Honestly I don't expect to get much of a response here, but I was wondering if there are any other Rage Against the Machine fans out there?

The reason I ask is that they are my favorite band of all time and the fact that they are reuniting for the Coachella Festival in California is shooting my hopes through the sky that they might stay together long enough to make another album.

Any other fans out there? Funny thing is I feel like most of their political views are against what I believe, or they sing about topics I'm not even interested in, but I still love the SOUND of the band. Mainly Zach's voice and style of singing, as well as Tom Morello's innovative guitar playing!

For the sake of discussion, I'd like your thoughts on the band even if you don't really like them.

I'm a fan. Rage's stuff is awesome to play. And I see that the Chili Peppers and Sonic Youth are going to be playing at that show too. I wish I lived in Cali

I actually heard about this today at work. The guy said that the way Morello talked, it sounded like it might be more than just a one-time thing. I hope so. I'm tired of the shitty bands on the radio. If I hear Fallout Boy or Fergalicious or that stupid My Chemical Romance song with the piano intro ONE MORE TIME. Or that stupid Beyonce "TO THE LEFT TO THE LEFT!!" song. I'll throw the next baby I see into the deep fryer.

... sorry.

One of my favorite bands, my favorite part of which is Tom Morello. Although I don't agree wit hall of their songs, their music is powerful, heavy, and innovative.

Evil Empire is my favorite.

Two of my most hated bands

"Throw the baby into the fryer" might make a good song title for the next Rage album, if there is one.

I fucking love Rage. They're one of those bands where I really have trouble picking a favorite album. It varies from time to time... but it's usually Evil Empire.

I'd kill to go to Coachella. RHCP are among my favorites, and I've already seen them twice, and would love to see them again. But I think the real highlight of this years line-up, for me, is The Arcade Fire. I also really want to see Explosions in the Sky and The New Pornographer's.

My only dissapointment is that this is the first year in a while that Sigur Rós and Radiohead, two of my all-favorite bands, are not included in the line up. A bit of a turn-off.

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/new...nv-tv-galleries

Yay!!!!!

Yeah, it seemed imminent the way Morello talked about it, and the fact that Audioslave disbanned (thank god...)

Good for them.

One of their shows is in San Francisco! I'm going to go crazy if I can't get tickets.

RATM are a great band!
I like the fact that they have something to say and they are passionate about it!

They have a show in New York, but it's some gangster-rap festival, so I'm not quite sure if I'll be going... yeeeeeeeeeeah

They are supposedly playing with Wu-Tang Clan here in San Francisco who I am not a fan of, but I'll sit through ANY live performance to hear Rage. Then again, if it's a true festival and you have to listen to dozens of gangster-rap groups then I agree with you. Yeeeeeeeeeeeah.

Yeah, all the shows are with Wu-Tang clan, and the one in New York is a festival, I believe.

I have nothing wrong with rap, I like plenty, but I imagine the people the Wu-Tang clan bring to a festival they're hosting would be mostly main-stream, and mainstream rap is a bit much. There are plenty of great rap groups out there though that seem to get constantly ignored by the mainstream, for some reason.

I'm thinking about just driving to the city for a day, catching Rage, and then skipping out on the rest of the festival and hanging out around town for a few hours, or the night before I have to return to my shitty, red-neck infested suburb.

I got my tickets over the weekend to see Rage when they come through San Francisco.

Not sure I want to sit through the 15 bazillion hip hop bands before them though, but I'm just excited to see Rage! I had two chances to see them live many years ago and missed out both times, so there was no way I would miss out yet again!

It's being held in the McCovey Cove parking lot, which is the parking lot for the SF Giants stadium. An odd place for a concert...

Anyone else going to be able to see them live?

I love 'Killing In The Name Of'. I sang it recently at my mate's wedding. Mind you, we were all pissed out of our heads at the time.

What an excellent sentiment to give to a newly married couple.

It was their idea, actually.

I think they're garbage...

All my friends find them groovy though. Maybe it's just not aggressive enough for me.

What was sung at his bachelor party? "FREEDOM!!! Yeah, right!"

Funny story. Me and a friend of mine are driving down the road, and it's pouring out. I mean, absolutely pouring...Raining cats and dogs. The streets were practically flooded with dead domesticated animals and such. So, there is this girl walking down the street, I don't know, she couldn't have been more than 14, maybe 15. And she's soaking wet. So, we stop up next to her, and out of nothing but compassion, we ask, "Hey, do you need a ride somewhere?"

I guess she wasn't very tight on the "don't get into cars with strangers" rule because she accepted our offer, but that's her problem. So anyways, we're driving down the road, and at about the same exact moment that I suggested some music, my friend lights up a cigarette (I fucking hate being in cars with smokers, due to the fact that I enjoy being able to breath, but whatever, it was his car). So, anyways, without really thinking of how appropriate it would have been for the current scene, I chose to put on some Rage. In a matter of moments, the stereo system was spewing out the lyrics: "TURN ON THE RADIO! NAH, FUCK IT! TURN IT OFF!"

We both knew how awkward she must have felt, but we kept the music on, on the basis that he and I are both assholes. So, after we dropped her off at her house, and she had left the car, we enjoyed a laugh at how this young girl, just barely a teenager, had to sit in a cloud of smoke and toxic disgusting-ness, as a sea of obscenity flew out of the speakers.

Good times.

I've never realized how schizophrenic that song sounds.

Two Obscene Schizo Smokers with nothing but compassion in their hearts. Sounds like the majority of Californians.

Oh no, I don't smoke. I'm too neurotic about disease as it is. Maybe I should have made that clear. I just don't think it's my place to ask someone to stop when they've already made a habit of it.

Actually I think it is I that should have been more clear. I understood that you don't smoke, but to that girl what difference does it make. The car is full of smoke.

I agree with you that the smoke, and the smell are disgusting. I won't go out of my way to tell smokers though... they can do what they want, just not in MY car or my home.

Ah, yeah, I agree.

I've got this friend who just moved to my town around October 2005, from a small town further upstate, called Malone, which some New Yorkers know is code for "the Canadian boarder."

So, We're at a different friends house, and our friend who had moved here had invited some of his friends from Malone down for the weekend, and we're standing there, and our friends' friend who had come as a guest for the weekend, mind you, lights up a fucking cigarette right in the house. And so, we all just stared at the kid, and finally, the friend whose home we were in finally said, "Uh, excuse me, could you please not smoke in my house?" The guy was just all, "Oh, sorry, everyone smokes in Malone."

It was funny in a "What the fuck is your problem" kind of way.

I'll be sure to bring my gas mask if I ever find myself in Malone, eh?

Has anyone ever invented a fart gas mask yet?

Is that for when some sort of chemical weapon of mass destruction is unleashed on a major city, your gas mask farts to lighten up the mood a little?

That would work.

Funny enough, just read a book where Ben Franklin apparently was a notorius gasser himself.

He's my new hero.

Any ideas about what this site is counting down too?

http://www.ratm82407.com/

I don't know, but I signed up in the "more info" section so I can find out.

One could only hope that the larger clock is counting down to a new album, or maybe the announcement of an album or a more expansive tour.

The lead vocalist was going to drop a solo "hiphop" album at one stage.Not sure what happened.