Why did Zack leave Rage Against The Machine

BlEeD tHe FrEaK

What was Zacks main reason to leave R.A.T.M I was told it was to with Tim Bob the Bass player does anyone know?

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar

i read online at the time that it was because he wanted to pursue different political activisim thingies with his musical career than the rest of the band.

that could be utter bull****e, but if I didn't have my faith I wouldn't have much of anything.

ven0m

Mordeth wrote:

i read online at the time that it was because he wanted to pursue different political activisim thingies with his musical career than the rest of the band.

that could be utter bull****e, but if I didn't have my faith I wouldn't have much of anything.

I heard he left to pursue being a 'hiphop artist' & was getting tired of the 'Rage' formula...


::: ven0mous :::

Doctor J

I heard it was because they wouldn't do what he told them.

Antisocialiser

I heard it was because they wouldn't do what he told them.

Come doctor that is so lame....




Its cause he wanted to step the stutter rep and bomb a left upon the fascists :P

smackbunnybaby

i heard it was because the band werent as politically driven as he was and he wanted to step it up a notch,"they werent seeing his visions" was a quote from somewhere i heard at the time.

the fnj

I heard he went into the restaurant and ate all the food in the restaurant and they had to close the restaurant.

I don’t think there ever was an official reason released, but my theory on it is

They were a number one selling band in America with a strong political message, people were buying their records but not taking the message on board. I think he found this extremely frustrating as they were a “cool” band to be into but few who listened to them changed.

Roar

ven0m wrote:

I heard he left to pursue being a 'hiphop artist' & was getting tired of the 'Rage' formula...


::: ven0mous :::

the "hip hop" i've heard of him ("march of Death" and "burned hollywood burned", both w:/ Dj Shadow i think but i'm open to correction) isn't bad actually.

Rabbit_Fascist

He felt that Rage had gone as far as they could with the combination of rock and political rap. I think the final straw was when Timmy climbed up on the stage when Limp Dick won some award. Zack was raging over that.

He is working on some new ****, but it's been ages.

Have you heard his song March Of Death with DJ Shadow?

Rabbit_Fascist

Roar wrote:

the "hip hop" i've heard of him ("march of Death" and "burned hollywood burned", both w:/ Dj Shadow i think but i'm open to correction) isn't bad actually.

Isn't Burn Hollywood Burn by Public Enemy?

Mistaking Chuck D for Zach De La?

Or is it a Zach song playing on the PE title?

Roar

maybe someone mistyped the song title when they added to wherever i downloaded it from, but now ya mention it, chuck d's on the track with him.

and a quick google just confirmed this

Rabbit_Fascist

Excellent! Thanks for the link!

* runs off to download C.I.A and Burn Hollywood Burn with Zach

It wasn't me!

I think he probably just wanted to take the power back.

nadir

I heard it was casue the record company had shares in arms companies, and he thought it was like way to hypocritic

radiospan

Not sure if this is known or not, but he has a new song "We Want It All", produced by Trent Reznor. Something to do with Michael Moore, too:

http://www.zdlr.net/portal/index.php