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- ESKEMA
I saw Rage against the Machine last night.
what a fuckin show. went up to my top 3 concerts. I don't think I ever saw so many people jumpin at the same time continuously
- tomkat0
saw them pinkpop /netherlands one month ago. single most important gig of my life
- Khurram0
Incidentally I had a mate Pierre who used to live in Uni halls with me who used to like Rage Against the Machine. His brother used to live in squats and was into the punk scene in the 80s.
Incidentally Pierre was English but his parents named him after a character in the book, War and Peace.
- ismith0
I didn't realize RATM was still together... I imagine they'd put on a good show.
- PIITB0
I want to see them sooooooo bad. Im very jealous of you, where did you see them?
- tomkat0
reunion 2008
- CALLES0
98 wants you back
- ESKEMA0
Alive Festival. Lisbon.
gonna see bob dylan tonight
- flavorful0
I saw them last year and it was incredible.
- BonSeff0
i am really looking forward to this
http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/ar…
theodore is a sick drummer
- neue75_bold0
I saw them about 8 - 10 years ago, biggest joke of a concert I have seen... fuck you I won't do what you tell me... lol
so corny...
- Haha yea, but I was like 11 when that came out?flavorful
- that's what I imagine it'd be like.Jaline
- yeah, I was really only there to see Cypress Hill & Funkdoobiest...neue75_bold
- oh, yeah, forgot about them, they were wicked too._niko
- _niko0
saw them in '94 with cypress hill, when cypress hill was still good. we snuck in the arena, then snuck onto the floor.
- shit, that was the same tour I saw, so I guess that was more than 8 -10 years ago...neue75_bold
- robotron3k0
i saw rage in 99 at the first Cochella. greatest show eva!
- digdre0
what can I say..
- skt0
i saw them and cypress hill do a set togethor about 13 years ago. thought it was ace at the time.
also, i almost hit mark lamar in the face with a lighter about 20 minutes before that.
- harlequino0
My RATM tale:
Summer after freshman year of high school I went to Lollapalooza in this dusty ass airstrip in Rhode Island (I am from New Hampshire). Somehow got sucked into the crazy huge mosh pit during Rage's set. People are flailing, punching, diving, etc. At one point I fall down. Before I hit the floor and get trampled, this hand grabs me and pulls me up. I recognize this guy.
"Dude, you were in my fuckin Geometry class!!"
It's this guy Mark, who was one of the more militant jocks who mocked and beat up on the lesser folk on the high school food chain.
"Awesome to see you, man!!" and he dives back in the crowd.
About a week later, while I worked in a record store, Mark comes in to buy the Rage album. He sees me and sets off reminiscing about the show and how much he now loves RATM.
From that day on, Mark pretty much abandoned the popular jock crowd. Last I heard he was something of a labor rights activist in Boston. Thanks, RATM!
- TheBlueOne0
My RATM tale:
Must've been 1997 or 98 or so and I had a new job - about three months in. The boss calls me in and says "My 13 year old son and his two friends want to go to some rock concert or other but I can't be bothered, you want to chaperone them? The tickets and all incidental costs are on me..."
"Sure who is it?"
"Raging machines or something..I don't know. It's Friday at the Nassau Coliseum."
"Rage Against the Machine?"
"Yeah that's it. All music has sucked since Clapton left Cream in my opinion. But you wanna do it?"
"Fuc..I mean, certainly boss."
So come friday I'm driving the three teens to their first ever rock concert. And I'm psyched cause I wanted to check out the old RATM. So our tickets are like at the lower end of the second tier in typical stadium seating. We sit through some boring ass opening band...and then during the intermission, house lights up and all, parts of the crowd start chanting "Rage...Rage..Rage..." Then one kid from the lower tier stage left makes a rush through the crowd and takes a flying leap onto the floor...he lands, security is all over him. But as security converges on this kid, another kid realizes an opportunity, and he does the same from stage right..security gets to him...and then slowly in drips and drabs more kids start jumping down to the floor...more police rush in and security dudes...and then "rage...rage..rage!!" is getting louder and fucking madness ensues, like a cork out of a bottle the entire first tier of kids just rushes the goddamn floor, like a huge wave..You're seeing security guys get tossed about and lost..the cops back lines up into the tunnels. Holy fucking shit...fights are breaking out all over the place. The three nitwits I'm with start inching down and I grab all of them by the scruff of their t-shirts going "You do not fucking move. Not one fucking inch."
Just then Rage take the stage, Zack is looking out across the crowd and starts saying "Fuck. Well, we're Rage Against the Machine... " And wham we're into "Guerilla Radio" The entire floor of the colissuem is a fucking whirlpool - security and cops just gave up and ran to the tunnels on the sides and in front of the stage and hold a line there. From that point on the energy in that building was so exciting and completely on the verge of being out of control. The band was super tight - one of the best sounding shows I had ever seen...and during the final "Fuck you..we won't do what you tell us..." bit..I swear a riot was about to break out...I was on one hand completely enjoying this, but completely freaking out having to watch these three kids...just before the last song ended I told these kids "Move..now..out to the car..."
Out in the parking lot we got to the car as the crowd starts streaming out, security is jacked, on edge, bottles ar egetting tossed a few kids jumping up and down on cars...I got the fuck out of there as quick as I could.
In the car these kids were like "Gee, I guess that was cool..." and I was like "That was your FIRST rock show? You have no idea how high a bar that just set...."
- hoopy0
I saw the all indian tribute band play at the dolphin in hackney
'Raj against the machine'
fucking genius
- hahahaha!TheBlueOne
- lolzharlequino
- lolJaline
- HAHAHA! Damn it! I wish I thought of this reference for my one roommate in college, haha.flavorful
- RAJAHARSHI!flavorful
- 2cents0
I've seen them twice. Possibly the best shows I've ever seen aside from seeing the very first night of the Original Black Sabbath reunion tour in 2000.
- blackspade0
sweet - saw em in Auckalnd nz last year and they went off