Tom Morello has spoken to Eddie Trunk in a new interview and revealed whether or not Audioslave would do anything together since the Chris Cornell memorial show.
“Chris Cornell memorial show was so sort of like beautiful and great, punctuation mark on that,” he started explaining. “When I do my solo shows, we honor both sort of the Rage legacy and Audioslave one. We play ‘Like A Stone’ with the microphone empty so the crowd can sing that beautiful prayer in memory of him. That feels good to me to do.”
When it comes to doing anything new, Morello revealed, “There’s no plans on doing anything.”
Morello, in a Metal Hammer interview, said Audioslave gave Cornell a renewed sense of purpose and ‘bought him 16 more years.’
“People live their lives in different ways, and with Chris, for the entire time I knew him, there was a lot of mystery. He was mysterious, he really was the person you hear in those lyrics. It wasn’t until some time later that we pieced it together,” he explained. “I believe that the good fortune of all us having met bought him 16 more years. That band was so liberating, it really felt like the horizon was completely open. And you know what? Standing onstage with Chris Cornell beside you is pretty great.”
A year after Cornell’s death, Morello revealed that the band had ‘abandoned’ reunion plans.
Cornell died by suicide after a performance with his main band, Soundgarden. He recorded three studio albums and one live album with Audioslave between 2002 and 2007 before leaving the band.