Posted on 08/17/2012 9:00:25 PM PDT by ConservativeStatement
First New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie was rebuffed by The Boss. Now another well-know liberal musician has spurned the advances of a right-wing politician-fan.
In a brutal Rolling Stone editorial, Rage Against the Machine guitarist Tom Morello calls Paul Ryan, Mitt Romney's recent vice presidential pick, the "embodiment of the machine that our music has been raging against for two decades."
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These guys from RATM have always been 100% capitalist, no matter what comes out of their stupid mouths. Just more lefties who talk big game, but are totally full of bullshit.I listen to classical music and some classic rock and have paid for every song I own but I celebrate the music download movement and every penny ripped off from these phoney rich-boy communists.
I was sitting in a dive bar in Slidell, Louisiana one evening, getting bombed as was my habit back then, when that song was popular. I was there on a sales call for a few days. The equally bombed patrons were bellowing along with it on the jukebox, “Redneck Cajun Funk! Redneck Cajun Funk!”
They did the music at the end of the movie, "The Matrix."
Frankly, their music gives me a headache. I'm not really a fan of Tom Morello. It seems most of his stuff that I've heard is a rip off of Adrian Belew (of Zappa/King Crimson fame).
Mark
Commierock, they love the idea of free expression fighting for thier right to eliminate that right if it ever comes to pass. Idiots on parade
I was actually quite shocked at just what a talented multi-instrumentalist (that freak) Prince is. He's actually a very talented musician/producer/entertainer. I was biased against him from when I saw him on "Don Kirshner's Rock Concert" a few centuries ago, and his stage act disgusted me. It was only within the last couple of years that I saw how talented he really is.
Mark
Having been to more than a few Prince shows, I know what you mean, but it’s a pity. The decadent stage persona was largely a schtick for the audience. The man himself was/is self contained to the point of walling himself off from the world and not nearly so show business. Work related travel took me to Minneapolis several times a year back in the early nineties, I actually did a tour of Paisley Park once. There is a sort of brilliance at work in his music that is often overlooked due to the sexualization and other pop culture trappings.
if is wasn’t for the pentatonic scale, Tom
Morrello wouldn’t have much to play.
I read rolling stone as much for it’s musical opinions
as I do it’s polital opinions
/do I have to?
Wasn’t this Tom guy one of the Monkeys? I can’t remember.
Alexandr bump
When the Eagle Cries! Awesome rock: Check out Blind Guardian, or their collaborative effort with IE, Demons and Wizards. Hubby and I are currently enjoying the heck out of Black Country Communion (Glenn Hughes, Joe Bonamassa, Jason Bonham, Derek Sherinian). Bonamassa is amazing.
He played Peter Tork, I think.
Ouch. That’s gonna leave a mark. [giggles]
This Rage dude is full of shite!
He makes money from the”machine” in “raging” against it.
Just shut up and rage.
Shut up and sing, Morello. Whoever you are.
One of their songs is”Testify”....
I’m on the cusp of 60 yrs old and am a heavy metal fan and have this on my iPod.
Great stuff but I pay no attention to their politics.
Oh, that's what that fried brain-I-am one-step-away-from-the-aslyum-howling was about.
I’ve heard of Iced Earth, I’ll have to pick that up.
The end of the song “Killing in the Name” is the lead singer for a few minutes yelling “F*** you I won’t do what you tell me!” My buddies and I used to joke when Obama got into office that Rage will change the lyrics to “I love you now please command me.”
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