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Release Date: 09 December, 2003 Retail Price: $14.98 OUR Price: $12.99 You SAVE: $1.99! Cast: |
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Amazing
I like Audioslave, but have listened to little of Rage Against the Machine. I checked out their first CD, but I wasn't used to the way Zack De La Rocha's vocals sounded and I didn't really pay attention to the lyrics. A couple weeks ago I heard the song "Bulls on Parade" for the first time and decided to check out their concert DVD. For 75 minutes they play the Grand Olympic Auditorium and they f**king rock. These guys are great live. But it is a great amount of talent; Zack De La Rocha has very political views and lyrics, and raps them to a rock background. He's got a great stage presence and clearly knows how to put on a show. Tom Morello is an amazing guitarist, he does stuff with his guitar that some of the best guitar players ever can't. Tim Commerford is a killer bassist, he cranks out some really great basslines. And Brad Wilk's drumming is fairly simple stuff actually, but he makes it work. The only songs I had heard (out of the ones they were performing)
were Bulls on Parade, Bombtrack, and How I Could Just Kill a Man, but I found that I liked every song they did. This is a great concert DVD (although the camera work jumps around a little to quickly at times), even if you just kind of like RATM, you should check this out.
SET LIST:
1. Bulls on Parade
2. Bombtrack
3. Calm Like a Bomb
4. Bullet in the Head
5. Sleep Now in the Fire
6. War Within a Breath
7. I'm Housin'
8. Killing in the Name
9. Born of a Broken Man
10. No Shelter
11. Guerilla Radio
12. How I Could Just Kill a Man (Feat. Cyprus Hill)
13. Kick Out the Jams
14. Testify
15. Freedom
GRADE: A
At least its not Audioslave.
Rage Against the Machine, even in their worst moments, was still a very explosive band. This show is fair, but if you've seen them live in 1993 or 94', you'll won't like this much. Zach's voice is too worn out, Tom's guitaring isn't heavy enough, and Tim's bass lines are too loud.
The song selection is only from the "hits" on their three albums, you won't get to hear underrated classics such as "Settle for Nothing, "Fistful of Steel," "Take the Power Back," and "Township Rebellion." Plus, Tom's creativity on stage is gone, the solos in his songs sound the same as if you were listening to the albums, but back in the day he did alot of crazy s*** when he had to solo. For example, in "Killing in the Name," in the middle of the first chorus of "Some of those who work forces...," Tom would make a shrieking noise like in "Freedom," and his solo for the song sounded really different and f***ed up compared to the studio recording. At least there's a video of "Bombtrack" and after seeing the performance, it doesn't hurt as much that they broke up, but Audioslave is far far far far worse, so this is lightyears better than "Live in Cuba" from Audios***.
If you want to hear that perticular version of "Killing in the Name" I was talking about, get their self-titled DVD and watch that live video clip. Hell, get that DVD because its so great.
If you want a live Rage' DVD thats way better, hunt on eBay for a bootleg DVD called "Live in Philly 1993," which is basically them performing at a nightclub and they only played classic Rage' tracks. The video and sound quality is a little bad, but the band's show was AMAZING.
Let boring people watch boring stuff.
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