Band Bio

Band Bio

The Music of Rage Against The Machine is a fierce and uncompromisnig meld of hardrock and intence political hip-hop rap. Less than two years from the time of their first public performance in an Orange County living room party, the Los Angeles based band created a growing storm of both controversy and support. Some of the bands/people that inspire are are "Bad Brains. Malcom X, Led Ceppelin and Che Guevara, also Minor Threat and Martin Luther King Jr.." Rage Against the Machine has worked other bands such as Ice-T. Tool Public Enemy, and Pearl Jam. They also support Porno for Pyros. "Rage Against the Machine generates the most beautifully articulated torrent of harcore bedlam that one could imagine. And the Hopes incested in these humming murals of urban din are equally cisionary."(Timothy White,Billboard)

Tom Morello(Guitar) was born in New Your City in 1964 and grew up in Libertyville, Illinois. His father was a memner of the Mau Mau guerilla army which freed Kenya from British colonial rule; his mother is a founder of Parents for Rock & Rap, an anti-censorship organication. Tom went to Harvard University in 1982, he graduated with honors in 1986. "I lived in Libertyville for 18 years, and in the whole town there were maybe three or four blacks and an equal number of Asians. My mom used to play the Temptations, War, and James Brown at home. I got a guitar when I was 13 or 14, and I was determine to become Jimmy Page or Ace Frehley of KISS. But I fot disenchanted with taking lessons and stopped playing for four years. I didn't pick it up again until I heard the Sex Pistols album. Seeing the Clash in Chicago was a life-changing experience. They were more powerful than any band I'd ever seen because of the conviction, the realness behind it."

Brad Wilk(drums) was born in Portland, Orefon and lived in Chicago before settiling in Southern California. "In grade school I listened to Led Zep, the Who. John Bonham had a unique feel, not straight time and not quite swing but somewhere in betqeen just amazing. Then I heard the Sex Pistols, and that changed me. In highschool I started getting into George Clinton, James Brown, and the Meters."

Timmy C. a.k.a Tim Bob(bass)Unfortunatly there is not much to Tim Bob, he really doesn't share information about his past, or present life. We do know he is a member of the Communist party, he hates racist people and listens to Inside Out and the Bad Brains. He says "I'm happy to be alive".

Zack de la Rocha(vocals)was born in Long Beach, California in 1970. "In Juniorhigh I got into the Sex Pistols, Bad Religion, Social Distorition. Then I got into hardcore at sixteen, Minot Threat, Bad Brains, Teen Idles." "Inside Out was the fist band I ever fronted. I channeled all my pain through that band. It was about completely detaching ourselves from society to see ourselves as...as spirits, and not bowing down to a system that sees you as just another pebble on a beach."