Hater,{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=or8SET0jzoUC&pg=PT9 |title=Soundgarden: New Metal Crown |publisher=St. Martin's Griffin |date=September 15, 1995 |access-date=December 21, 2018 |isbn=9781429941013 |last1=Nickson |first1=Chris |archive-date=May 12, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220512060250/https://books.google.com/books?id=or8SET0jzoUC&pg=PT9 |url-status=live }} Inflatable Soule,{{cite web |url=https://archive.seattletimes.com/archive/19940819/1926128/inflatable-soule-is-band-that-is-on-its-way-up |title=Inflatable Soule Is Band That Is On Its Way Up |work=The Seattle Times |date=August 19, 1994 |access-date=December 21, 2018 |archive-date=August 28, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170828051258/http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/archive/?date=19940819&slug=1926128 |url-status=live }} Crackerbox,{{cite web |url=http://pitchfork.com/features/article/10081-chris-cornell-searching-for-solitude/ |title=Chris Cornell, Searching for Solitude |work=Pitchfork |date=May 19, 2017 |access-date=December 21, 2018 |archive-date=December 22, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181222082104/https://pitchfork.com/features/article/10081-chris-cornell-searching-for-solitude/ |url-status=live }} Sweet Water, Sponge, singer Kristen Barry,{{cite web |url=https://thesestreets.org/kristen-barry/ |title=Kristen Barry |work=These Streets |date=28 January 2013 |access-date=December 21, 2018 |archive-date=22 December 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181222082033/https://thesestreets.org/kristen-barry/ |url-status=live }} and producer Terry Date.
In 1998, Silver retired from the music business to concentrate on her family. In 2005, Silver and Deborah Semer formed a new company in Seattle, Atmosphere Artist Management. Their first client was the music and dance group Children of the Revolution.{{cite web |url=https://www.seattlepi.com/ae/music/article/Susan-Silver-creates-Atmosphere-Artist-Management-1163544.php |title=Susan Silver creates Atmosphere Artist Management |work=Seattle Post-Intelligencer |date=January 6, 2005 |access-date=December 21, 2018 |archive-date=December 22, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181222034234/https://www.seattlepi.com/ae/music/article/Susan-Silver-creates-Atmosphere-Artist-Management-1163544.php |url-status=live }}
Alice in Chains was inactive from 1996 until 2005. After lead vocalist Layne Staley died of a drug overdose in 2002,{{cite magazine |url=http://bleedforaic.wixsite.com/bleed/los-ultimos-das-ingles |title=The Last Days of Layne Staley |magazine=Rolling Stone |date=June 1, 2002 |access-date=December 21, 2018 |archive-date=December 22, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181222082151/http://bleedforaic.wixsite.com/bleed/los-ultimos-das-ingles |url-status=live }} the band only performed in public again in February 2005 for a benefit concert with guest vocalists in Seattle.{{cite web|url=http://www.seattlepi.com/entertainment/music/article/Kinney-drums-up-enthusiastic-response-for-tsunami-1166652.php|title=Kinney drums up enthusiastic response for tsunami benefit|work=Seattle Post-Intelligencer|date=February 17, 2005|access-date=December 21, 2018|archive-date=December 1, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171201044603/http://www.seattlepi.com/entertainment/music/article/Kinney-drums-up-enthusiastic-response-for-tsunami-1166652.php|url-status=live}} After that experience, the band called Silver and said they wanted to tour as Alice in Chains again.{{cite web|url=https://www.pollstarpro.com/live2010/panelband.htm|title=Putting The Band Back Together|work=PollstarPro|date=February 17, 2010|access-date=December 21, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110204214139/http://www.pollstarpro.com/live2010/panelband.htm|archive-date=February 4, 2011|url-status=dead}} The band released their first album with new vocalist William DuVall in September 2009, Black Gives Way to Blue.{{Cite web |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-alice/alice-in-chains-back-in-black-after-14-years-idUSTRE58I02U20090919 |title=Alice in Chains back in "Black" after 14 years |last=Lipshutz |first=Jason |date=September 18, 2009 |website=Reuters |access-date=July 18, 2019 |archive-date=July 18, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190718200259/https://www.reuters.com/article/us-alice/alice-in-chains-back-in-black-after-14-years-idUSTRE58I02U20090919 |url-status=live }} The album debuted at No. 5 on the Billboard 200 chart, and was certified gold by the RIAA in 2010 for shipments in excess of 500,000 copies in the United States.{{Cite web |url=https://www.blabbermouth.net/news/alice-in-chains-strikes-gold-with-black-gives-way-to-blue/ |title=ALICE IN CHAINS Strikes Gold With 'Black Gives Way To Blue' |date=May 25, 2010 |website=Blabbermouth.net |access-date=July 18, 2019 |archive-date=March 4, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304210728/https://www.blabbermouth.net/news/alice-in-chains-strikes-gold-with-black-gives-way-to-blue/ |url-status=live }}
Since 2009, Silver co-manages Alice in Chains along with David Benveniste and his company Velvet Hammer Management.{{cite web|url=http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=118840 |title=Alice In Chains Signs With Virgin/EMI |work=Blabbermouth.net |date=April 25, 2009 |access-date=December 21, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090427112318/http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=118840 |archive-date=April 27, 2009 |url-status= dead}}
Other ventures
Since 2009, Silver co-owns the club The Crocodile in Seattle along with Alice in Chains' drummer Sean Kinney,{{cite web|title=Legendary Crocodile, the cradle of grunge, rocks into its next stage|url=http://www.seattletimes.com/entertainment/legendary-crocodile-the-cradle-of-grunge-rocks-into-its-next-stage/|website=The Seattle Times|access-date=December 21, 2018|date=March 21, 2009|archive-date=August 22, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170822033739/http://www.seattletimes.com/entertainment/legendary-crocodile-the-cradle-of-grunge-rocks-into-its-next-stage/|url-status=live}}{{cite web|author1=Gillian G. Gaar|title=Alice in Chains' Homecoming|url=http://archive.seattleweekly.com/2010-02-03/music/alice-in-chains-homecoming/|website=Seattle Weekly|access-date=December 21, 2018|date=February 2, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180620001832/http://archive.seattleweekly.com/2010-02-03/music/alice-in-chains-homecoming/|archive-date=June 20, 2018|url-status=dead}} Capitol Hill Block Party co-founder Marcus Charles,{{cite web|title=The Return of The Crocodile|url=http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/the-return-of-the-crocodile/Content?oid=1192412|website=The Stranger|date=March 26, 2009|access-date=December 21, 2018|archive-date=March 29, 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090329024215/http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/the-return-of-the-crocodile/Content?oid=1192412|url-status=live}} Peggy Curtis, and Portugal. The Man guitarist Eric Howk.
In 2013, Rolling Stone named The Crocodile as one of the best clubs in America, ranked at No. 7.{{Cite magazine |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/lists/the-best-clubs-in-america-20130328/the-crocodile-in-seattle-19691231 |title=The Best Clubs in America / 7. The Crocodile in Seattle |date=March 28, 2013 |magazine=Rolling Stone |access-date=December 21, 2018 |archive-date=April 3, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130403013821/https://www.rollingstone.com/music/lists/the-best-clubs-in-america-20130328/the-crocodile-in-seattle-19691231 |url-status=live }} The Guardian included the club in its list of the "Top 10 live music venues in Seattle".{{Cite web |url=https://www.theguardian.com/travel/2013/may/25/top-10-live-music-venues-seattle |title=Top 10 live music venues in Seattle |last=Simmons |first=Abbey |date=May 25, 2013 |website=The Guardian |access-date=December 17, 2019 |archive-date=April 8, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140408101007/https://www.theguardian.com/travel/2013/may/25/top-10-live-music-venues-seattle |url-status=live }}
On November 21, 2019, Silver interviewed writer and political activist Gloria Steinem at the Paramount Theater in Seattle when Steinem was promoting her new book, The Truth Will Set You Free, But First It Will Piss You Off!.{{Cite web |url=https://www.kuow.org/stories/gloria-steinem-still-has-hope-for-the-us-because-things-have-been-much-worse |title=Gloria Steinem still has hope for the U.S. |last=Harris |first=Sonya |date=November 29, 2019 |website=KUOW |access-date=December 17, 2019 |archive-date=November 30, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191130181002/https://www.kuow.org/stories/gloria-steinem-still-has-hope-for-the-us-because-things-have-been-much-worse |url-status=live }}
Personal life
In 1985, Silver started dating Chris Cornell, the lead vocalist of Soundgarden, a band that Silver started managing a year later,{{cite magazine |url=http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/magazine-feature/7808708/chris-cornell-soundgarden-early-days |title=Becoming Chris Cornell: Inside the Early Days of Soundgarden |date=May 15, 2017 |access-date=December 21, 2018 |magazine=Billboard |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170529012440/http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/magazine-feature/7808708/chris-cornell-soundgarden-early-days |archive-date=May 29, 2017}} and they got married in 1990.{{cite web |url=http://people.com/music/chris-cornell-life-influential-seattle-scene/ |title=Chris Cornell: His Rise to the Top of the Seattle Scene |date=May 18, 2017 |work=People |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170522230732/http://people.com/music/chris-cornell-life-influential-seattle-scene/ |archive-date=May 22, 2017}} Cornell wrote the song "Moonchild" from his debut solo album Euphoria Morning for Silver.{{cite web |url=https://www.spin.com/2017/05/chris-cornell-euphoria-morning-feature/ |title=Chris Cornell Talks 'Euphoria Morning' in 1999 SPIN Interview |work=SPIN Magazine |date=May 18, 2017 |access-date=December 21, 2018 |archive-date=May 21, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170521154634/https://www.spin.com/2017/05/chris-cornell-euphoria-morning-feature/ |url-status=live }} The couple's only child, a daughter named Lillian Jean, was born in June 2000.{{cite web|title=Chris Cornell Feels "Euphoria" With Newborn Daughter|url=http://www.mtv.com/news/1427500/chris-cornell-feels-euphoria-with-newborn-daughter/|website=MTV|access-date=December 21, 2018|date=July 6, 2000|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170804053242/http://www.mtv.com/news/1427500/chris-cornell-feels-euphoria-with-newborn-daughter/|archive-date=August 4, 2017}} The couple divorced in 2004.{{cite magazine |url=http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/7800264/chris-cornell-obit |title=Chris Cornell, Singer with Soundgarden and Audioslave, Dies at 52 |access-date=December 21, 2018 |magazine=Billboard |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170518092406/http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/7800264/chris-cornell-obit |archive-date=May 18, 2017}}
Silver says: "Movement and dance... for the last 25 years, helps me physically feel better but lifts me emotionally in a profound way. I got lucky enough to get introduced to TM (Transcendental Meditation) when I was in high school so that was really important... Therapy has been really valuable for me and getting out in nature... those are the pillars for me. Having a spiritual practiceโฆ really important for me. It has been for decades and decades."{{Cite web|url=https://www.blabbermouth.net/news/chris-cornells-daughter-and-ex-wife-discuss-overcoming-loss-and-grief-on-final-episode-of-mind-wide-open/|title=CHRIS CORNELL's Daughter and Ex-Wife Discuss Overcoming Loss and Grief on Final Episode of 'Mind Wide Open' |work=Blabbermouth.net |date=20 July 2021|access-date=21 July 2021|archive-date=21 July 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210721001924/https://www.blabbermouth.net/news/chris-cornells-daughter-and-ex-wife-discuss-overcoming-loss-and-grief-on-final-episode-of-mind-wide-open/|url-status=live}}
When asked about his heroes during a press conference in 2002, Alice in Chains' vocalist and guitarist Jerry Cantrell named Silver as one of his heroes.{{cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2ThGYs5wH8 |title=Alice in Chains' Jerry Cantrell: "Layne Staley, Sean Kinney and Susan Silver are my heroes" |work=YouTube |access-date=December 21, 2018 |archive-date=April 22, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210422200925/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2ThGYs5wH8 |url-status=live }} Cantrell also thanked Silver for being one of the people who helped him get into rehab during his speech at the MusiCares MAP Fund Benefit on May 31, 2012, where he was awarded the Stevie Ray Vaughan Award.{{cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aH_fg4Ye878 |title=Jerry Cantrell Thanks Alice in Chains' Manager Susan Silver in his Stevie Ray Vaughan Award Speech |work=YouTube |access-date=December 21, 2018 |archive-date=April 29, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210429165700/https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=aH_fg4Ye878&feature=youtu.be |url-status=live }}
Filmography
- 1996 : Hype!, documentary
- 2001 : VH1 News Special : Grunge, TV Movie documentary
- 2011 : Pearl Jam Twenty, documentary
- 2012 : Metal Evolution, TV Series documentary : Grunge
- 2021 : Loudwire: 30 Years of Grunge, TV Mini Series documentary : Who Invented Grunge?
References
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Further reading
- {{cite book|title=Grunge Is Dead: The Oral History of Seattle Rock Music|last=Prato|first=Greg|publisher=ECW Press|year=2009|isbn=9781554903474|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=eTg4whS9ClUC}}
- {{cite book|title=Everybody Loves Our Town: An Oral History of Grunge|last=Yarm|first=Mark|publisher=Three Rivers Press|year=2011|isbn=9780307464446|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=z-44p7V2TrUC}}
- {{cite book|title=Alice In Chains: The Untold Story |author=De Sola, David |publisher=Thomas Dunne Books |year=2015 |isbn=9781250048073 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kUonBgAAQBAJ&q=susan+jean+silver}}
External links
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- [https://www.discogs.com/artist/1662521-Susan-Silver Susan Silver] on Discogs
- [https://www.allmusic.com/artist/susan-silver-mn0002574197 Susan Silver] on AllMusic
- [https://www.discogs.com/artist/3058592-Susan-Silver-Management Susan Silver Management] on Discogs
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