Rage against the Machine wants Bush dead!

[FONT=Verdana, Arial]"He also railed against the war in Iraq and likened Bush administration officials to Nazi war criminals."

""This current administration is no exception. They should be tried and hung and shot," he said."

Rage Against the Machine rages at Coachella music festival

By SOLVEJ SCHOU Associated Press Writer
Article Launched: 04/30/2007 04:41:19 AM PDT
http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_5784517?nclick_check=1

INDIO, Calif- Thousands of sunburnt fans roared in unison and pumped their fists in the desert air Sunday night as reunited political rockers Rage Against the Machine took the stage at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival.
Grinning, lead singer-rapper Zack de la Rocha pumped his fist along with them.

Seven years after the quartet broke up following de la Rocha's departure, the band returned with a vengeance to close out the three-day festival east of Palm Springs.

Stomping, shouting into his microphone, grabbing his curly hair and inciting the audience to "keep fighting," de la Rocha powered through songs ranging from the bass heavy "Bulls on Parade" to the anthem "Killing in the Name."

He also railed against the war in Iraq and likened Bush administration officials to Nazi war criminals.

"This current administration is no exception. They should be tried and hung and shot," he said.

Drummer Brad Wilk, bassist Tim Commerford and guitarist Tom Morello, who wore a hat with the word "UNITY" on it, completed the lineup.

"They changed my life. They made me a liberal," said sweat-drenched history teacher Rafael Ramon, 25, who had waited in a crowd packed shoulder-to-shoulder in front of the stage all day.

"All of America needed Rage to come back. They've been missing," he said.

The band last played the festival during its first year in 1999.

An estimated 180,000 people attended the festival over the three days but police said there were few problems.

Fewer than 100 people were arrested, most of them for investigation of drug or alcohol use, and there were a couple reports of people being treated for drug overdoses, Indio police spokesman Ben Guitron said early Monday morning.

Triple-digit temperatures on Saturday also led to some cases of heat exhaustion, he said.

"Overall, the event was beautiful...no significant incidents or challenges," he said.

Local police were aided by those from surrounding departments and by private security, he said.

Anticipation for Rage started building Saturday, when Morello performed a solo act of protest songs as the Nightwatchman.

Morello wore a harmonica and swapped his standard electric guitar for an acoustic with the words "whatever it takes" scrawled on it.

He dedicated tunes to "rebel girls and women," unions, farm workers and the audience.

Other Sunday highlights were country music veteran Willie Nelson, performing a day before his 74th birthday, and reunited rock band Crowded House.

On Saturday, Los Angeles hip-hop fusion ensemble Ozomatli provided one of the most energetic of the festival, with band members calling out to the audience in both English and Spanish.

The Red Hot Chili Peppers headlined Saturday.

Singer Anthony Kiedis, sporting a mustache and wearing a black vest and fingerless gloves, raced around the stage, zipping past bare-chested bassist Flea and guitarist John Frusciante.

"Out of all the bands playing, I wanted to see them the most!" said Nicole McMachen, 21, who danced ferociously to the music with her fiance, Dustin Palmer, 21.

McMachen said she planned to get lyrics for the song "Snow (Hey Oh)" tattooed onto her arm.

Flea, known for his giddy stage outbursts, expressed the opposite of rage to the audience.

"Everything is beautiful," he yelled out. "Love and peace is in all our hearts."[/FONT]

Zack de la Rocha, easily my least favorite part of that band. Guy comes off as one of those petulant, entitlement-minded college activist types.

Nothing more than irrelevant people going :lookatme: :lookatme: :lookatme:

Oh...and how sad is Rage Against the Machine for taking attention whoring lessons from the Dixie Chicks of all places!!!

OMG who cares!?!?!

Goood, goood.
Your hatred has made you powerful.

Goddamn I hate their music. I'm the only person I know who does, strangely.

You are not alone.

I intend to buy all their albums after reading this.

AGAIN!

Rage was always great music. The political message however was always incoherent Bolshevik talk.

The instrumentals are pretty damn good, in my completely uneducated opinion.

Finally getting over the denial.

Good.

I liked Tom Morello's work. And I'm not talking about Voyager.

Obviously meant I wasn't a musician.

But keep trying, big guy.

I Rage Against Teh Machines everyday of my life. And I go to bed at night knowing I have lost another battle. But I wake up the next day and repeat it all over again, for the destruction of the machines is my one and only obsession.

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Oooooh! Liberal rockers in Cali hate the war and hate Bush!!

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well I guess it makes sense for a band called 'Rage Against the Machine' to uh... rage against the machine.

This isn't really anything new for them.

No u

Did I strike a nerve?

After hearing their music time and time and time again, I have developed a muscular reflex to change the station the moment I hear "Killing in the name of.....

Rage Against The Machine is a clever band. They have found a way to properly gyp all of the clueless, directionless rebels against authority and aimless angry youth out of their hard(ly) earned cash.

I almost respect them for this, even if I can't stomach one second of their music.

Uh, do you even know who Rage Against the Machine is?

That's what she said.

Rage Against the Machine got so much better when they dropped that retard lead singer, picked up Chris Cornell, and started calling themselves Audioslave.

Both of these applies, but I can't figure out which one is better descriptive, so I'll put both up.

I agree.

Newsflash: Rage Against The Machine not big fans of George W. Bush.

The thing that always cracked me up about Rage was the self righteous bitching about the US, when any of the People's Paradises they so longed for would have never allowed them the freedom to spout any of their pseudo anti-government views.