Tom Morello
Tom Morello, the American guitarist behind Rage Against the Machine, once made an entire festival crowd listen to nothing but noise. At Lollapalooza in 1993, his band walked onstage naked. Their mouths were covered with duct tape, and their bodies were painted with the letters PMRC. They refused to play a note for 14 minutes and let their instruments howl with feedback. The target was the Parental Advisory sticker on explicit records, which Tipper Gore's Parents Music Resource Center had pushed into existence. The man who orchestrated that silence has a Harvard degree, a Kenyan statesman for a great-uncle, and a reputation as one of the most inventive guitarists of his era. How does a political science student from suburban Illinois end up wringing police sirens and turntable scratches out of an electric guitar? Why does the same musician front a gentle folk act under a different name? And what could a Rage Against the Machine guitarist possibly share with Bruce Springsteen?
Tom Morello was born on the 30th of May 1964 in Harlem, New York City. He was the only child of Ngethe Njoroge, a Kenyan Kikuyu man, and Mary Morello, an American of Italian and Irish descent. His mother was a schoolteacher from Marseilles, Illinois, who earned a master's degree at Loyola University in Chicago. Between 1977 and 1983 she also traveled to Germany, Spain, Japan and Kenya as an English-language teacher.
His father's side carried real weight in Kenyan history. Njoroge took part in the Mau Mau Uprising of 1952-1960 and later became Kenya's first ambassador to the United Nations. Morello's paternal great-uncle, Jomo Kenyatta, was the first elected president of Kenya. His aunt Jemimah Gecaga was the first woman to sit in the Kenyan legislature. His uncle Njoroge Mungai served as a cabinet minister and is considered one of the founding fathers of the modern country.
In August 1963, his parents met at a pro-democracy protest in Nairobi. Mary learned she was pregnant, and in November she returned to the United States with Njoroge. They married in New York City. Njoroge denied paternity and went back to Kenya when his son was 16 months old.
Mary raised her son in Libertyville, Illinois. She taught American history at Libertyville High School, and Tom enrolled there. He described himself as the only anarchist in a conservative high school. Later in life he settled on calling himself a nonsectarian socialist.
The 1980 mock election at Libertyville gave him a stage. Morello campaigned for a made-up anarchist candidate named Hubie Maxwell, who finished fourth. For the alternative school paper, The Student Pulse, he wrote a piece headlined "South Africa: Racist Fascism That We Support".
He graduated with honors in June 1982 and started at Harvard University that autumn, studying political science and living in Currier House. His band Bored of Education won the Ivy League Battle of the Bands in 1986. The keyboard player was Carolyn Bertozzi, who would go on to win the 2022 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Morello finished in 1986 with a Bachelor of Arts in social studies.
Hollywood was less kind. By his own account, he was unemployable after graduation and nearly starving, so he took menial work. For a while he worked as an exotic dancer at bachelorette parties, with the Commodores' "Brick House" as his signature song. His high school classmate Adam Jones also moved to Los Angeles. Morello introduced Jones and Maynard James Keenan to the drummer Danny Carey, and the four became the core of Tool.
From 1987 to 1988, Morello worked in the office of California Senator Alan Cranston. He remembered the senator spending most of his time on the phone, asking wealthy people for money. When a caller complained about Mexicans moving into her neighborhood, he told her, "Ma'am, you're a damn racist." He was scolded for a week. He concluded that a job where he could not say that was not a job for him, and he never returned to politics as a career.
At age 13, Morello sang in his first band, a cover group called Nebula, and bought his first guitar that same year. Nebula played songs by Led Zeppelin, the Steve Miller Band and Bachman-Turner Overdrive. Around 1982 he began studying the instrument seriously and formed the Electric Sheep, with Adam Jones on bass. Morello wrote the group's original songs, and their lyrics were already political.
His heroes came from several directions. Morello kept a poster of Randy Rhoads on his wall and later spoke at Rhoads's Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction. He called Eddie Van Halen "Our generation's Mozart". He was also profoundly shaped by Run-D.M.C. and the turntable work of Jam Master Jay. Kiss and Iron Maiden filled his teenage listening, and he named Black Sabbath's Tony Iommi as a top influence as a riff writer. Later, the Clash, the Sex Pistols, Devo, Bob Dylan and Bruce Springsteen shaped both his sound and his politics.
He did not begin as an original. In the late 1980s he played much like the popular metal guitarists of the day. A throwaway gig with two local cover bands changed that. Their guitarists were what he called "Yngwie Malmsteen-level" shredders, and Morello saw the futility of practicing scales "eight hours a day". His conclusion was blunt: "Instead of trying to be famous, I made music that was completely authentic."
His guitar had too many knobs and an ugly toggle switch, while Eddie Van Halen had made simple, stripped-down guitars fashionable. Morello decided to find uses for every control and let himself make mistakes. By the early days of Rage Against the Machine, he thought of himself as a DJ. He imitated scratching on "Bulls on Parade" and flicked the pickup selector as a rhythmic "kill switch" on "Know Your Enemy". On "People of the Sun" he scraped the strings with a wrench or pencil. On "Bullet in the Head" he tapped a pickup with the connector of his unplugged cable. The DigiTech Whammy pedal, with its harmonizing and octave effects, opened what he called "very new sonic possibilities". A 1993 Melody Maker review of a live show heard falling bombs, police sirens and scratching coming from one guitar.
The instrument behind much of this is a custom Stratocaster-style guitar painted with the words "Arm the Homeless". He commissioned it before joining his first California band and was unhappy with it. For years he swapped pickups, necks and bridges, trying to copy the tones of Randy Rhoads and Nuno Bettencourt. Then he gave up and decided to "take whatever sound this thing makes and I'm going to create with it." He added the slogan before a gig at the Whisky a Go Go, next to smiling hippopotamus graphics.
For songs in dropped D he reaches for a 1982 Fender Telecaster, which he got by trading away a Marshall amp head. It is marked "Sendero Luminoso", and it recorded "Killing in the Name", "Freedom" and "Testify". His amplifier is a 50-watt Marshall JCM800 2205, which he has used since the late 1980s with the same settings he chose in 1988 or 1989. He bought it after his previous amp was stolen from his van. For a player known for strange sounds, he uses few pedals.
The recognition followed. Rolling Stone ranked him number 18 among the greatest guitarists of all time. A 2010 BBC poll placed him fifth among the greatest guitarists of the previous 30 years. In 2023, Neural DSP released an official signature plug-in modeled on his gear.
Lock Up, the band Morello joined in the mid-1980s, put out its debut album, Something Bitchin' This Way Comes, on Geffen Records in 1989. Then it fell apart. In 1991 Morello went looking for a new band and was struck by the freestyle rapping of Zack de la Rocha, so he asked him to join. He recruited the drummer Brad Wilk, who had once auditioned unsuccessfully for Lock Up. De la Rocha persuaded his childhood friend Tim Commerford to play bass.
After working the Los Angeles club circuit, Rage Against the Machine signed with Epic Records in 1992. Their self-titled debut came out that same year. Three more studio albums followed: Evil Empire in 1996, The Battle of Los Angeles in 1999 and Renegades in 2000. In 1996 they appeared on Saturday Night Live as the musical guest.
In August 2000, the band played outside the Staples Center in Los Angeles while the Democratic National Convention went on inside. The crowd numbered in the thousands. When some audience members began throwing rocks, the Los Angeles Police Department cut the power and ordered everyone to leave. Officers fired rubber bullets and pepper spray into the crowd.
By late 2000 the group was divided over its direction, and Commerford had staged a stunt at the VMAs. De la Rocha quit. The band played its last concert on the 13th of September 2000 at the Grand Olympic Auditorium in Los Angeles. It formally disbanded in October, and Renegades reached stores two months later. A 2003 album, Live at the Grand Olympic Auditorium, collected the final two nights, the 12th and the 13th of September. A DVD of the last show came with an unreleased video for "Bombtrack".
On the 29th of April 2007, the band reunited at the Coachella festival in front of an EZLN backdrop and drew the largest crowds of the weekend. It was first assumed to be a one-off, but they played seven more shows that year. In January 2008 they performed in Australia and New Zealand at the Big Day Out. That August they headlined nights at the Reading and Leeds festivals. In 2008 they also played Denver and Minneapolis to coincide with the Democratic and Republican National Conventions. In July 2011 they staged L.A. Rising in Los Angeles, with Muse and Rise Against on the bill.
On the 1st of November 2019, reports said the band would return in spring 2020, including two Coachella appearances. The COVID-19 pandemic postponed the summer tour. The rescheduled run began in July 2022 but was cut short when de la Rocha tore his left Achilles' tendon. In 2024, Wilk announced that the band would no longer tour or perform live. Before that, in 2023, Rage Against the Machine had been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
Rick Rubin, the producer, suggested that Morello, Wilk and Commerford work with Chris Cornell, the former Soundgarden singer. The new group was rumored to be called the Civilian Project before the name Audioslave was settled. Their self-titled debut arrived on the 19th of November 2002 and went triple platinum. The second album, Out of Exile, appeared on the 24th of May 2005. It debuted at number 1 on the Billboard charts and went platinum. That year they also released a DVD of their trip to Cuba, where they were the first American rock band to play a free show. Revelations followed in the fall of 2006.
By the 15th of February 2007, Audioslave was over. Cornell had left, citing "irresolvable personality conflicts". The remaining members went back to Rage Against the Machine alongside de la Rocha. Audioslave played one reunion show in January 2017, and talk of a tour began. Cornell died on the 18th of May 2017, which ended any chance of it.
While Morello played apolitical music in Audioslave, he created a separate outlet for his politics. As the Nightwatchman, he writes and performs folk songs. He called it his political folk alter ego and said he had played the songs at open mic nights for some time. Kids who came for his electric guitar work, he noted, would stand there scratching their heads. He also said the project helped him grow as a songwriter, because a song planned as a union anthem could land somewhere else entirely.
In November 2003, the Nightwatchman joined the Tell Us the Truth Tour. The thirteen-city tour also featured Billy Bragg, Steve Earle, Jill Sobule, Boots Riley and Mike Mills of R.E.M. Unions and media reform groups backed it, including Common Cause, Free Press and the A.F.L.-C.I.O. Morello said the tour's aim was to help people make connections and show them that activism can change policy.
His debut solo album, One Man Revolution, came out on the 24th of April 2007. That May he opened for the Dave Matthews Band on its European tour and guested on a couple of songs each night. The final night was the 30th of May 2007 at Wembley Arena in London, on Morello's birthday. He later toured with Ben Harper, joining him for a cover of Bob Dylan's "Masters of War". Since November 2007, he has hosted a residency at the Hotel Café in Los Angeles, with guests such as Serj Tankian, Perry Farrell and Wayne Kramer of MC5. On the 10th of October 2008, he appeared on The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson to promote The Fabled City.
After Audioslave broke up, Morello approached Boots Riley of the Coup about forming a band. Morello had already named it Street Sweeper, and he gave Riley a tape of songs to write lyrics for. The result was the duo Street Sweeper Social Club, whose self-titled debut arrived in 2009, with the Ghetto Blaster EP following in 2010. Another partnership of that era would prove even more surprising.
In April 2008, Morello made two guest appearances with Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band at the Honda Center in Anaheim. They played an extended electric version of "The Ghost of Tom Joad", a song Rage Against the Machine had already covered on Renegades. On the 29th of October 2009, he joined them at the 25th Anniversary Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Concert at Madison Square Garden. He also played on two songs on Springsteen's 2012 album Wrecking Ball.
In March 2013, Morello temporarily filled in on the band's Australian leg for the longtime guitarist Steve Van Zandt, who was busy filming the TV series Lilyhammer. During that tour, he also recorded new music with the band. It was Morello who suggested that Springsteen play "High Hopes" live for the first time. Springsteen had recorded the song back in 1995. The March 2013 performance led to a new recording, which grew into a full album.
High Hopes was released in January 2014, and Morello appears on eight of its 11 tracks. He shares lead vocals with Springsteen on a re-recording of "The Ghost of Tom Joad". Springsteen called him "my muse" and said he "pushed the rest of this project to another level". Morello then joined the E Street Band on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon and on the High Hopes Tour, which ended in May 2014. The River Tour 2016 used a smaller lineup without him. Even so, on the 25th of August 2016, he surprised the crowd at MetLife Stadium in New Jersey, playing "Death to My Hometown", "American Skin (41 Shots)", "The Ghost of Tom Joad" and "Badlands".
That same year, Morello assembled Prophets of Rage. The group joined Morello, Commerford and Wilk with Chuck D and DJ Lord of Public Enemy and B-Real of Cypress Hill. Its name came from a 1988 Public Enemy song on the album It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back. Morello told Rolling Stone that they were an elite task force of revolutionary musicians aimed at the election-year noise. Their debut single, "Prophets of Rage", was released to coincide with a protest performance at the Republican National Convention. The EP The Party's Over came out in 2016 and a full album in 2017. The Make America Rage Again tour of North America began in the summer of 2016 and ran through 2018. When the 2020 Rage Against the Machine reunion was announced, Prophets of Rage broke up.
Morello's own solo work took a different turn. The Atlas Underground, released on the 12th of October 2018, brought in guests from several genres, including Marcus Mumford, Big Boi, Killer Mike and the Wu-Tang Clan's RZA and GZA. The follow-up, The Atlas Underground Fire, arrived on the 15th of October 2021.
As far back as 1992, Morello teamed with Run-DMC on "Big Willie", which appeared on their 1993 album Down with the King. In 1994 he, Brad Wilk, Maynard James Keenan and Billy Gould of Faith No More recorded "Calling Dr. Love" for a Kiss tribute album, billed as Shandi's Addiction. He played lead guitar and produced three tracks on Primus's 1999 album Antipop. Late in Johnny Cash's career, Morello recorded guitars with him for the collection Unearthed. In 2003 he was executive producer of Anti-Flag's The Terror State.
The list kept growing. He appeared on Cypress Hill's "Rise Up" and "Shut 'Em Down" in 2010. That November, he teamed with Travis Barker, RZA and Raekwon of the Wu-Tang Clan on "Carry It". On Linkin Park's The Hunting Party, released in June 2014, he played on "Drawbar". In April 2021 he released "Weather Strike" with Pussy Riot. He featured on Måneskin's "Gossip" in January 2023 and on Babymetal's "Metali" that August.
Video games gave him another stage. In Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock, Morello appears as the first "guitar boss" in career mode, and beating him unlocks him as a playable character. He also played guitar on the Armory stage's battle music in Mortal Kombat: Armageddon, released in 2007.
On screen, he played a terrorist insurgent in Iron Man in 2008. He was an uncredited Son'a officer in Star Trek: Insurrection and later appeared as a crewman in the Star Trek: Voyager episode "Good Shepherd". In Dungeons and Dragons: Honor Among Thieves in 2023, he played Kimathi Stormhollow. He also appeared as himself in documentaries including Iron Maiden: Flight 666 and Chevolution, a look at the famous photograph of Che Guevara.
A lifelong comic book fan, Morello announced in 2011 that he would write Orchid, a 12-issue series for Dark Horse Comics. It is a post-apocalyptic story about a young woman learning she is more than the role society has imposed on her. Scott Hepburn drew it. The first issue appeared in October 2011, and each issue came with a new Morello song. A launch party was held on the 12th of October 2011 at Jetpack Comics in Rochester, New Hampshire. The series was gathered into three paperback volumes in 2012 and 2013.
He also wrote the introduction to the 2016 edition of The Big Red Songbook, a collection of protest songs from the Industrial Workers of the World. In 2021 he started a regular newsletter in The New York Times and took on a weekly show, One Man Revolution, on SiriusXM's Lithium channel. On the 5th of July 2025 he served as musical director of Black Sabbath's Back to the Beginning concert at Villa Park in Aston, Birmingham, honoring the band he had long ranked among his greatest influences.
Axis of Justice began with Morello and Serj Tankian of System of a Down. Its stated mission is to connect music fans with grassroots groups working on peace, human rights and economic justice. It has campaigned on immigrant rights and the abolition of the death penalty. A recommended reading list includes Karl Marx, George Orwell, Noam Chomsky and Grant Morrison. Morello and Tankian released a live collection, Axis of Justice: Concert Series Volume 1, with artists such as Flea and Wayne Kramer.
On the 6th of April 2006, Morello received the Eleanor Roosevelt Human Rights Award for his work on workers' rights and for Axis of Justice. He has worked on labor campaigns including the Guess sweatshop boycott, the Los Angeles janitors' strike and the Taco Bell boycott. He also joined the southern California grocery workers' strike and lockout and the Democratic Socialists of America's Starbucks union drive. He is a member of the Industrial Workers of the World.
On the 28th of September 2006, he was one of 400 people arrested protesting for immigrant hotel workers' rights. Organizers called it the largest act of civil disobedience in the history of Los Angeles. Two years later, on the 27th of August 2008, he played at the Open the Debates rally in Denver, protesting the exclusion of third-party candidates from televised debates. There he performed "This Land is Your Land" and endorsed Ralph Nader.
In October 2009, Morello was among the musicians who sued the federal government to declassify documents about the use of music in interrogations at Guantanamo Bay. He said it sickened him that music he helped create was used in crimes against humanity.
On the 21st of February 2011, he organized an acoustic concert in Madison, Wisconsin, supporting protests over collective bargaining rights. Wayne Kramer and the Boston punk band Street Dogs joined him. He later played at many Occupy protests, including Occupy Wall Street. When Paul Ryan praised Rage Against the Machine, Morello answered in a Rolling Stone op-ed that Ryan embodied the machine the band had been raging against. In September 2014, he played a Seattle benefit for the $15 minimum wage campaign called 15 Now.
He has called socialism a necessity and often wears communist imagery, including hammer and sickle stickers on his guitars and red star hats. His wife Denise and he have two sons. The older is named Rhoads after Randy Rhoads. The younger, Roman, is named after the Los Angeles Rams quarterback Roman Gabriel, reflecting a lifelong loyalty to the Rams. He also follows the Chicago Cubs, is a vegetarian and lives in the Laurel Canyon neighborhood of Los Angeles.
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Who is Tom Morello?
Tom Morello is an American guitarist, singer, songwriter and political activist, born on the 30th of May 1964 in Harlem, New York City. He is known for playing in Rage Against the Machine and Audioslave.
Which bands has Tom Morello played in?
Tom Morello has played in Lock Up, Rage Against the Machine, Audioslave, Street Sweeper Social Club and Prophets of Rage. He also records solo as the Nightwatchman and tours as a guest with Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band.
What is Tom Morello's guitar playing style?
Tom Morello's style blends heavy metal and punk riffs with hip-hop-inspired sounds, including imitated DJ scratching and rhythmic toggle-switch effects. He relies on a DigiTech Whammy pedal and also scrapes strings with tools like a wrench or pencil.
Why does Tom Morello perform as the Nightwatchman?
Tom Morello created the Nightwatchman as a political folk alter ego. It gave him an outlet for his views while he played apolitical music with Audioslave.
What did Tom Morello study at Harvard?
Tom Morello enrolled at Harvard University in the autumn of 1982 as a political science student. He graduated in 1986 with a Bachelor of Arts in social studies.
How is Tom Morello connected to Bruce Springsteen?
Tom Morello has toured and recorded with Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band since 2008. He appears on eight of 11 tracks on the 2014 album High Hopes, which Springsteen credited him with inspiring.
What is Axis of Justice, the group Tom Morello co-founded?
Axis of Justice is a political group co-founded by Tom Morello and Serj Tankian of System of a Down. It aims to link music fans with grassroots organizations working on peace, human rights and economic justice.
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