What about Rage’s cover of Bruce Springsteen’s anti-poverty song “The Ghost of Tom Joad?”
“I learn about Latino culture from listening to hip-hop.” “It could be ‘Channel Zero’ by Public Enemy, it could be ‘Calm Like a Bomb’ from Rage, or it could be ‘Kill a Man’ from Cypress,” Commerford said. Various songs from all three bands speak to such issues. … Music is the universal language, so that’s what we’re doing, we’re trying to tear these walls down.” … We live in a world where we’re building walls to separate people and cultures. “You have a presidential nominee talking about building walls and banning Muslims, and you have countries leaving the European Union. “We have a pretty insane presidential election happening,” he said. What are some of the things that Commerford is pissed about? All the important changes that we’ve made in our world all stem from people that are pissed off, and this music is pissed off, and these dudes are pissed off, and this world needs change.” “Rage is what it takes to change the world, and it goes back in history. “We have incredible music that we’re sitting on that needs to be out there and needs to be the soundtrack for defiance,” Commerford said. We’re an elite task force of revolutionary musicians determined to confront this mountain of election year bulls–t and confront it head-on with Marshall stacks blazing.” Morello makes no bones about his progressive politics, branding the tour “Make America Rage Again” and telling Rolling Stone: “We’re not a supergroup. If the music sounds angry, it’s because it comes from a real place. “That’s just straight lifted off of John Coltrane’s ‘My Favorite Things.’ John Coltrane is the greatest musician of all time, and I went through like an upright bass, bee-bop jazz phase where I would go to clubs and see anyone who was still living that played with Coltrane.” “We all wrote riffs in that I can speak for the opening riff, that was a riff that I came up with,” Commerford said. “Tom gets excited about things, and I love it when he gets excited, because he make s–t happen.”Įxpect to hear Public Enemy hits like “Fight the Power,” “Rebel Without a Pause” and “Don’t Believe the Hype ” Cypress Hill hits like “Insane in the Membrane” and “Rap Superstar,” and Rage Against the Machine hits like “Killing in the Name Of,” “Guerrilla Radio,” “Renegades of Funk” and “Bulls on Parade,” the opening riff of which was written by Commerford after listening to John Coltrane. “I was excited when I got the call from Tom asking me if I wanted to be part of this,” Commerford said. The supergroup was the brainchild of Morello, who can shred like no other, flipping his hand back and forth, alternating from front to back on the guitar, then palming the strings with an open-handed rub. That’s what makes the show great: the shared enthusiasm.” It’s exciting and it’s angry and it’s bada– … The band is important, but no more important than the audience. “It’s Rage-ified songs, Cypress songs that have been Rage-ified, Public Enemy songs that have been Rage-ified. “It’s incredible the size of the catalog we get to choose from,” Commerford said. Named after Public Enemy’s 1988 song from the album “It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back,” Prophets of Rage includes Rage Against the Machine’s Tom Morello (guitar), Tim Commerford (bass) and Brad Wilk (drums), Cypress Hill’s B-Real, and Public Enemy’s Chuck D and DJ Lord.įormed in 2016, the band jams out to an array of songs from each other’s catalogs. WTOP caught up with key members of both groups ahead of the concerts. The rap-rock supergroup Prophets of Rage performs Friday at Eagle Bank Arena in Fairfax, Virginia, while Baltimore-born soul and R&B group Dru Hill performs Saturday at D.C.’s Howard Theatre. WASHINGTON - If you grew up on ’90s jams, mark your music calendars now.
WTOP's Jason Fraley previews Prophets of Rage & Dru Hill
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