Rage pulls their own Tool

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Yeah, it's a new thing where people kidnap someone that was born between 1946 and 1964, knock them out with tree frog poison, ketamine, and roofies, cremate them, gather up the ashes, mix it with a mixture of Icelandic, Israeli, and Northern French clays, and simultaneously boof it and use it as a mud mask. It's wild.

I dunno bro I'm German that kinda sounds like a war crime haha. Now that boof it part.... Hahahaha.
 

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Toronto Sun: KINSELLA: Hypocrisy reigns at Rage Against The Machine show.
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Yes, I dig the tunes.
Almost as much as I dig entertaining myself identifying: controversy ,hypocrisy, and self-fulfilling paradoxical juxtapositions. ?
I also like to complain a lot.

I do understand how retail business works.
You got product and you got customers.
At the end of the day your expenses are subtracted from your intake, and whatever is left you might get to keep.
,, which I guess is also the definition of capitalism.
 

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Toronto Sun: KINSELLA: Hypocrisy reigns at Rage Against The Machine show.
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Yes, I dig the tunes.
Almost as much as I dig entertaining myself identifying: controversy ,hypocrisy, and self-fulfilling paradoxical juxtapositions. ?
I also like to complain a lot.

I do understand how retail business works.
You got product and you got customers.
At the end of the day your expenses are subtracted from your intake, and whatever is left you might get to keep.
,, which I guess is also the definition of capitalism.

Yeah, have to say that articles like that always get me because they're gross over-simplifications... like, half the time the band has no say in the merch prices at all, it's completely determined by the label, arena, merch manufacturers etc. And honestly those prices aren't bad at all for a major band. I've been to indy shows lately where the shitty opening bands t shirts are $30. Just the cost of business I suppose. Inflation and supply chain disruptions and other buzzy news keywords etc. Ticket prices are the same. And in the days of streaming media, tours and merch are basically the only way these guys make money. And it irks me that the writer gives one line to mentioning the money Rage is donating to the causes they advocate for but several paragraphs complaining about t shirt prices... it's not like anyone is obligated to buy the t-shirt!

My tickets were $100 each. For Madison Square Garden. Meanwhile, it's $60 to see a metal show at the local dive, so honestly, seems pretty reasonable for a major band that hasn't toured in 15 years. Suffice it to say, I disagree with the writer of that article lol. It's certainly no different to me than the geriatric ass Rolling Stones playing Fenway a few years back and tickets STARTING at $350 so a bunch of former hippies could rock out to Street Fighting Man for the hundredth time while the meaning of said song completely eludes them (and their 401k)

I'm not saying there's no hypocrisy in what Rage does and sings, just that I think this article focuses on all the wrong stuff. Like, you wanna call out the hypocrisy, how about Tom Morello's custom branded wah wah peddle, only available at a Guitar Center near you!
 

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Listening to Tool, sublime and pink Floyd while frying on acid was my mid to late 90s. Oh to be young again, lol
Dude you just named three of my favorite bands. Same here without the acid just weed. Oh and boomers. And some nitrous crackers. Ok everything except the “acid” back then. A buddy of mine that I met right after, like late 90s, introduced me to a lotta shit. Guy took a half sheet (50 hits) once. His buddy was riding BMX bikes at the time X-Games was just starting up and had a full vial (100 hits) in his sock, it broke while he was fuckin around and he absorbed the whole thing ? WTF! When they compared experiences, the main thing was “Bro, I might’ve taken a hundred hits at once, but you took 50 hits WILLINGLY.” ?
Same 50 hit guy had a line on medical nitrous, which I’ve never had. Seriously, one full room of 5 foot tall tanks (empties) and another room (fulls). He bought bulk punch balloons that they could sit on and bounce on em ? While traveling, he’d bring two tanks in his VW bus and supplement with mini store whip cream when necessary lol.
 

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Toronto Sun: KINSELLA: Hypocrisy reigns at Rage Against The Machine show.
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Yes, I dig the tunes.
Almost as much as I dig entertaining myself identifying: controversy ,hypocrisy, and self-fulfilling paradoxical juxtapositions. ?
I also like to complain a lot.

I do understand how retail business works.
You got product and you got customers.
At the end of the day your expenses are subtracted from your intake, and whatever is left you might get to keep.
,, which I guess is also the definition of capitalism.
Haha ? IDK your feeds I just know I love y’all canucks. Even way before all of our bantering online. Definitely gonna be heading up there once I’m ? so be ready my dude.
 

Kanzeon

In Bloom
Yeah, have to say that articles like that always get me because they're gross over-simplifications...

I'm not saying there's no hypocrisy in what Rage does and sings, just that I think this article focuses on all the wrong stuff. Like, you wanna call out the hypocrisy, how about Tom Morello's custom branded wah wah peddle, only available at a Guitar Center near you!

Exactly. It's just a superficial partisan tabloid clickbait hit piece.
 

Kanzeon

In Bloom
Guys this Run the Jewels stuff is legit AF. Thank you.

Who am I that I don't get my portion?
The most impressionable minds get molested by manipulating forces
Don't fret, little man, don't cry
They can never take the energy inside you were born with
Knowing that, understand you could never be poor
You already won the war, you were born rich
You can only take the energy you had
Going back to the realm or the home where your Lord is
Whoever, whatever that Lord is
Couldn't give a fuck if you ever made fortunes
Fuck anyone ever tryin' to run that bum shit
Send 'em to the flames where the orcs live

??
 

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RTJ is the rap duo of Killer Mike and El-P. Not for everyone, it's pretty aggressive, but they have a few songs with Zach from Rage. He actually lived on El-Ps couch for a while after Rage split up funny enough, even though he could obviously afford to do whatever he wanted at that point.

I did way too much acid in public back in the day lol. I had a real good friend who sold it (as well as a pharmacy worth of other drugs) and he would just give it to me for free when we were chilling. I was tripping balls essentially all of 2007. Honestly probably went a little too hard on that. Ate an entire ten strip on a couple occasions. Think there may be some lingering effects...
2007 was a quintessential year for me. I often refer back to it. Lotta good stuff happened for me during that year (along w some bad) but I hold that year as a turning point for so many things.
 

Psychobilly

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OK so this is gonna take a minute to type out, but the story itself... I feel like it's pretty funny so here we go:

Back in my early days of being like 18 or 19 years old, I had some friends and we liked to get wasted a lot, and I'm pretty sure at this point, a lot of you are fully aware of my "sense of humor" and how it spans across things not everyone finds funny, but, whatever. so like, one of my best friends LOVED Acid, and did a lot of it. I personally have not done it, and at this point, being almost 40, there's no point in trying now LOL.

So, one day, we're sitting at Denny's because you know, cheap Coffee and unlimited refills at 2 AM and all that, and sometimes we'd go buy a bunch of whipped cream cans and huff Nitrous out of them, and giggle for a bit, and head back in.

One day a friend I'd gone to High School with was in there, and we would all hang out there, drink Coffee, and annoy people, and then go drive off to someone's house after a while and bullshit. So the dude I went to high school with.... I think he's the one who actually told this story:

Him and a few other guys had some Acid, and their buddy took a bunch of it, and somehow ended up in the Trunk of the car (I THINK it was because they had no room in the car but he needed to go with them) and after a while, they decide to fuck with this poor dude, and "fake a police chase"....

So they start driving and say after a bit "Oh shit a cop!" and then "Oh fuck he's pulling us over!" and the guy in the Trunk of the car is audibly freaking out knowing they have Acid, and he's tripping like a white girl in a horror movie, so not good.

Eventually they just start driving like erratically and kinda crazy and acting like they are in some police chase, and the guy in the trunk is freaking out and scared shitless I'm sure, and at some point, they pull over and one of them starts "acting like the cop".... The "cop" is talking, and the guy in the trunk is talking out loud and still freaking out, and so they use that, and the "cop" slams his hand on the trunk and is like "AND WHO IS IN THE TRUNK?!?!?!?!?" and the dude FLIPS out.... they can hear him but he has no idea they can, so they're essentially trying not to laugh too much while playing along with one of them acting like they are a cop, and the dude in the trunk is like "OH MAN.....OH NO.... OH MAN.... OH NO....." and at some point they play this off so that they drive off....LOL.

This would be after me hearing from another guy that one of them took too much Acid and thought he was a glass of OJ....And he couldn't move because he'd spill.... But it's around the same time that my buddy ate a bunch of Acid and and stayed on his couch for 12 straight hours because he was convinced that one side of the couch was the Arctic.....And the other part was like the equator....So if he moved he would either freeze to death or die in the heat..... LOL.

So uh, yeah, I don't do Acid. I've done Mushrooms maybe 2 times,but for the most part, because of Acid, I stayed away from hallucinogens because I felt like I'd "Pop my Kite String" (Shout out to every Acid Bath fan!) and it wasn't until a few years ago I did mushrooms and micro dosed for the first time.

As for the price of stuff at a show? If it's worth it to me, it's worth it to me. I've seen The Misfits at Harpos in Detroit a BUNCH of times, and seen the Koffin Kats too in Detroit. Sadly I can't see Demented Are Go like ever without leaving the country because the singer Sparky has a record.
 

Psychobilly

🧀Muenster
Haha ? IDK your feeds I just know I love y’all canucks. Even way before all of our bantering online. Definitely gonna be heading up there once I’m ? so be ready my dude.

Canada is fun. I lived in Quebec for a year, but I also grew up near Ontario (Southeast Michigan) so I've been there a lot. Sucks I never saw Skinny Puppy, but the Gutter Demons....



I saw the Nekromantix at Foufs in Montreal in like.....2006 or so ? these guys were at the show. Apparently I made one of them laugh but don't remember LOL.
 

thenotsoesoteric

American Ninja
Dude you just named three of my favorite bands. Same here without the acid just weed. Oh and boomers. And some nitrous crackers. Ok everything except the “acid” back then. A buddy of mine that I met right after, like late 90s, introduced me to a lotta shit. Guy took a half sheet (50 hits) once. His buddy was riding BMX bikes at the time X-Games was just starting up and had a full vial (100 hits) in his sock, it broke while he was fuckin around and he absorbed the whole thing ? WTF! When they compared experiences, the main thing was “Bro, I might’ve taken a hundred hits at once, but you took 50 hits WILLINGLY.” ?
Same 50 hit guy had a line on medical nitrous, which I’ve never had. Seriously, one full room of 5 foot tall tanks (empties) and another room (fulls). He bought bulk punch balloons that they could sit on and bounce on em ? While traveling, he’d bring two tanks in his VW bus and supplement with mini store whip cream when necessary lol.
I never took more than 2 hits but im glad I had that experience as a 16 yr kid. The 1st time was just a complete transition into the odd ball I became ?.

Just one of the dudes that live near my best friends happened to have a connect for really good acid. If it wasn't for him the only acid I would have done was some bunk shit I got from some a-hole.

Wild times man.
 

Gentlemancorpse

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Guy took a half sheet (50 hits) once.
I knew a dude like that. Watched him drop a dozen liquid hits into his eye sitting in a Dunkin Donuts at 6am one time... he tripped for like a month straight another time, just eating dozens of hits all day everyday... can't believe he never even landed himself In a hospital. I only took more than 10 hits once and I tripped for almost 48 hours straight. That was too much for me and wound up being one of my last trips.

2007 was a quintessential year for me. I often refer back to it. Lotta good stuff happened for me during that year (along w some bad) but I hold that year as a turning point for so many things.
Same man! 2007 was a wild year for me. It was actually a major turning point in my life. Realized I was probably going to die if I stayed in my hometown so I applied to college in VT, shockingly got accepted and moved to Burlington that fall. Still partied up there but it was extremely tonned down. Always got a kick out of all the rich kids who went to college to rage while I was there to slow myself down haha.

We are way off topic now...
 

Psychobilly

🧀Muenster
Those things are pretty easy to open haha. Back when I was younger I had a thing for picking locks. I wasn't trying to steal anything, I just enjoyed opening things without keys. Then I got a computer and it became an instant felony / job offer depending on attitude of person that found out. I don't do that anymore but I just found it interesting that you don't need a key or a combination to open them, as they all have "holes".
 
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