Cornell No Longer an Audioslave

16. Nick - You must be a teenager. You think Tom Morello is the greatest rock guitarist in history? You ever hear of Clapton, Page, Hendrix, Van Halen, or Vai? Take it from someone who has been playing guitar for 23 of his 35 years, Tom is not even close to these guys.

Posted at 4:38PM on Feb 16th 2007 by Big Mac

17. Rage sucked. Their singer was beyond annoying.

And their stupid socialist agenda got really old. Anyone who holds up Che Guevara as a hero is a misinformed idiot. Che was a murderer who would kill anyone who stood in his way or (even peacefully) opposed him.

“Tengo una remera del Che y no sé por qué,” which translated means "I have a Che t-shirt and I don't know why."

Posted at 4:12PM on Feb 16th 2007 by Whatever

18. I remember when Audioslave first got together, how Chris called them his brothers and credited them for saving his life from his addictions. Guess he feels he's paid his debt to them and can move on along now. How poor is that? Tom, Tim and Brad deserve a singer who will have a little loyalty to the band.

Posted at 11:06PM on Feb 16th 2007 by Ssheltiemom

19. Audioslave's 3 albums were fucking great! Soundgarden was great. Temple of the Dog ... great. RATM were great and are supposedly only reuniting ONCE.

I love CC, but I think he has a holier than thou attitude because he is such a good singer, and possibly has an attitude problem.

RAGE has always been very political. Chris has not.

I'm not surprised by the split, but it sucks.

Posted at 5:10PM on Feb 16th 2007 by kelly

20. I'm sorry kelly (#17), but you are not well informed there. Chris has been politically active in local and national politics (and I mean lobbying and petitioning, not screaming pointlessly about how unfair it all is) for many many years now. He is well-informed and active in issues that mean something to him, especially in his home town.

Anyway, people really need to get over RATM--the band is amazing, but Zack is a freakin' cry-baby. If you need a band to show you how lopsided our social & economic structures really are, then I'm sorry, but you need to read more and smoke less pot. I have some news for you, kids: the machine LIKES your rage--it's how it feeds. Grow up and do something real about it.

Other than him, they're brilliant. And long live Chris!

Posted at 7:45PM on Feb 16th 2007 by Daniel

21. It's pretty bad when your band opts to go back to Zack de la Rocha because he's the 'less crazy one.'

Posted at 10:44PM on Feb 16th 2007 by amiss

22. When I heard Audioslave wasn't going to tour to support their new CD & their record label wasn't givingheavy support, I knew something was wrong. And sure enough, when I heard Rage was going to do this one time reunion, I was excited but then I thought the three other guys was going to go back being Audioslave. But after hearing this announcment, I'm not surprise. I have mixed emotions because Rage is one of the greatest band of all time and they were so much ahead of their time. If you hear those three CD's, what the hell they were saying is what happening right now with what this Bush cabinet has done in the last 6 years. Zack said that the government is corrupt and if you don't pay attention, the corruption will get bigger. There's a joke in the movie, "White Men Can't Jump" where Wesley Snipes telling Woody Harrison "You listening to Jimi Hendrix but you're not listening to Jimi." The same was happening with music fans, we're listening to Rage but we wern't listening to Rage very clearly. Some of you may say Zack's a cry baby but what Zack was trying to tell us, was a big warning and boy now I got it. And also to the people that saying Zack is crying then tell me why Rage's music was banned after 9-11 happened? Better yet why John Lennon's "Imagine" was banned at the time after 9-11? Well that's another story. But we need Rage more than ever right now to really wake up America so more, just because we got rid of the jackasses out of the Senate & Congress, corruption will end all hell no, I think artists like Rage need to stir things up on radio & MTV. I also sorry Audioslave is breaking up because they put out some decent CD's. But I don't know Soundgarden will get back together because most of the members haven't done nothing musically with the exception of Chris & the drummer Matt who's with Pearl Jam who doing a good dam jam playing drums for Eddie & the boys, so I don't know if I want to see Soundgarden together again. But I'm happy Rage is back and another thing Tom is up there with Jimi, Jimmy Page, Eddie Van Halen & Randy Rhodes when it comes to ass kicking guitar playing.

Posted at 1:07AM on Feb 17th 2007 by Dion

23. Sorry, Dion, but Tom Morello is not worthy of being in the same category as Hendrix, Page, VH and Rhoads. He was a decent player when it came to making weird noises, but his rhythms were so weak and simplistic (that's 90% of playing!). He only stood out in the 90s because most mainstream bands had really crappy guitar players in that decade (not that it has gotten much better). I have been playing guitar for 23 of my 35 years, and Tom can not hold a stick to the innovativeness of Hendrix, (early) Van Halen, Steve Vai, Sonic Youth, and countless others that came before him.

As for the political "impact" of Rage, don't overestimate it. Most of their fans were too busy headbanging or going to the mall to care about the causes they pushed.
“Tengo una remera del Che y no sé por qué,” which translated means "I have a Che t-shirt and I don't know why." The main example of the lack of impact that Rage and other socially concious bands in the 90s had on youth was the fact that Republicans won in 2000 and 2004, even with MTV's weak "rock-the-vote" movement. Those kids who did and do claim to be politically concious just use it as a badge, because it is "cool".

Anyway, I hope Rage doesn't reunite. I am all for influencing change thru music, just not the socialist kool aid that Rage pushes.

Posted at 6:08PM on Feb 17th 2007 by Big Mac

24. Chris was too good for Rage Against the Machine, let De La Rocha have them back. Chris is better off on his own.

Posted at 1:51PM on Feb 19th 2007 by I love Chris