Tribute To The White Stripes

Officially, The White Stripes has separates. In this post, I would to share some of the Music Video to make sure the legacy of The White Stripes is continue :D..GODSPEED JACK AND MEG!

Bye Bye The White Stripes

From The Official White Stripes Websites

The White Stripes would like to announce that today, February 2nd, 2011, 

their band has officially ended and will make no further new recordings or perform live. 

The reason is not due to artistic differences or lack of wanting to continue, nor any 

health issues as both Meg and Jack are feeling fine and in good health. 

It is for a myriad of reasons, but mostly to preserve What is beautiful and special about 

the band and have it stay that way. 

Meg and Jack want to thank every one of their fans and admirers for the incredible 

support they have given throughout the 13 plus years of the White Stripes’ intense and 

incredible career. 

Third Man Records will continue to put out unreleased live and studio recordings from 

The White Stripes in their Vault Subscription record club, as well as through regular 

channels. 

Both Meg and Jack hope this decision isn’t met with sorrow by their fans but that it is 

seen as a positive move done out of respect for the art and music that the band has 

created. It is also done with the utmost respect to those fans who’ve shared in those 

creations, with their feelings considered greatly. 

With that in mind the band have this to say: 

“The White Stripes do not belong to Meg and Jack anymore. The White Stripes belong 

to you now and you can do with it whatever you want. The beauty of art and music is 

that it can last forever if people want it to. Thank you for sharing this experience. Your 

involvement will never be lost on us and we are truly grateful.” 

Sincerely, 

Meg and Jack White 

The White Stripes

Music used in Guantanamo interrogations?

A recent report that has surfaced regarding various artists music being used to interrogate criminals and prisoners at the Guantanamo prison complex overseas.  Many artists such as Rosanne Cash, REM, Jackson Browne and Pearl Jam have joined a U.S. campaign asking those to come forward to name the music used, and to stop using it all-together.

I for one, don’t see it as a major issue.  Psychological war-fare has been used over the past centuries in a way to break down the prisoner or enemies mind to get the answers needed.  I also don’t know how it would feel if someone said that they were using my music to do that.  Should I be offended, that my music is that bad enough to break a prisoner?

According to previously released documents, songs by bands like Nine Inch Nails and Rage Against the Machine were used as part of interrogating prisoners.

“Guantanamo is known around the world as one of the places where human beings have been tortured,” Tom Morello, of the bands Rage Against the Machine and Audioslave, said in a statement Thursday.

“The fact that music I helped create was used in crimes against humanity sickens me,” Morello added.

This is what I don’t understand.  The two bands mentioned above were known for defying the government and speaking out against injustice.  If the reports are true, why use them and how was their music  used to alter the minds of prisoners?  It’s  a fascinating world we certainly live in, when Rage Against The Machine is used instead of Roseanne singing the Nation Anthem on repeat.

This is certainly a fascinating tid-bit on the music industry and the cause an effect it can really have on various forms of people who live on this earth.  This story will be developing over the next few weeks, and I’ll surely update you on anything that happens.

Music and Revolution: TOM MORELLO

TOM MORELLO

Hello again everyone..It was long since I updated my blog..Ok, before we start..I would like to give a Trillion Thanks for those who are reading my blog especially the

 RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE entry and I dont know why. To celebrate 500 page views of the entry, I decide to write about Tom Morello the legend guitarist for the band. Enjoy reading mates :D

In 30th of May 1964 when Tom Baptiste Morello or known by his stage name as Tom Morello was born. The first band he ever played was Rage Against The Machine after the lead vocalist of the band Zac De La Rocha announce that RATM will separate for a certain time.

Tom Morello is well known for his guitar skill. He can make ridiculous sound by his guitar, for example like a helicopter sound and many more. 

Tom was impressed by Zack de la Rocha's freestyle rapping and asked him to join his band. He also drafted drummer Brad Wilk, who he knew from his band Lock Up, where Wilk unsuccessfully auditioned for a drumming spot. The band's lineup was completed when Zack convinced his childhood friend Tim Commerford to play bass. After frequenting the L.A. club circuit, Rage Against the Machine signed a record deal with Epic Records in 1992. That same year, the band released their self titled debut. They achieved a considerable amount of mainstream success and released three more studio albums.

Zack De La Rocha 

Rage Against The Machine

GUITAR TECHNIQUE

Tom Morello is famed by his guitar playing technique which consists of heavy metal/punk hybrid riffs and hip hop-inspired sounds like the Alien sound, Helicopter sound, and many more. 

If you know Muse vocalist and lead guitarist Matthew Bellamy, he adore Tom so much and said that Tom guitar technique had inspired him a lot.

Matthew Bellamy, MUSE

Tom Morello is a very creative man in his style of music. He considered that music he play is a gift from god. Tom Morello is very interested in religion. Even though he's a Christian, he interest in other religion that had taught him a lot about life. Some say, Tom Morello is the reborn of Buddha but in rock mode.

Tom is creative in choosing his own guitar. He possessed 2 Ibanez guitar which he purchased in both in 1998. What makes the guitar he used become so popular?

It is because the hand made pattern made by Tom Morello himself on the guitar. Even tough both of the guitar was only in cheap price, because its been use by Tom, the value of the guitar rise up a million times than the original price for the guitar.

GUITAR

Mongrel Custom "Arm the Homeless" 

 Morello's most famous guitar. The original guitar was made by Performance Guitar for Morello after his exact specifications (his design). It had a Stratocaster body featuring a 22 fret Performance Guitar Corsair neck with rosewood board, a chrome Floyd Rose tremolo and 2 Seymour Duncan JB pickups. When he got it he hated everything about it and changed everything (pickups, whammy bar, neck). The only thing that remains from the original guitar is the body. The body is blue and stratshaped with a slightly wider lower horn which has a toggle switch mounted on it. It has the words "Arm the Homeless" written on it in black and red, 4 Hippo paintings on the front and one GIANT hippo upside down on the back. It also has a hammer and sickle symbol sticker. The neck is a 22 fret Performance Guitar neck with a rosewood board and a "banana" headstock (which has a "fathead" brass plate on the back). It features a (missized) locking nut. The tuners are black Gotoh Octagon (crownhead). It contains EMG single coils in humbucker housing and a black Ibanez Edge Floyd Rose Tremolo (with the body routed so that the Floyd can go up and down). It was/is his main guitar in Rage Against the Machine, and was used on all Audioslave's records and live on the OOE tour. This is the same guitar that he used with its involvement in the video game Guitar Hero. Tuned to Standard E

Fender Custom Stratocaster

 "Soul Power" 

Originally a Factory Special Run (FSR) released at Guitar Center. Black with white binding, a color-matched headstock, mirror pickguard, and the words "Soul Power" scrawled across the top of the body in silver paint. It has an Ibanez Edge Floyd Rose Tremolo, locking nut, a toggle switch wired as a kill switch (He uses the 5-way pickup selector to switch through pickups), a Seymour Duncan Hotrails pickup in the bridge and Fender Noiseless pickups in the middle and neck positions. Morello mainly uses the neck pickup on this guitar unless he needs a hotter tone, then he switches to the Hotrails pickup. It's his main guitar in Audioslave for songs that are in Standard E tuning

AUDIOSLAVE

udioslave was an American hard rock supergroup that formed in Los Angeles, California in 2001. It consisted of then-former Soundgarden frontman, rhythm guitarist, and lead singer Chris Cornell and the then-former instrumentalists of Rage Against the Machine: Tom Morello (guitar), Tim Commerford (bass and backing vocals) and Brad Wilk (drums). Critics initially described Audioslave as an amalgamation of Rage Against the Machine and Soundgarden,[1] but by the band's second album, Out of Exile, it was noted that they had established a separate identity.

The band's trademark sound was created by blending 1970s hard rock with 1990s alternative rock. Moreover, Morello incorporated his well-known, unconventional guitar solos into this mix. As with Rage Against the Machine, the band prided themselves on the fact that all sounds on their albums were produced using only guitar, bass, drums and vocals.

After Audioslave released three successful albums, received three Grammy nominations, and became the first American rock band to perform an open-air concert in Cuba, Cornell issued a statement in February 2007 announcing that he was permanently leaving the band "due to irresolvable personality conflicts as well as musical differences". As the other three members were busy with the Rage Against the Machine reunion, and Morello and Cornell had each released solo albums in 2007, Audioslave was officially disbanded.

OK, thats all for now..See you on the other post. But, before I go, here some videos and some wise word from Tom Morello.

"I never had any real desire to work in politics but if there was any ember burning in me, it was extinguished working in that job because of two things: one of them was the fact that 80 per cent of the time I spent with the Senator, he was on the phone asking rich people for money. It just made me understand that the whole business was dirty. He had to compromise his entire being every day. The other was the time a woman phoned up to the office and wanted to complain that there were Mexicans moving into her neighborhood. I said to her, 'Ma'am, you're a damn racist,' and she was indignant. I thought I was representing our cause well, but I got yelled at for a week by everyone for saying that! I thought to myself that if I'm in a job where I can't call a damn racist a damn racist, then it's not for me.