On Wednesday night at The Forum in Los Angeles, a star-studded cast of musicians came together to honor late singer-songwriter Chris Cornell, who passed away in May 2017, including members of his bands Soundgarden, Audioslave and Temple of the Dog, plus Foo Fighters, Metallica, Ryan Adams, Fiona Apple, Brandi Carlile, Miley Cyrus, Maroon 5’s Adam Levine, Ziggy Marley, Chris Stapleton, Miguel, Queens of the Stone Age’s Josh Homme and more. The evening, dubbed, I Am The Highway: A Tribute to Chris Cornell, raised over a million dollars for the Chris and Vicky Cornell Foundation and the Epidermolysis Bullosa Medical Research Foundation.

Presented by Cornell’s wife and hosted by Jimmy Kimmel, the night featured an array of artists covering songs from throughout Cornell’s storied career, kicking off with performances from The Melvins, Rita Wilson, Stapleton, Homme, Cyrus, a trio featuring Levine and his Maroon 5 bandmate Jesse Carmichael plus Pearl Jam/Temple of the Dog’s Stone Gossard.

Next up was Rage Against the Machine’s Tom Morello and Brad Wilk, who played with Cornell in Audioslave. The two ran through several of that band’s tunes, including “Show Me How To Live,” “Like a Stone” and “Cochise,” welcoming guests like Dave Grohl, Brandi Carlile, Perry Farrell, Black Sabbath’s Geezer Butler and Metallica bassist Robert Trujillo. Following that performance, Ziggy Marley offered a duet with Cornell’s daughter Toni on Bob Marley’s classic “Redemption Song.” Metallica’s performance came next, followed by Ryan Adams (in his first live show since last summer), who was joined by a band that included producer/bassist Don Was and ran through Cornell’s “Dead Wishes” and Soundgarden’s “Fell On Black Days.”

Finally, the tribute show rounded out with sets from Temple of the Dog and Soundgarden, with the former group (which features members of Pearl Jam) joined by the likes of Cyrus, Carlile, Stapleton, Apple and more. Soundgarden’s night-closing set also included guests like Peter Frampton, Morello, Carlile, The Melvins’ Buzz Osbourne and Foo Fighters’ Taylor Hawkins. The group offered a finale of Soundgarden’s hit “Black Hole Sun,” accompanied by Carlile and Frampton.

See the full setlist below, along with some fan-shot video from the night.


I Am the Highway: A Tribute to Chris Cornell
The Forum, Los Angeles, CA

The Melvins (Buzz Osborne, Dale Crover, Steven Shane McDonald, Jeff Pinkus)
“Kicking Machine”
“With Your Heart Not Your Hands”
“Leech”
“Heart of Honey”
Spoonman”

Rita Wilson
“The Promise”

Nikka Costa and Alain Johannes
“Disappearing One”

Chris Stapleton
“The Keeper”

Foo Fighters (Dave Grohl, Taylor Hawkins, Nate Mendel, Pat Smear, Chris Shiflett, Rami Jaffee)
“No Attention”
“Earache My Eye”
“Girl You Want”
“Everlong (Acoustic)”

Josh Homme
“Rusty Cage”

Adam Levine, Jesse Carmichael, and Stone Gossard
“Seasons”

Miley Cyrus
“Two Drink Minimum”

Audioslave (Tom Morello and Brad Wilk)
“Cochise” (with Geezer Butler and Perry Farrell)
“Be Yourself” (with Geezer Butler and Juliette Lewis)
“Set It Off” (with Chris Chaney, Sam Harris and Tim Mcllrath)
“Like A Stone” (with Chris Chaney and Brandi Carlile)
“Show Me How To Live”(with Robert Trujillo and Dave Grohl)

Toni Cornell and Ziggy Marley
“Redemption Song”

Metallica (James Hetfield, Lars Ulrich, Kirk Hammett, and Robert Trujillo)
“All Your Lies”
“For Whom The Bell Tolls”
“Master of Puppets”
“Head Injury”

Ryan Adams (Daphne Chen, Richard Dodd, Eric Gorfain, Leah Katz, and Don Was)
“Dead Wishes”
“Fell On Black Days”

Temple Of The Dog
“Preaching The End Of The World” (Nikka Costa, Alain Johannes, Stone Gossard, Brendan O’Brien, and Josh Taylor)
“Can’t Change Me” (Nikka Costa, Alain Johannes, Stone Gossard, Eric Avery, and Josh Freese)
“Hunted Down” (William DuVall, Jerry Cantrell, Stone Gossard, Jeff Ament, and Josh Freese)
“All Night Thing” (Fiona Apple, Brendan O’Brien, David Garza, Jeff Ament, and Matt Chamberlain)
“Reach Down” (Miguel, Nikka Costa, Stone Gossard, Brendan O’Brien, Jeff Ament, and Matt Cameron)
“Say Hello 2 Heaven” (Miley Cyrus, Brendan O’Brien, Stone Gossard, Jeff Ament, and Josh Freese)
“Hunger Strike” (Brandi Carlile, Chris Stapleton, Stone Gossard, Brendan O’Brien, Jeff Ament, and Matt Cameron)

Soundgarden (Kim Thayil, Ben Shepherd, and Matt Cameron)
“Rusty Cage” (with Taylor Momsen)
“Flower” (with Marcus Durant)
“Outshined” (with Marcus Durant and Stone Gossard)
“Drawing Flies” (with Taylor Momsen, Buzz Osbourne, Matt Demeritt, and Tracy Wanamae)
“Loud Love” (with Taylor Momsen, Tom Morello, and Wayne Kramer)
“I Awake” (with Taylor Hawkins and Buzz Osbourne)
“The Day I Tried To Live” (with Taylor Hawkins and Buzz Osbourne)
“Black Hole Sun” (with Brandi Carlile, Peter Frampton, Tim Hanseroth, and Phil Hanseroth)