SHOW PLAYLIST
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Rage Against The Machine
Coachella Festival
Indio CA
April 29, 2007
01-Intro
02-Testify
03-Bulls On Parade
04-People Of The Sun
05-Bombtrack
06-Bullet In The Head
07-Know Your Enemy
08-Down Rodeo
09-Guerrilla Radio
10-Renegades Of Funk
11-Calm Like A Bomb
12-Sleep Now In The Fire
13-Wake Up
01-Encore Break
02-Freedom
03-Township Rebellion
04-Killing In The Name
“Rage Against The Machine played its first show in seven years last night (April 29) to close the 2007 edition of the Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival in Indio, Calif. The foursome tore into staples like “Testify,” “Bulls on Parade,” “People of the Sun” and “Guerrilla Radio” to one of the largest main stage crowds in the event’s history.” [Billboard]
“The only time de la Rocha broke the fourth wall was to give everyone what they wanted- a deliberate and forthright rebuttal to the last six years of neocon politics. “This administration should be tried, hung and shot,” he said, as if one form of execution wasn’t enough. It may have been ham-fisted, but to hear it from the mouth of a rock singer today, de la Rocha may well have set the dam loose for political music at the tail end of the Bush era. Even if he didn’t though, the spectacle of 60,000 fans pounding their fists in unison closer “Killing In The Name Of ” was a reminder of better times for openly political music, or at least more hopeful ones from years past.” [LA Times]
“A half circle of 24 cops was taking in the scene just outside the shoulder-to-shoulder mob absorbing all that was Rage, and we’re pretty sure they weren’t there to make sure Evan Dando got home safely. The back half of the grounds just beyond their perimeter was so deserted all that was missing was a single tumbleweed crossing your path toward a depressingly dramatic light display signifying that, yes, other acts were onstage at that hour, too, and one of them was the reunited Lemonheads.” [LA Times]
