Rage Against the Machine
Rage Against the Machine Trivia
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The band performed a free concert outside of the Staples Center in L.A during the Democratic National Convention in August 2000 in protest of the two party system.
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In their original 9 year run, RATM had 8 singles that cracked the Top 40 on the U.S. Mainstream Rock charts.
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RATM's song "Killing In The Name" is featured on the video game Guitar Hero 2.
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RATM has sold about 9 million albums in the US and about 24 million worldwide.
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RATM is considered to be a mixture of hip-hop, heavy metal, punk, and funk.
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RATM's song "Bulls On Parade" is featured in the video game Guitar Hero 3.
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During their performance of "Wake Up" at Coachella, Zach de la Rocha said that the Bush administration "needs to be tried, hung and shot ... like the war criminals they are".
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After their Coachella performance, Rage have four more performances planned as part of the Rock the Bells festival, however they have no current plans for a full reunion or tour.
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Rage performed a reunion show at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival on 27 April, 2003.
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The band were advocates for the release of Black Panther inmate Mumia Abu-Jamal. Zach de la Rocha spoke on Abu-Jamal's behalf to the United Nations Commission for Human Rights on April 12, 1999.
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Rage were vocal supporters of Mexico's socialist Zapatista Army of National Liberation, with lead singer Zach de la Rocha having made trips to the Mexican state of Chiapas to aid their efforts.
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Some of the artists who were in the frame to replace Zach de la Rocha as lead singer of Rage Against The Machine were Rey Oropeza of downset., Chuck D of Public Enemy and B-Real of Cypress Hill.
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After Zach de la Rocha left the band, Tom Morello, Tim Commerford and Brad Wilk tried to replace him before eventually giving up and forming Audioslave with former Soundgarden singer Chris Cornell.
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After Rage broke up, they released Renegades, an album consisting entirely of covers. Some of the songs on this album included Bruce Springsteen's "The Ghost Of Tom Joad," the Rolling Stones' "Street Fighting Man" and Bob Dylan's "Maggie's Farm."
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The Battle Of Los Angeles sold 450,000 copies in its first week.
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Their third album, The Battle Of Los Angeles, debuted at number 1 on the US Billboard Chart and reached double platinum status.
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They were inspired by early metallic instrumentation, and also by rap acts like Public Enemy and Afrika Bambaataa.
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During their April 1996 performance on Saturday Night Live, they had their two-song show cut to one song after they hung inverted American flags on their instruments, as a protest towards having Republican presidential candidate Steve Forbes on the show that night.
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Their song "Killing In The Name" was ninth on UChoose 40's Bogan Anthems.
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Their song "Calm Like A Bomb" was featured on The Matrix Reloaded.
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On April 14, 2007, guitarist Tom Morello and vocalist Zach de la Rocha performed a brief acoustic set in downtown Chicago.
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They were part of The Matrix soundtrack, with their song "Wake Up."
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The band appeared on the soundtrack for the movie Higher Learning, playing their song "Year of the Boomerang."
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To promote Rage Against The Machine, the band went on tour, performing at (among other places) Lollapalooza II and as back-up for Suicidal Tendencies in Europe.
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The cover of the album Rage Against The Machine features an effigy of the famous Vietnamese Buddhist monk Thích Quảng Ðức burning himself to death in 1963 while he was protesting the oppression of Buddhists in the Vietnamese regime.
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The uncensored version of the song "Killing In The Name" features the f-word 17 times.
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Their debut album, Rage Against The Machine, reached triple platinum status. It peaked at number 45 on the US Billboard Chart.
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The band took their name from a song vocalist de la Rocha had created for his old band, Inside Out.
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Their music was primarily based on lead singer Zach de la Rocha's rhyming styles and vocals along with their sound, including guitarist Tom Morello's extended guitar techniques.
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Rage Against the Machine is #33 on VH1's 100 Greatest Artist of Hard Rock.
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Lead singer Zach de la Rocha left the band in October 2000. The remaining members later joined Chris Cornell to form Audioslave.
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RATM's third album is titled The Battle of Los Angeles. It was released on Election Day, November 2, 1999. It reached double platinum status in the U.S.
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RATM's first public appearance was in Orange County, CA in 1991.
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RATM's first show on the Lollapalooza II stage in Irvine Meadows, Los Angeles, CA was on September 11, 1992.
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Their debut album, Rage Against The Machine, was released by Epic Records on November 6, 1992.
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RATM's second album is titled Evil Empire. It was released on April 16, 1996. It reached triple platinum status and hit number 1 on the US Billboard Chart.
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Zack de la Rocha: I'm in this band to give volume to various struggles throughout the world. To me, the tension in this band is a minimal sacrifice.
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Tom Morello: We've been able to have our cake and eat it, too. Every song, every T-shirt, is absolutely a pure expression of what we want to do. And it connects.
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Tom Morello: (when asked if Rage was writing a new album) There are no plans to do that… that's a whole other ball of wax right there. Writing and recording albums is a whole different thing than getting back on the bike, you know, and playing these songs. But I think that the one thing about the Rage catalog is that to me none of it feels dated. You know, it doesn't feel at all like a nostalgia show. It feels like these are songs that were born and bred to be played now.
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Tom Morello: (in a rebuttal to the Infectious Grooves accusation of being hypocrites in their song Do What I Tell Ya) When you live in a capitalistic society, the currency of the dissemination of information goes through capitalistic channels. Would Noam Chomsky object to his works being sold at Barnes & Noble? No, because that's where people buy their books. We're not interested in preaching to just the converted. It's great to play abandoned squats run by anarchists, but it's also great to be able to reach people with a revolutionary message, people from Granada Hills to Stuttgart.
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Zach de la Rocha: (in a press statement regarding his departure from Rage)I feel that it is now necessary to leave Rage because our decision-making process has completely failed. It is no longer meeting the aspirations of all four of us collectively as a band, and from my perspective, has undermined our artistic and political ideal. I am extremely proud of our work, both as activists and musicians, as well as indebted and grateful to every person who has expressed solidarity and shared this incredible experience with us.
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Tom Morello: (in a statement released by Rage Against The Machine soon after they signed with Epic Records, as to why they chose Epic) Epic agreed to everything we asked—and they've followed through.... We never saw an ideological conflict as long as we maintained creative control.
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