RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE Draws 9,000 In Denver At Anti-War Concert
August 27, 2008RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE drew an estimated 9,000 of fans to its anti-war concert earlier today (Wednesday, August 27) at the Denver Coliseum.
Fan-filmed video footage of the performance can be viewed below.
About 8,000 free tickets were handed out by lottery for the show, sponsored by Tent State University and Iraq Veterans Against the War.
Although he once worked for a Democratic senator, RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE guitarist Tom Morello told The Pulse of Radio he has no interest in getting any closer to national politics than he is now. "I've always felt more much comfortable, you know, on the outside, lobbing musical Molotov cocktails over the barbed wire fence and, you know, I believe that both political parties are severely flawed, and neither one of them really represents the true needs of the vast majority of Americans," he said. "But there's clearly differences as well, and it can definitely mean life or death to tens of thousands, if not more, people who's elected this next election."
Morello once worked as a scheduling secretary for Alan Cranston, the late Democratic senator from Illinois.
RAGE will play in Minneapolis on September 3, the same week the Republican National Convention takes place in nearby St. Paul, where Morello says RAGE plans to "give 'em hell."
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