Whatever happened to..

[Bumrush99]

Man I used to love Rage Against the Machine, especially La Rocha's style of singing/rapping. Whatever happened to him? Is he still singing or planning to do so?

 

[Injury]

He tried a solo album/new band.

Its success is shown in your post.

Without RATM, he's just kinda "Rage", and political bashing rock didn't seem as hot without having that unique sound.

 

[MaxDSP]

I have a lot of RATM on my iPod...love that band, but unfortunately didnt start listening to them until they had split up

 

[cain]

yeah i used to love rage so much. still listen to them once in awhile though, mainly the first album because it's the sh1t

 

[Juice Box]

last I heard he kicked it Dave Chapelle style and went AWOL. No one knows where he went. He apparently missed some studio time and they arent exactly sure as to his location.

 

[Slvrtg277]

If you ask me, the only reason he even made it was because of the band. I really liked them as a group, but his constant bitching about everything still got old every now and then. The sad thing is that even the band isn't doing much now.

 

[Homerboy]

He was MUCH better in Inside Out.

 

[PricklyPete]

I loved Rage...but I like Audioslave even more.

 

[mzkhadir]

I think he did remixes with DJ Shadow.

 

[Confused]

RATM were awesome, I still listen to their self-titled album very regularly - despite it first coming out in 1992

Audioslave, while are a good band, are missing the one thing that made RATM great - Zach de la Rocha and his very strong lyrics.

Chris Cornell is a great frontman, but the songs that Audioslave put out are a little too mellowed out for my liking, and they don't get to show off the great talents of Tom Morello and the rest of the RATM crew

 

[Bumrush99]

Originally posted by: Confused
RATM were awesome, I still listen to their self-titled album very regularly - despite it first coming out in 1992

Audioslave, while are a good band, are missing the one thing that made RATM great - Zach de la Rocha and his very strong lyrics.

Chris Cornell is a great frontman, but the songs that Audioslave put out are a little too mellowed out for my liking, and they don't get to show off the great talents of Tom Morello and the rest of the RATM crew

I agree. I LOVE Soundgarden, but Cornell does not cut it with Audioslave.

RATM had one of the all time great debut albums, I memorized every single lyric on it.

 

[Slvrtg277]

Originally posted by: Confused
RATM were awesome, I still listen to their self-titled album very regularly - despite it first coming out in 1992

Audioslave, while are a good band, are missing the one thing that made RATM great - Zach de la Rocha and his very strong lyrics.

Chris Cornell is a great frontman, but the songs that Audioslave put out are a little too mellowed out for my liking, and they don't get to show off the great talents of Tom Morello and the rest of the RATM crew

I agree. I like Audioslave's music but if I didn't already know, I wouldn't be able to really tell that it's RATM's band members. Hell it may as well be Soundgarden.

You could always tell RATM was playing even if Zach wasn't singing at the time. They just had a style all their own.

 

[Juice Box]

Originally posted by: Slvrtg277

Originally posted by: Confused
RATM were awesome, I still listen to their self-titled album very regularly - despite it first coming out in 1992

Audioslave, while are a good band, are missing the one thing that made RATM great - Zach de la Rocha and his very strong lyrics.

Chris Cornell is a great frontman, but the songs that Audioslave put out are a little too mellowed out for my liking, and they don't get to show off the great talents of Tom Morello and the rest of the RATM crew

I agree. I like Audioslave's music but if I didn't already know, I wouldn't be able to really tell that it's RATM's band members. Hell it may as well be Soundgarden.

You could always tell RATM was playing even if Zach wasn't singing at the time. They just had a style all their own.

I dunno....zach REALLY contributed to their sound. They were just any other metal band without his short, mexican a$$ SCREAMING into the mic about how much the system sucks!

 

[Slvrtg277]

Originally posted by: Juice Box

Originally posted by: Slvrtg277

Originally posted by: Confused
RATM were awesome, I still listen to their self-titled album very regularly - despite it first coming out in 1992

Audioslave, while are a good band, are missing the one thing that made RATM great - Zach de la Rocha and his very strong lyrics.

Chris Cornell is a great frontman, but the songs that Audioslave put out are a little too mellowed out for my liking, and they don't get to show off the great talents of Tom Morello and the rest of the RATM crew

I agree. I like Audioslave's music but if I didn't already know, I wouldn't be able to really tell that it's RATM's band members. Hell it may as well be Soundgarden.

You could always tell RATM was playing even if Zach wasn't singing at the time. They just had a style all their own.

I dunno....zach REALLY contributed to their sound. They were just any other metal band without his short, mexican a$$ SCREAMING into the mic about how much the system sucks!

Well you certainly could tell by his vocal talent as well, who was playing. But I still firnly believe that the instrumentals were very unique.

 

[nakedfrog]

He probably went "ggrrrraaaaaAAAAAAGGGGGHHHHHHHH!" and exploded in a fit of rage.

 

[Forsythe]

Tom Morello is teh sh!t on guitar!!!

 

[blakeatwork]

Didn't he go work for the Bush Administration...

jokes adsie... RATM was a fun group when i was young, opinionated, and less educated... I put it on the other day... and it just seemed kinda blah... not for me much anymore, outside of adding a tune or two to a workout playlist

 

[alien42]

speaking of zach de la rocha, i was just listening to this dj shadow ft zach track

 

[Homerboy]

Im telling you guys if you like Daddy Mak Zach De LaRoche's screaming check out his pre RATM hardcore band: Iside Out http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=11:xrfibkh96akx
Some of the greatest recording screaming (with politcal message) ever bar-none.

 

[Ilmater]

Originally posted by: Confused
Chris Cornell is a great frontman, but the songs that Audioslave put out are a little too mellowed out for my liking, and they don't get to show off the great talents of Tom Morello and the rest of the RATM crew

Half of Audioslave's songs sound the freaking same, which wouldn't be as bad if it didn't anger me that Tom Morello is doing it. His guitar has the same sound over and over, and that's just not his trademark. That guy's one of the greatest guitarists of our time, and he's going to sh1t with that band.

 

[flxnimprtmscl]

Originally posted by: Slvrtg277
If you ask me, the only reason he even made it was because of the band. I really liked them as a group, but his constant bitching about everything still got old every now and then. The sad thing is that even the band isn't doing much now.

QFT.

 

[nater]

In an interview with Trent Reznor I read recently, he said that he was supposed to help Zach produce one of his albums, but dropped the project because Zach had confused goals or something.

 

[Slvrtg277]

Originally posted by: Ilmater

Originally posted by: Confused
Chris Cornell is a great frontman, but the songs that Audioslave put out are a little too mellowed out for my liking, and they don't get to show off the great talents of Tom Morello and the rest of the RATM crew

Half of Audioslave's songs sound the freaking same, which wouldn't be as bad if it didn't anger me that Tom Morello is doing it. His guitar has the same sound over and over, and that's just not his trademark. That guy's one of the greatest guitarists of our time, and he's going to sh1t with that band.

Someone give this man a :beer:. Ok I'll do it.

:beer:

 

[MaxDSP]

Cornell's "weird" voice for Audislave gets kind of annoying after you listen to a few songs