In 2012, Morello explained the 1986 purchase that formed the genesis of what would become the Arm The Homeless guitar to Music Radar. Possibly Morello’s most well known and instantly recognizable guitar, “Arm The Homeless” started life as a total piece of crap.
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There was only real, live.ĭespite the wide range of sounds on the record, Morello actually used very little gear – just three guitars, four pedals, and one amp. There was no click, there was no protools, there was no offsetting. Incredibly, video exists – and was shared by Richardson at Namm 2020 – of the original take of Killing In The Name that ended up on the record. So I took a major risk here, I was this young kid and I went “I’m gonna put a PA system inside the room, put all the amps in the back rooms, and I’m gonna have it as a show.Īll songs were tracked live, with a minimal amount of overdubs. I wanted to capture that feel, that same thing I could not bring them into a studio and put Tom in the corner with some headphones on, and Tim with some headphones on, and Zack with headphones on, and make it nice and clean. Richardson told Nimbus School of Recording & Media in 2019 that after seeing their power in the rehearsal studio, he knew he had to take an unusual approach to get that pure fire on tape. Singer Zack De La Roca even sang with his SM58 in his hand.
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The band set up the drums in the live room of Sound City with a full PA on either side (with large panels between to allow some separation), and the other three members of the band facing the drums. While many records are recorded with band members separated into their own rooms to allow them full separation to accurately play their parts, Rage of course went the opposite direction. Richardson immediately dumped the session he was working with and went right into the studio with the band. I was so completely shocked that when I went to talk to them, I couldn’t talk – I was stuttering unbelievably, completely overwhelmed by what I’d just seen. Richardson was impressed enough to go to see the band play at a rehearsal studio in Van Nuys and so blown away his stutter kicked in – hard. RATM’s A&R rep Michael Goldstone asked Garth Richardson (styled as GGGarth due to his stutter) to produce the record, handing him the band’s demo tape. He also said that he’d had the intro to Bombtrack since he was a teenager. In a 2019 interview with Premier Guitar, Tom Morello explained that he wrote the riff to Killing In The Name during a guitar lesson in the late 80s while demonstrating how drop D tuning encourages you to play the guitar differently. However, many of the riffs go back years. RATM formed mid-1991, played their first show that October, released a 12 song demo in December, and four months later were signed to Epic and beginning a month’s residency in Sound City Studios with Garth Richardson. The album’s gestation was markedly short.
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Other articles in this series you may enjoy: We’re going to walk you through all of the gear that Morello used, song by song – but first, let’s put some context to it. However, his rig was deceptively simple, often just a guitar, a small handful of pedals, and a Marshall stack. Riding hot on the heels of Kurt Cobain’s anti-solos, Morello often took his time to shine as an opportunity to show that a guitar didn’t need to sound like a guitar – why not make it sound like a turntable? Morello’s guitar playing was a masterclass in outside the box thinking. Not only did Tom Morello have killer riffs, he had an arsenal of sonic mischief up his sleeve, from his judicious use of a whammy pedal, to his percussive kill switch laden solos, to his towering funk-inspired riffs. Their potent mix of rock, funk and rap almost overnight made “rap-rock” a mainstream genre, and their front and center politics inspired a generation of activists.įor guitarists too, there was A LOT in that record. Rage Against The Machine came out of the gate in 1992 with an album that had an immediate and profound influence on the musical landscape.
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