The recently reunited Rage Against The Machine played their first show in 7 years at last week’s Coachella Music Festival. Guitarist Tom Morello explained the reason behind the band’s reformation:
Is it coincidence that in the seven years that Rage Against the Machine has been away that the country has slid into right-wing purgatory? I think not. It occurred to all of us that the times were right to see if we can knock the Bush administration out in one fell swoop, and we hope to do that job well.
Yes, it is a coincidence, shit rod. Maybe that kind of self important, specious reasoning will go over with the 15 year old record buying set, but not the rest of us. The only coincidence here is your timing in relationship to the breakup of Audioslave. Guess what? Your outdated, jock-friendly rap/rock and recycled Black Panther rhetoric will never change the world. If Bob Dylan couldn’t do it, if John Lennon’s Imagine couldn’t do it, if “War, huh, good God, ya’ll, what is it good for? Absolutely nothing,” couldn’t do it, what makes you think your shitty music can? If you really are going to “knock the Bush administration out in one fell swoop” like you claim, you better hurry up and do it before January 20th, 2009, because you don’t have much time left.
jerk.
anything that brings back rage against the machine, while simultaneously destroying audioslave cannot be bad. and while i don’t actually believe their music will knock the bush administration down, it certainly won’t hurt to have some great political leftist music out there again, last i checked john lennon wasn’t producing much in the way of NEW work…way to suggest we just stall out with what we’ve already got.
and by the way, what’s up with all the borderline homophobic hate crap on this blog. no wonder you hate rage and all their leftist rhetoric…