When Rage In opposition to the Machine canceled their remaining 2022 and 2023 tour dates resulting from singer Zack de la Rocha’s torn achilles tendon, followers doubtless assumed that the reveals can be made up as soon as he healed. Nonetheless, in a brand new interview, guitarist Tom Morello means that the way forward for RATM is unsure, and that there’s an opportunity the reveals might by no means be rescheduled.
After a few delays because of the pandemic, Rage In opposition to the Machine lastly kicked off their reunion tour final summer time, with de la Rocha severely injuring himself in the course of the second present of the outing.
Whereas the singer soldiered on to play the rest of their North American summer time run whereas seated onstage, RATM introduced that their scheduled 2022 UK/European reveals and 2023 North American dates had been canceled to permit him time to heal.
Rolling Stone simply caught up with Morello for a brand new interview wherein the guitarist tried to set the document straight over complaints about purported vaccine necessities and the value of tickets for RATM’s tour dates. However the dialog took a flip when Morello left the way forward for the band unsure, regardless of many makes an attempt by interviewer Andy Greene to get a definitive reply.
Requested merely if the band will resume touring as soon as de la Rocha is healed, Morello responded, “We’ll see. If there’s to be any extra reveals, we’ll announce it as a band. I don’t know. I do know as a lot as you do, actually. Proper now we’re in time of therapeutic.”
He continued, “If there by no means is one other present, I believe that this tour made the case. It’s not about how a lot you tour. It’s about what it’s like throughout these moments whenever you do. Rage In opposition to the Machine has performed 19 reveals prior to now 12 years. And the resonance of these 19 reveals really feel, in speaking to followers, like these had been historic occasions that furthers the concept of what that band is like reside onstage.”
When pressed on whether or not the band was on hiatus, Morello professed, “Rage In opposition to the Machine is just like the ring in Lord of the Rings. It drives males mad. It drives journalists mad. It drives document business individuals mad. They need it. They need the factor, they usually’re pushed mad. If there are Rage reveals, if there usually are not Rage reveals, you’ll hear from the band.”
Not backing down, Greene requested once more concerning the 38 reveals that had been canceled, with Morello cryptically answering, “Do Rage In opposition to the Machine followers world wide need to see the band? Sure. After all they do. Would the instances profit from a culturally, spiritually, rocking-ly, potent band like Rage being onstage? After all. I don’t have information for you on that. I apologize. There’s nothing inner in our discussions that claims both sure or no.”
The back-and-forth went on and on between Greene and Morello, with the reporter in the end asking the musician if RATM are a band or had been a band. To that, Morello affirmed, “I’d consult with the official Rage In opposition to the Machine assertion on that time, wherein there’s none!”
If Rage In opposition to the Machine are certainly on hiatus, it’s not the primary time an damage halted the band’s actions. Again in 2000, RATM had been imagined to embark on a co-headlining tour with Beastie Boys. Nonetheless, that outing was postponed and ultimately canceled after Beastie Boy Mike D significantly injured his shoulder whereas using his bicycle. Not too lengthy after that, Rage broke up, and didn’t play one other present till 2007.
Photograph Gallery – Rage In opposition to the Machine at Chicago’s United Middle (click on to enlarge and scroll by):
