I was today years old when I learned Tom Morello runs his wah in his amp's FX loop

The worst thing about subjectivity is that everyone's presumed sense of subjective preferences
and taste are deemed superior to everyone else's presumed sense of subjective preferences and
tastes. Ergo, my subjectivity is better than yours. :facepalm

This is how narrow tastes and visions of the possible become political and whole nations and peoples
are forced to live under the subjective straitjacket or a person and their pet ideology.

Fuck that! :horse

Hence, Viva La Liberte! :beer

And Happy Cinco De Mayo! :chef
 
I love rages first album, after that, not so much. I don’t care much for Cornell, especially when he screams, but I love the Canadian Chris Cornell, Ian Thornley. Thornley, Maynard, Vedder, Weiland are my favorite vocalists.
 
Every time his name is named somewhere I read many hate on him and I don’t know why . You recognize him in a recording in a second. Have his tone, was creative, not only a noise maker but got some skills (see solos in the first records) .
So ok I get that having anti capitalist speech and doing business can be irritating but … don’t know. He is not my hero, but yeah I respect him. They are not 2 morello’s, and for that that’s cool.
 
I know.. there’s no need to further anal yze. Looking back from now with a musically critical eye, ratm and audioslave, there ain’t much to say except the influential importance I think.

For me Ratm was a huge thing because I was a teen and it was their time and the stars aligned with them at the time (hence their early days success). Got me into guitar, like so many others… I still grin with a smile and slowly dad headbang when old ratm tunes fly by. Weirdly, Evil Empire was the album that hit my heart the most because of its rawness and grit (I love records that sound like they were captured on the fly in a bad rehearsal space).

I think Zack could have evolved into something better musically wether he went the rap/hiphop way or the rock way, but that would probably contradict his nature because the 90’s industry didn’t really allow for musicians to be what the truly wanted to be.

Morello being what he is though, I think he’s a genuinely great dude who has inspired a lot of musicians with very little effort that was just right in time.
 
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