This has been discussed loads. He was making a solo album ages ago. I've heard a song on the radio not long ago which was a Rock song with Zack singing.

Don't think the solo album is happening though.

I also started guitar because of Tom. :chug:

Cool to know.

I think, and this is just mo, if Zack released a solo album, it would blow.

Oh yeah, I started guitar cause of RATM too.


Actually no, but I'll just say that.

I lost faith in Zack ever releasing his solo album a couple of years ago.

Actually I read that Zack made a guest appearance on a couple of songs, on the new Blackalicious cd. Just putting it out there.

About RATM ever regrouping, here's a quote from around the mixing stages of OoE:

[QUOTE][B]Touching on Rage for a moment, did you feel you had seen that band come to its logical musical conclusion? [/B]
What happened was very simple, the singer quit the band. Period. Rage Against The Machine was a band until the singer abandoned his comrades on the field of battle.
[/QUOTE]

It's from this really good Tom Morello article off of Ultimate-Guitar.

Post the link?

Tim Commerford also expressed in Bass Guitar magazine that he does not miss RATM and that he thinks Out of Exile is the best album of his career. So RATM are over. Period.

I also picked up the guitar because of RATM.

From what I've heard, Zack left because he didn't feel the band was taking enough political action as it should. I respect the man and his work, but that excuse seems oddly fishy. R.A.T.M. is why I love politics. I think they touched the minds and souls of many a teenager and young adult.
R.A.T.M. is one of those bands I listen to while doing my homework/playing a video game/working on the computer and I just wish they were back. I miss the funky riffs, the funky vocals, the kickass bass and guitar and drums...
My biology teacher loves Rage and the main thing he hates about Audioslave is how soft Cornell's voice is compared to the rest of the band. He hears the music, gets pumped, and then Cornell starts crooning and he loses it. He just can't get into it.
Give him the self-titled Rage debut, and he becomes quite possibly one of the most kickass teachers in the state.

That seems like a stupid excuse from Zack, seeing as since he's left Rage he's done pretty much nothing in terms of voicing his political opinions, something he certainly would have been able to do if the band was still together.

My thoughts exactly. Maybe Zack just wanted to get out of it. Maybe he felt as though he could do more without three other people involved.
He obviously cannot.

The amount of times I've bumped this thread to save conversation on my old favorite band is extremely high. It's good to see others bump it to. :)

[QUOTE=blue3]Post the link?[/QUOTE]
The link didn't work. Go to ultimate-guitar tabs. Go to the Audioslave tabs. Click on Audislave news. It's the second story.

I see, thanks.

I always figured it was mostly just tension between Zack and the other three. Mostly bought on from creative differences.

I remember reading an interview with Morello, and he said that for BOLA it was often just the three of them rehearsing and writing, and they would just send stuff to Zack for him to write lyrics.

meh

Did Zack think he'd have a better way to voice his political opinions without one of the biggest Rock bands of our time?

Has anyone heard any "Nightwatchman*" songs? "Until The End" is class.




[SIZE="1"]*Tom Morello alter-ego.[/SIZE]

RATM r0x0rz my b0x0rz.

/posting so I can watch teh fred

[QUOTE=DuncMaster V2]Did Zack think he'd have a better way to voice his political opinions without one of the biggest Rock bands of our time?

Has anyone heard any "Nightwatchman*" songs? "Until The End" is class.




[SIZE="1"]*Tom Morello alter-ego.[/SIZE][/QUOTE]
I've heard House Gone Up In Flames. I'm not to sure about Morello's singing, but the song is pretty cool, I like it, quite Dylan-esque.

His singing is really good. I have the Axis of Justice CD and it has some of his songs on it.

all Zack did was voicing his politcal opinions and how corrupt the situation is, but it was Tom who did the action more, having involved on such activities than zack...

but dont get me wrong, i love RATM

[QUOTE=DuncMaster V2]His singing is really good. I have the Axis of Justice CD and it has some of his songs on it.[/QUOTE]
Yeah, those are great songs. "3 times I shot the shariff, and did not spare the deputy!"

Hey, can anyone send me the full song "Know Your Enemy", perhaps on YSI or via IM?

[QUOTE=J-Man]Hey, can anyone send me the full song "Know Your Enemy", perhaps on YSI or via IM?[/QUOTE]

Get it off limewire or buy the CD it's a great album.
Tim Commerford is the reason I started playing bass he is'ent the most techincally gifted bassist but he sure can write a good groove and has a brilliant tone. I always wondered why he stopped using his stingray he got such a great tone with the first album using it. To be fair Tim's best bass work on any album he has worked on is evil empire.

Yeah same here, when I first started playing bass I basically learnt the whole RATM catalogue. His basslines are so cool and always suit the song.

I like learning RATM songs on bass. I really need to get one soon.

[QUOTE=Revolver]From what I've heard, Zack left because he didn't feel the band was taking enough political action as it should. I respect the man and his work, but that excuse seems oddly fishy. R.A.T.M. is why I love politics. I think they touched the minds and souls of many a teenager and young adult.
R.A.T.M. is one of those bands I listen to while doing my homework/playing a video game/working on the computer and I just wish they were back. I miss the funky riffs, the funky vocals, the kickass bass and guitar and drums...
My biology teacher loves Rage and the main thing he hates about Audioslave is how soft Cornell's voice is compared to the rest of the band. He hears the music, gets pumped, and then Cornell starts crooning and he loses it. He just can't get into it.
Give him the self-titled Rage debut, and he becomes quite possibly one of the most kickass teachers in the state.[/QUOTE]

I thought he left because he was going to jail. Ya know I don't think they ever toured 'Renegades'

This thread just won't die will it?

Zach never went to jail and Renegades was released after the band broke up although they were playing some of the songs on the last tour (How i could just Kill a Man, I'm Housin', Kick out the Jams,) and they were even playing Ghost of Tom Joad on the evil empire tour.

As for why Zach left the band, Tom said recently in Kerrang that the band fell apart during the constant touring and recording, they were increasing in popularity but the inter band connections suffered as a result. Basically, inter band conflict ended the band.

^ bah. I've spent all this time believing that Zack was in jail and when he got releases there would be a massive come back tour. Now my dreams have been shattered:upset:

[QUOTE=blue3]I like learning RATM songs on bass. I really need to get one soon.[/QUOTE]
As do I, I can play nearly all of them.

I know all of the first three albums, a few unreleased tracks, and about half of Renegades on bass. :)

I noticed on the audioslave in cuba DVD when they played the RATM songs, chris went off stage (and got changed), and they cut down the songs to just main riff/solos.

Is this because of legal issues and not wanting to pay zack royalties?