WSJ Cafe: Tom Morello, "Fabled City"

[malmberwilliam]

He sounds like Johnny Cash

[labbern]

You can sing Like a stone in the chorus!

[ektrules]

LOL. Thought is was joke or something. It makes me believe the jack-offs on Wall Street don't really want to fuck everyone over, that's just what the system rewards them for. They're, for the most part, just playing by the rules given to them.

[carmelcandy6969]

hehe If you wanna make a point...thats the way to do it:)) Good on Tom:) He aint skurred...hehehehe

[larsinla]

Tom playing in the belly of the monster... or what would be appropriate here... there is really some vicious crap published in that newspaper... does it make sense to sing over there... the crowd liked him tho...

[Dumboparty44]

tom morello! i mean seriously if i ever met him i would prabrably diee, he is amasing in everything, even when he is bad (wich he never is) he always looks good

[tapeboi321]

lol

[MrJdouble1998]

outstanding!

[doriandoti]

ironic gig! LOL

[mauricioyumbla]

que bakan!!!!... grande.... lo maximo!!!!

[Agent28Rock]

I have the upmost respect for this man! It's so hard to meet a man who's so smart, so wealthy (financially), yet carries himself as if to be your next door neighbor. His talent alone is the reason why I feel he's one of the greatest guitarist of all time!

Morello, YOU ROCK!!

[wildcatstrike1]

TOM MORELLO can't run for president. He's part of the one big union! iww.org

[lemonjuicer]

dam! tom went black!

(actually thought it was a black guy on the thumbnail)

[CCRockit]

@lemonjuicer

Thats because hes Kenyan so hes somewhat black

[licmy3balls]

@sweetishjeebar wow, guess you really told me.

[eobo1]

fist time i see him by himself and on a classical guitar

[ExpectResistance66]

that wasn't a really responsive crowd. He's use to people moshing and shit.

[IMFagentSamFisher]

@ExpectResistance66 That and he's playing a liberal song at the offices of a conservative newspaper

[stankwagon]

i do not think he has a southern accent.

[phrygian360]

some how he's picked up some folk/southern accent. guess thats what happens when you've seen all done all and become a politcal god ballon. haha

[mexismarty]

needed a solo!

[m3s3r]

willower woo wooo genial tom morello

[Royelmesias]

Cuando vi que era Tom Morello, pense que hiba a hacer algo genial con la guitarra clasica, pero nada!

=(

Que vuelva RATM

[sp4rtucus]

Tom is an awesome guitarist, but his vocals could be better. No offence meant and im not saying i could do better but its jst not his forte.

RATM 4EVA!!!!!

[IMFagentSamFisher]

@sp4rtucus They're getting better. There was a notable improvement between his two solo albums alone.

[marcwatkins32]

The Wall Street Urinal

[funlivelife]

What an awesome song.........touching and empowering at once

[smittylovesays]

poor mike

[oggecool]

Tom Morello performs at Wall Street.

Oh, the irony.

[Hungrybear765]

bet it was ironic when he played wall street for the rage against the machine video, idiot.

[uhyeahiguess]

fuck the wall street journal. everyone knows the wall street journal is part of news corp, right? meaning that, it's part of the same company as fox news... neo-liberal capitalist bullshit. wtf is tom morello doing there?

[Foolhollow]

Well said, Haha.

[KenCat1337]

Tom Morello is an obvious anti-capitalist, he's playing there because he helped like shut down Wall Street.

[retrograderenegades]

Tom has said this,When you live in a capitalistic society, the currency of the dissemination of information goes through capitalistic channels. Would Noam Chomsky object to his works being sold at Barnes & Noble? No, because that's where people buy their books. We're not interested in preaching to just the converted. It's great to play abandoned squats run by anarchists, but it's also great to be able to reach people with a revolutionary message, people from Granada Hills to Stuttgart

[mayitobusca]

@retrograderenegades well said

[XtremePaintbBall]

he should have stayed with rage against the machine

[someguy323]

Zach was actually the one that quit, then Chris Cornell joined making it Audioslave. Then he left and now they're coming back with Rage Against the Machine.

[Jh768]

does the melody of this song sound just like "until the end" of him, or is that just me?

[jakxcombat]

Wow this is great, gonna buy the album!

[ThekRonicdewd]

lmao no wonder he guitars so good

hes hella fast!

[Hungrybear765]

guitars so good? you mean plays. idiot.

[feverdec]

tom morello sounds like seth macfarlane

[SirCatchesFireAlot]

haha, yeah he does

[xleburas]

he speaks very fast!!!i hardly understand what he says

[kelmyrocker]

hahahaha lol yer he dose to

[slickmagic]

My hero both as a great guirarist that he is and a strong political aspect. FUcking political science

[aznbmxer182]

man this is awesome good song

for all you haters just shut the fuck up and dont watch this and stop complaining!!!!!!!!!!!

[mindastrayIL]

i wish he would use a different guitar, this one sounds nylon. and i know thats what he loves playin, but imagine a beautiful brinze and steel stringed beauty cryin his message with his deep voice. I greatly respect Tom, great song, he made history and The Nightwatchmen is like the bread crumbs he's leaving behind as he slowly walks away into the shadows for good. Great work tom, you're my hero.

[ham1not2a3hamster]

It's folk.

Folk guitarists use Nylon.

That's how they get the sound.

Steel wouldnt sound right for the style.

So he doesn't use it.

:)

[Stainbreak]

what a voice.. god xD

[PepitoneConQueso]

LoL LkJumper33, do you know ANYTHING about Tom Morello or RATM

guess not

[34HEMI]

To LkJumper33, If thats your opinion, then you dont know shit about Tom and where he gets his ideas from, this is the stuff he lives for

[Espien00]

When the lead singer of Audioslave tried to sing 'Killing in The Name' live it sounded like he was sucking on a piece of shit the whole time.

[CastEyesTV]

I agree

[LkJumper33]

he needs to forget about politics and get back to makin innovative music.

[chilam8668]

politics is one of the main thing that drives his innovative music. I f it weren't for the chemistry he and zack had creatively his sound wouldnt be what it is. And he's always politically active. It's part of who he is so when you seperate that you get the forgettable Audioslave songs (not all of em, some were good.)

[LkJumper33]

audioslave was anything but forgetable, my all time favorite songs are by audioslave. I still listen to their debut album. His most creative and soulful guitar pieces are the Audioslave songs that had nothing to do with politics. him and cornell went in the wrong direction.

[Spongebob11223344]

Audioslave was crap. You just can't fuse RATM and Clown-Around Garden together to get a good sound that isn't too leniant to one side or the other.

[LkJumper33]

you were crap. it seems like rage fans hated Audioslave and Soundgarden fans liked em. I liked all 3

[wesselklooster]

asshole...

[bananahead89]

re lkjumper33. if you cared for his music, you'd know that politics revolve around his music throughout his entire career with rage,audioslave and his solo career. spend a moment and explicate some of rage's lyrics.

[oplerdmusic]

this is such a great video and song. the nightwatchmen are arguably the greatist solo band ever.

[YouknowmeOUdo]

Michael Moore lover he is loonie, Im suprised the KGB didnt recrut him at Harvard.

[ritualpenguin]

TOM MORELLO kicks all sort of ass, and he' s the nicest bloke to be politically active! What a star ! RATM made me who I am today!

[kcin1004]

TOM MORELLO for president '12

[ClassicRock8]

@kcin1004 or better yet no government at all!

[CCRockit]

@kcin1004

He actually can't, because he was arrested in a protest

[daniel333999333]

@CCRockit that sux , i dont really know but feel like bush has been arrested, then gain he had a powerful father

[CCRockit]

@daniel333999333

Yeah, Tom didn't even know his dad i dont think...

[xeybod]

@kcin1004 oh yeah man!!!

[labbern]

@kcin1004 didn't you hear in the interview? he said that if he wasn't in a job where he could say that someone is a rasist and they can go to hell. then thats not the job for him.

[SRHawk24]

Great vid man!

[Ripstikked]

Itz good that hes the nightwatchman coz u can hear his music without sum bitch screamin their head off followed by 20,000 others in an arena.

[steveyd131]

except in audioslave the "bitch" was the legend that is cornell, so it was good

[chilam8668]

that and the nightwatchman faithful go for the message as much as the music so you don't have to fight with drunken frat boys who go to Rage shows to mosh and act like a buncha stupid mooks and ignore the message

[straight138edge]

nothin wrong with mosh pits...but great to hear tom play some simple, powerful stuff. i also love that the guitar hero fanboys i know hate this stuff... gh really didnt help

[chilam8668]

i'm dating myself, mooks were around late '90'(Nothing wrong with moshing,not what i'm saying. : )Yeah mooks have been replaced by the guitar hero idiots and I'm getting old

[comerto852]

to is awesome

[NLPK123]

Is it just me,

Or does Tom Morello sound identical to Brian from family guy?

Like he could easily do the voice overs.

[iamblackmo]

lol

[rtfan13]

YE SETH MCFARLANE

[wesselenjort]

in the beginning he sounds very unsure.

[lachlan1010]

ironic that he puts himself infront of all of those rich fucks, and sings thema song about them screwing the world over, i think he enjoys being able to do that.

[morellopeppers]

TOM is the best!!!

[howlinggoat]

I don't know why I don't like this. I'm a huge fan of RAGE and I have a lot of respect for most acoustic/folk stuff. This is kinda mediocre. Sorry I couldn't get it...

[Cazaq]

It's about the message , not the music.

[chilam8668]

actually, it's about both!

[ArtOfMe021]

Anyone else thing it's funny he's singing a song about immigration and poverty in the Wall Street Journal Cafe in front of a bunch of middle class white people? Maybe he enjoys the irony.

That said, it takes guts to stand in full light in front of those people being able to see their faces. Dark clubs and stadiums afford more anonymity to the audience.

[systemratm11]

I'm sure of all people, Tom does.

[PopsProduc]

maybe he wants to send his message to every one . . . . those people and the people that acsses this video also have the power of change, but they are closed in their little world

[Vikingqb8]

i love his folk stuff..it sounds even better live!

[balamuthia]

Wow. Weird. I love it, but it will definitely take some time for my brain to switch gears to this from Bulls on Parade. lol

[nittanyfan025]

haha yea exactly how i felt. Its like you love his music for one particular thing and then he does something totally different and its still good.

Anyone know what it says on the guitar. Something "takes"

[wesselenjort]

whatever it takes.

[wesselenjort]

just amazing.

[mecha1789]

tis sounds a lot like until the end

[Bilbainillo]

I agree. But sounds great!

[snuffis1313]

tom morello u´re my idol i love your music !

[no9dixiedean]

tom is an amazing singer songwriter proper student of woody guthrie

[almor619]

simple but really powerfull ...

[PepitoneConQueso]

really?

sry but anyone who thinks 9/11 was a conspiracy is a retarded person

Tom morello is the man

[Vulg4r]

cosigned.

[bagofrandom]

bahaha that makes me laugh some fucking small child came up with that idea

[Vulg4r]

Truth...lol

[ryallen32]

he's a good singer!!

[ruoyan75]

I just discovered Tom's solo stuff this weekend, after 15 years of loving RATM. This is revolutionary folk for our generation. If you listen to the words and the style, this is evident. Folk can be an acquired taste, but to just call this crap and gay means you have no idea what RATM or Tom Morello is about. Keep your ignorant comments to yourself and pop in your Creed album, or whatever you kids are listening to these days...

[PepitoneConQueso]

word dude

[cigaretteface]

not bad not bad, i like this

[LeeJamYam]

The guy can rock out pretty hard but I can't say that this kind of sound is for him..

[tkdkid64]

This is the gayest fucking thing i have ever seen. and iv lost all respect for tom morello. he can toss someones salad for all i care.

[arandomnickname666]

Why is it the 'gayest fucking thing you've ever seen?

Apart from the sunglasses?

[dvssk8er3]

if anything this should make u gain respect u douche bag listen to the lyrics it has some powerful meanings. piss off

[MorelloZzT7]

Haha! Keep making comments about yourself man it's making one rofl. LOL!

[guitarguru134]

tis is awesome it s like bluesy with tom morello !! saweet!

[dandotcom]

wtf Tom I heard solo album and thought it would be a bunch of rock solo's not this crap.

[chunkyjay]

tom doesnt only do crazy solos, he can be soulful and play some great acoustic music too. this isnt crap its a beautiful song

[TielHawk]

Solo album isn't an album of solos. It means solo, as in one person.

[greg9816]

wow ur retarded. solo means one. he's the only one in the album. listen to his single "The Road I Must Travel" and this is not crap.  this is a masterpiece!

[MorelloZzT7]

The only thing you'll be hearing is a bunch of raging fans kicking down your ears for comment like that! LOL

[RussellProductions]

holy shit.. hes got a great voice..don't like the song too much but I didnt know he could sing.

[fpcrunner]

Morello the folk singer. That's a big switch from the rapping metal band RATM, and Hard Rock supergroup Audioslave. Just thought somebody should point it out.

[andyoblah1]

i saw him at we the people festival i could have met him but i didnt feel like getting up from my chair he was right next to me though

[toasty86]

i can't say i like this song. tom's awesome but this song just isnt doing it for me.

[mactechnm]

Tom Morello is a genius! I wish I could meet him. He is one of the few artists today who walks what he talks. It's time for American's to take back control of their country. Marvelous album! Love every song.

[indygochild]

If I could give this 10 stars I would!

[XxSconeManxX]

those people obviously don't realize who this guy is, just look at their faces...

they're like fucking zombies...

[indygochild]

Geez, no kidding....must be terrible to be that vacant....Tom is amazing and they obviously haven't got a clue.

[nevets815]

its because they're hypnotized by his awesomeness.

It can last for weeks, trust me. lol

[crazysergio89]

So true... Kinda ticked me off. Although we can't expect everybody to know the 1337ness of Tom.

[kaneskelly]

TOM IS GOD

[nevets815]

correction, he is A god, not THE God. lol

(groundhog day reference)

[aznboyken8000]

awesome

[barrheadoasis]

theres a sort of johnny cash sound to it

[ivandima93]

excelent video!! tom is the best!!!

[yeahdude013]

Tom Is Simply THE BEST!!!

[nachoparrad]

TOM RULES