![]() ![]() ![]() (His hair's a touch trimmer now, the most apparent physical difference among the band from 2011.)īut De La Rocha was just as riveting squatting by Wilk's drum kit, quietly repeating "I think I heard a shot" over and over during the edgy bridge for "Wake Up." It made the finish that much more intense, with the frontman rising up to his feet to holler the song's title again and again for the climactic finish, before cutting through the noise with those urgent closing lyrics: "How long? Not long/'Cause what you reap is what you sow." Sure, the band's doomsday preacher unleashed screams from hell, stomped across the stage, punched the air, banged his head. And in that regard, De La Rocha was a critical conduit. For Rage, it was merely a fleeting peak for an early number, with Wilk's drums brilliantly bringing the intensity down to a simmer, before the band (and fans) rose up for an even more intense finish underneath De La Rocha's murderous screams of "A bullet in your head."Īs good as Rage was at, well, raging, the band understood that calmer, seething moments were just as powerful. That guitar stunt involving Morello's chompers, for virtually every band, would be the grand finale. Morello got even flashier from there, shredding the guitar with his teeth for the subsequent "Bullet in the Head." For "Testify," one of five songs performed Saturday from Rage's final all-original studio album, 1999's "The Battle of Los Angeles," Morello yanked out the guitar cord and slammed the end into his palm, creating spiky squeals that sounded like Morse code being sent to an alien planet. ![]() In fact, one of the few things De La Rocha said Saturday outside of singing or rapping duties was "Turn that bass up," at the start of the night's second song, "People of the Sun," one of five tracks played at Alpine from 1996's sophomore album "Evil Empire."īear in mind, the bass, the drums, the guitar, De La Rocha's screams, everything was already really loud for opening number "Bombtrack" - appropriately, the first song on the band's 30-year-old self-titled debut album, which had the largest share of the setlist with seven tracks - and you could see the energy surging from the stage through the explosive mosh pit up to the sea of people on the hill at the outdoor amphitheater.īut the band wanted to push the volume, the fury, everything, to the very brink.įor "Bulls on Parade" - which came right after "People of the Sun," so Commerford's crucial bass rumbles were very loud, practically vibrating in your chest - Morello interrupted his charging guitar to violently run his fingers all along its neck, the sound resembling record scratches. ![]() RELATED: These are all the arena, amphitheater and stadium concerts happening in Milwaukee in 2022 RELATED: From Kendrick Lamar to Mötley Crüe, these are the 20 top concerts in Milwaukee this summer But they channeled their fury through their visceral music, which sounded as urgent as it ever has - despite the fact that none of the 18 songs touched on Saturday were created in the 21st century. No one in the band made any speeches across their 90-minute set. It was the most specific political statement the band made Saturday. “Forced birth in a country where gun violence is the number one cause of death among children and teenagers.”Īnd then, in all caps: “ABORT THE SUPREME COURT.” “Forced birth in a country where Black birth-givers experience maternal mortality two to three times higher than that of white birth-givers,” the captions continued. ![]()
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