Tom Morello
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724 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Feb 2025
last heard Feb 2025
Tom Morello’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Yeah, well, I was crystal clear on the mistakes that had been made from my point of view, is that I had listened to experts.
And look where it got me.
And I made a conscious, out loud, solemn vow that I was never going to play another note of music that I didn't believe in.
I knew now that I would never make records and I would never be a rock star and I would never fulfill the dreams that I had in Circus Magazine when I drove in my Chevy Astro van out to Hollywood.
But I was...
still a musician, and there was value in playing music that was meaningful to me, even if I was the only one to ever hear it.
And that was the North Star that has, you know, the next 21 records has, you know, guided my fate.
It wasn't even that.
It wasn't even we don't care.
There was zero commercial ambition.
There was no hope of booking a club show when that band formed.
There were no L.A.
club bands that had the ethnic...
you know, diversity of that band that was singing neo-Marxist lyrics with Black Sabbath riffs and a punk rock fury.
But at the time... In that rehearsal room, it was crystal clear that there was nowhere for this music to be other than that we liked it.
And the goal, the sole goal, was to do the thing that I felt my purpose was to do the thing that I was unable to do with Lock Up, was to make a great cassette.
So before playing any shows, we just made a record.
We made a cassette of 12 songs or whatever.
To have.
Just to have it.
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