RATM Reunites

abangveron · Post time 14-6-2007 02:41 PM

Reunion (2007)Rumors that Rage Against the Machine could reunite at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival were circulating in mid-January,[21] and were confirmed on January 22.[22] The band was confirmed to be headlining the final day of Coachella 2007.[23] The reunion was described by Morello as primarily being a vehicle to voice the band's opposition to the "right-wing purgatory" the United States has "slid into" under the George W. Bush administration since RATM's dissolution.[24] Though the performance was initially thought to be a one-off,[25] this turned out not to be the case.On April 14, 2007, Morello and de la Rocha reunited onstage early to perform a brief acoustic set in downtown Chicago at a Coalition of Immokalee Workers rally in support of fairness in the fast food industry. Morello described the event as "very exciting for everybody in the room, myself included."[26] This was followed by the scheduled Coachella performance on Sunday, April 29. The band played in front of an EZLN backdrop to the largest crowds of the festival;[27] their performance was widely considered the festival's most anticipated.[27][28][29] A speech was made during "Wake Up" in which de la Rocha (citing a statement by Noam Chomsky regarding the Nuremburg trials [1]) said:[29]

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...if the same laws were applied to U.S. presidents as were applied to the Nazis after World War 2 [...] every single one of them, every last rich white one of them from Truman on, would have been hung to death and shot - and this current administration is no exception. They should be hung, and tried, and shot. As any war criminal should be. But the challenges that we face, they go way beyond administrations, way beyond elections, way beyond every four years of pulling levers, way beyond that. Because this whole rotten system has become so vicious and cruel that in order to sustain itself, it needs to destroy entire countries and profit from their reconstruction in order to survive - and that's not a system that changes every four years, it's a system that we have to break down, generation after generation after generation after generation after generation.... Wake up.

damn...can't wait the new album..