I think simply writing Rage off as communist is much to simple. They were certainly left-wing though its way oversimplified to call them communist.

Did they ever release an official statement in regards to their political beliefs?

Finally a great thread! RATM is one of my fav bands, I have all their albums and I am glad to see this thread is doing so great and the "Featured Artist: Pink Floyd" thread is doing quite poorly. Thank God for threads like this :)

[QUOTE=TheNewAgeRocker]Finally a great thread! RATM is one of my fav bands, I have all their albums and I am glad to see this thread is doing so great and the "Featured Artist: Pink Floyd" thread is doing quite poorly. Thank God for threads like this :)[/QUOTE]

wha does the success of the Pink Floyd FA have to do with anything??

One time Pink Floyd bought Zack De La Rocha lunch at McDonalds. ZDLR was like "Americans are fat!" and started writing the lyrics he does today

/end random fake story

[QUOTE=TheNewAgeRocker]Finally a great thread! RATM is one of my fav bands, I have all their albums and I am glad to see this thread is doing so great and the "Featured Artist: Pink Floyd" thread is doing quite poorly. Thank God for threads like this :)[/QUOTE]
What have you got against Pink Floyd? :angry:

[QUOTE=Med57]Feel free to read my Featured Artist: Rage Against The Machine thread at any time. :) It's rather good, if I say so myself, although I prefer my Pink Floyd one.



I know Tom Morello got quite pissed off when people lumped it as "the band's" political beliefs, and emphasised that, as individuals, they all had different ones, although him and Zack were, and still are, the most political. I think that none of them could be described as communists though, so much as socialists.[/QUOTE]

shows how much I know :p I just generally assumed that they all had sufficiently similar beliefs so they could be grouped as one.
Well, off to Google I go!

[QUOTE=munky_magik]Did they ever release an official statement in regards to their political beliefs?[/QUOTE]
hey this is somewhat off topic but i was told zach and ziggy marley were working on some **** have u or any one else heard about that.

i dont know anything about it, but that would be the best "modern" music ive heard in a long time

[QUOTE=SlasHfan2045]hey this is somewhat off topic but i was told zach and ziggy marley were working on some **** have u or any one else heard about that.[/QUOTE]

off topic it is, but why did you need to quote me?

[QUOTE=Rasta Rockerstat3]i dont know anything about it, but that would be the best "modern" music ive heard in a long time[/QUOTE]i think it would be great im from cincinnati,oh and we have a bogarts here and i was told a few months ago they were gonna tour here but what could they possibly they have no album

[QUOTE=munky_magik]off topic it is, but why did you need to quote me?[/QUOTE]
because im new to this forum stuff and i wanted u 2 c that i was specifically askin you overall. my appologies

Rage against the machine and tool always had something in common..... dontchuthink?

[QUOTE=SlasHfan2045]because im new to this forum stuff and i wanted u 2 c that i was specifically askin you overall. my appologies[/QUOTE]

It's cool, I was just wondering :)

[QUOTE=Morello_Monk]Rage against the machine and tool always had something in common..... dontchuthink?[/QUOTE]

Rage and Tool were close together when they were growing up.
Tom and Adam Jones were ina highschool band called Electric Sheep together.

EDIT: beaten by Med.....again

F U C K

[QUOTE=SlasHfan2045]F U C K[/QUOTE]
What is that all about? :confused:

[QUOTE=shortass]What is that all about? :confused:[/QUOTE]
i wanted to beat the censor

[QUOTE=SlasHfan2045]i wanted to beat the censor[/QUOTE]
there's better ways to beat it that make you look less idiotic

[QUOTE=Morello_Monk]Tom had a hammer and sickle sticker on his guitar for a while. There is nothing wrong with being communist anyway.[/QUOTE]

Tom also had a picture of Che on his amp. Does that make him cuban or argentinian?

I have a question.

Whenever Tom plays the "sleep now in the fire" solo live, he always gets on his knees in front of his amp. Anyone know what he's doing and why he does that? I noticed that there are also three pictures of what appears to be a vietnamese woman on it, does that have anything to do with it?

[QUOTE=DonMancini]I have a question.

Whenever Tom plays the "sleep now in the fire" solo live, he always gets on his knees in front of his amp. Anyone know what he's doing and why he does that? I noticed that there are also three pictures of what appears to be a vietnamese woman on it, does that have anything to do with it?[/QUOTE]

I believe that the solo is done using feedback and whammy bar so he just get's close to the to create feedback. although he could equally be conjuring up crazy sounds from his worship of crazy vietnamise fertitility god's...crazy

[QUOTE=munky_magik]I believe that the solo is done using feedback and whammy bar so he just get's close to the to create feedback. although he could equally be conjuring up crazy sounds from his worship of crazy vietnamise fertitility god's...crazy[/QUOTE]
refl, that would explain it.

And I was looking for a deep political/emotional reason.

[QUOTE=DonMancini]refl, that would explain it.

And I was looking for a deep political/emotional reason.[/QUOTE]

I'll see what I can do ;)

hmm...How about the pictures are of 3 vietnamese women who were crushed by the opression of their Right wing government and the solo is the sound of their dying cries and he must get close to them to be able to relay these cries again and again?

[QUOTE=munky_magik]hmm...How about the pictures are of 3 vietnamese women who were crushed by the opression of their Right wing government and the solo is the sound of their dying cries and he must get close to them to be able to relay these cries again and again?[/QUOTE]
I would have put "being crushed by american capitalism" :p But good enough :-*

Can anyone find anything out about Brad Wilk and the number 3?

have you google'd it?

the thing you must learn about me is i am one of the laziest bastards around, so no...im just waiting to see if anyone is nice enough to look it up for me

[QUOTE=Rasta Rockerstat3]Can anyone find anything out about Brad Wilk and the number 3?[/QUOTE]
i think it is just his favourite number. Which i why he is supposed to write it on everything.