Word: morello
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...kinetic presence, de la Rocha screeched radical political slogans over the group's underappreciated guitarist and thunder-clap rhythm section. His four albums with Rage proved one thing: it is hard to find a rhyme for Zapatista. When de la Rocha quit the band in 2000, guitarist Tom Morello used the opportunity to marry up. He called former Soundgarden singer Chris Cornell--one of the signature voices of grunge--and pitched him on joining Rage's remains. Cornell accepted. They renamed the group Audioslave, and that's the way they became rock's Brady Bunch...
...Rage's heavy-metal funk with Cornell's Zeppelin wail and tortured lyrics. It tests the bass on your stereo--and it's catchy too. But the main draw is two distinct platinum parts coming together in mid-career. Cornell, who had a solo act going when he fielded Morello's call, did not want to join a political band. "Before we played music together we had the politics conversation," says Cornell. "I said I would take no specific focus lyrically before I started writing and that the odds were when I was done, none of it was going...
...early rehearsals, the Rage musicians--Morello, bassist Tim Commerford and drummer Brad Wilk--laid down what Cornell calls "riff-based, very heavy, no-brainer 'we can all do this' stuff." Then as a test, Cornell added a melodic four-chord bridge to the song Light My Way. "When nobody freaked out, I knew we were a band." Knowing you're a band and convincing listeners are two different things. It's odd hearing Cornell, one of the few rock singers who can belt it out high and clear, fight through Morello's machine-gun fuzz on Cochise. And when Cornell...
When Audioslave hits the road next year, the group will not play Rage or Soundgarden songs. "We're not a country-fair revue," says Morello, chuckling. "We're a new band, a new thing. And by God, we will rawwwwk!" --By Josh Tyrangiel
...whom I talked to backstage seemed, in general, to be supportive of Eminem's freedom of speech, though perhaps not so supportive of his message. "There are a lot of artists nominated this year with homophobic or violent lyrics, so I think the focus on Eminem is strange," Tom Morello, the guitarist for Rage Against the Machine told me. "But, my position is, there are only two positions on free speech: you're either for it or against...