Thursday, September 4, 2008
National Skyline Raging Against the G.O.P.
Posted by D. Patrick Rodgers on Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 11:33 AM
Perhaps you’ve heard about Rage Against the Machine’s would-be protest show outside the Minnesota State Capitol during the R.N.C. on Tuesday. For those who didn’t, check out the above video.
Apparently, despite having a permit to perform until 7 p.m., Morello & Co. were shut down by the police. In a display of righteous indignation characteristic of Rage, de la Rocha led a cappella versions of “Bulls on Parade” and “Killing in the Name of.” There you go again, RATM—takin' it to the streets.
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I'll bet this sounded revolutionary: "Morello making the “bow-wow-wow-wakka-chikkas” with his mouth."
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WOW! RATM are great, they are making a difference! I mean b/c of their stand I am voting for Barak
I love Obama,but Zack De la Rocha,MC5 called and they want their antics and hair back!
he is lame. the only reason people like him is because he is not bush. nobody knows what he stands for and he changes his views weekly.
i guess as long as we're being picky, there should technically be a comma between 'right' and 'dick' up there. and i should capitalize...and i should have used a comma after 'there' and before 'and', and i should be using double quotation marks, and this is a run-on sentence. i suck!!!
actually i was just bored and wanted to see if anyone would get really pissed. i am also the first person to probably admit that i and bored and wanted to piss someone off.
seriously though, is RATM relevant anymore?
ah...the ol' devil's advocate. seriously, though, berating and calling someone a fucking nazi for having different political views than ours (especially when our political poles are so close to one another compared to other countries) is kind of nazi-ish in and of itself. just sayin
I generally fall on the "shut up and play" side of the fence, but at least they are doing something that feels dangerous, or at least more dangerous than 99% of bands ever do.
In this case, i think agreement or disagreement with their politics is irrelevant.
Aaron: The key phrase here is "feels dangerous." While I appreciate these guys standing up, the whole thing seems to be about the valiant band more than anything else. They're kinda like the anarchists: It's about the self-importance of bravely being at the protest rather than the stuff they're supposed to be protesting. At one point the guy says maybe some of the cops are working class. Maybe? You ever heard of a rich cop (at least one not on the take)? These guys ever actually met the working class they speak of? They seem a little too much like the typical fashionista lefties from LA. Homeland Security should send out a poseur alert.
Exactly. Somebody is taking their Che Guevera t-shirts a little too seriously.
Obama is cheesey as shit. McCain is old and stodgy, but at least he doesn't prance around like the second coming or something.
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