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I know there are a ton of right-wing capitalist nay-sayers on GTP that never liked Rage Against the Machine, but I don't want to hear any whining of that sort.

This is fresh news as of today. Rage Against the Machine are to reunite for one show in LA, headlining the Coachella show.

LA Times
Rage Against the Machine, the seminal L.A. band that made heavy music into political manifesto, will reunite after a seven-year lull for one show as the headliners at the 2007 Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival.

Sources say Rage, which played the main stage at the first Coachella in 1999, will be joined by other familiar faces for the eighth edition of the festival, which covers three days this year and begins April 27: Red Hot Chili Peppers, which headlined in 2003, are back, as is Björk, who topped the bill in 2002.

Organizers were mum this weekend and it was not clear which day Rage or the other acts were slotted to play; that announcement is expected in the next few days. Other acts expected in the eclectic lineup: Arcade Fire, Interpol, Willie Nelson, the Roots, Manu Chao, the Decemberists, Arctic Monkeys, Sonic Youth, Crowded House, Air, Tiësto and Kings of Leon.

Tickets go on sale Saturday, via Ticketmaster. Three-day passes will cost about $250 and there will be a limited number of single-day passes available.

The headliners are not novel, but they are potent. The Peppers are up for their first best album Grammy right now, and Björk remains a mesmerizing figure to fans of avant pop. But in Southern California rock circles, there is very little that could compete with the excitement of a Rage Against the Machine reunion. The quartet's hybrid of funk, rap, metal and leftist ideology was as subtle as a Molotov cocktail; in the 1990s, its aggro-anthems made it the only band that mattered to a fan base that included East L.A. protest kids as well as those in Hollywood punk circles, college dorms and mainstream rock festival mosh pits, where politics were secondary to the group's feral energy.

The band is vocalist Zack de la Rocha, guitarist Tom Morello, bassist Tim Commerford and drummer Brad Wilk. Their split came amid rumors of bad blood between De la Rocha and his mates, who went on to work with Chris Cornell in Audioslave. However, Morello and De la Rocha appeared together at a 2005 rally for the urban farmers of a South Los Angeles community garden.
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My only hope is for some local radio station to host some sort of contest that I can partake in, and hopefully win. Enjoy.
 
Dang. Just for one show.

I have heard about their(Zack de la Rocha's?) political stance before, but I don't know much about it and I could care less about stuff like that......... unless they want all Asians destroyed or something.
 
Sounds cool. Hopefully it will be recorded and mass produced.


a6m5
I have heard about their(Zack de la Rocha's?) political stance before, but I don't know much about it and I could care less about stuff like that......... unless they want all Asians destroyed or something.
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:lol:
 
exigeracer
right-wing capitalist nay-sayers on GTP
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Uh...I would be one of those and...
a6m5
I have heard about their(Zack de la Rocha's?) political stance before, but I don't know much about it and I could care less about stuff like that
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Agreed...I would love for them to do more then one show! Their a band and should stick to playing music as actors should stick to making movies.
 
DWA
Just as long as they don't do something stupid like go EMO. That's fine.
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That would be terrible. (But Would never happen so there is no worry there :lol: )

I hope they decide to do more than one more show. Hopefully even record an album! That would be great. Audioslave is getting old.
 
The reason they broke up was because of the constant stress and fatigue of having to run a mainstream headlining rock band along with such a strong political lifestyle. I doubt they would consider doing anything more than one show. They would have to reignite their own liberal messages in a new way, too. Just think about how subversive anti-governmental movements were in 1991, and how pop cultural they have become today. It would be tough to pull off.

The only thing Rage fans could hope for would be the band's enjoyment of running the Coachella show and setting up a tour. I don't think they could handle much more.
 
They already went emo. It was called Audioslave.

Anyway, I'm set on going. A friend hit me up on AIM a few days ago, to ask if I was going. I answered "probably not, it's not my scene, and I don't like any modern bands..."

However, it occurred to me that it might be fun to ride the Ninja out there, and then, she said: "Rage Against the Machine will be there"

My reply was "I'M THERE"
 
Upon reading this, my hate for living in the UK rose to another level. :grumpy:
 
Bee
Upon reading this, my hate for living in the UK rose to another level. :grumpy:
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Oh my god, cry me a river, Lee. All my favorite bands, musicians are from U.K. :lol:
 
RATM had such an awesome power in their songs, I can feel it to an extent with Audioslave but I feel it was Zachs passion for what he sang about that made the band so much more powerful.

I sing along to the song and mosh my way around whenever I'm listening but I really don't take much notice to the policital message that they portrayed, meh maybe I wasn't old enough to appreciate what they were on about.
 
Every kid these days thinks that either singing about love or feelings or playing something softer is emo. I don't understand it either.

I didn't follow the political portion of Rage all that much, but I was aware of what they were speaking for, and a lot of it I agreed with, such as their anti-sensorship front. You guys are right though, the musical portion of the songs was amazing, even the more mainstream songs are killer tracks, like Guerilla Radio. Then you move on to the b-sides, which are just as great, like Township Rebellion or Ashes in the Fall.
 
exigeracer
Then you move on to the b-sides, which are just as great, like Township Rebellion or Ashes in the Fall.
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How are those B-Sides? Township Rebellion is on their first album, and Ashes in the Fall came from their most mainstream album of all, Battle of Los Angeles.
 
They could stand each other, they had to at that kind of profile. They were going fine and out of nowhere Zack left the band and split it all up. They didn't talk to Zack for years afterwards, but the rest of them set up a good run with Audioslave and other side-projects (The Nightwatchman a.k.a. Tom Morello with an acoustic will also have a set at Coachella, he's got some really good numbers).

Max - there are several weak songs, but for the most part, they wrote their songs with equal attention I think, they all have that powerful message and the music to back it up. The only songs I truly hate are Renegades of Funk, which was a single, and Pistol Grip Pump, which is a b-side off of the same album. Thankfuly, neither of them were written by Rage. You can also find some really good guitar work in the lesser-played tracks, if you're trying to find some Morello oddness. He's got a wild solo on Mic Check (Battle of LA).
 
i read int mag that in later years their interviews had to be done in separate rooms, and zacks want to return underground, and his objection to the release of renegades, and the band not quite seeing eye to eye, and a whole load o crap why they couldnt be bothered to continue :p
 
I hope it's just for one show. :p

Don't get me wrong, I like RATM, but I like Audioslave even more and I hope they continue togheter releasing new stuff.
 
That sucks... Well, yeah, if Audioslave is done RATM could at least get back togheter.
 
Max Powers
About damn time, hopefully this will lead to Rage coming back together for good.

Audioslave was mediocre at best, and their music lacked the passion of Rage's.
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I agree, their music never had the same power that RATM had. Plus, it was always a dream to go see RATM in concert one day, so this could just be one step closer to that dream coming true.
 

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