The Future of Rage

[Nateddi]

I don't know too much about them, but I want to know what everyone else thinks. I mean their songs are banned after Sept. 11 on radio, and Zack left the group. any light?

[libereco]

i don't think their songs are banned....that was an urban myth on the internet a while ago as far as i know.

zack is persuing a solo career. The rest of the band has supposedly recored material with chris cornell of soundgarden.....but thats been said for a while and nothing has been released, so who knows.

[munkey soup]

Supposedly a new cd will be released with them and cornell(rage against the garden? sound against the machine?) this year, maybe even this summer. Lets hope its not crap.

[guerrillaradio]

No the CIA banned every single Rage song from every US playlist...it's true...read

http://www.family.org/cforum/fnif/news/a0017800.html

"One group's music — Rage Against the Machine — was so violent it was suggested that all its songs are currently inappropriate"

[munkey soup]

That list was just a bunch of songs stations should consider not playing. My local radio station plays RATM all the time.

[EBNrage]

If anyone is interested, I run a small bboard called (The Emergency Broadcast Network) or EBNrage for short. www.ebnrage.com

400+ members, most of whom were at the original Rage Against the Machine Board - and JK who ran that board, posts there from time to time.

link is in my profiel

[I Will Deny You]

I don't think that RATM was officially banned by the government, but Clear Channel probably recommended that its stations avoid them, much like they were instructed to steer clear of John Lennon's "Imagine."

[Anne]

I really don't think Rage would be themselves with Cornell. I dunno, I don't have much optomism for the new album.

[munkey soup]

Nor do I, Anne. But they still have Morello, and he is one sweet guitarist. And as long as Y.tim.K is the bassist, I will stick by them.
Fight the Garden!
Sound that Machine!

[anarchoveganLAM]

for real, whats wrong with IMAGINE??????

[psycho chicken]

i'm thinking "imagine there's no heaven" could be a little bad after sept 11
it's just one fo those songs i guess. hell they put new york, new york on that list. and leaving on a jet plane

[Michael De Panama]

The Chris Cornell/RATM band is called "Civilian".

My predictions are that Zack will release his solo album and Civilian will release their album and they will both not do so great. Then they will come back together. I may seem totally optomistic, but I know that this band has gone through a lot of fights together and have remained together for a long time. I know that they will get back together.

[ernestodekam]

Michael I wish you could be right but I doubt it.

[FtWfTn]

Well I don't think Chris is that political so what the hell would their songs be about?

[alphaq]

"Imagine there's no countries
It isn't hard to do
Nothing to kill or die for
And no religion too
Imagine all the people
Living life in peace...
"Imagine theres no heaven... etc"
thats why they wouldn't want to play it post 9/11

[Natalenko]

the "civilian" is just a rumor, JK (a good friend i might add, just for validity expanse) claims the Tom and the others are still "un-decided" about the name of the new band, though as soon as a definate decision is made, the fans will be told at www.ratm.com and the band recommends to not dweel on any rumors about the band. Although they say that creating new music for fans and for feedback is first on their list of priorities, they have no final dates for release of the new material.

But fact has it that Tom refuses to make any non-political music and it seem Cornell is willing to stick with it. Though they shall have lost Zack's lyrical talent, Tom will be "experimenting" with the guitar a little more, and exploring new ways to feast our ears (which will be very exciting) and Cornell will not yet announce his political stance and beleifs, but its assured that all of that will be clear in the not-to-distant future with the release of their first album.

As for Zack, it seems he will be touring with friends who are rappers, like Public Enemy and Cypress Hill to boost his solo career, and it will ALL no-doubt be more political and radical than ever while this period of war plus economic and governmental unsettlement has created many patriots out of supporters. But it is as-yet un anounced when he will strike the world again with his talented mixture of taste in music and the lyrical performace, it seems that he will keep political struggle/activism on top of his priorities with his music (as he should).

So in this un-decided, silent period of false rumors and fazed hopes, we can rest assured that soon enough the peoples music force known as Rage Against The Machine will be back on the streets and radicalisng the world.