Tom Morello Explains Why RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE Disbanded, Why The Reunion Tour Was Fun
Saturday, July 28, 2018
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Tom Morello recently spoke to Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich on his It's Electric show and discussed why the band fell apart in 2000, plus his amazement that they even got as far as they did.
“I’ll put myself first and foremost. It was a lack of emotional maturity in being able to deal with each other as people. We had political vision and the shows never suffered, but we just couldn’t agree on stuff and that sort of unearthed feelings that made it hard to make records. I think there were competing visions of what Rage was supposed to be and competing feelings about what it was like to be in the band that we didn’t deal with.”
“My glass half full version is that for a band that had extremely combustible elements, to be able to have made four records and to be able to have played the shows that we did, I think it’s a miracle.”
He adds that yes – it was a lot of fun to reunite in 2007, but it was really fun because there was no pressure to make new music and essentially forge on as a band as their full-time jobs.
“We got together in 2007 and we had a great time. We had fun onstage, offstage, playing ping pong, going out, to me it felt like there was a lot of camaraderie, but one of the things we kind of helped that and took off the table was everything that had been controversial before—writing music, doing interviews, having a manager—we’re just not going to do that stuff. We’re just going to play shows and have a nice time and be able to look each other in the eye and have a nice time and not be anything that had stirred controversy in the past.”
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