Tom Morello

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724 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Feb 2025 last heard Feb 2025

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Poverty is something that's created.

But I think that that's like as a moral compass to want people to be, I feel very fortunate.

I think I was able to become the person I was meant to become through luck and circumstance and my mom and whatnot.

But I think that that would be a good place to start.

So just walk me through that a little bit.

In order for Audioslave to be the best band that could be, it was going to have to be authentic.

And it was not going to concern, overly concern itself on a daily basis with changing the world for the better, expressing things like that.

I felt like I needed an outlet.

I see.

I founded a nonprofit organization with Serge Tengen called Axis of Justice.

And that was great, but it wasn't, it felt like I'm a musician.

And so I had become, I was a huge fan of Bruce Springsteen, Woody Guthrie, Pete Seeger, Phil Oakes.

And I thought, I'm just gonna, I boldly in my mid-30s began my singer-songwriter career at open mic nights.

I'd be playing arenas with Audioslave and on nights off, I would go sign up at open mic nights

and sit and wait to play my two songs with a whirring espresso machine in the background, and felt the... the...

greatest connection to audiences that I have to this day in that guise.

And really feeling sort of heard and connected.

And in addition to that, having the flexibility of the guerrilla performance.

You have to have a band meeting.

Are we going to play this show or are we not?

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