On July 18, 1993, Rage Against The Machine hit the stage in Philadelphia during Lollapalooza 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 (Parents Music Resource Center) worked with the RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America) to create this now-familiar Parental Advisory logo in black and white. It was known as the “Tipper Sticker” because of Tipper Gore’s visible role in the PMRC.
For 15 minutes, the only sounds heard during Rage’s demonstration were guitar feedback and jeers from pissed-off fans who actually wanted to see Rage Against The Machine play. What started off as a cool protest turned bad quickly as Commerford recalled,
“When we walked out onstage people loved it, they were cheering. But little did they know, we weren’t planning on playing a note. After 10 minutes of standing there naked, what started as cheers turned into bottle throwing, people were just bummed out. We were hauled off by the police… that was a special moment.”
In a bit of irony, the photos and press that followed the band after the incident were all CENSORED!!!
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baby dicks!
they aren't raging boners, bro… how about we talk about the act of protest and not behave like school children?
So it seems the other 2 commenters just don't get the point of this article or RATM, mind you by the maturity of the replies they probably weren't even born when Rage were at their best.
Their dicks aren't small, their balls are just so big (and dense) that their gravity pulls light causing the whole area to look slightly smaller than average.
The penises are flaccid. Impossible to say how big their erect size is. Male anatomy: learn it.
Hello Reddit, you should all stop looking at cocks.
YOU CAN'T TELL ME WHAT TO DO.
Your country really got some fucked up censor laws.
GODDAMN I LOVE DICKS! TALKING ABOUT OTHER DICKS MAKES MY DICK HARD! DICKS DICKS LOOK AT THEIR DICKS ALL DICKS ALL THE DICKING TIME DICK.
no straight
Let's see you stand on a stage completely naked in front of hundreds of thousands of people, and then take a look at your dick. I can tell already that yours would most likely have crawled inside you.
The fact they were able to get up there and do that at all shows they are more man than you could ever hope to be.
And to think nobody gives a fuck about the PMRC these days.
I wanna see the PMRC fix 4chan.
I actually find it pretty cool when people use their own bodies as a device of protest. It's raw, simple, and very likely to draw a reaction when photographed. And, even though some people get fixated with the nudity (as seen in this comments section), the memory possesses an inextricable human message to it.
I don't listen to Rage Against the Machine very much but this image of rebellion speaks loudly- even 18 years later.