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Tom Morello on Rage Against The Machine’s 1993 naked protest: “The time I wish I had my pants on was when the police arrived”

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Tom Morello has recalled in a new interview Rage Against The Machine‘s infamous naked protest during one of their sets at Lollapalooza in 1993.Morello and his bandmates walked out on stage naked in Philadelphia in July 1993 (back when Lollapalooza was a touring festival) in a protest against censorship, with each member of the band wearing black electrical tape over their mouths.

They stood in protest for their full 15 allocated minutes of stage time.Recalling the protest in a new interview with Uncut (print only), Morello remembered how there “was an outpouring of excitement among the crowd for the first five minutes” of RATM coming out on stage in Philadelphia.“Then there was an interesting stand-off as it was clear this was not just some.

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