Medical disclaimer for RATM fans: The below music may cause dizziness, diarrhea and a severe sense of worthlessness for not sacking up and buying that Coachella ticket. But mainly, diarrhea.
As several thousand lucky assbaskets will witness first-hand this evening, few bands command the stage like Rage Against The Machine. Tonight, they battle Los Angeles for the first time since 2000.
And while a few measly audio files can do their live sound no justice, here are some tracks that may just goosebump—if I may use that as a verb—those of us who have been fortunate enough to catch these savages in concert.
So without further ado, I give you a smattering of live tracks for Part Six of our six-part reunion countdown series. (Bear with the sound quality on some of these, especially the first two.)
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From Live At The Quad, believed to be RATM's first-ever live performance.
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RATM—People Of The Sun (Early alt. version)/Bullet In The Head Medley (Live)
From Revolution, a 1993 bootleg.
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Woodstock '99 opener
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And to cap off the series, my personal favorite RATM studio cut:
From The Battle Of Los Angeles
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The puck drops tonight at 10:40pm PST. Rage Against The Machine, 2007 style. I have a $20 bet with myself that YouTube has some footage up before I go to bed. Wish me luck. (Actually, several Coachella clips are already up on YouTube, including these from DJ Shadow and The Arctic Monkeys.)
My opener prediction: "Testify"
I was there... the opener was Testify. Pretty ill.
Posted by: Michael Ocean | March 15, 2008 at 03:54 PM
opener has to be 'take the power back'
Posted by: ben | April 29, 2007 at 04:09 PM