Noel Redding, bass player for the Experience, invited Hendrix to his mother's house on a cold New Year's Eve in Folkestone, England, after a performance.

[7] The Red Hot Chili Peppers began performing "Fire" in 1983 and recorded it as a B-side for their 1987 "Fight Like a Brave" single and a year later released it on The Abbey Road E.P..

The song was also included on their 1989 album, Mother's Milk, as a tribute to the band's founding guitarist Hillel Slovak who died in 1988.

In 1994, the accordion-based rock band Those Darn Accordions recorded a version for their 1994 album Squeeze This!, where it was sung by a then 79-year-old Clyde Forsman, one of the group's accordionists.

The song is frequently performed by the University of California, Los Angeles' marching band at UCLA Bruins football games.