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Rage Against The Machine


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2020 Feb 19, 5:13am   1,592 views  9 comments

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Anyone going to shows in their area? Got tickets to Alpine Valley in Wisconsin. Slightly regretting the purchase. I know I can resell, or could lose all the ticket costs for all I care, so money ain't the issue. Love their music, but I have zero interest in being fucking preached to about politics. I've met Tom Morello on a few occasions, he seemed reasonable and nice. But Zach is a certifiable, communist nutcase.

Basically I'm having an internal conflict over the love of their music versus attending a live show and giving them any money to continue being nut jobs. They already are looking like hypocritical dicks by pricing their tickets so high (not brokers or resale either). I feel like that blowback will give them more angst and make it more political. Thoughts?

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1   FuckTheMainstreamMedia   2020 Feb 19, 6:10am  

Even though they play in LA all the time, I never went to see Social Distortion. Now I won’t after this:

https://www.google.com/amp/s/consequenceofsound.net/2018/08/social-distortion-trump-fight/amp/

Btw, this is the weenie that wrote all those tough words:



I already decided not to see Bruce Springsteen with ticket prices being the dominant factor and politics being second. It’s not entirely the politics...I’ve been to see John Mellencamp in the past tens years, but he tends to let his music do most of the talking.

It’s really up to you. But I’d have a hard time paying so much for what amounts to a pretty mediocre band. And then to hear leftist blathering on top of it? Meh.
2   MisdemeanorRebel   2020 Feb 19, 10:22am  

Bombtrack2020

Those who quote Chomsky
Vote for Mitt Romney
Yeah those who quote Chomsky
Vote with Us for Mitt Romney.
3   theoakman   2020 Feb 19, 11:27am  

I saw rage 3 times around 98 99. There was zero political preaching. All music. Great music...awful politics. BTW...one of those shows was 15 dollars at the time.
4   RC2006   2020 Feb 19, 11:39am  

theoakman says
I saw rage 3 times around 98 99. There was zero political preaching. All music. Great music...awful politics. BTW...one of those shows was 15 dollars at the time.


Like everything else shit is out of control to the point I don't really enjoy going to concerts anymore, lot of it though I know is just that I'm older and have kids and small hassles easily turn into large ones.

I went to see Billy Idol he was opening for Morrissey at the hollywood bowl. Because it was Morrissey there was no meat at venue and tons of stupid politics.
5   joshuatrio   2020 Feb 19, 3:47pm  

theoakman says
I saw rage 3 times around 98 99. There was zero political preaching.


Exactly why I won't go to an uber left bands show anymore. Give me someone who isn't preaching politics left or right and we're good.
6   theoakman   2020 Feb 19, 7:54pm  

you want to see an awesome show....go see Tool. Their new album is amazing and those four musicians are nothing but business. True pros who put on a stellar show. I've seen them every tour they've done the past 15 years. Never let down.
7   theoakman   2020 Feb 19, 7:58pm  

joshuatrio says
theoakman says
I saw rage 3 times around 98 99. There was zero political preaching.


Exactly why I won't go to an uber left bands show anymore. Give me someone who isn't preaching politics left or right and we're good.


Yes, but the leftist garbage is in Rage's lyrics. I mean...I loved the rhymes that Zack came up with...but I remember completely rejecting anything he and Morello spouted by the ripe old age of 19 years old. Still love to listen to it though. Btw...20 years ago, they wouldn't have been viewed as leftists...but once the left adopted the anti-police and socialist policies as their mainstream viewpoints....Rage now fits the mold.
8   mell   2020 Feb 19, 8:17pm  

I don't think there's that much wrong with raging against the banker fat-cats - Street Sweeper social club has a nice track for that too (an offshoot project). I even have sympathy for their fight/virtue signaling for indigenous people. Where they went wrong is aligning with the globalist left and becoming hypocritical, virtue-signaling left-wing globalist-capitalist shills. While I generally prefer Music without politics, some of the best tracks originate from hardship/wars and the associated politics - e.g. Leonard Cohen's Partisan, beautiful track. Also punk/hardcore bands didn't use to be left, they were just anti-establishment and anti-autocrat, but they surely weren't pussy-hatting feminists or politically correct soyboy asshats. The globalist, cultural-marxist left sort of devoured them cleverly, like the pied piper. Not many were able to resist the (money and the) call to become meaningless shills. but Johnny Rotten for example is pro-Brexit and mildly pro-Trump. Some old-schoolers weren't fooled.
9   theoakman   2020 Feb 20, 10:53am  

The problem is...their set of causes were all over the place. Might be because Zack is literally willing to live an impoverished life marching up and down South America while Morello is your typical limousine socialist. Where I really drew the line was when they started supporting Mumia Abu Jamal. It was just the height of ignorance on their part.

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