Tom Morello
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724 appearances
1 recordings
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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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That is the reason why it makes the field go crazy like that.
Now, when I practiced my 20,000 hours, I practiced a lot of stuff other than that.
And so when we started playing with Chris, it really sort of unlocked...
First of all, one of the things that was interesting when we first talked with Chris about making music was he had been the principal songwriter, the music writer in Soundgarden.
And he was like, I don't want to do that.
I want to concentrate on lyric and melody.
Throw stuff at me.
And I, you know, everyone... But did you... Sorry, but...
Well, I'd be like, throw me a spoon man every once in a while.
Yeah, because he wrote really cool asymmetrical.
He was, you know, Chris was a person that knew his own mind.
That's such a cool, only Chris would have played that riff.
He was surely, he was like, this is what I want to do in this thing.
And in some ways, like,
really freed us to... Chris was a great, great vocalist, but his greatest talent, in my view, was able to, cheekbones aside, was able to conjure beautiful, terrifying, perfect melody out of the ether.
It's all riff.
So what that meant was a song like Like a Stone.
The melody that he sings on the record is the melody he sang the first time we did it in rehearsal.
I Am the Highway, these beautiful, these sort of simple cowboy chord progressions or a more complicated riff like Bring Him Back Alive, which is like a big, heavy Sabbath-y riff.
Those are first, like the first thing that came out of his mouth were those, he later fits the words to them.
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