Rage Against the Machine--Wake Up--Live @ L.A. Rising Los Angeles 2011-07-30

"L.A. is the city that we love, and it's got rebellion in its blood!" declared Rage Against the Machine's Zack de la Rocha ....


By Steve Appleford
August 1, 2011 2:10 PM ET

"L.A. is the city that we love, and it's got rebellion in its blood!" declared Rage Against the Machine's Zack de la Rocha to the roaring, swirling masses gathered for the band's L.A. Rising festival at the city's Coliseum on Saturday, sounding off a new phase in the band's Battle of Los Angeles.

Rage Against the Machine created the nine-hour L.A. Rising festival as a hometown show of force and a renewed statement of purpose. Joining them on the site of the 1932 and 1984 Summer Olympics were Muse, Rise Against, Ms. Lauryn Hill, Immortal Technique and El Gran Silencio -- and a "Re-Education Camp" with 42 activist groups on war, poverty, labor and immigration. L.A. Rising was Rage's first major concert in Los Angeles in a decade (aside from an immigration rights benefit last year at the much smaller Hollywood Palladium), and is the band's only scheduled live performance for 2011.

The words came during an extended jam in the middle of "Wake Up," as the singer-rapper railed against "illegal wars," homelessness and "foreclosure signs that stretch to the horizon." He urged fans back into the streets just as the band erupted again with a blast of thundering funk and hard-rock, and the crowd joined De la Rocha as he snarled the enraged closing lyric: "What you reap is what you sow!"

Link to the rest of this Rolling Stone article:
http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/rage-against-the-machine-keep-fighting...

Link to playlist of all videos of this day's event (Rise Against, Muse, Rage Against the Machine): http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLD9E15C5054570483

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• Rage Against the Machine
• Wake Up
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• LA Rising
• Los Angeles
• Coliseum
• July 30 2011

[TITISIMO25]

i get chills everytime this man speaks

[Fakename70]

Most powerful moment of the entire show for me began @ 4:30.

[benzatiable]

Wow...powerful stuff. Rage needs to go on tour again, I would surely go support their message.

[F1brawfa]

It is true that Rage against the machine is the Led Zeppelin of this time

[Electrosentido]

As long as they have ipods and SHIT football and SHIT baseball and SHIT people are not going to wake up...as long as they have NIKE and SHIT!! SNL and SHIT Walmart and SHIT, Cable TV and SHIT,

people are never going to wake up...

[vladimiriosifovich]

@Jacob96159 i know it was a ten hour concert but come on. i wait there all day too. i was in the hot sun. but when it came time for Rise , Muse and Rage i was up and ready for anything.

[Jacob96159]

@vladimiriosifovich it kinda was a 10 hour concert. by that time every one in green zone had endured 5 bands!

[renfairbanks]

@Fakename70 I agree, this video helps me reminisce.

[vladimiriosifovich]

growing up in baltimore ill tell u the crowds r different. something about LA. no one gives a fuck and for some reason all around me people were standing still. I was like am i at LA Rising or not???

[cmeza1985]

i was right next to the pit, it was epic!!!!!!!!!! I hope people really get the message they're trying to put out there... it isn't just hype.