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"Rage Against The Machine"

Hi.

I'd like to introduce everybody (Who hasn't yet heard of them) to an old band. Admittedly they did split up a few years ago, but they were a fantastic band. They were called Rage Against The Machine and they ROCKED!!!! The music was rock/metal, but the lyrics were rapped over the top of it. The drummer was Brad Wilk, the bassist was Tim Commerford, the vocalist was Zack de la Rocha, and the guitarist was the amazing Tom Morrello. All of them were amazingly talented, especially Zack and Tom. Zack was not only the singer, but also the main song writer for the band, and he could also play guitar, drums and bass. Tom Morrello was, and still is, probably one of the greatest guitarists ever. He was not only renound for his amazing speed and fantastic solos, but also his extensive use to effects, including phaser, whammy and harmoniser. Above all though was his unique understanding and application of the advanced techniques of playing guitar which are normally used sparingly in solos by other guitarists. He could hit a pinched or tapped harmonic perfectly, 10 times out of 10, at any position on the fret board, and use a combination of effects and the pick-up selector switch to make his guitar mimick turn-tables by playing dead notes. He has been voted Best Guitarist 4 times in a row, and is down as on of Total Guitar magazine's "Guitar Gods". A trademark of Rage was never using synthesisers, sampling, or any other kind of effects in their music, only the instruments. Their main focus point was that Rage were an extremly political band. The took part in countless protests on and off stage, and the lyrics to nearly all of their song were political. They have won numerous music awards and done several Tours. They have many albumbs out including Evil Empire, Best of Rage, The Battle Of Los Angoles, Rage Against The Machine, and Renegades. All of these have gone at least single platinum, most double. Recently Zack de la Rocha left the band to go solo, and the 3 remaining band members recruited singer Chris Cornell, and became Audioslave. The official Rage Against The Machine website is simply http://www.ratm.com . It contains far more additional information on the band than i currently have the time or the patients to dig up and include in this message. I don't really know that much about the band (Say's he who's just written 400 words on them!) but I know that they were a truly amazing (and one of the most influential) rock bands ever. If you like rock music, you'll LOVE Rage Against The Machine, trust me.

Thanks for reading!

Rattle snake3

What's your favourite Rage song?

or album?

While interviewing the guy in charge of local music in Oxford for a college video, he told us Rage once played at The Zodiac a few years back. If you know this venue, you'll know how cool that would have been to see them there. Or anywhere for that matter. You just don't get huge bands like that in little joints anymore...

triggerhappyrocker wrote:
> Wow. You can quote side-show Bob from the Simpsons. How very very sad.

I fail to see what is sad about that, the fact that you knew what it was would make you equally sad wouldn't it, triggerhappyt*sser?

True. I guess no-one can be blamed for watching the Simpsons. It is probably THE funniest cartoon on T.V., so point taken. I didn't realise that every body already knew loads about Rage! I only heard about the a couple of months ago when i read an interview with Tom Morello in a guitar mag!

Anyone here like Audioslave?

I saw them do a secret warmup gig at my local (Zodiac, oxford) and got in on the guest list! :)

Excellent band, one of my faces but I don't rate the drummer at all. If Audioslave had the Soundgarden drummer instead they would have been a lot better.

That's the one I mentioned before. Damn you were lucky!

Yeah, it was a bit jammy..

It was really dodgy, cos they got me on the guest list, and then on the night, I said to the guy at the door 'we're on the list' and he said 'there is no list'!

I said 'No, you have to check, our names are...' and he checked and let us in. I was panicking for a few seconds, as I had already bought 2 tickets, and then sold them when I got on the guest list...

What? The Rage drummers was pretty good, I thought. He did use some pretty simple rhythms and fills at times, but that didn't affect the quality of the songs they appeared on - such as 'Killing In The Name', I think, where it just has a basic eight beat for the verse, or chorus or something.
Rage were stupidly good, although I don't listen to them much any more.
Audioslave, however, are pants, unfortunately (well I think so anyway).
Chris Cornell's voice really detracts from the sound, although i'm sure lots of Soundgarden fans will sl@g me off now.

Has anyone heard the new Radiohead album? (