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Speaker 1: Hi, Tom Morello. I'm Lindsay Murray from ninety three X Minnesota's rock station Fantastic. Perhaps you've heard of Minnesota before.
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Speaker 2: You've been in the news lately.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, we have, and it's about time that you make your way over here. I think we are promised to rage against the Machine show. Uh, then you know the whole Zach de La Rocca incident, and so we never got it. So I'm making good on tomorrow.
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Speaker 2: If i'st Avenue, I will be there. Yeah.
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Speaker 3: Well, I'm ready willing and able to, uh to do my best to make up for that tomorrow.
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Speaker 1: I'm very excited. It's going to be you and rise against an especial guest. It could be Bruce Springsteen.
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Speaker 3: You can we also have We also have Al Demola and Ike Riley, who has a long history with Minnesota rocking.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah. Well I was just I was trying. I was like, Bruce, it could be Bruce Springsteen. I know you guys are best friends.
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Speaker 3: Now, no, I want to announce you a special guest. Is it's all four Beatles?
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Speaker 2: Oh?
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Speaker 1: Really tell me right now, it's.
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Speaker 2: Even bigger than you thought. Yeah, it's all for Itzy's the original lineup of the Beatles.
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Speaker 1: No, we're excited to have you, Minnesota stra.
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Speaker 2: You know, you know who my you know who, My favorite guest is.
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Speaker 3: Who's going to be at the show are the people of Minneapolis who have stood up and have been an inspiration to the entire nation at this crossroads of crazy crossroads of our American history. They have stood up for justice, they have stood up for democracy. They're an inspiration. And even though it's freezing cold there, we're very happy to come and to play a show for those people.
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Speaker 1: I don't you've been such a busy guy. I don't know how you have time to fight fascism, but we'll welcome it. We'll gladly.
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Speaker 2: I make I make time to fight.
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Speaker 1: You've been busy. I mean, okay, let me let me have my cliff notes here. You're a one man radio revolution. You're touring the world with all your friends. You just played India. You directed the Ballot of Judas Priest, which just gets its debut next month in Berlin. Uh. You launched your new Fender guitar. Another Vender guitar, uh, which my husband wants, by the way, gosh, I mean, how do you your heart's in the right place, and it's in so many places. How do you have time to work on the new music? Like? Are we getting another Atlas Underground?
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Speaker 2: With this long? Are you're gonna get? Know that? What I'm working on now is.
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Speaker 3: The first Tom Morello solo rock album, A record that will both incorporate the My song everything Burns Will Be is from that somewhat of a preview of that record, though it has the collaboration with Beartooth, which I greatly enjoy, but a record that will both encapsulate the riffage, the Morellian.
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Speaker 2: Riffage of the sort of rage against the machine.
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Speaker 3: Audio slave world, but then also the you know, the darkness on the edge of town, Bob Dylan of it all that I'm also a very big fan of today.
00:02:46
Speaker 1: In nineteen sixty one, Bob Dylan met Woody Guthrie for the first time.
00:02:51
Speaker 2: Oh with this, the famous meeting at the at.
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Speaker 1: The New York Yeah, yeah, yeah, I have these stupid useless tidbits in my.
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Speaker 2: Brain that is not that is not a useless pivot.
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Speaker 3: That was That was a monumental meeting that that changed Bob's life.
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Speaker 1: So yeah, I know, and it's all connected to Minnesota, really the Midwest. Man. We're just it's just it's a vibe. It's a total vibe.
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Speaker 2: It is a vibe.
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Speaker 3: Well, as an Illinois boy myself, I certainly am familiar familiar with that vibe.
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Speaker 2: And the temperatures, yes.
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Speaker 1: And the temperatures you might freeze. The best part about this well not, I mean, of course, one hundred percent of the proceeds benefit the family literally harassed and murdered the family of Renee Good and Alex Pretty It's it's a ten thirty am Doors. I had to reread it for a bit.
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Speaker 2: I was like, yeah, it's ten thirty am Doors.
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Speaker 3: There was another show that night, and we didn't want to, you know, kick anybody off the bill, and uh, you know, we wanted to. We wanted we wanted to do it, and also on supportive on this day, you know, with the national strike and all of that. It was like we wanted to sort of integrate the show into the protests in Minneapolis. All all eyes are in Minneapolis, and you know, it's been a while since I've played in Minneapolis, and I really can't wait to get back to First Avenue.
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Speaker 2: You know, it is the it is the house where you.
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Speaker 3: Know prints conjured the revolution and now it's your generation's turn.
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Speaker 1: It's so exciting to see it all play out. And I just feel it, man, I feel I feel a movement that's happening. I'm happy that you're a part of it. I'm happy that we can fight the power during working hours. I'm just like, let's give me a matinee. I would like a rock star matinee.
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Speaker 3: The people, you know, I'm going to I'm going to try to pre guarantee that this is going to be the greatest brunch time rock and roll show that has ever happened at sixth Avenue.
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Speaker 2: That's a pre guarantee.
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Speaker 1: It's all for a wonderful cause. Totally sold out. People are trying to like get tickets. They're not, they're void, they're not.
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Speaker 2: So we sold out in two minutes. It was pretty crazy.
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Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, fast fingers, fast fingers. It's an honor.
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Speaker 3: It's an honor to become in your city, you know, like it's a it's it really is. It's a meaningful time in our country's history and in whatever your vocation, standing up for what you believe in.
00:05:10
Speaker 2: It's it's kind of a now or never moment right now.
00:05:12
Speaker 3: And so whether you're a musician, whether you are a radio host, whether you are someone listening who's a teacher or a carpenter or whatever, it's really all hands on deck right now.
00:05:22
Speaker 2: There's a lot at stake everything.
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Speaker 1: I love this quote from you. I ripped it from some interview you did a long time ago. You said you are a historical agent, and if you don't have your hands on the steering wheel, somebody else does. And I just think.
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Speaker 2: By that I stand by.
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Speaker 1: It so applicable to Minnesota. They've always been ahead of the curve. And you know, I'm I am honored, we are honored to have you tomorrow, stick around, stay as long as you'd like, I can.
00:05:48
Speaker 2: We thank you. We'll be there, and we'll be there for the you.
00:05:51
Speaker 1: Know, driving west, go through Lake Michigan, you just leave Wrigleyville and you just keep going.
00:05:57
Speaker 2: Oh yes, yeah, yeah, yeah, but no, thank you.
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Speaker 3: One thing too about Minnesota, like I first, I first played there at Sixth Avenue with my pre Rage against the Machine band lock Up, and so I may I remember playing pinball. Is a is a very young man in that venue, and so here we are X number of years later you know, you know, still still coming back to one of the world's greatest venues, one of my favorite places to play uh and some of my favorite people to play for at a very very important moment in the country's history.
00:06:26
Speaker 1: We love you, Happy to have you. Which guitar do you even know what guitars? This seems like you just threw this together last minute. Which have you packed yours?
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Speaker 2: Have you started driving? We yeah, we did throw it.
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Speaker 3: I mean a lot of thanks to like our crew and the other artists who like raised their raise their hand. Now I do a lot of like benefit shows and charity shows and protest shows, et cetera. I really got a hand it to the people who raise their hands and are willing to, like at a no notice, to drop everything and come. So for Rise against, for Ike Riley, for Al Daimola, and for my band and all the crew who got together.
00:06:57
Speaker 2: It's pretty exciting for Minnesota.
00:06:59
Speaker 1: Thank you so much much, man, Happy to have you. We'll see you tomorrow.
00:07:04
Speaker 2: Stay safe, stay strong, We'll see you tomorrow. Thank you, tom bye bye, Thank you.
Speaker 1: Hi, Tom Morello. I'm Lindsay Murray from ninety three X Minnesota's rock station Fantastic. Perhaps you've heard of Minnesota before.
00:00:08
Speaker 2: You've been in the news lately.
00:00:11
Speaker 1: Yeah, we have, and it's about time that you make your way over here. I think we are promised to rage against the Machine show. Uh, then you know the whole Zach de La Rocca incident, and so we never got it. So I'm making good on tomorrow.
00:00:24
Speaker 2: If i'st Avenue, I will be there. Yeah.
00:00:27
Speaker 3: Well, I'm ready willing and able to, uh to do my best to make up for that tomorrow.
00:00:32
Speaker 1: I'm very excited. It's going to be you and rise against an especial guest. It could be Bruce Springsteen.
00:00:38
Speaker 3: You can we also have We also have Al Demola and Ike Riley, who has a long history with Minnesota rocking.
00:00:44
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah. Well I was just I was trying. I was like, Bruce, it could be Bruce Springsteen. I know you guys are best friends.
00:00:51
Speaker 3: Now, no, I want to announce you a special guest. Is it's all four Beatles?
00:00:56
Speaker 2: Oh?
00:00:56
Speaker 1: Really tell me right now, it's.
00:00:59
Speaker 2: Even bigger than you thought. Yeah, it's all for Itzy's the original lineup of the Beatles.
00:01:02
Speaker 1: No, we're excited to have you, Minnesota stra.
00:01:06
Speaker 2: You know, you know who my you know who, My favorite guest is.
00:01:08
Speaker 3: Who's going to be at the show are the people of Minneapolis who have stood up and have been an inspiration to the entire nation at this crossroads of crazy crossroads of our American history. They have stood up for justice, they have stood up for democracy. They're an inspiration. And even though it's freezing cold there, we're very happy to come and to play a show for those people.
00:01:28
Speaker 1: I don't you've been such a busy guy. I don't know how you have time to fight fascism, but we'll welcome it. We'll gladly.
00:01:34
Speaker 2: I make I make time to fight.
00:01:37
Speaker 1: You've been busy. I mean, okay, let me let me have my cliff notes here. You're a one man radio revolution. You're touring the world with all your friends. You just played India. You directed the Ballot of Judas Priest, which just gets its debut next month in Berlin. Uh. You launched your new Fender guitar. Another Vender guitar, uh, which my husband wants, by the way, gosh, I mean, how do you your heart's in the right place, and it's in so many places. How do you have time to work on the new music? Like? Are we getting another Atlas Underground?
00:02:10
Speaker 2: With this long? Are you're gonna get? Know that? What I'm working on now is.
00:02:15
Speaker 3: The first Tom Morello solo rock album, A record that will both incorporate the My song everything Burns Will Be is from that somewhat of a preview of that record, though it has the collaboration with Beartooth, which I greatly enjoy, but a record that will both encapsulate the riffage, the Morellian.
00:02:35
Speaker 2: Riffage of the sort of rage against the machine.
00:02:37
Speaker 3: Audio slave world, but then also the you know, the darkness on the edge of town, Bob Dylan of it all that I'm also a very big fan of today.
00:02:46
Speaker 1: In nineteen sixty one, Bob Dylan met Woody Guthrie for the first time.
00:02:51
Speaker 2: Oh with this, the famous meeting at the at.
00:02:53
Speaker 1: The New York Yeah, yeah, yeah, I have these stupid useless tidbits in my.
00:02:57
Speaker 2: Brain that is not that is not a useless pivot.
00:03:00
Speaker 3: That was That was a monumental meeting that that changed Bob's life.
00:03:04
Speaker 1: So yeah, I know, and it's all connected to Minnesota, really the Midwest. Man. We're just it's just it's a vibe. It's a total vibe.
00:03:12
Speaker 2: It is a vibe.
00:03:12
Speaker 3: Well, as an Illinois boy myself, I certainly am familiar familiar with that vibe.
00:03:17
Speaker 2: And the temperatures, yes.
00:03:18
Speaker 1: And the temperatures you might freeze. The best part about this well not, I mean, of course, one hundred percent of the proceeds benefit the family literally harassed and murdered the family of Renee Good and Alex Pretty It's it's a ten thirty am Doors. I had to reread it for a bit.
00:03:37
Speaker 2: I was like, yeah, it's ten thirty am Doors.
00:03:39
Speaker 3: There was another show that night, and we didn't want to, you know, kick anybody off the bill, and uh, you know, we wanted to. We wanted we wanted to do it, and also on supportive on this day, you know, with the national strike and all of that. It was like we wanted to sort of integrate the show into the protests in Minneapolis. All all eyes are in Minneapolis, and you know, it's been a while since I've played in Minneapolis, and I really can't wait to get back to First Avenue.
00:04:03
Speaker 2: You know, it is the it is the house where you.
00:04:06
Speaker 3: Know prints conjured the revolution and now it's your generation's turn.
00:04:13
Speaker 1: It's so exciting to see it all play out. And I just feel it, man, I feel I feel a movement that's happening. I'm happy that you're a part of it. I'm happy that we can fight the power during working hours. I'm just like, let's give me a matinee. I would like a rock star matinee.
00:04:30
Speaker 3: The people, you know, I'm going to I'm going to try to pre guarantee that this is going to be the greatest brunch time rock and roll show that has ever happened at sixth Avenue.
00:04:43
Speaker 2: That's a pre guarantee.
00:04:45
Speaker 1: It's all for a wonderful cause. Totally sold out. People are trying to like get tickets. They're not, they're void, they're not.
00:04:52
Speaker 2: So we sold out in two minutes. It was pretty crazy.
00:04:55
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, fast fingers, fast fingers. It's an honor.
00:05:00
Speaker 3: It's an honor to become in your city, you know, like it's a it's it really is. It's a meaningful time in our country's history and in whatever your vocation, standing up for what you believe in.
00:05:10
Speaker 2: It's it's kind of a now or never moment right now.
00:05:12
Speaker 3: And so whether you're a musician, whether you are a radio host, whether you are someone listening who's a teacher or a carpenter or whatever, it's really all hands on deck right now.
00:05:22
Speaker 2: There's a lot at stake everything.
00:05:24
Speaker 1: I love this quote from you. I ripped it from some interview you did a long time ago. You said you are a historical agent, and if you don't have your hands on the steering wheel, somebody else does. And I just think.
00:05:36
Speaker 2: By that I stand by.
00:05:37
Speaker 1: It so applicable to Minnesota. They've always been ahead of the curve. And you know, I'm I am honored, we are honored to have you tomorrow, stick around, stay as long as you'd like, I can.
00:05:48
Speaker 2: We thank you. We'll be there, and we'll be there for the you.
00:05:51
Speaker 1: Know, driving west, go through Lake Michigan, you just leave Wrigleyville and you just keep going.
00:05:57
Speaker 2: Oh yes, yeah, yeah, yeah, but no, thank you.
00:06:00
Speaker 3: One thing too about Minnesota, like I first, I first played there at Sixth Avenue with my pre Rage against the Machine band lock Up, and so I may I remember playing pinball. Is a is a very young man in that venue, and so here we are X number of years later you know, you know, still still coming back to one of the world's greatest venues, one of my favorite places to play uh and some of my favorite people to play for at a very very important moment in the country's history.
00:06:26
Speaker 1: We love you, Happy to have you. Which guitar do you even know what guitars? This seems like you just threw this together last minute. Which have you packed yours?
00:06:33
Speaker 2: Have you started driving? We yeah, we did throw it.
00:06:36
Speaker 3: I mean a lot of thanks to like our crew and the other artists who like raised their raise their hand. Now I do a lot of like benefit shows and charity shows and protest shows, et cetera. I really got a hand it to the people who raise their hands and are willing to, like at a no notice, to drop everything and come. So for Rise against, for Ike Riley, for Al Daimola, and for my band and all the crew who got together.
00:06:57
Speaker 2: It's pretty exciting for Minnesota.
00:06:59
Speaker 1: Thank you so much much, man, Happy to have you. We'll see you tomorrow.
00:07:04
Speaker 2: Stay safe, stay strong, We'll see you tomorrow. Thank you, tom bye bye, Thank you.
