Idolator
- The Mike Love-Al Jardine legal feud drags on, with a judge rejecting Love's motion in a case over rights to the Beach Boys name. How about this: Stick the two of them in a room with "Kokomo" on endless repeat, and whoever cracks first loses. [Miami Herald]
- Tom Morrello blames the United States' "slide into right-wing purgatory" on the existence of Audioslave. That's what we gathered from his pre-Rage Against The Machine reunion chest-beating, anyway. [Blabbermouth, via Paper Thin Walls]
- The owner of the pyrotechnic company that supplied Great White with the devices that caused the 2003 nightclub fire told a grand jury that he advised the band to use non-igniting devices on its tour. [Boston Globe]
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Does anyone else remember this story from the Onion a few years back: Where Are You Now, When We Need You Most, Rage Against The Machine?
http://www.theonion.com/content/node/33992
It was an open letter to RATM to save us from the Bush administration.
This is a very strange case of life imitating satire.
Ah, Tom Morello. Still hasn't changed much from calling critics who disagree with him tools of the right-wing conspiracy or whatever his excuse of the day is.
Apology not accepted. You knew exactly what you were doing.
I remember hearing Morello on a radio show a few years back defending convicted cop killer Mumia Abu Jamal on a panel discussion with the wife of the cop he was convicted of murdering...claiming that Mumia as a "political prisoner"
Really cool how Audioslave played a show in Cuba, radical chic indeed...I wonder if you were able to also talk to real political prisoners in Castro's island gulag...Did you talk to those people whose fathers and brothers were murdered by Che Guevara?
Morello if you truly cared about oppression and abuse of power, you would have spoken out against Castro but you didnt. Very easy to be critical of Bush when you know damn well nothing will happen to you...
The opposition bloggers in Egypt and Iran who are imprisioned for speaking out are the heroes...you sir are a coward and a fake...
Gotta love Tom. I remember when the biggest RATM fans at my high school were conservative Republicans who believed that the band's politics were bullshit, but they still loved to rock out to Tom's gnarly riffs and Zack's tantrums.
Funny, I was just thinking about the Beach Boys' collaboration with the Fat Boys before reading the BB article. Didn't Danny or what's-his-nuts from "Full House" play with them during their 80's nostalgia revue tours?
I agree...Politics notwithstanding, Morello's riffs are deadly...even with Audioslave, "Show Me How to Live" and Cochise are fantastic
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