Chris Cornell’s Audioslave bandmate Tim Commerford discussed his late friend in a new interview with Matt Pinfield. Alternative Nation transcribed his comments.
“I loved Chris, and I struggle with that every day that he’s no longer going to be a part of my life. I see his children, and it’s a hard thing for me to deal with. The only thing that I can say, and the only thing that gives me any solace in Chris Cornell’s passing is that he made some incredible music that sounds brand new to me now when I listen to it.
He was an important part of my career, me as a musician, and Tom [Morello] and Brad [Wilk] as musicians. I hear him in the music that we’re playing with the Prophets of Rage believe it or not. I believe that we’re different from Rage Against The Machine, in that Rage was very monotone in one key, we never really changed keys.
Then we moved onto Audioslave and we were forced to make music to suit a vocal melody, and that meant making songs that had chord progressions, and that’s the one big difference between the Prophets of Rage and Rage Against The Machine is that we also have chord progressions in our music. Every time I feel those progressions, I think about Cornell.”
He then said that while he loved Audioslave, he was never crazy about the band name.
“We should have called it Civilian. That was one thing about Audioslave that I wasn’t crazy about, the name Audioslave. But life goes on.”
