Tom Morello has suggested that he is to work on the score for “Iron Man 2″ via his Twitter page.
Here’s some photos of Morello from “Iron Man” where he appeared as a terrorist character and also helped score it.
Here’s he is with Jon Favreau on the set.
Tom must be good friends or have a deal with Favreau because he was also the best man in another Favreau movie “Made”
The story behind Tom Morello’s burnt Gibson Les Paul guitar.
“It was during the recording of the last Audioslave album, Revelations. Our producer, Brendan O’Brien, brought a plethora of guitars to the studio. Usually I try to find that one orphan guitar to use, because a lot of times, that’s the guitar you’re going to be able to get some music out of. One day I found this Les Paul sitting in the corner─and I love Les Pauls, of course, absolutely adore them─but the weird and shocking thing was, somebody had painted this hideous, screaming orange beer logo on it. I don’t know if that’s the way Brendan got it, and I certainly have no idea what would have possessed somebody to deface a beautiful instrument in such a horrible way. I mean, a beer logo on a Les Paul? It just isn’t done.
Anyway, it was a late night in the studio, and Brendan and everybody were sitting around playing that shooting game, Halo, so work for the day was basically finished. Something was bugging me about that guitar, though. I felt sorry for it. I wanted to use it, but I just couldn’t bring myself to play it with that beer logo. I tried scraping it off─no dice.
So I decided to get serious and a little inventive about the matter. I went into the parking lot with the guitar and a lighter, and I set the enamel of the guitar on fire. I was surprised that it burnt very slowly. So there I am, having a fine time, watching this beer logo burn, and after a while it didn’t look so bad anymore. Then I took some steel wool to it, sanded it down, and it looked beautiful. And I’ll tell you something: The guitar played and sounded awesome! I wound up using it all over the album.
Here’s the details on the guitar….
2002 Gibson Custom Shop Budweiser Les Paul (051909-1)
Quite a few US corporations commissioned limited run Les Paul’s in the early 2000s, Indian motorcycles, Jim Beam, etc. Anheuser Busch commissioned a very limited run of the “Budweiser King of Beers” Les Paul standard, this example is SN CS22232.
Tom advised, “Now, I’m not advising the kids of America to take lighters to their guitars. That’s only exclusive to Jimi Hendrix and myself. Of course, Jimi never had a guitar with a beer logo on it.”
Tom Morello always seems to have a message scrawled on his guitars whether he was playing with Rage Against The Machine, Audioslave, The Nightwatchman or Street Sweeper….here’s an example of his written messages…
“Soul Power Guitar” - Fender Stratocaster, It has the words “Soul Power” on the top of the body in silver paint and is his main guitar in Audioslave for songs that are in standard E tuning.
“Whatever It Takes Guitar“- A custom Ibanez Galvador nylon string acoustic guitar he uses during concerts as The Nightwatchman. Plain body with ‘Whatever It Takes ((star))’ left of the bridge.
“Arm The Homeless Guitar” - Mongrel Custom and Morello’s most famous guitar, and his main guitar for standard tuning since 1991. The body is blue with the words “Arm the Homeless” written on it in black and red. 4 Hippos (painted) on the front, one large hippo (upside down) painted on the back, and a hammer and sickle symbol sticker.
America’s pastime has had it’s share of Rock Star ceremonial first pitch thrown before games…Here’s a few of our favorites…
Eddie Vedder (Pearl Jam) & Nathan Followill (Kings Of Leon)
Jeff Tweedy (Wilco)
Anthony Kiedis (Red Hot Chili Peppers)
Tom Morello - (Rage Against The Machine & Audioslave)
Old school picture of Geddy Lee (Rush) taking batting practice with the then California Angels.
And just cause we love Oasis - Liam Gallagher & Noel Gallagher with boxer Ricky Hatton.
Rage Against The Machine’s self titled debut album cover features a photo of Thích Quảng Đức, a Vietnamese Buddhist monk, burning himself to death in Saigon in 1963. The photo was taken by Associated Press correspondent Malcolm Browne and earned the award of World Press Photo of the Year in 1963. The monk was protesting President Ngô Đình Diệm’s administration for oppressing the Buddhist religion. The photograph drew international attention and persuaded U.S. President John F. Kennedy to withdraw support of the Ngô Đình Diệm’s government.
Here’s the original photo…
Here’s the location now: Phan Dinh Phung Blvd & Le Van Duyet St in Saigon, Vietnam
Click here to read about the amazing story of Thích Quảng Đức.
Tom Morello, Kurt Cobain, Eddie Vedder
Billy Corgan, Anthony Kiedis, Prince
Kurt Cobain, Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Rage Against The Machine, Red Hot Chili Peppers, The Smashing Pumpkins
A special marketing campaign preceded Audioslave’s final album Revaltions release, when the art concept was featured on Google Earth as a fictional utopian island, AUDIOSLAVE NATION, created in the South Pacific. Google Earth is the downloadable virtual globe program that maps the earth by pasting images obtained from satellite imagery over a 3D globe.
The utopian island of AUDIOSLAVE NATION wass located in the Indian Ocean between South America and New Zealand at approximately 42 degrees longitude and -137 degrees latitude. Fans can access http://www.audioslave.com/audioslavenation to start planning their trip.
Despite the exposure to other forms of media and the positive critical buzz for their third album, Audioslave did not tour behind the release but the AUDIOSLAVE NATION website still works!!!
On July 18, 1993, Rage Against the Machine hit the stage in Philly during Lollapalooza ‘93, and instead of playing music, the four band members, vocalist Zack de la Rocha, guitarist Tom Morello, bassist Tim Commerford, and drummer Brad Wilk, stood on stage naked with duct tape over their mouths and the letters “PMRC” painted on their chests in a protest against censorship. The PMRC worked with the RIAA to create this now-familiar Parental Advisory logo in black and white. To some, it has become known as the “Tipper sticker” because of Tipper Gore’s visible role in the PMRC.
For 15 minutes, the only sounds heard during the demonstration were guitar feedback and jeers from pissed-off fans who actually wanted to see the band play something.
In a bit of irony, below you will find the (SENSORED) version.
