somebody has to do something or this place would be crickets, brah. you know you love my post padding.
broseph, do you read before you post?
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 August 11.
From rockthebells.net:
RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE & THE WU-TANG CLAN SET TO "ROCK THE BELLS"
Rage Against the Machine
First it was the reunion of the Wu-Tang Clan in 2004. Then it was A Tribe Called Quest later that year. Now, ROCK THE BELLS will make history again as Rage Against The Machine announces their plans to perform three exclusive engagements with the critically acclaimed world-class hip-hop festival this summer. The epic line-up will see Rage Against The Machine join Wu-Tang Clan for two dates on the west coast (August 11 - NOS Event Center, San Bernardino, CA, August 18 - venue TBA, San Francisco) and for Rock The Bells\' inaugural venture into New York City (July 28 - Randall\'s Island) for their only scheduled appearance on the eastern seaboard this year. The Wu-Tang Clan will support the release of their forthcoming album 8 Diagrams.
Rock The Bells, presented by Guerilla Union since 2003, has established itself as a world-class hip-hop platform by hosting legendary performances by NAS, A Tribe Called Quest, Lauryn Hill, Blackstarr (Talib Kweli and Mos Def), Cuban Linx, De La Soul, Busta Rhymes, Cypress Hill and Jurassic 5 as well as reuniting Wu-Tang for their last performance with ODB in 2004. This year, the festival will keep in its tradition and showcase the very best the genre has to offer.
"It\'s definitely our fans\' dream billing. It\'s a tremendous honor to have Rage Against The Machine and Wu-Tang Clan perform together," states event organizer Chang Weisberg of Guerilla Union. "I can\'t wait to announce the rest of the line-up for Rock the Bells. It\'s incredibly important to put some shine on quality hip-hop. The opportunity to galvanize the social and political consciousness of these groups is undeniable."
The complete line-up will be announced March 26 and tickets will go on-sale March 31 at 10:00 a.m.
For complete details and updates, log onto http://www.guerillaunion.com http://www.rockthebells.net, or http://www.myspace.com/rockthebells.
I would have really loved to have know his views on what has happened the last few years were though.
You lost respect for Zach for leaving Rage? Why exactly?
He kept up his work just not in a musical/lyrical fashion in a band.
Just because he decides to play from all reports a one-off show @ a fest known for one-offs and reunions you lose more respect for him?
Why does he have to bear the brunt of a nation\'s folly and be the voice of protest,when the WHOLE POINT OF RATM FROM THE BEGINNING WAS TO INSTIGATE US TO DO SOMETHING ABOUT OUR NATION AND WORLD AROUND US, FOR US TO TAKE UP THE CALL AND TAKE ACTION! He was not just writing lyrics he was writing a directive for peace through protest and taking control of OUR nation. He was trying to inform us all about the atrocities right in front of us and just because he decided he had done enough for the time being you lose respect for him. Seems kind of selfish to me.
go ahead and laugh, I agree with a lot of what he said. I\'m not going to blindly follow zack or anyone else, but given the stance he had set up I feel that he walked away at a point when he could have catapulted himself to a much higher epoch. Instead, he walked away and now comes back after bush is leaving office?
It\'s easy to protest when no one is really going to oppose you. It\'s a lot harder to do it when you know people are going to come down on you hard for your views. I just lost a lot of respect for him and the timing of this made me loose more. That\'s all I\'m saying.
I will say this though if they come back: I am severly dissapointed in you rage. YOu had the oportunity to make some of the best political statments you ever could have if you had simply kept going given bush in office, but you played it safe and broke up. Now that he is leaving office in a little bit you come back? For shame. Unless you get out and become extremely political over the elections in 08, you will never be the band you once were.
I\'d rather see half the bands get twice the time. 45 minutes isn\'t enough to get anything too ser going. It starts, they play 6 songs, you blink, and it\'s over, and you\'re left standing there thinking WTF!
If this were within an 8 hour drive I\'d go but I doubt cross-country is gonna happen for me. I guess I\'m just into small fests and full individual shows more than mega-fests right now.
I have heard several people say that Wu-Tang put on a terrible show. Too many people on stage, bunch of disorganized sound, them... drunk by the end of the show... Nothing good to listen to at all.
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Sonic Youth is supposed to be at Lupo\'s in a couple weeks
I think the actual breaking up was respectable and almost makes lends more clout to what they had to say.
Getting back together seems a little weak. But I still want to see them. :)
That makes me want to go. I have always been annoyed with myself for not going to see them.
Not to mention
RHCP :thumbsup:
Bjork :thumbsup:
Sonic Youth :thumbsup:
Willie Nelson :thumbsup:
The Roots :thumbsup:
That makes me want to go. I have always been annoyed with myself for not going to see them.
Not to mention
RHCP :thumbsup:
Bjork :thumbsup:
Sonic Youth :thumbsup:
Willie Nelson :thumbsup:
The Roots :thumbsup:
also saw rage at the new haven coliseum on the Battle Of LA tour. first section from the stage on the side, 5 rows up. the most i\'ve ever sweat at a concert. i looked like stevie walking out of a mid-june porter\'s show by the time it was over. :)
anyone on here lucky enough to see the Rage/wuTang cobill from back in the day??? my only time seeing them was when they toured with Gang Starr and At The Drive In.. one of the sickest musical experiences i\'ve ever had...
Rage Against the Machine will reunite for Coachella
Red Hot Chili Peppers and Bj?rk also top the bill for the three-day music festival.
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 Bj?rk, 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, Ti?sto 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 Bj?rk 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.