Vegoose 2007

Eyes as wide as dish plates, chest heaving, hair flying, veins bulging, Zach de la Rocha seemed like the kind of dude who was born with a raised fist.

“Your anger is a gift,” the Rage Against the Machine frontman bellowed, a thunderbolt of righteous indignation who puffed himself up like a cat with its back arched, ready to pounce.

Less a band than a battering ram, Rage closed Vegoose on Sunday night with force and fury, their tunes hitting the crowd like cinder blocks hurled from the stage.

Driven by an airtight rhythm section with a bassist, Tim Commerford, who just bulldozes through the band’s repertoire with abandon, Rage loosened hard rock’s limbs with some steel-toed funk.

Guitarist Tom Morello uses his instrument to mimic turntables, wailing sirens and buzzing circuitry, rendering riff fests like “Know Your Enemy” and “Calm Like a Bomb” monster jams that combusted like paper on fire.

Their fat-free set was far short of the two-hours they were given to play, but it was still a knock-out blow after two long days of music, $6 beers, greasy fingers, sweat, grass stains, wild costumes, bored-looking cops, clouds of reefer and shirtless 60-year-olds. Read the rest of this entry »

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