Tom Morello
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""Arm the Homeless" - Custom guitar with a Kramer Guitars/Kramer neck and custom performance body."Soul Power"" - Fender Stratocaster/Custom Fender Stratocaster""Sendero Luminoso"" - Fender Telecaster ""Burnt Budweiser"" - Gibson Les Paul ""Whatever It Takes"" - Ibanez/Ibanez classical acoustic Ibanez Artstar Hollowbody (Custom).

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"Thomas Baptiste Morello " (born May 30, 1964) is an American guitarist and activist. He is best known for his tenure with the band Rage Against the Machine and then with Audioslave. Morello is currently a touring musician with Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band. He is also known for his acoustic solo act called The Nightwatchman, and his latest group Street Sweeper Social Club. Morello is also the co-founder (along with Serj Tankian) of the non-profit political activist organization Axis of Justice, which airs a monthly program on Pacifica Radio station KPFK (90.7 FM) in Los Angeles.

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It was a terrible natural disaster but an even greater human catastrophe.

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Music is not some stuffy college lecture, ... On a good day, Rage Against the Machine is not able to just rock you like a hurricane, but also to fuel the engine with indignation and the band's activist convictions.

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It's not like we just changed a rapper for a singer, ... We happen to have one of the greatest rock singers of all time.

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We offer a stark contrast to the bland escapism that chokes the charts.

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We've been able to have our cake and eat it, too. Every song, every T-shirt, is absolutely a pure expression of what we want to do. And it connects.

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And I think that on this record, we've accomplished the mission we set out at the beginning of the first rehearsals. And that was, not to just make the best Rage Against the Machine record, but to make the best Rage record by a wide margin. We've made the heaviest record to date and it's our funkiest record to date.

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