[quote]LUEshi wrote:
“FIGHT CORPORATE OPPRESSION!!”
“…that’ll be $40 for your ticket.”
Bullshit message, kickass tunes. I can live with it.[/quote]
In all fairness, they aren’t the ones who are charging the prices. And at Coachella on Saturday when he performed as the Nightwatchman, Tom was telling people to get their friends and hop the fences to see Sunday’s show for free…
It’s a catch-22 I guess, join the “evil corporations” and get your message heard or toil in obscurity and “stay true.”
[quote]jtrinsey wrote:
FightingScott wrote:
Last I heard in some interview circa 1999 Morello was still driving an old van and lived in a single story house. I’ll agree that realistically revolution my any means necessary isn’t sound idea, especially in this day and age, but I think you’d be hard pressed to actually find any real evidence of the band contradicting themselves.
Can’t wait to see them, Cypress Hill, and Wu-Tang in NY!
I was just gonna say… what Tom Morello is this guy talking about living in Beverly Hills?
I’m not even going to bother really trying to debate in this thread because every debate is the same. They are my favorite band ever and if somebody wants to bash them, they can go right ahead; that band has done more fighting for social change (although obviously not as much as some supporters would like to think) than 99% of their critics will ever do. Plus they can simply rock the fuck out.
I will be right up front when they tear Randall’s Island up, just like I was in Coachella![/quote]
Where does he live? What does he drive?
[quote]Zap Branigan wrote:
Where does he live? What does he drive?[/quote]
You might want to ask him that. I SUPPOSE it is possible that he lives in Beverly Hills and drives a Ferrari… I’ve just never seen him in the press like that. I’m sure he lives in a nice house and drives a nice car, although I have heard the story that he drove around the country for two years living in a conversion van- probably internet BS though.
Everything I’ve seen in person, on tv or heard/read about the guy seems to be the same picture: somebody who loves to rock but is incredibly vocal about the causes he promotes and seems to work very hard to promote them. He was arrested by the LAPD for participating in a immigrant reform rally in LA.
Tom is a great role model to me: he went to Harvard, honed his skills on guitar by practicing obsessively (up to 8 hours a day), had the courage to move to LA to pursue his dream, became wildly successful and has used his influence to fight for causes he believes in. Most importantly, the guy can rock the fuck out.
[quote]LUEshi wrote:
“FIGHT CORPORATE OPPRESSION!!”
“…that’ll be $40 for your ticket.”
Bullshit message, kickass tunes. I can live with it.[/quote]
Communism sells.
The way I see it, if they don’t like it here and prefer communism or socialism they can get pack their asses up and move to Cuba.
Maybe they should head on over to the middle east and throw a concert over there. I’m sure they would get into their second song before someone killed them for offending religion.
It always amazes me when these rich boy rockers and celebrities can take time out from their busy schedules of snorting coke and partying to tell me how I should think. These people aren’t living in the real world anymore, even if they hadn’t fried their brains.
If it wasn’t for the “oppression” they speak of, they wouldn’t have the right to speak their minds in public. Goddamn hippies.
[quote]baretta wrote:
Maybe they should head on over to the middle east and throw a concert over there. I’m sure they would get into their second song before someone killed them for offending religion.
It always amazes me when these rich boy rockers and celebrities can take time out from their busy schedules of snorting coke and partying to tell me how I should think. These people aren’t living in the real world anymore, even if they hadn’t fried their brains.
If it wasn’t for the “oppression” they speak of, they wouldn’t have the right to speak their minds in public. Goddamn hippies.[/quote]
Well, at least they aren’t telling us that we should only use two squares of toilet paper. laugh
mike
Off-topic slightly, but daft punk rocked at coachella last year. Did anybody catch them??
http://www.funnyordie.com/v1/view_video.php?viewkey=735c046ac30a1556272c&page=&viewtype=&category=
enjoy!
mike
[quote]cycloneforce wrote:
The way I see it, if they don’t like it here and prefer communism or socialism they can get pack their asses up and move to Cuba.[/quote]
It stems deeper than this.
[quote]Mikeyali wrote:
http://www.funnyordie.com/v1/view_video.php?viewkey=735c046ac30a1556272c&page=&viewtype=&category=
enjoy!
mike[/quote]
I love ideas that was a good opinion
[quote]baretta wrote:
Maybe they should head on over to the middle east and throw a concert over there. I’m sure they would get into their second song before someone killed them for offending religion.[/quote]
Good idea and I doubt it. Check this out
It always amazes me how conscious human being can create such fucking DELUSIONS for themselves.
Ok well let me give you one example of Corporate “oppression”
The Guarani-Kaiow? had no contact with the European settlers before the late 1800s. Today their land is stolen by loggers and miners, and FUNAI, which is supposed to help indigenous peoples in Brazil, does little to help the Guarani. The Guarani are forced to leave their land and seek work on plantations, where they work as underpaid labourers. The Guarani of Mato Grosso do Sul are desperately campaigning to protect their land which is crucial for their survival.
Over the decades hundreds of Guarani-Kaiow? Indians, adults as well as youths as young as 9 years old, have taken their lives. Land is crucial for survival, and to take their land is a big crime against Guarani society.
http://itwillbethundering.resist.ca/issue_one/issue_one_guaraniandkaiowasuprisinginbrazil.shtml
Fit the pieces together. Everything here is great but miles away someone is living in hell, I guess some can live with that.
[quote]ssn0 wrote:
you need to cut back on youre daily intake of fox news![/quote]
you need to cut back on ur intake of cnn and turn on the truth aka fox news
[quote]BIG_DAWS wrote:
ssn0 wrote:
you need to cut back on youre daily intake of fox news!
you need to cut back on ur intake of cnn and turn on the truth aka fox news
[/quote]
FOX news is “the truth”?
How do people despise “the media” on one hand and glorify it on the other?
[quote]Professor X wrote:
BIG_DAWS wrote:
ssn0 wrote:
you need to cut back on youre daily intake of fox news!
you need to cut back on ur intake of cnn and turn on the truth aka fox news
FOX news is “the truth”?
How do people despise “the media” on one hand and glorify it on the other?[/quote]
Interesting dilemma but I would say that if our country is trying topple the Islamo-Nazi regime in Iran, why would Abc reveal serious intel info on our part to do so? That is grotesque and unnecessary. A reason to despise it.
NY Times has been historically a biased paper i.e. they lied about Fidel Castro and called him a “freedom fighter” fighting for democracy to overthrow Batista giving him favorable press. The Times never apologized to the Cuban people for this.
During WW II during the massive extermination of Jewish people in Nazi Germany, the Times pushes this story to the back pages I guess because it is not news worthy and millions of people later find out about the news. I despise it.
From 1932-1933 Stalin starved his own people and destroyed any opposition he would face. 700,000 people died and the Times covered it up. Despiseworthy.
The Times recently trashed the newly elected President of France. Hmm perhaps it has to do with something about him being pro-American. Despiseworthy.
The Times also campagined against the participation of detaining the terrorists at Guantanamo Bay, reported on misconduct by only a handful of soliders while ignoring regularly, the heroism of the rest, reports against the NSA wiretap program, regularly reports our losses but seldom publishes the enormous losses of our enemies and any progress. Boosting moral? Nope. Despiseworthy.
I know everyone is free to form an opinion and choose their news sources but when people tell me they get most of their news from Jon Stewart, I’m like you serious?
I went to Coachella 2007 (as well as 2005), I posted about it before I went… it sunk like a stone. I wasn’t there for RATM. I went to mostly see Jesus & Mary Chain, Kings of Leon … and I did see RHCP who played a ridiculously short set. I do know that its the best music festival going…the only one of interest to me.
Scarlet Johansson got to perform with Jesus and Mary Chain, which well pissed me off. Out of sheer jealousy.