Tom Morello appeared on Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich‘s Beats 1 Radio show ‘It’s Electric‘ this week and while discussing his new solo album was the primary focus, he also discussed why Rage Against The Machine fell apart. Speaking of how the band initially collapsed back in 2000, he commented:
“I’ll put myself first and foremost. “It was a lack of emotional maturity in being able to deal with each other as people. We had political vision and the shows never suffered, but we just couldn’t agree on stuff and that sort of unearthed feelings that made it hard to make records. I think there were competing visions of what Rage was supposed to be and competing feelings about what it was like to be in the band that we didn’t deal with.”
He further stated:
“My version of the band was let’s make a record every six months. Let’s be the political Led Zeppelin and let’s overthrow the government and make the best records anyone ever did … by Wednesday, go, go!”
He later added: “My glass half full version is that for a band that had extremely combustible elements, to be able to have made four records and to be able to have played the shows that we did, I think it’s a miracle.” As to why the band didn’t fully reunite after playing getting back together in 2007 and touring for a few years, he offered:
“We got together in 2007 and we had a great time. We had fun onstage, offstage, playing ping pong, going out, to me it felt like there was a lot of camaraderie, but one of the things we kind of helped that and took off the table was everything that had been controversial before—writing music, doing interviews, having a manager—we’re just not going to do that stuff. We’re just going to play shows and have a nice time and be able to look each other in the eye and have a nice time and not be anything that had stirred controversy in the past.”
[via Loudwire]
