![]() RATM MARKS THEIR 20TH ANNIVERSARY WITH RELEASE OF REMASTERED DEBUT ALBUM, ORIGINAL DEMOS AND TREASURY TROVE OF VIDEOS AND MUSIC. RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE – XX 20th ANNIVERSARY DELUXE BOX SET CONTAINS NEVER BEFORE SEEN EARLY CONCERT FOOTAGE AND FULL 2010 FINSBURY PARK VICTORY CONCERT. It’s funny how that became an offhand joke – ‘offhand joke’ would be a good hashtag for 2020,” Tom Morello said.RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE TO RELEASE 20TH ANNIVERSARY BOX SET ON NOVEMBER 27 “Michael Moore just printed up some placards and handed them out to day-traders who just walked around with them. “I would say that we are karmically entirely responsible, and my apologies.” What’s the story behind that? Would you say, in some sense, that Rage Against the Machine predicted all this? They don’t make them like that anymore.” In your video for ‘Sleep Now in the Fire,’ there’s a guy holding up a ‘Trump for President’ sign. Well, we did sort of shut down the Stock Exchange, but do we go back to the hotel?’ But at the end of the day, it was a pretty spectacular historic rock and roll thing we made. We were supposed to film a video that day, and we’re like, ‘We’ve lost the director. “In retrospect, it felt like a historic victory against evil, but on the day, it felt so chaotic because our director was in jail. Is that a left or a right?’ And he hits the button and the riot police come, and the doors slammed down, and it shut down the New York Stock Exchange in the middle of the Tuesday afternoon for the first time in its 200-year history,” Tom Morello said. I’m like, ‘Hey, I’m here to take the New York Stock Exchange. “And I’m the first one through the door, and there’s a security guy in a frumpy coat. And so, as Mike is being dragged away in handcuffs, which you see in the video, we rush the New York Stock Exchange. “Then Michael, in his second directorial edict of the afternoon says, ‘Take the New York Stock Exchange.’ This was not scripted. He doesn’t understand how the song is happening. The look on his face is one of religious terror. And then he unplugs Timmy’s bass and takes Brad’s drumsticks. ![]() And then he unplugs my guitar, and the riff keeps playing. The cop vein in his neck begins to pulse. Tom Morello continued, saying:Īnd he’s mad. I’m going to keep playing.’ And then he’s like, ‘Get back on the fucking steps right now,’ Tom Morello said. “Now, when you’re making a video, you’re miming along to a playback, so we’re miming along to ‘Sleep Now in the Fire,’ and I remember what Mike said, so I’m like, ‘Something’s happening. And then he says, ‘OK, now we’re going to play on the sidewalk, the un-permitted sidewalk.’ And so, we get down on the sidewalk, and the police sergeant comes up to me and he’s like, ‘You guys got to get back up on the steps.’ “So we’re on the steps, and we’re performing, and it’s going well. So you guys get up on the steps and no matter what happens, don’t stop playing. We don’t have a permit to play on the city sidewalk. We’ve got a permit to play on the federal steps. ![]() And he said, ‘This is what’s going to happen. And this is a tale that I relate in great detail in the Audible thing, where the one question I couldn’t wait to ask him, given his very provocative art, was, ‘How many times have you been arrested?’ And he said, ‘Never.’ And I jokingly said, ‘Well, you’ve never worked with Rage Against the Machine.’ “ Michael Moore is now a close friend, but at the time, we had never met before. ![]() Tom Morello said about when Rage Against The Machine caused the shutdown of Wall Street stock exchange:
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