Tom Morello breaks down 5 iconic riffs - from Rage Against The Machine classics to a newy from solo project 'The Atlas Underground'. www.lnwy.co @lnwyco
Imagine that student, like he will be in a bar one day, Killing in the Name comes on, and he will get to be like. "I was there when Tom wrote that riff"
Blip Blorp I can agree with classic rock but not much into metal Beside stuff that boarders classic rock like Motörhead and Judas Priest. But seriously audioslaves self titled album from 2002 is pretty stacked
Imagine being the student that Morello was teaching when he thought of the riff for Killing In the Name. It must be so cool to witness musical history in front of your own eyes.
I know Tom's not the most technical guitar player, he doesn't fly through scales, doesn't sweep, but the guys got such a good ear for riffs its nuts. He has put out sooooo many classic riffs. I think of him like a younger Angus Young, simple riffs that millions of people can groove too.
i very much prefer his style. i think simple things just simply work better. crazy sweeping and soloing has always sounded dull to me personally. i do respect the practice that goes into it tho
Toms Audition: Well I don’t know any chords or scales but I can rub the strings with my hand and turn the sound on and off Rage against the machine: Perfect, you’re hired
Really? Ive always seen him as an anti-guitarist. Its like he is that guy that learned a little and quit. One day he tried to fake it and started to do random stuff and something caught his ear, he started learning to manipulate the sounds and that became his drive. Thats what makes hime great. Acting like its anything but that makes it seem, i dont know how to put it without coming off the wrong way or saying he isnt talented. There isnt a piece that he has wrote that a beginner guitarist shouldnt be able to play in an hour or two when it is just picking/strumming note and chords.
HighAngle Larry I see what you’re saying, although I feel like a lot what great guitarists do in between the awesomeness is pretty simple most of the time
I think too many people worry about how good they are based on how many techniques they can do or how many hard solos or whatever they can play. Most guitarist that have 'made it' are not amazing, some arent even that good by most standards.
That's why I always liked the guy. He was a modern virtuoso and reinvented the instrument to come up with a whole new program, a whole new way of playing. He looked at the instrument differently and must have spent countless hours learning how it could make different sounds. Then he's got this DJ vibe mixed in too with the scratching and the picks, the switches, and the dials. There's just no way anybody ever comes along like this again.
@@TheWhatthefuck12 "commie hypocrite" ah I get it, you're one one those. When you don't like their music taste, you make up a political position for them and (weakly) attack that instead.
6:00 This reminds me a bit of Cathedral, by Eddie Van Halen. Tom is turning down the volume on one of the pickups and using the toggle switch while Eddie has volume going to both pickups, and uses the actual volume switch.
What a unique guitar player. Tom does what almost no other guitar does he has so many cool techniques.... like the little high pitched squeal noise that you hear during the verse on Township Rebellion, It's Tom plucking the g string ABOVE the nut
Tom is a BEAST !!! Original is an understatement. Using a six string as a DJ uses a turntable, with riffs beyond Sabbath, from a black dude with a baseball cap, what can I say...my life is complete. \m/
Tom get's the most unreal sounds that probably shouldn't even becoming out of 6 string,That fuckin' Helicopter is da shit/maybe da same that drop Jimi @ Yasgur's Farm!
