Post Malone and Tom Morello are up to something — and the multi-hyphenate has a lot in common with one of rock’s most iconic frontmen, according to the Rage Against the Machine guitarist.
In a recent performance at Eddie Trunk Podcast, Morello revealed that Post Malone and his late Audioslave bandmate Chris Cornell have a similar songwriting process. “When we were writing songs with Chris, we’d kind of throw music at him — whether it was a simple chord progression like ‘I Am the Highway’ or a more complicated heavy riff — and he’d come up with a bunch of great melody lines in no time. He’d drop them, and then he would write words on anything,” Morello recalled. “And that’s exactly how Post Malone does it – a hit, a beautiful, haunting melody is what they have in common.”
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Chris Cornell and Tom Morello performing with Audioslave in California in August 2003.
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The singer, who released his debut country album F-1 trillion in August, and the acclaimed guitarist collaborated in an hour-long studio session “over five or six years ago” to record the track. But according to Morello, “I can’t get him to finish it… He’s a busy guy and he’s busy on a stadium tour right now, but we have a really great song together.”
“We wrote a song together that, to my ears, sounds like what ‘Beat It’ was to Michael Jackson. It’s a banger. It’s an absolutely amazing rock song,” he said of his unreleased Post Malone song.
While Malone’s collaboration may take some time to see the light of day, Morello has been open about being one of the most prolific guitarists of his generation.
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Post Malone performs in San Francisco in August 2024.
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“I’d defy you to find anyone who hasn’t been a session musician in the last 50 years who’s played with a more diverse group of artists than I have,” Morello said, talking about his collaborations with Paul McCartney, the Wu-Tang Clan, Kris Kristofferson and Metallica.
He also said that Rage Against the Machine’s sparse discography forced him to collaborate to satisfy his desire to play. “Rage used to make records like one every four years and I’m really prolific,” he said. “I love play. If there’s a studio door, I’ll go through it. I started collaborating and learning so much from really diverse artists that I just kept going.”
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