Lollapalooza 2008: Rage Against the Machine stirs up frenzied Grant Park crowd, tells them to look beyond Obama | The Windy Citizen (flag)

www.windycitizen.com — Rage Against the Machine opening its Lollapalooza 2008 Saturday headliner set with "Testify." (Band takes stage at 1:20 mark.) Fifteen years after their first Lollapalooza, Rage Against the Machine pounded through their hits during a set unsurprisingly marred by violence and crowd-control problems Saturday night at the south end of Hutchinson field, creating a din whose ferocity matched the ...

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brooklynvegan — ... "Now we know brother Obama. We know brother Obama. But I tell you what, if he comes to power come November and he doesn't start pulling troops out of Afghanistan, I know a lot of people who are gonna stand up and burn down every office of every Senate."... [Zach De La Rocha @ Lollapalooza] ...

Lollapalooza 08 Saturday: We Rage happily, if not safely
Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch — ... frankly, I think you're damn near heroic. Anyway. We pressed on. "Guerilla Radio." "Ashes in the Fall." I began to be aware of the absurdity of watching an RatM show on the opposite side of the fence from white men who had paid thousands of dollars to spend their weekend in VIP cabanas with free booze, high on the hill, untouchable by the sweaty fools spinning in tiny circles of death beneath their balconies. "Wake Up" brought the trademark de la Rocha rant-- someone transcribed it here , but it was mostly about rising up against power and what not, or, if you will, raging ...