Watch Audioslave Emotionally Perform “Like a Stone” With Crowd Singing For Chris Cornell

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Audioslave’s surviving members Tom Morello, Tim Commerford, and Brad Wilk have paid tribute to Chris Cornell with another “Like a Stone” performance at Prophets of Rage’s show in Berlin. The surviving members first played the song in a rehearsal video a few weeks ago, and then performed it live with System of a Down’s Serj Tankian singing in place of Cornell last week.

Audioslave’s surviving members played the song live in Berlin last night with a light shining on a microphone, and the crowd singing in place of Cornell. Watch video of the emotional performance below.

System of a Down frontman Serj Tankian joined surviving Audioslave members Tom Morello, Tim Commerford, and Brad Wilk to perform “Like a Stone” at the Rock Im Park festival in Nuremberg, Germany last week during Prophets of Rage’s set. Audioslave reunited for their first performance in 12 years on January 20th at the Anti-Inaugural Ball in Los Angeles, but it turned out to be the original lineup’s final performance as frontman Chris Cornell died on May 18th.

Tom Morello discussed Audioslave’s January 20, 2017 reunion performance at the Anti-Inaugural Ball in a new Rolling Stone article, and how Chris Cornell had hopes for future Audioslave reunion performances.

Cornell was “shining” at that gig, Morello insists. “We hung out after the show – just laughed, took pictures. The last thing he said to me was, ‘I had such a great time. I would love to do this again. You just let me know.’ I was like, ‘Yeah, let’s figure it out!’

“It’s unbelievable,” Morello says of Cornell’s death. “I don’t know what the phases of mourning are, but I’m in the first one. I still expect this to be some kind of mistake” – that Cornell will soon be in touch with a text or phone call “where it’s ‘I’m cool. I’m so sorry. That was a scare. Everything is going to be all right.’ ”

“Soundgarden took the riff rock I love and made it smart,” Morello says, recalling that band’s profound impact on the early sound and direction of Rage Against the Machine. “Cornell’s dark, poetic intellect was not something you found in heavy metal.”