2What band T-shirt are you wearing on Rage Against The Machine\u2019s first UK TV appearance on The Word in 1993 performing \u2018Killing In The Name\u2019? <\/p>\n
\u201cJeez! I remember that performance well as it caused a stir. Was it a Warrant shirt?\u201d<\/p>\n
WRONG. Kiss.<\/a><\/p>\n \u201cFor a while, I was wearing a Warrant T-shirt in an ironic fashion. I\u2019m 50\/50 on answers right now! [Laughs]\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cWe played The Word within the first couple of days of ever being in the UK. I didn\u2019t realise the band had connected until the \u201993 Reading Festival. We played \u2018Know Your Enemy\u2019 which has a false-ending. As they turned the lights on the crowd, the beat comes back in and the audience looked like a whole country jumping up and down. That was the revelation that maybe something was going on here. Very early on in \u201992, we were at a dreary metal club in Birmingham. No-one knew who we were, but \u2018Killing In The Name\u2019 came on and heavy metal couples started banging their heads in unison. Our tour manager said: \u2018You might write better songs, but I\u2019ve got a feeling this is a song people are going to be banging their heads to for a long time to come.\u2019 It was a prophetic statement.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n 3What animal head features on the album cover<\/a> of your \u201980s band Lock Up\u2019s \u2018Something Bitchin\u2019 This Way Comes\u2019? <\/p>\n \u201cA horse head.\u201d<\/p>\n CORRECT. <\/p>\n \u201cMy apologies because \u2018Something Bitchin\u2019 This Way Comes\u2019 might be the single worst album title in the history of Western music! [Laughs] The Lock Up was a tremendous learning experience because failure is a great teacher. I had moved to Los Angeles with the express purpose of trying to become a rock star and to make albums. I got signed to Geffen Records with Lock Up which felt incredible. Live, the band was more raw. I had all this crazy stuff on the guitar.<\/p>\n \u201cWe were told: \u2018Don\u2019t do that.\u2019 Our frontman was gay, but we were told he had to remain closeted and couldn\u2019t talk about it. All to get on the radio. We listened and then made a record that I wasn\u2019t particularly proud of. Fifteen seconds after its release, the label wasn\u2019t returning our calls. The day that band broke up, I made a solemn vow to never play another note of music that I didn\u2019t believe in. I sat on my couch in my squat and began writing riffs that were component parts of the first Rage Against the Machine record.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n 4What letter was painted on your chest when Rage Against The Machine famously protested, nude, against censorship at Lollapalooza in 1993? <\/p>\n \u201c[Laughs] I think it\u2019s \u2018R\u2019?\u201d<\/p>\n WRONG. \u2018C\u2019.<\/p>\n \u201cSo I\u2019m on the end?! [Laughs] I don\u2019t remember that.\u201d<\/p>\n At a Lollapalooza gig in Philadelphia in 1993, Rage walked onto the stage naked with duct-tape covering your mouths and the letters \u2018P.M.R.C.\u2019 daubed on your chests \u2013 a reference to the Parents Music Resource Center, who had successfully campaigned for \u2018Parental Advisory\u2019 warning stickers on albums. You then stood silently onstage for your entire 15 minute set. <\/p>\n \u201cWe were going to do it in Washington, DC, but there was disagreements about what the protest was going to be, so we did it in Philadelphia. The record company had brought down everybody to be like \u2018Here\u2019s Rage Against The Machine\u2019. Lollapalooza was a phenomenon \u2013 that year, it had sold-out before they announced the bill. We were the first band on. Our tour manager was the only person who knew what we planned to do, and he\u2019d worked out we had 15 minutes before the cops arrived, and we\u2019d have to get the hell out of there. Backstage, we have our clothes on, and Layne Staley \u2013 whose band Alice in Chains<\/a> is headlining \u2013 said to me: \u2018I came early today. I heard you guys are great. I can\u2019t wait to see you.\u2019 I reply: \u2018You\u2019re going to see us all right!\u2019 [Laughs].\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cWe stripped, walked out and the crowd goes bananas. \u2018Cause one: it\u2019s Lollapalooza, two: it\u2019s naked guys, some of whom are fairly well-hung. Three: it\u2019s a protest. The guitars are squealing back. For the first five minutes, it\u2019s euphoria. For the next five minutes, it\u2019s a strange stand-off as the audience realise we\u2019re now in minute seven, eight, nine\u2026 that\u2019s a long-ass time to be standing buck-naked in a football stadium. During the last five minutes, it\u2019s hostile \u2013 they\u2019re throwing quarters at our dicks! People are booing. They now realise they\u2019ve stepped into a pile of political art. Then we leave without playing a single song, and there\u2019s a murderous outpouring from the crowd!\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cThe point was you cannot take controversial music for granted. But now we\u2019re scrambling backstage naked. The cops have arrived and it\u2019s every man for himself! Layne Staley probably took my clothes because he was so pissed off! I\u2019m running around in my sneakers and my birthday suit, so I go to the only place that a naked Black man might find refuge \u2013 on Fishbone\u2019s tour bus! It\u2019s 1.45pm and they\u2019re all smoking weed, so I sit down buck-ass naked and watch Star Wars<\/a>! [Laughs]\u201d<\/p>\n 5Audioslave made their live debut on Late Show With David Letterman in 2002, but can you remember which Friends<\/a> actor was the other guest on the programme? <\/p>\n \u201c[Laughs] Courteney Cox?\u201d<\/p>\n WRONG. Lisa Kudrow.<\/p>\n \u201cWe were outside, so we never even saw who was on the show. That was the first ever Audioslave performance, and it had been a tumultuous time. Chris [Cornell<\/a>, frontman] had been in and out of rehab. We had just shot the crazy video for \u2018Cochise\u2019, and we were a new band \u2013 three dudes from Rage Against The Machine and the singer of Soundgarden<\/a>. We\u2019d made a record we were proud of, but I had no idea what was going to happen. Playing on a rooftop was an unusual gig. We were looking at an office building across from us, and women were shouting \u2018Chris, take your shirt off!\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n 6Which controversial<\/a> 1997 UK Top 10 hit samples Rage Against The Machine\u2019s \u2018Bulls On Parade\u2019? <\/p>\n \u201cWoah! Is it \u2018One Man Army\u2019 with The Prodigy<\/a>?\u201d<\/p>\n WRONG. Close \u2013 it\u2019s The Prodigy\u2019s \u2018Smack My Bitch Up\u2019.<\/p>\n \u201cI did not know that! But I know that The Prodigy\u2019s Liam Howlett<\/a> is a big fan of that song. We recorded \u2018One Man Army\u2019 together in 1997, and that also samples \u2018Bulls on Parade\u2019, but that wasn\u2019t a Top Ten hit*. I first met The Prodigy on the Australian Big Day Out tour. I\u2019d never heard of them. We rode on the same tour bus to the hotel because \u2018R \u2013 Rage\u2019 and \u2018P \u2013 Prodigy\u2019 were letters next to each other. I thought they were Australian crew guys. Cut to Pinkpop Festival \u201996. Backstage, I see The Firestarter [Keith Flint<\/a>] coming my way and I recognise him as the nice Australian crew guy! I assumed he was working for one of the bands, but he told me he was in a band playing here. I asked: \u2018How was your show?\u2019 He replied: \u2018No, we\u2019re playing after you!\u2019 Afterwards, I stayed to watch them. The Prodigy are one of the few bands in a live setting that gave Rage Against the Machine a run for our money.\u201d<\/p>\n *The Prodigy & Tom Morello recorded \u2018One Man Army\u2019 for the Spawn soundtrack, though it was never released as a single.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p>\n 7Which 1998 horror film did you cover Pink Floyd<\/a>\u2019s \u2018Another Brick in the Wall\u2019 (both Parts 1 and 2) for? <\/p>\n \u201cThe band was called Class of \u201999 and it was for a not-awesome film! I can picture the VHS box! This is some deep lore!\u201d<\/p>\n WRONG. It was The Faculty<\/a>. As part of the Class of \u201999 supergroup alongside Layne Staley, Jane\u2019s Addiction<\/a>\u2019s Stephen Perkins, Martyn LeNoble from Porno For Pyros<\/a> and Matt Serletic of Collective Soul. <\/p>\n \u201cThat was Layne Staley\u2019s last recording [before his death in 2002 from a drug overdose] and it was sad. He was very unhealthy at the time. We couldn\u2019t get him down to Los Angeles and we were concerned about him doing the song \u2018cause he was going to get a substantial cheque for it and who knew what that meant? He recorded in Seattle and it was a difficult day. He sounded great, but he was never able to conquer his addictions. Sadly, it wasn\u2019t too long after that we lost him.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n 8What number did your rap-rock supergroup Prophets Of Rage<\/a> self-titled album reach on the UK album chart in 2017?<\/p>\n \u201c[Laughs] Gah! I\u2019m going to guess 14?\u201d<\/p>\n WRONG. Six.<\/p>\n \u201cThat\u2019s pretty good! In my career, I\u2019m honoured to have played with Zack de la Rocha<\/a>, Chris Cornell, Bruce Springsteen<\/a>, Chuck D<\/a> and B-Real \u2013 five of my favourite frontmen and lyricists of all time, and two of them in one band with Prophets Of Rage.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201c[Laughs] Well, it\u2019s a take-off on Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? I don\u2019t know if we changed the name. So that\u2019s my final answer!\u201d<\/p>\n WRONG. Who Wants To Be Filthy F#&%ing Rich.<\/p>\n \u201cWell, that\u2019s all [director] Michael Moore\u2019s genius. That day, of course, goes down in infamy in the history of Rage Against The Machine. The video that you see is not the one we planned because we did not anticipate the director being arrested and the band storming the New York Stock Exchange<\/a>! Those were not in the video treatment when we sent it out! [Laughs]\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cThe video also famously and notoriously predicts Donald Trump<\/a> being President, as one of the day traders was given a sign saying \u2018Trump for President 2000\u2019. So we have to bear some measure of responsibility!\u201d<\/p>\n Of all the times Rage Against The Machine have been arrested, have any of the cops turned out to be fans of the band? <\/p>\n \u201cWhen Timmy [Commerford] climbed the scaffolding at the MTV VMAs in 2000<\/a> [in protest at \u2018Sleep Now in the Fire\u2019 losing the Best Rock Video award to Limp Bizki<\/a>t\u2019<\/a>s \u2018Break Stuff\u2019] and there was a fistfight \u2013 I mean, he beat the living crap out of an off-duty police officer in the aftermath of that! \u2013 thank goodness that off-duty police officer was a fan of Rage Against The Machine. At the end of the day, he just had to sign a bass for the guy.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \u201cOh yeah! 5 Sauce? Five? 5 Seconds Of Summer<\/a>?\u201d<\/p>\n CORRECT. <\/p>\n \u201cI was over at [producer] Andrew Wyatt\u2019s house doing something for Ozzy Osbourne<\/a>, and he said: \u2018Do you want to play a guitar solo on this track?\u2019 I had a nice time doing it. I was unfamiliar with the band. However, one of my son\u2019s best friends was a huge fan and when they found out that I had performed on it, I went to see them at the Hollywood Palladium and they could not have been kinder and more gracious.\u201d<\/p>\n Talking of Ozzy, you were the musical director for Black Sabbath<\/a>\u2019s \u2018Back To The Beginning\u2019<\/a> swansong.<\/p>\n \u201cIt was tremendously emotional and an honour. Heavy metal made me love music. Black Sabbath invented that and Ozzy brought the world [Black Sabbath guitarist] Randy Rhoads \u2013 who was a poster on my wall. That was my chief inspiration of putting in my 20,000 hours. I don\u2019t just owe an artistic debut to Ozzy and Sabbath, but a great life debt also. So I took it very seriously. The idea was to make the greatest day in the history of heavy metal to honour those people. The artists they created and fans got to show how much they appreciate them. For a band who, in their early inception, were talked about as being evil and dangerous, to have their finale be so much about love was beautiful.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n The verdict: 3\/10\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cThere were some real stumpers there!\u201d<\/p>\n![\"Prophets](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/GettyImages-984647758.jpg\")
Prophets Of Rage
\n9What is the gameshow called in the video for Rage Against The Machine\u2019s 2000 track \u2018Sleep Now in the Fire\u2019? <\/p>\n