Rage Against the Machine fans and Audioslave fans?

The first RATM album was a hammer which had a big impact on me when I was a teenager. The second one was good, and THAT was a problem: "Evil Empire" shouldn't have been good, it should have BETTER.
So, I quickly lost any interest in the band and completed my collection of Fishbone, Urban Dance Squand and Living Colour.
But when talking about Audioslave... An uncanny graft that sounded artificial to my ears. I first thought it was a joke, then I thought: "Robert Smith teaming with the Dead Kennedys". Yes. It sounded as weird as that to me.

I have never bothered to check out Audioslave though I love both RatM and Soundgarden. Heard some stuff on the radio that's alright, but nothing overly interesting.

/\ Dim

There is something about the funky hard rock of "Revelations" that is impossible to resist. RATM are a band I've really grown to like, at first I dismissed them but their politically charged lyrics won me over. Zack's voice annoys me slightly but the message he conveys is very powerful and with the powerhouse of Tom Morello behind them they are now up there with my favourite bands.

I never got into either of the bands because at the age when it was cool to get into them I started digging classic rock instead and then tastes went in a direction that had no link to those bands.

HughesJB4 wrote: ^You're statement on "if you're a Prog fan, it might annoy you", as if you suggest being a prog fan reduces your chances of liking it somehow. I like prog, sure, but also heaps of other stuff to, I don't let being a "prog fan" make me a high brow elitist that only listens to "complex" music, nor should it do that to anyone else IMOAnyway....

I was reffering to the Prog Fans that say that music that goes: verse-chorus-verse-chorus-10 sec solo-chorus, and think that's crap.

I wasn't reffering to everyone that listens to Prog, if that's what you understand I'm sorry if you've been offensed(or offended?)

~Rael~ wrote: And I don't know why I said De La Hoya. I thought that was his name for so long, I don't know why. Old habits die hard I guess.

Maybe for the boxer Oscar de la Hoya

I think, maybe, you're a little harsh there Goldenspiral. But, I don't really disagree with you, lol. Rather than form a new band, it is like they tried Rage with a new vocalist, and it doesn't work.

And I don't know why I said De La Hoya. I thought that was his name for so long, I don't know why. Old habits die hard I guess.

morello and the entire band actually played with such a GROOVE. thats the biggest thing i come away with from rage's music is the pure funk groove. hard to mimic. 

I love me some rage 
ghost of tom jode is an absolute favorite of mine regardless of genre. morello could write riffs like few could. crazy guitar effects too from bending the neck and all other sorts of weirdness. i like!
audioslave not so much.

and rage is touring! that'd be a killer show id love to go.