Original Fire

Original Fire
"Original Fire"
Single by Audioslave
from the album Revelations
Released August 28, 2006
Format CD, Vinyl
Recorded 2006
Genre Funk metal
Length 3:35
Label Epic
Writer(s) Lyrics: Chris Cornell
Music: Audioslave
Producer Brendan O'Brien
Audioslave singles chronology
"Out of Exile"
(2006)
"Original Fire"
(2006)
"Revelations"
(2006)

"Original Fire" is the first single from the album Revelations by American hard rock band Audioslave. The song debuted on radio stations on July 17, 2006 and the single itself was released on August 28, 2006.

The song is currently freely available for streaming at Audioslave's official website and official MySpace profile.

Guitarist Tom Morello described the song as hard-rocking, but with a '70s funk and soul influence. "It's a jam," he said. "It's one of those songs where the genesis was a riff that I had for a very, very long time and imagined it happening in a certain way. When we started jamming in the room, the song morphed into something completely different, completely unexpected and a lot better than I ever imagined it being."[1]

Epic Records held a contest in which the participants had to identify all of the icons shown in the video (there was a list of names and silhouettes given and you had to match them) and they had the chance to win copy of the album Revelations, as well as a guitar signed by the band.[1]

Over a year and a half after release, the song rose back into the UK Rock Chart, at number 11, and a week later climbed to the top 10 at number 6. It was also a substantial rock hit in the U.S., peaking at number 3 on the Modern Rock Tracks chart and number 4 on the Mainstream Rock Tracks chart, although it did not chart for several months. In Canada, it was their last successful single to date, peaking at #1 on the Radio & Records' Canadian rock chart.

Contents

Track listing

CD version

  1. "Original Fire" (Album Version)
  2. "Set It Off" (Live at the Quart Festival)
  3. "Gasoline" (Live at the Quart Festival)

7" Vinyl

  1. "Original Fire" (Album Version)
  2. "Doesn't Remind Me" (Live at the Quart Festival)

Guitar solo

"Original Fire" has a strange guitar solo that Tom Morello describes as monkey laughter. He does this solo by setting his DOD Equalizer, deploying his wah-wah pedal, depressing his whammy bar to make the strings slack and slapping the strings against the pickups, though, as in the video, it is also possible to have the same effect by using the tuning peg, instead of the whammy bar.

Music video

A music video for "Original Fire" was also shot, and premiered on Yahoo! Music.[2] The video was directed by Paul R. Brown (who was the director of videos for bands like Stone Sour, Otep and Mötley Crüe) and reflected on the lyrics of the song, "The original fire has died and gone, but the riot inside moves on." It featured the band playing with images of figures that are inspirational to the band, such as Johnny Cash, Martin Luther King Jr., Che Guevara, Chuck D, The Clash, Bob Dylan, Wendy O. Williams, Peter Tosh, Jello Biafra, Bill Hicks, Lenny Bruce, Jim Morrison, the Million Man March, Andy Warhol, Ozzy Osbourne, Janis Joplin, Joey Ramone, Randy Rhoads, Malcolm X, Glenn Danzig, Iggy Pop and Nelson Mandela. "The video, in some ways, is about the thread of music and cultural figures with integrity that were important parts of our history - how all those streams flow together to where we are today," Morello explained.[1]

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