Best of Chris Live With Audioslave Pt 1

[jesse_dylan]

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I had planned to watch a few minutes of this and go to bed. Instead, I watched the whole thing and cried and cried, and now I can't sleep. Hope you're resting in more peace tonight than I am, Chris.

**Of special note, the final song in the video is Chris turning in the whitest performance ever of 'Killing in the Name Of' :)**

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[jesse_dylan]

No, it wasn't bad. It was sort of cute, which I hate saying, because that's what girls are always saying about musicians they like, like OMG THAT WAS SO CUTE and whatever. Okay, endearing is maybe the word. It was a little weird though. I did like the part where he said, "Some of those that hold office invented mother-fucking crosses!" I don't think that was in the original.

And I liked how Dave Letterman way back whenever that was in the early 2000s said, "Hm, I think maybe there is still some rage in there."

And there were a few Audioslave performances in there that were crazy. I don't remember which. Be Yourself sure was good, and there was at least one other that seemed like the heavens must have parted at that particular time on that particular day or something. But it helps that he is my favorite singer of all-time and that I think they (Tom and the other two dudes) are the best rock band of all time.

It's a shame they never toured on the 3rd Audioslave album, and it's a shame I never saw them live. I don't always like seeing bands live (like why should I pay money to stand there with a bunch of bouncing drunk people to hear a performance that might not even be very good), but if I'd hit them on the right day, it would have been a life-changing experience for me.

I like their performance of This Land Is Your Land, where Tom is trying to give a lesson on history and politics, and Chris looks kind of like a duck out of water yet again but busts it out for his segments of the song.


I wish they would hire me, because I could do the Rage stuff, the Audioslave stuff, and we could write new stuff together.

Chris was an introvert, so much like me, and a really strange person, and he somehow managed to deal with that not just through music but through performance. He channeled his anxiety and fear and anger. When it worked, it was incredible. When it didn't, it was just as incredible but maybe not for the right reasons. He had his own brand of "shoegaze" in a way, except his gaze wasn't at his shoes. It was wild-eyed and staring straight out. Who the hell knows what he was looking at or what he saw. It wasn't the audience. You can tell when he looks at them, because he emotes, smiles or has a look of concern. I think near the end of his life (2005 and onward), he began focusing more on music as his outlet and form of expression rather than performance.

I only knew Chris (intimately) through his music. Until recently, I otherwise knew very little about him, what he thought, how he acted, what his personality was like, except through his songs. I wish I'd known sooner. I didn't know how much alike he and I were.