It's been a long seven years since Chris Cornell and Tom Morello performed together on a stage in Audioslave, but last night (Sept. 26) the pair rocked a benefit show in Seattle.
Morello was in town for an acoustic set to benefit 15 Now, an organization that successfully helped raise the minimum wage to $15 in the Emerald City, when Cornell showed up as his special guest, Blabbermouth reports. In the video below, shot by Savoia Photgraphy Live, both musicians are in rare form, belting out a tune together at the end of Morello's set before Cornell takes over for a few songs. The two join back up around the 19:30 mark for their 2002 hit "I Am the Highway," which leads right into 2005's "Doesn't Remind Me." The reunion also included "Your Time Has Come," an epic cover of Bruce Springsteen's "The Ghost of Tom Joad," and "Cochise."
The two musicians seemed pretty friendly despite what was a pretty unconventional break-up in 2007 when Cornell quit without informing the rest of the band, which included Morello's rhythm section from Rage Against The Machine Brad Wilk (drums) and Tom Commerford (bass). "There wasn't a key moment when I knew I wanted to quit," Cornell told Rolling Stone in 2007. "We finished our third record and I went back to Paris and felt like we needed some time away from each other. We did a lot of touring. We did three records. We had done a lot of stuff in a short time period of time. Everyone ran off and did their own thing. I got real busy working on music and getting into a world I was missing on the last record — which was the ability to experiment with where a song could go and spend some time on the craft of making songs. When you have four guys in a room writing songs, it different. It's great — that's what makes a band a band. Audioslave was great. But there's a lot I want to do and I don't want to juggle that with a band."
Shortly thereafter, Morello made it clear to The Pulse of Radio that there was no bad blood between the two. "You know, Chris I consider a good friend and I love that guy, you know, and we went through a lot together, both musically and personally," he said. "And it was, you know, my belief that the band's friendship and roots were deep."
Check out the heavy performance below.
