RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE

Show Notes

• Rages first performance at a house party.
• Tom Morello has said that Take the Power Back was the first song played, and that they played 5 or 6 songs, and then played them all again a second time.
• Joe Nelson, who was in the band Triggerman which played alongside Inside Out, attended the show and had this to say about it: "A few months later the singer, Zach De La Rocha’s new band Rage Against the Machine, made their world debut at some random house party in Huntington Beach, CA. I went with skepticism in my eyes. I left with not a shred of doubt they would become gigantic. The band’s set that night featured some of the newer Inside Out songs like “Darkness of Greed.” Only the song was now reworked into a hypnotic soul jam, which then busted into the most vicious KRS-One vocal attack yet, laid over a crunchy Jimmy Page inspired riff. It was mind-blowing to watch. They played a version of The Clash’s classic “Clampdown,” which sounded as if N.W.A. and the Cro-Mags wrote it. Every song that night sounded better than the next, and the first one dropped jaws. They were songs called “Township Rebellion” and “Bullet in the Head.” Another was “Killing in the Name,” a frantic tune that ended with Zack screaming over and over, “Fuck you I won’t do what you tell me,” until I thought he would pass out from exhaustion.".