Rage Against the Machine reunite!!

[Marcellas]

First, I hear of Rage getting together for a 1-concert reunion show at the Cochella Festival this summer in California, with a bunch of other great artists like Jr. Gong Marley, Ghostface Killah, Red Hot Chili Peppers, and many more.. the festivals expensive but the lineups amazing and im a HUGE Rage fan!! I can't miss them performing live together again, my brother saw them a few times when they were together..

Too bad the Cochella is on the otherside of the country!! But now im hearing that Rage Against the Machine is putting on a concert in New York City with WuTang Clan!! This is a lot closer to me, and im also a big Wutang fan, not to mention I love NYC, its almost too good to be true!! Tickets for the NYC show go onsale March 31st and i want to go badly..

I cant believe I might get a chance to see Rage get back together again, also with other great artists, not to mention the adventure of the whole experience!! is anybody else following this or planning to see RATM get back together?? Any other RAGE fans have any info on this?? the amazing, thanks!!

 

[kingspade]

that's awesome, rage is arguably one of the best bands of all time...

...you know what date the show is, or if there's any other cities?

 

[fr33th3w33d]

arent the tickets to that festival like 600 bucks or something?

still good to see them playin together again.

 

[NOKUY]

Fuck yeah! I'm a HUGE RATM fan.

I cant stand most bands, but Rage has always been my Fav. (seen 'em a dozen times...even saw 'em w/ House of pain and Cypress Hill back in the day)

I doubt it will last tho, they dont get along very well anymore.

I was waiting forever for ZDLR's solo album, but never heard if anything came of it.

anyone know

 

[TrichomusCaesar]

Ratm fuckin rules

Truely amazing band. Don know why they ever even thought of breaking up. I love that political music shit

Da da daaa...and now ya do what they told ya.....Fuck you I wont do what ya tellll me...fuck you I wont do what ya tellll me...

 

[NOKUY]

found a link to this on their website....they are doin a small tour w/ wu tang and goin to the east coast (NYC)

Rage Against the Machine adds more dates
The reformed band will Rock the Bells with Wu-Tang Clan on a summer tour.


Rage Against the Machine will reunite for Coachella
Jan 22, 2007


It turns out Rage Against the Machine will play more than one show after all--the seminal L.A. band will join the Wu-Tang Clan for three shows under the banner of Rock the Bells, the acclaimed hip-hop festival that kicks off in New York on July 28 and hits Southern California on Aug. 11.

That local show will be at the National Orange Show Events Center in San Bernardino while the third show, on Aug. 18, will be in San Francisco. The sites of the New York and San Francisco shows as well as ticket sales information will be announced by organizers on Monday.


Rage is already the closing-night headliner of the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival on April 29 in Indio, a festival that sold out 80 days in advance due to the pent-up fan demand for the Los Angeles band. Rage played their last show in 2000.

That Coachella show was announced as a "one-and-done" affair but the quick sellout and the harsh-priced ticket scalping already underway are among the factors in the added shows, according to sources close to the band. There's also the historical punch of performing with Wu-Tang Clan, one of the most ambitious and influential hip-hop outfits ever.

"Rage will do four shows and just four in 2007," said Chang Weisberg, the founder of Guerilla Union and organizer of Rock the Bells. "Coachella is first, that's the granddaddy. And now these three with the Wu-Tang Clan represent a very, very special thing."

The New York hip-hop collective has already announced the planned summer release of "8 Diagrams," the Clan's first album since "Iron Flag" in 2001. The album will feature new contributions from eight of the nine members from its classic line-up: RZA, Ghostface Killah, Method Man, Raekwon, GZA, Inspectah Deck, U-God and Masta Killa. The ninth member, the late ODB, who died in 2005, will appear in the form of previously recorded material.

RZA said in a released statement in November that the contemporary doldrums of hip-hop demand a return by the flamboyant and potent Clan: "People want something that gives them an adrenaline rush. We're here to supply that fix. How could hip-hop be dead if Wu-Tang is forever? We're here to revive the spirit and the economics and bring in a wave of energy that has lately dissipated."

More details on the shows, including an on-sale date, will come Monday via the "Kevin & Bean" morning show on KROQ-FM (106.7), the powerhouse rock station in Los Angeles.

Fans have been hopeful that Rage will tour but, according to Weisberg, these three new dates and the Coachella appearance are the extent of the current comeback. Rage helped launch Coachella in 1999 when the band co-headlined the inaugural edition of the huge festival.

Rage guitarist Tom Morello has said that the reunion is driven in part by politics and a desire by him and his compatriots to rally young people against President Bush, the war in Iraq and the Republican Party.

When Rage split, frontman Zack de la Rocha went solo while Morello, drummer Brad Wilk and bassist Tim Commerford went on as Audioslave, adding singer Chris Cornell and releasing three albums. That band's future came into question with the recent Rage reunion stirrings and likely ended altogether with the Feb. 15 announcement by Cornell that he is moving on due to "irresolvable personality conflicts and musical differences."

Morello, meanwhile, is also launching a new solo career as the Nightwatchman, the stage name he uses for his aggressive and largely acoustic protest music. His album, "One Man Revolution," is due in stores April 24 and he will tour in the spring.

If Rage as a whole also tours soon it would add to a summer of major reunions hitting the road; the members of the Police and Genesis have set aside their famous quarrels and are gearing up for road runs, while the notoriously fractious Eagles are finishing their first studio album since 1979 and are expected to tour as well.

 

[Guest]

so zach's no longer an asshole like tom morello once said?

heheh

ghost of tom joads a killer tune.. but other than their first 2 albums, i really didnt like em much.. but hey, that voice of zach's is one of a kind

 

[PersonalSmoke]

There's no way I'm not driving up to NYC for that show. I love RATM and I saw the Wu last summer and it was one crazy ass show. Method man is fucking nuts, I saw Redman too and red said that they are making How High 2 and him and Meth are gonna do another album.

 

[Marcellas]

sickkkk!! takin a road trip to NYC for the show its gonna be fuckin crazy.. the energy will be fucking outrageous!! and there touring w/ the Wu, its like a sign from God.. to bad ODB's gone..

i cant fuckin wait!!

 

[PazVerdeRadical]

the first ratm album is a master piece anyway you look at it

yukon, i heard that de la rocha was recording a solo album produced by dj shadow, it looked promising, but i never saw it released either.

 

[Gunter]

Will they reunite for just two shows or for longer?
That would be so great if I could say I saw them live.
The last time they played at rock am ring I was a little too young for that.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=d5lyP8mwajc

I guess they also did not have these stupid fences in the crowd back then.

 

[SUNSIMULATOR+]

I FUGGIN LOVE THAT BAND!!

 

[Marcellas]

anybody gonna hit up a show?? probably a once in a life time experience, hugeee if your a rage fan!! im gettin to NYC no matter what, cant wait to get tickets on march 31st!! wonder what the price will be...

ive been a huge rage fan all my life, never got to a concert tho both my older brothers saw them live (one at woodstock 99 and the other one when they had there last show here).. i cant fuckin wait this is crazy, something to look forward too!! and gonna be live with Wu-Tang, weird cause ive just been getting into the wu/ol dirt bastard and shit, awesome combo!!

thatd be great if rage got back together.. i hate audioslave. rage was amazing and so was soundgarden, but u take soundgardens singer/guitarist and sub him for zack de la roacha for rage, it just isnt the same. shit if rage got back together id be freakin out!!

 

[ogrefugee]

Hey yea ratm!

i gotta get to NYC! hope the p.o. approves


KNOW YOUR ENEMY

 

[Marcellas]

haha you kno if the 5-0 doesnt approve that wont stop rage from rockin the place the fuck out!! i cant wait

 

[DimeBag65]

Rage is awsome... i love watching their dvd's where they had a huge show in D.C. i believe it was... watching the cops beat people down and throw gas grenades to waaa waaa waaa allll hell cant stop us now!!!

would love to see them with a great line up like that. thanks for the heads up on this. Hail the leaf, Dime

 

[dude06version]

they rally round the family ,with a pocket full of shells..
ratm rules

 

[Marcellas]

the power of the music is inexplainable

 

[Supacalabala]

They are awesome I wish I could see them live. Thier last cd IMO was a bit shitty . A couple of tracks sounded a bit like gangster rap.

 

[NOKUY]

I can't wait!

TAKE THE POWER BACK

Bring that shit in! Uggh!
Yeah, the movement's in motion with mass militant poetry
Now check this out...uggh!
In the right light, study becomes insight
But the system that dissed us
Teaches us to read and write

So called facts are fraud
They want us to allege and pledge
And bow down to their God
Lost the culture, the culture lost
Spun our minds and through time
Ignorance has taken over
Yo, we gotta take the power back!
Bam! Here's the plan
Motherfuck Uncle Sam
Step back, I know who I am
Raise up your ear, I'll drop the style and clear
It's the beats and the lyrics they fear
The rage is relentless
We need a movement with a quickness
You are the witness of change
And to counteract
We gotta take the power back

Yeah, we gotta take the power back
Come on, come on!
We gotta take the power back

The present curriculum
I put my fist in 'em
Eurocentric every last one of 'em
See right through the red, white and blue disguise
With lecture I puncture the structure of lies
Installed in our minds and attempting
To hold us back
We've got to take it back
'Cause holes in our spirit causin' tears and fears
One-sided stories for years and years and years
I'm inferior? Who's inferior?
Yea, we need to check the interior
Of the system that cares about only one culture
And that is why
We gotta take the power back

Yeah, we gotta take the power back
Come on, come on!
We gotta take the power back

Hey yo check, we're gonna have to break it, break it, break it down
Awww shit!
Uggh!
And like this...uggh!
Come on, yeah! Bring it back the other way!
The teacher stands in front of the class
But the lesson plan he can't recall
The student's eyes don't perceive the lies
Bouning off every fucking wall
His composure is well kept
I guess he fears playing the fool
The complacent students sit and listen to some of that
Bullshit that he learned in school

Europe ain't my rope to swing on
Can't learn a thing from it
Yet we hang from it
Gotta get it, gotta get it together then
Like the motherfuckin' Weathermen
To expose and close the doors on those who try
To strangle and mangle the truth
'Cause the circle of hatred continues unless we react
We gotta take the power back

Yeah, we gotta take the power back
Come on, come on!
We gotta take the power back

No more lies (8 times, building to a crescendo)
Uggh!
Yeah!
Take it back Joe
Take it back, a-take it back
A-take it back Joe, come on!
Take it back Joe
Take it back, a-take it back
A-take it back Joe, come on!
Uggh!
Yeah