{"id":486119,"date":"2019-05-20T19:13:34","date_gmt":"2019-05-21T01:13:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=837935"},"modified":"2019-05-20T19:13:34","modified_gmt":"2019-05-21T01:13:34","slug":"tom-morello-serj-tankian-honor-chris-cornell-onstage-with-audioslaves-like-a-stone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/music-news\/tom-morello-serj-tankian-honor-chris-cornell-onstage-with-audioslaves-like-a-stone\/","title":{"rendered":"Tom Morello, Serj Tankian Honor Chris Cornell Onstage With Audioslave\u2019s \u2018Like a Stone\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/10241289ej.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/tom-morello\/\" id=\"auto-tag_tom-morello\" data-tag=\"tom-morello\">Tom Morello<\/a> recruited System of a Down singer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/serj-tankian\/\" id=\"auto-tag_serj-tankian\" data-tag=\"serj-tankian\">Serj Tankian<\/a> for a triumphant live version of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/audioslave\/\" id=\"auto-tag_audioslave\" data-tag=\"audioslave\">Audioslave<\/a>\u2019s \u201cLike a Stone\u201d during a solo set at the Sonic Temple festival in Columbus, Ohio. The performance fell almost exactly two years after the death of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/chris-cornell\/\" id=\"auto-tag_chris-cornell\" data-tag=\"chris-cornell\">Chris Cornell<\/a>, Morello\u2019s former Audioslave bandmate.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">In the fan-shot clip, the guest spot occurs after a long medley of riffs from Morello\u2019s back catalog, including Rage Against the Machine classics (\u201cGuerilla Radio,\u201d \u201cSleep Now in the Fire\u201d) and Audioslave\u2019s \u201cCochise.\u201d Tankian walks onstage around the 4:20 mark \u2014 adding his dramatic vibrato to \u201cLike a Stone,\u201d a single from the band\u2019s 2002 debut LP. (The frontman even threw in some air guitar during Morello\u2019s wild solo.)<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">While Morello has most recently played \u201cLike a Stone\u201d live without a singer, Tankian previously joined Prophets of Rage (which includes Morello and fellow surviving Audioslave members Tim Commerford and Brad Wilk) for the song in 2018 and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/see-serj-tankian-prophets-of-rage-team-for-chris-cornell-tribute-195087\/\">2017<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\">Cornell last performed the track in January 2017 \u2014 four months before his death \u2014 during <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/watch-audioslave-reunite-at-los-angeles-anti-inaugural-ball-106327\/\"><span class=\"s2\">a one-off Audioslave reunion at an anti-Trump benefit show<\/span><\/a>, the group\u2019s first performance in almost 12 years.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/tom-morello-serj-tankian-chris-cornell-audioslave-like-a-stone-837935\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tom Morello recruited System of a Down singer Serj Tankian for a triumphant live version of Audioslave\u2019s \u201cLike a Stone\u201d during a solo set at the Sonic Temple festival in Columbus, Ohio. The performance fell almost exactly two years after the death of Chris Cornell, Morello\u2019s former Audioslave bandmate. In the fan-shot clip, the guest [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-486119","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-19 16:18:47","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KQZR - The Reel","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=486119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486119\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=486119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=486119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=486119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}