Rage Against the Machine
Show Information:
- Date:
- 1993-11-24
- Venue:
- West Pavilion
- Location:
- Indianapolis, IN USA
- Tour:
- 1993 Tour in support of Cypress Hill
- Notes:
- This is taken from a review of the concert but unclear who wrote it or where it was published. The review: "Thanksgiving Eve in the heart of the Heartland. Turkeys are basted lovingly; a few miles from here, one Quayle readies his memoirs while another sleeps with visions of the Indiana governor's mansion dancing in her head. Not far from this converted livestock barn (no chairs; we are cattle), in nearby Morocco, Indiana, ten high school boys have been suspended over a dispute involving their female classmates' hip-hop fashion choices. "This is a -white- community," comments 16-year-old Brandon Belt. "If they don't want to be white, they should leave." This is the backdrop against which Rage Against the Machine singer Zack de la Rocha finds himself tonight. Which is why, when he leads a chorus of "Fuck the norm, fuck the norm" during "Township Rebellion," and the 3,000 cattle momentarily mass levitate, it feels not like a chant but like a first resort; as reasonable a response to the world outside as "stop the insanity." Been there, done that, political music, blah blah blah, I know. But for at least one hour, Rage felt like the most important band on the planet- a lean, mean fighting Machine built from the same fully warranted parts that make the Dead Kennedys, the Clash, Helmet, and Public Enemy tick. Led by de la Rocha, a dreadlocked Chicano rubber-band man who commandeered the stage like a speed-fed ghost of Bob Marley, and the utterly staggering guitarist Tom Morello (whose mother Mary Morello, founder of the anti-censorship group Parents for Rock & Rap, introduced the band), Rage was one tough act to follow, a far more formidable lead-in than House of Pain was on Cypress Hill's "Soul Assassins" tour last year. Where House of Pain made Cypress sound like phonky visionaries, Rage made them look like Larry, Mo, and Curly.
- Previous show:
- 1993-11-21 - Braden Auditorium Normal, IL USA
- Next show:
- 1993-11-26 - Eastbrook Theatre Grand Rapids, MI USA
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