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Tom Morello rips Rage Against the Machine fan Paul Ryan
Los Angeles Times ^ | August 17, 2012 | August Brown

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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TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: morello; music; pinkos; ratm; rockandroll; ryan
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To: ConservativeStatement
I quit buying music 20 years ago. I could have bought a nice car for all the money I spent on albums and cds before that. All down the tubes to the recording companies and professional musicians who both promote (then & now) a socialist uprising in America. Musicians, actors and athletes could make so much more money if they just kept their mouths shut when it comes to politics.
61 posted on 08/18/2012 3:55:18 AM PDT by Dixie Yooper (Ephesians 6:11)
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To: SIDENET
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.
62 posted on 08/18/2012 4:00:14 AM PDT by samtheman (Obama. Mugabe. Chavez. (Obamugavez))
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To: rbmillerjr

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!”


63 posted on 08/18/2012 4:05:44 AM PDT by RegulatorCountry
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To: Steely Tom
Can anyone name a song they did?

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

64 posted on 08/18/2012 4:18:27 AM PDT by MarkL (Do I really look like a guy with a plan?)
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To: ConservativeStatement

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


65 posted on 08/18/2012 4:23:17 AM PDT by ronnie raygun (bb)
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To: dfwgator
I bet even Prince could play circles around him.

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

66 posted on 08/18/2012 4:26:00 AM PDT by MarkL (Do I really look like a guy with a plan?)
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To: MarkL

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.


67 posted on 08/18/2012 4:43:56 AM PDT by RegulatorCountry
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To: hitchwolf; TheRhinelander

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?


68 posted on 08/18/2012 5:18:51 AM PDT by paythefiddler (redefeat communism)
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To: Steely Tom

Wasn’t this Tom guy one of the Monkeys? I can’t remember.


69 posted on 08/18/2012 5:26:04 AM PDT by ALPAPilot
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To: FredZarguna

Alexandr bump


70 posted on 08/18/2012 5:43:59 AM PDT by VRW Conspirator (We were the tea party before there was a tea party. - Jim Robinson)
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To: paintriot

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.


71 posted on 08/18/2012 6:01:58 AM PDT by visualops (artlife.us)
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To: ALPAPilot

He played Peter Tork, I think.


72 posted on 08/18/2012 7:02:47 AM PDT by onedoug
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To: dfwgator; P-Marlowe

Ouch. That’s gonna leave a mark. [giggles]


73 posted on 08/18/2012 7:09:19 AM PDT by TheOldLady
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To: ConservativeStatement

This Rage dude is full of shite!
He makes money from the”machine” in “raging” against it.
Just shut up and rage.


74 posted on 08/18/2012 7:25:47 AM PDT by matginzac
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To: ConservativeStatement

Shut up and sing, Morello. Whoever you are.


75 posted on 08/18/2012 7:28:19 AM PDT by Colonel_Flagg (Conservatism is not a matter of convenience.)
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To: MarkL; Steely Tom

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.


76 posted on 08/18/2012 7:32:29 AM PDT by matginzac
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To: ConservativeStatement
"embodiment of the machine that our music has been raging against for two decades."

Oh, that's what that fried brain-I-am one-step-away-from-the-aslyum-howling was about.

77 posted on 08/18/2012 7:33:49 AM PDT by TribalPrincess2U (0bama's agenda—Divide and conquer. FREEDOM OR FREE STUFF YOU GET ONE CHOICE CHOOSE WISELY)
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To: paintriot

I’ve heard of Iced Earth, I’ll have to pick that up.


78 posted on 08/18/2012 1:01:41 PM PDT by TheRhinelander
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To: TheRhinelander

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0i-chlRhdAU

Iced Earth- Declaration Day.......Awesome


79 posted on 08/18/2012 2:49:03 PM PDT by paintriot (I've seen too much.....)
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To: ConservativeStatement

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.”


80 posted on 08/18/2012 4:50:07 PM PDT by chargers fan
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