Just thought about RATM yesteday before going to sleep... bombtrack came in my head :pimp

oh Zacharia..what a MAN ;)

all great bands right there
time to dust off some CDs

when i first learned how to play bass guitar, i learned the bass licks of every single song off their first album, great creative, original band

Rage is/was awesome. I can't think of a tune they did I dont like.

Rage against the machine reforming for a concert is about the only reason I could justify going to the states right now. The live at the grand olympic dvd is what I most often work to.

The way they do bulls on parade is pure dynamism.

Lyrics:

http://www.azlyrics.com/r/rageagainst.html

:thumbsup

PANTERA = best metal band ever
ALICE IN CHAINS AWESOME !!!!

I agree with you all the latest band are crap.

P.D: SOUNDGARDEN missing :thumbsup

I have a few special requests... :1orglaugh

I would have never guess you were into RATM :pimp

yeah, nothing like commercially exploiting the likeness of Che Guevera to sell tshirts. gotta ove those guys.

50........ :glugglug

yeah they were good

Two weeks ago me and a friend were drinking some beer here. After some time he looked at me and said "I want Rage Against the Machine now".
LOL
Didn't listen to them since 2 or 3 years.
Well, it became a cool evening ;)

check out zach de la rocha's new single "i want it now" sounds like the band never disbanded. you can find it on itunes

corbu

I really like Rage but I find myself sometimes laughing at the hypocracy of the group. they rail against the free market and promote a more "socialist/communist" type of world were everyone helps everyone else out and money is not the #1 motivation for peoples actions. That's not a bad idea, but the problem is that the machine they are raging against is also the same one that has allowed them to excel in a free martket/capitolist world and make millions and millions of dollars from thier message.

I understand that they do a lot of good with thier money, but without the system they rail against, most people would have never heard of them.

Cool, I will check it out.

They created a seamless hybrid of rap and metal. Nobody has done it better before or since.

This is true, and one of the reasons that even though they were great they needed to break up or sink further and further into this hypocricy. I had to laugh everytime I heard a censored version of "Guerilla Radio" on some ClearChannel station.


Someone once made a joke (SNL? I can't remember) that now that they're millionairres they're changing their name to Mildly Annoyed At The Machine. I think that pretty well sums it up.


R.I.P RATM

I didn't even realize that Rick Rubin produced RATM until looking at this back cover. It makes sense now, the guy has been a metal and hip hop junky since the early 80's. Rick Rubin is the same guy that produced for The Cult, Slayer, and so many other metal bands, as well as Beastie Boys, LL Cool J, and so many other hip hop groups on the legendary Def Jam label (the label that he and Russell Simmons founded). RATM falls right into the tradition.

yep. I am glad they broke up before they became something lame. Every now and then a band comes along that changes things and they were one of them, but yeah the fact that they would allow for a song to be censored so it would be played on the radio is a little funny.

Have you heard the Richard Cheese version of Guerilla Radio? It's great.

Rage is the shit. I think they have a couple newer songs, March of Death and We Want it All. Download them if you don't already have them, they're classics. I'm holding my breath on a new album.

I dont think there will be one, the band except the singer are now Audioslave

Rick Rubin is fucking awesome. I always used to see him driving around in hollywood with a black Rolls Royce.

You should get into Zach's band before that: Inside Out. You can order their record here: revhq.com

He also play guitar (i think) for a band called Hard Stance before that, but they weren't the greatest.

I wasn't a big Rage fan but Zach had a great voice.

Sleep now in the fire!!!

They did a great cover of Fuck the Police. The opening is classic.

killing in the name of

I have heard the live version of that and it kicks butt.

wow you dont miss a beat

"[...]And yes, I recognize the irony that the very system I oppose affords me the luxury of biting the hand that feeds. But that's exactly why priviledged fucks like me should feel obliged to whine and kick and scream- until everyone has everything they need."
-- Propagandhi, resisting a tyrannical government

Cause I'm calm like a bomb!

FUCK YES, I was going to quote that

Propagandhi kicks ass!

Fuck You I Wont Do What You Tell Me

Oh hell yeah, I was an evil teen! LOL. RATM was my first concert at age 16, and the first time I was in a mosh pit that nearly killed me, and the first time I was in a police riot right afterwards. Man, that was an awesome night!

WG

Awesome, I would of never guessed you liked RAGE! :thumbsup

i miss faith no more.

hehe, for sure :)
WG

LOL, I am trying to visualize you in the mosh pit.... :helpme but now that I hear this, it explains alot... :1orglaugh

I miss Inside Out

Take a listen to "Touched" and then tell me how great my band is....
bullfighter the band

Anyone ever listen to Inside Out - The band Zack did before RATM - who developed the whole idea and whose next record was going to be called "Rage Against The Machine" before some whacko decided to quit the band and become a hare krishna?

Here's some info: http://static-void.com/vault/InsideOut.htm

Achem