Rage Against the Machine to play Tent State event at DNC
By Abigail Curtis, Rocky Mountain News (Contact)
Published August 14, 2008 at 10:27 a.m.
Updated August 14, 2008 at 12:45 p.m.
Photo by Lisa Johnson Ÿ EPIC
Musical group Rage Against The Machine L to R: Tom Morello (guitar), Tim Bob (bass), Brad Wilk (Drums), Zack De La Rocha (vocals).
Rage Against The Machine will bring their angry lyrics and hard-hitting music to the Democratic National Convention for free.
But there's a catch. The band will take to the stage of the Denver Coliseum to support the Iraq Veterans Against the War. And the activist group is encouraging fans to join DNC protesters in order to enter a lottery for one of the 9,000 available tickets.
"The message of the band is highly inspirational," Jeff Englehart, president of the Denver Chapter of the Iraq Veterans Against the War, said at a press conference Thursday morning at Cuernavaca Park. "And it'll drive attention. A band like Rage Against The Machine has a lot of clout."
To get tickets, people should head to Tent State University's Cuernavaca Park headquarters starting on Sunday, August 24, in order to sign up for the lottery.
Organizers said that there may also be some giveaway tickets available through local radio shows.
Tent State University is teaming up with Iraq Veterans Against the War and other activist organizations to drum up attention at the DNC.
Adam Jung, an organizer for Tent State , said that the concert will raise the profile of the various groups coming to the DNC.
"And it obviously gives an incentive for more apathetic youth to come out to Tent State," Jung said.
What: Rage Against The Machine
When: 11 a.m. Wednesday, Aug. 27, at the Denver Coliseum.
To get tickets: According to the organizers, people must sign up for the ticket lottery with a valid photo ID at the Tent State Music Festival Booth at Cuernavaca Park between 11 a.m. and 6:30 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 24 - Tuesday, Aug. 26.
Winners will be notified by e-mail on Tuesday evening.
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August 14, 2008
10:33 a.m.
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freedomfighter1 writes:
I wonder does anyone know if we need tickets?
August 14, 2008
10:54 a.m.
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BroncoRick69 writes:
Ha! Rage Against The Machine. Better hire some more cops for after that show. You more than likely will need tickets, Freedomfighter, since it is at the coliseum. Maybe not, but probably.
August 14, 2008
10:58 a.m.
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blacksho89 writes:
Rage Against the Machine?
Weren't they important, once?
Last century?
August 14, 2008
11:03 a.m.
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BroncoRick69 writes:
No matter when they came out, they are still good, and extremely relevant. Do you stop liking good music after a certain amount of time has passed blacksho89? I find that interesting.
August 14, 2008
11:06 a.m.
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ShadyGrady writes:
Awesome band, but I couldn't take the stinky hippies in the 95 degree heat. Have a great time and dont' forget your pitchouli.
August 14, 2008
11:10 a.m.
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jefferson3 writes:
Wow. People are so mad.
August 14, 2008
11:31 a.m.
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MikeyP writes:
I didn't realize Rage Against the Machine was "Hippie Music".......
Have you ever listened to them before?
August 14, 2008
11:34 a.m.
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freedomfighter1 writes:
Last century=8-9 years ago.
August 14, 2008
11:34 a.m.
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B1 writes:
Hippie music may not be accurate. More like angry, juvenile, hippy music.
August 14, 2008
11:41 a.m.
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BroncoRick69 writes:
I didn't know they kept the temperature at 95 degrees in the Coliseum. Thats interesting.
August 14, 2008
11:45 a.m.
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BroncoRick69 writes:
A more accurate description would be proactive...Anti-Establishment. Pro-Freedom. Rap-Metal....Funk.. Revolutionary.
August 14, 2008
11:46 a.m.
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ruckus writes:
RATM would be the only reason I'd go to the DNC. Better bring the riot gear though.
And as for the ones calling their genre hippie music and being important last century just goes to show they are not good listeners, too much talking with a mouth proportionate to their a$$ but then again most AACP card holders need to check their hearing aid batteries from time to time.
August 14, 2008
11:53 a.m.
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hikingartist writes:
As I listen to The Flobots today, I feel very fortunate most the good music is created by like-minded liberals...come to think of it, are there any good, or relevant, conservative musicians out there?
August 14, 2008
12:06 p.m.
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freedomfighter1 writes:
...Hilary Duff, Bet Midler, oh wait-you asked for good musicians.
August 14, 2008
12:10 p.m.
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DenverDan writes:
Rage rules just like Obama! Well done DNC!!!
August 14, 2008
12:11 p.m.
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blacksho89 writes:
BrincoRick: No, I don't stop liking good music after a certain amount of time. What does that have to do with RATM?
August 14, 2008
12:17 p.m.
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Coloyakker writes:
Say what you will about their music, and the band has certainly faced controversy, but I think they are a great choice. Their lyrics do an excellent job of exposing politically and socially sensitive issues in a very thought provoking way. This band is aware of what happens in the world and back up their beliefs with important messages. Whether you agree with their message or not, they are worth a listen.
August 14, 2008
12:17 p.m.
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jefferson3 writes:
Old folks will always disdain what they don't understand. Now, go get yourself a cup of coffee and mutter.
August 14, 2008
12:26 p.m.
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freedomfighter1 writes:
For anyone interested-they are having a lottery for the tickets.
August 14, 2008
12:31 p.m.
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BroncoRick69 writes:
It has nothing to do with Rage Against the Machine blacksho89. It has to do with your comment:
blacksho89 writes:
Rage Against the Machine?
Weren't they important, once?
Last century?
August 14, 2008
12:36 p.m.
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kmeissner writes:
Denverdan I don't think this was set up by the DNC. It's a form of protest by the Iraq Veterans against the War. But it would be funny to see Obama on stage with RATM. haha
August 14, 2008
12:50 p.m.
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snowsurfer writes:
With a pocket full of shells
August 14, 2008
1:01 p.m.
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freedomfighter1 writes:
FREEDOM!!!!!FREEDOM!!!!!!
August 14, 2008
1:04 p.m.
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BroncoRick69 writes:
We gotta take the power back!
August 14, 2008
1:05 p.m.
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BroncoRick69 writes:
Anger is a gift.
August 14, 2008
1:45 p.m.
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WestminsterJ writes:
Its set up like a deck of cards
Theyre sending us to early graves
For all the diamonds
Theyll use a pair of clubs to beat the spades
August 14, 2008
2:02 p.m.
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DenverDan writes:
I hear the GOP will have the Donnie and Marie. Sweet
August 14, 2008
2:07 p.m.
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Mayor_Quimby writes:
I wonder if you have to volunteer for the campaign to see them as well.
August 14, 2008
2:10 p.m.
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freedomfighter1 writes:
And John Ashcroft will be singing- "Let The Eagle Soar," again!
It'll be one dandy time at the GOP.
August 14, 2008
2:12 p.m.
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temurlan writes:
Not really a Rage Against the Machine fan. But it's their event, they can have whoever they want. I don't know why so many people are dissing the band.
August 14, 2008
2:15 p.m.
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BroncoRick69 writes:
We don't need the key, we'll break in.
August 14, 2008
2:43 p.m.
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GetReal writes:
List of Conservative musicians-
Johnny Ramone
Kid Rock
Skunk Baxter
Sammy Hagar
Charlie Daniels
Ted Nugent
Gene Simmons
James Hetfield
CC DeVille
Toby Keith
Britteny Spears
Wayne Newton
Prussian Blue
David Allen Coe
Godsmack
Alice Cooper
And my personal favorite-
Frank Zappa
In his autobiography starting on page 315, there is a whole chapter dedicated to Practical Conservatism.
Here's the first paragraph:
"Politically, I consider myself to be a Practical Conservative. I want a smaller, less intrusive government, and lower taxes. What? You too?"
And here are a few Gene Simmons quotes-
"If you don't have the guts to stand up to injustice, where ever it exists (and that means stopping the Germans, the Japanese and the Italians in WW I and WW II ... or the Albanian Serbs in Bosnia ... or the tragedies that keep on occurring in Africa ... or even the Viet Nam War ... Panama ... North Korea ... the list goes on and on) ... One thing in common with all these events: America. America didn't stay and 'conquer' any of these countries."
"(I'm) ashamed to be surrounded by people calling themselves Liberal who are, in my opinion, spitting on the graves of brave American soldiers who gave their life to fight a war that wasn't theirs ... in a country they've never been to ... simply to liberate the people therein."
And here is a site for right wing punk rockers-
http://conservativepunk.com/
August 14, 2008
3:02 p.m.
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timeandagain writes:
I agree - RATM was once relevant. And their music WAS great. They just haven't done anything in 8-9 years and that is a LIFETIME in the music business.
But more than anything, you couldn't PAY ME to be around the vagrant scum that will be assembled for this particular show...
August 14, 2008
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frontpage writes:
Tent State folks at the Colessium? Great, Denver couldn't have dreamt of a better use for the facility. They(denver Police) can just use the stockyards pens across the street for their supposed lock down facility? The Tent state folks will be too stoned to figure out how to manuever thru the pens to "escape" and will not mind the smell at all after "tenting" it for a few days.
August 14, 2008
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temurlan writes:
GetReal, thanks for the list. Did you have to include Brittany though?
August 14, 2008
3:25 p.m.
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MileHighCritic writes:
Britteny Spears is neither conservative nor a musician.
August 14, 2008
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Meter6 writes:
I'm a conservative and I think Rage is a good band. Their message is left of socialism, but it's just entertainment, and is typical of the industry. Nice quotes GetReal that's some powerful stuff that you won't hear from Rage. Some of the lyrics from rage try to make America out to be the bad guy all the time, that's the only thing I don't like about them, but it's guys like Gene Simmons that bring them back down to Earth.
August 14, 2008
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OhBrother writes:
Bulls on parade!! Dude-this might get REAL ugly! I am a rage fan but I can't see how this was a good idea....let's see..anti establishment band at a large political function...hmm, guess we really want to test our police force out.
Oh and Brittany Spears? That whole list is now a wash
August 14, 2008
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BroncoRick69 writes:
timeandagain writes:
"I agree - RATM was once relevant. And their music WAS great. They just haven't done anything in 8-9 years and that is a LIFETIME in the music business."
I don't get it. Did they re-do the songs and not make them as good this time around? How could the music be great at one time, and then one day not be great? I don't see how the passage of time has anything to do with it. Does not doing anything for 8 or 9 years make their first songs go stale? The have by the way, been touring for the past year as Rage Against The Machine. Before that, most of the group consisted of a band called Audioslave with lead singer Chris Cornell.
August 14, 2008
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timeandagain writes:
I may have misspoken. Their OLD music IS great. But, in music, you need to be prolific and RATM is not. My point is that they lost their social/musical/political relevance long ago... Maybe they will get it back in conjunction with this convention...
August 14, 2008
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justinco writes:
RATM ROCKS!!!!
who put Britney Spears as a Conservative?
August 14, 2008
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B1 writes:
I liked them when I was 18. I'm no longer interested in angry, activist type music.
I think it is funny that they have made a lot of money in the capialist system that they complain about. Are they donating it all to Barack's Universal Health Care?
August 14, 2008
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h8r writes:
timeandagain - The Iraq Veterans Against the War are vagrant scum? I am not sure if you were trying to point out that a large portion of Iraq Veterans are becoming homeless or not, but I think you were a bit off there.
August 14, 2008
6:42 p.m.
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AngelontheSidelines writes:
RATM is needed now more than ever.
Rage, being the operative term is entirely missing from the American landscape. Americans have allowed complacency and inertia to replace their sense of outrage.
Congress passes bills, the pResident signs them into laws that legalize torture, child rape in front of parents, testicle crushing, are among the ''fraternity pranks" now legal.
The hallmark of Fascist rule is midnight arrests, detaining indefinitely without charge, kangaroo court using evidence hidden from the detainee, statements obtained by torture. All now legal in the land of the 'free'. "Your papers please", is an order now followed and accepted when twenty years ago we would have laughed at the prospect.
What happened? In any other era, Americans would be taking the streets demanding their rights back, throwing out the crooks in office. Why now? The television has us enthralled, entertained and subservient. Propaganda and indoctrination in our schools produce compliant workers just smart enough to run the machinery, and paperwork, but too stupid to realize that they are being screwed.
Rage Against the Machine is the slap in the face Americans need TODAY.
August 14, 2008
7:42 p.m.
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Arioch writes:
"List of Conservative musicians"
I'm guessing that you don't know that Prussian Blue is all about white supremacy and Holocaust denial, so I'm not going to give you a hard time about them showing up on the list.
I will, however, say that I thought all the Ramones were dead.
August 14, 2008
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Mark Brown writes:
Thank you, justinco, for being the first to spell Britney correctly.
August 14, 2008
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B1 writes:
Sweet Revenge - I believe that was Cypress Hill. Maybe you were too insane in the membrane during the early 90's to remember them now.
"What if God was one of us?"
Rage Rules!
August 14, 2008
9:01 p.m.
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timeandagain writes:
h8r -
I promise you that the venue will be filled with SIGNIFICANTLY more vagrant, worthless, punk, protester scum than anybody that has ever served their country abroad.
August 14, 2008
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WestminsterJ writes:
Britney Spears, at least a few years ago, was a George Bush fan. She is featured in Farenheit 911 talking about how Bush was right to go into Iraq between popping her bubblegum. I can't believe anyone would be surprised about that.
August 14, 2008
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roxy418 writes:
I'm excited that I don't have to travel out of state to see them! Just great-ful to have music that has a point and makes you think.
Reading all of these comments makes me believe that no matter what band plays at the DNC, you all will find some reason to complain.
PS-This isn't a surprise, it's been talked about/planned for almost a year....
August 14, 2008
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Faux_Noise writes:
AOTS:
I like the way you talk.
"Some of those that hold office,
are the same that burned crosses"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZtUYN...
August 14, 2008
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Faux_Noise writes:
Oh Yeah,
And the Coup is no joke either! "Party Music" was released before 9/11, and shows a picture of the WTC burning on the (since recalled) cover, and contains a track "5 million ways to kill a CEO" before anyone had a clue about the Enrons and Worldcoms to come. Anyone into Rage and rap should check them out.
August 15, 2008
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DarrenAtTentStateDotORG writes:
We need volunteers to help! If your interested in helping with the Tent State event please log on our website: http://www.tentstate.org/ or email me at:
DarrenAtTentStateDotORG
August 15, 2008
9:29 a.m.
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ruckus writes:
"timeandagain writes:
h8r -
I promise you that the venue will be filled with SIGNIFICANTLY more vagrant, worthless, punk, protester scum than anybody that has ever served their country abroad. "
you sure love to b!tch, get over it
August 15, 2008
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GetReal writes:
titancain-
Still having reading comprehension issues?
Where did I say great?
August 15, 2008
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ruckus writes:
"Aliverer writes:
Oh I get it! "h8r" means HATER! How clever. So easy to type on a phone keypad. Like minitrue is easier to type than Ministry of Truth. That Orwell guy was quite the prophet.
The party will rule all, and the brainwashed youth will be their spies.
So if you disagree, you are a "h8r". Because anyone who sees the folly of the world that 20 year old middle class spoiled brats would create, MUST be full of hate!
A hater is one who hates. How is their disrespect and anger and sometimes physical aggression towards anything they don't like not hate? Would that not make them haters? OOPS! Sorry...Haterz.
"
Wow, took you that long to figure out what "h8r" means? and took even longer to write a comment on haterz with absolutely no point other than to try to spark a useless debate? LOL, try saying something significant if your gonna try to talk sh!t...
August 15, 2008
12:33 p.m.
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ruckus writes:
LOL. just calling it what it is, no nerves touched though. stand by what you said it is your right to do so, but if my comment hurt your ego so much they got medication for that. Its called Vagisil...