⁣⁣⁣It's known through the connected online world that Chris Cornell was a Seattle SuperSonics fan, likely all his life as a Seattle kid. The National Basketball Association's SONICS were simply "stolen" from Seattle and its fans in 2008, after 41 years of success and an NBA World Championship in June 1979. This came after so many successful seasons, three Western Conference titles, an accumulated worldwide fan base, and only due to bad political decisions by City "leaders" time and again. YouTube has a clip of Chris' disgust for the SONICS ' departure, live from the Gorge in George, Washington during the summer of 2011.⁣⁣⁣⁣

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This design was inspired by discussions I had with a good friend who loves music. His name is Elden Goe, and we worked together for one year in SoDo. Elden once mentioned that Chris would sometimes wear an "arch" SONICS jersey in the late-80s. He was fourteen when the Supes won it all. ⁣⁣⁣

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Elden was good friends then with Mother Love Bone's singer/writer Andy Wood, and Wood's fellow MLB bandmate Bruce Fairweather, also of Green River and Love Battery. Cornell and Wood were roommates on Bainbridge Island until Wood moved to Capitol Hill, where he passed not long after.⁣⁣⁣⁣

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I quickly had a thought one day recently: it might be a fun image to "paint" the legendary Chris Cornell in a SONICS arch jersey again. Understanding his love for the Supes, it seems necessary. ⁣⁣

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I must say this design was also inspired by the clever detailing someone somewhere had, to Photoshop Hendrix in an arch jersey and the #27 (age at death). However, we all know that was 79 Champ John Johnson’s number, too! I like it just the same. ⁣

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