Tom Morello reveals Rage Against The Machine’s ‘Killing In The Name’ started out as just an instrumental
Tom Morello has revealed that Rage Against The Machine‘s classic track ‘Killing In The Name’ started out as just an instrumental.The explicit, politically-charged single was released back in 1992, and features on Rage’s self-titled debut album.Speaking on Rolling Stone‘s Music Now podcast (via Music-News), Morello recalled performing the song live for the very first time, saying: “It was originally an instrumental.“There’s a Rage Against the Machine video from Cal State Northridge – which is our first public performance – where we open the show with an instrumental version of ‘Killing in the Name’ and Timmy [Commerford, bassist], I think, came up with that really cool [bass riff].“[Drummer Brad Wilk’s] crowd-bouncing beat is there from the