Power Chords: TOM MORELLO of Rage Against The Machine

The Bunker

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News, Politics, Society & Culture, Government

4.6 • 984 Ratings

🗓️ 21 September 2020

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Rage Against The Machine’s TOM MORELLO is one of the most charismatic and energising figures in rock’n’roll and politics. He tells Dorian Lynskey about the role of radicalism in rock, protofascism, AOC, Trump, the Presidential Election, cancel culture, and his political journey from a super-progressive childhood – via arguing with teenage Trotskyists at Harvard and working for a US Senator – to spearheading rock’n’roll’s most righteous band. Tom Morello’s photo memoir Whatever It Takes is available to pre-order now at www.TomMorelloBook.com. “There’s only two positions when it comes to free speech. You’re either for ALL of it or you’re against ANY of it.” “If I was in a job where I couldn’t call a damn racist a damn racist, I knew I was in the wrong job.” “Injustice met me head on in the playground when I was three or four years old.” “Taking anyone’s ideas off the board is very dangerous – because I know there are people in office who would like to take MY ideas off the board, permanently.” “Everything is at stake right now. So someone better be singing or rapping about it.” “Trump vs Biden is not the lesser of two evils. It’s the evil of two lessers.” “Why do I vote? Because THEY don’t want me to.” Presented by Dorian Lynskey. Produced by Andrew Harrison. Assistant producer Jacob Archbold. Music by Kenny Dickinson. Audio production by Alex Rees. THE BUNKER is a Podmasters Production See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	My name is Stan. I'm at. Nice to meet you. So you took up photography where? I've always loved
0:05.5	photography but I turn it into earning a living at 60. I enrolled on a day course.
0:11.8	Well college. I loved going to college. It's good you can retry. I'm enrolled on the day course. But college?
0:13.0	I loved going to college.
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1:14.0	From Rose Against the Machine to Audio Slave, Profits of Rage and his solo records,
1:17.7	he's Talk The Talk and Walk The Walk, playing picket lines as well as stadiums.
1:21.8	Now he's publishing a photographic memoir called
1:23.7	whatever it takes. Hi Tom thanks for joining me. Hi how are you? Thanks very much for
1:28.3	having me. Where are you right now? I'm actually in Scottsdale, Arizona. I'm a climate refugee. My family are climate refugees
1:36.8	currently. The California wildfires and the attending smoke and horrible air quality have driven us from the state.
1:43.4	Well I'm glad you're out of that sort of apocalyptic looking climate.
1:46.5	It is.
1:47.5	It's very much feeling that way.
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