Rage Against The Machine - First Public Performance Full Concert (HQ)
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- Rage Against The Machine
First Public Performance
Cal State North Ridge,Ca (October 23,1991)
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Tracklist:
Killing In The Name
(02:21) Take The Power Back
(08:55) Auto Logic
(13:09) Bullet In The Head
(18:57) Hit The Deck
(23:24) Township Rebellion
(28:57) Darkness Of Greed
(32:56) Clear The Lane
(37:16) Clampdown
(41:05) Know Your Enemy
(46:08) Freedom 
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The guy who recorded this deserves a medal
Ranand Sharma agreed! thankfully someone had the sense to bring a camera
It was probably one of their moms or something
this was my favorite band when I was 17 cuz it was ALL ABOUT THE RAGE!!
A tripod with VHS recorder this shit. Not a man lol
true story...
The guy dancing will forever go out as the first person to dance at Rage’s first live performance…kinda legendary in itself
I absolutely loved that guys' energy! I wish I was there to join him.
@@LSR303 Yeah, that dude had great energy and epic moves. ... I also appreciate his shirt tucking skillset. That shirt stayed in.
@@williamsherman6995 las dos manos en la espalda para corregir los desajustes Épico!
fr
@@williamsherman6995 :D
The fact that a lot of their legendary songs were fully formed in their first ever concert is mind blowing
Fr bro wtf? All these hits were their FIRST songs?? Lmaooo
The fact that half of these never made it onto an album (as far as I know) is mind-blowing. I thought I was a pretty big Rage fan, but I don't know half of these.
Except, Killing The Name... Here has not any lyrics.
Industry plant
yep all the ingredients of a legendary band are there.
1,5 years later they HEADLINED every major European festival. Absolute legends.
Ehhh
@@Nexcroo What?
@Pedro-0839 🚮
MTV was the artificial producer
oh
The crowd just survived the 80s, they had no idea what the hell this was. Reminds me of that scene in back to the future where marty goes back and plays the chuck berry riff...
Yo Canadian Prepper!!! Greetings from the South brother.
Canadian Prepper Yes!
"I guess you guys aren't ready for that yet... But your kids are gonna love it".
Couldnt have said it better!!
Canadian Prepper except for that dude dancing in the front. He knew what's up
Jason Heard dude with the tie dye shirt must have been to a few Primus concerts,seems to know the deal.
This is the first time "Recommended for you" has been even remotely correct.
cool
This video is one of the best things on RUclips.
Shit yeah!
DaytonaDayz ...same weirdly, I’ve just been listening to Rage after a couple of years off. They are listening.
@@thefeelcompany the all seeing eye is watching....🙌
Person: I've been a big fan of RATM for a long time.
Red shirt guy: Oh really?
That red shirt guy goes down in history. Supporting a band while everyone else didn't know what they were watching
Where is the red shirt guy? Is that the dude with WB logo in the back?
@@macroftStudio No, wait for it and watch the Whole set
On the reunion if we attend the gig.. EVERYONE WEARS A RED SHIRT TO HONOR THE LEGEND!! 🤘🤙⚡️💯⚡️🤙🤘
19:33
What a piece of history and humble lesson, guy dances and sing the same way to 10 or 50.000 people. Incredible, best band ever. Crowd is Shocked
Who else clicked planning to listen for a few seconds out of curiosity and ended up watching and loving the whole thing?
🙋♂️ guilty...
Me too... been alit better than expected
same here🤘🤘🤘
Yeah but then an hour later here I am still jamming
So badass seeing how a huge band like this starts out just like any other garage band, but you can always tell which bands have that IT factor haha that energy
20 people in 1991: look at that idiot in the red shirt dancing.
2.5 million people in 2020: look at legend in the red shirt dancing.
@@donethat8761 hell no, solidarity forever!
@@profquad Yea you right Playa!!!
2022: censored for being racist
@@donethat8761 by who? You sound like a dick.
Don't judge that guy by how he dances. Its a sign you are not a fighter. Never underestimate your opponent.
@@ophiolatreia93 no that's not what I meant by the comment. I was talking about how silly he was dancing. The moshing and thrashing around was cool but, at times he was dancing kind of silly. I've been to nine of their concerts and I've fought in the pits every time, the whole time. I have no issues throwing nuckles and skull fuking anyone at the drop of a hat.
love how they open with probably their most well known song even before it was finished
Probably because it was the best they had at the time....they were right!! You gotta open hard to catch their attention my man!!
@@Defensive_Wounds No way! Bullet in the head rocked, even back then!
@@Defensive_Wounds TBH, more likely that lyrics weren't yet written and the band needed a good soundcheck w/o vocals. I'd also put my money on them trying to attract metal and hard rock fans over before Zack started rapping. Remember, rap/rock was still (popularly) artist collaborations at this point, where established rock bands and established hip hop bands would work together on one or a few songs. Rage came up in the first wave of rap rock bands in the US.
@@bengibson3955 100%
They have harder songs if you actually listen to them but yes I do too! Before it over played, i don’t really listen to it but I do listen to ( Know your enemy, Freedom, Bombtrack, Fist full of steel & etc
This video is literally history. How do they already sound so good??
I was thinking the same thing I'm like whoever recorded this did a damn good job they must have had a really good recording setup with the band of course, and they kept this thing preserved really well whoever cleaned it up deserves a damn metal also. I mean this camera is probably positioned by somebody with the band and they knew they were going to record this since they knew it was their first real public gig. What a great job by everybody
The cool thing about rage imo is that they didnt have to make a bunch of albums to find their style. Literally the 1st album they hit it in the right spot perfectly.
You can tell they already had the blueprints for what they wanted to build
Couse they are relly good, mate.
exactly like wtf..the audio is also incredible quality
The fact that they sounded this good in the beginning blows my mind.
I have seen a lot and I mean A LOT of new and upcoming bands booking for a couple of festivals where I live, but I have never heard anyone sound so good in their first attempt as RATM does in this video. It's crazy. I would have hired them after 30 seconds.
Ikr. That performance was awesome!
@Wuffaj00 thats not crap gear at all. that marshall cabinet and amp are expensive as fuck. and its amazing for small gigs. and the sound engineer did an amazing job for sure.
@Wuffaj00 also look that drum setup. those cymbals are super expensive. the were professionals just before their first gig. they knew where they want to be and they invested a lot of money.
Wuffaj00 sounds like pasties
watching the start like ..."ki...dammit"......"killi...dammit"......"ki...dammit, where they taking this"
same story
@@eomer_eadig song didnt have words yet @stumpydino
Red shirt dude also probably bought Microsoft stock when it was $3 a share
Hahaha good one. Wish I would have done that as well
Best comment.. bar none.
What a legendary guy!
We must locate red shirt man. We must reward him.
Red Shirt guy was Jeff Besoz
17:48 Zac jumping around like a maniac and screaming “BULLET IN THE HEAD!” kills me everytime.
Check this out 27:13
afterwards the woman who says "more like a ringing in the ears" lol.
"You got a fu**ing bullet in ur head" became later "you got a bullet in ur fu**ing head"
@@pawelr.9380sounds so much better that way lol
Wow that is some rage against the machine.
THIS VIDEO IS A NATIONAL TREASURE
Alexander Howlett luv your comment
lol, I love how contradictory this comment is. Made me lol pretty hard.
fuck u, this is world heritage
understatement!!
Alexander Howlett I totally agree. The people there haven't a clue what they're a part of
For some context, Smells Like Teen Spirit was released one month before this, and had just started it's rise to the top. What a great time to be a pup full of energy...
I still say Janes Addiction helped usher in that wave of high energy rock with Nothing Shocking coming out in 88 and then Ritual De Lo Habitual coming out in 90. I was born in 86 but I have been a fan since I was five or six. I remember having to sneak and watch MTV. My first ever favorite song was Under the bridge by Red Hot Chilli Peppers. I heard it on the radio and instantly loved it. I didn't know the meaning of the song but I felt the lonely sad hopeless emotion of it. If that makes any sense. My journey through music started the day I heard that song.
Music meant something back then. You had to be a real fan to know anything besides their music. Some of it total bullshit told to you by a friend that you later learned was bullshit but it was all part of the process of being a fan.
Definitely
I can testify the truth in your words sir
I was born in 1974 so I lived thru a lot of music and to me late 80's to early 90's was definitely the best time for music in my lifetime
Yeah, but a few years before you had Jane’s addiction and Primus, red hot chili peppers and Mr. bungle. It was already set in motion, especially in LA San Francisco where all those grunge bands would travel to play shows. San Francisco bands were going to Seattle and LA and LA bands were going to San Francisco and Seattle. There’s a lot of cross pollination in the mid 80s. There are a few documentaries at the time and all those bands talk about traveling up and down the West Coast and getting into stuff like the Melvins, etc.
RUclips Algorithm: Hey you want to see a 5 year old video that was taped 30 years ago of a cool rock band?
Me: Okay
same here... haha
Watched it from start to finish
I listened to a couple of RATM songs earlier today on Spotify and this got recommended on RUclips just a few hours later. Kind of creepy but what the heck...
Same here
Lol
This actually brings tears to my eyes, how they can be so good, so mesmerising, so powerful in their first gig is beyond me. Undeniable greatness, imagine being there and hearing this for the first time in the early 90s, mind-blowing
It really is incredible on many levels... 🎉
Agreed 100%. Their rise to the top was inevitable.
emotional bro
That was 1991 though! Music changed dramatically and very quickly. Nirvana and Pearl Jam opened the flood gates
Same.
Everyone watching this on their computers who tried to sing along in the beginning got faked out about a dozen times
Hahaha so much!
I thought Zach was letting audience sing like karaoke track
llllmmmmaaaaaoooo
they probably hadn't written the lyrics for that song yet
ChazWick4 ZACK IS SO FUCKEN BAD ASS SINGER!!! BEYOND INCREDIBLY AMAZING BAND!! SOOOOOOO OUT OF THERE TIME!! EPIC TALENT!! SO RARE THESE DAYS!!🔥🔥🔥😈😈😈
Props to the guy with the long hair and wearing his snapback backwards dude was watching rage almost their whole set not knowing he was witnessing the greatness that was about to unfold onto the world.
Probably the greatest show of his life.
@@bradapotamus dude I so agree!
Amen! Dude knows good music!
@@tammyedwards4635 he was one of the only people in the crowd who was actually into the music. Shit I would have given anything to have been in that crowd and be a teen in the 90's.
That guy probably tells somebody “I saw Rage Against the Machine’s first performance” dozens of times a year. I know I sure as hell would lol.
Damn I love Red Shirt Guy's energy. Hope he's having a great life, wherever he is.
He brought his A game that's for sure. Red shirt guy hells ya.
Zach performed like he was in front of 20000 people his very first show.
I read an interview a long time ago where Morello says Zach had that same energy on their first rehearsal.
Great point. Would be great advice for any young band too.
He was in hardcore bands Hardstance and Inside Out before this, so he had a lot of stage experience by this point.
For any aspiring musicians, this is a MUST. It really sets the bands standards, no matter how many people are there. People who enjoy it will also then begin to spread through word of mouth.
There also might only be few people there, but one of them could be very important. The British band Oasis got their breakthrough playing at tiny venue with a handful of people, but one of those was the top dog of one of the biggest record labels in the country - and he signed them there and then.
@Tom Henesey dude yeah, back in my hardcore days our 6 person show was the same as a 1000 person show. Go hard or not at all.
Tom Morello was ready for stadiums even then. Jesus that man is a force!
Playing like a seasoned vet at the campus debut. Really impressive.
Undoubtable
They sound fucking incredible for a first gig. Totally deserved the fame
As a group they were tight as hell then. Man Zach's voice was so raw while being delivered clearly.
Never heard someone sing and hear the true anger behind every word.
Not anger. Rage and you can see it in Tom's Playing too. Wonder why...
Agreed. These guys really had a whole world to move.
Ash Mofo these people had no idea what they were witnessing. They had to have been like whoa man what the fuck was that.
This is like one of those Back to the Future moments.
"I guess you guys aren't ready for that yet. But your kids are gonna love it!"
lol love it. so true. kids, go watch Back to the Future all of them
Love the way the crowd just keeps growing and growing as more and more people realize "hey wait these guys are really really good"
lol
1991: Kids walking by in their backpacks.
"Who's that?"
"Dunno. Some stupid Rage band."
10 years later:
"Dude, I saw Rage before they became big man. I was there."
I concur
Everything famous:
generic comment: something: and something else::
everybody: omg !! loldsflds kkf
@@tingtang9302 ironic comments:
everyone: lmao wtf
Clamp down cover of the clash they did was epic ..
What's amazing about this is how confident and assured they are for a first public performance
Agree, you either have it it you don't, they knew they had it..
I agree with Jack they just tore it up they all are on the same page. The bass player and the drummer. Reminds me of a band that started in 1968
It's even more wild when you learn by this point they had finish recording their demo tape in August and only been a band for almost -three- four months.
They had all been in bands before. It's no surprise that they were used to playing on-stage to a small crowd. Still, there's definitely some chemistry among them that a lot of bands, even well into their careers, lack...*cough*G&R*cough* They absolutely killed it!
Because they were already a legend where Zach de la Rocha was the singer of the band „Inside Out“.
I'm 60 and this is the first time I've seen this. I looked at the band and the crowd and thought that nobody knew what they were to become, at the time of the first gig. The only thing that really changed by much later gigs sound, is the quality of the sound system. They were pretty much fully formed when they played this, it's just mind-blowing.
i was shocked by the audio quality too its perfect
So basically they never sucked. First show fire!
Never sucked, like my wife 😒
@@ironmantooltime that really sucks bruh
@ironman tooltime rip
@@ironmantooltime based
Like Tool. Both bands started around the same time and together. They fucking clearly heard each other and saw they needed to outdo each other and be flawless day 1. No matter how small the crowd. Both bands showed this. Every show was full on.
I love how when Know Your Enemy starts at 41:00 everyone leans in to see how Tom is making that sound. They were so cutting edge.
they were the edge
LOVED this bit haha
Do you have autism and can’t read body language.
It has nothing to do with that, the beam was blocking Tom and he’s the only person playing so they’re leaning around the beam to watch him
I dont play can u explain what he did?
@@smoke4824 Using a combination of a kill switch on the guitar and a Whammy Pedal to create that sound. Unique idea at the time (hard for people to make sounds like this now without people thinking you're just trying to copy Tom).
The guy down the front was effectively the first ever RATM moshpit.
Abrax 23 A true legend. You'd think there would be tons of chicks around that guy but... no
@@douglang5568 I'm sure after they were swarming
Looks like Krist Nvoselic
Hehe he loves interpretive dancing we should find out who that is... I recall times when dancing and in your head your thinking am i about to levitate or simply this is awesome...
Carlos Folconious Ask Reddit. They’ll find out for you.
Props to the dude with the long hair and ball cap. He was rockin from start to finish
This guy knew he was witnessing History.
How I wish I can go back in time and screams "KILLING IN THE NAME OF!"
I remember that weird reggae song by Living Color Love rears its ugly head that pretty much sums up those L A. Riots with the crappy rap music..Kris's Kross make you take a big dump
@Donald Allen you're gross goofy
@@carlbutler2212 dude lol your making fun of Kriss Kross? They were kids and they were solid rappers . That song still holds up
Kriss kross was huge when i was 9. They had skill
Time to scream is to day "I don't like it no gotta drop logic " "killing in the name of"
" just victims of the in-house drive by " prophetic so amazing
WAKE THE FUCK UP AMERICA
These are words of a Prophet
Back then when killing in the name was just an intro
It's still an intro
Now it makes sense why the lyrics are so lazily written.
@@The__Leo not lazily written. it’s an opener for a reason. gets u going
@@The__Leo Lazily written? Wut? Do all songs have to be some kind of pseudo-shakesperian poetry? Get the fuck outta here.
@@juanmanuelcorrea7673 I understand that repeating the same sentence over and over is supposed to be some kind of statement on how "powerful" those words are, but for songwriting it's fucking lazy. Plus coming from a millionaire straight white male it's laughable.
if the people in the crowd only knew they were witnessing history...
Jack Bradley I was thinking the same thing. So much talent. Wow. The passion is insane. Best video on YT I’ve seen in a long time.
Everyone everywhere is always witnessing history.
SERIOUSLY
Some of them did!
Exactly
red shirt guy: imagine having the evidence that you're a fan since day 1.
Every now and then, you find gold on RUclips. This is one of them! 🥇
▶️🎧🎸🙋♂️ 🇫🇷
🔥🔥🔥🔥
The guy in the front is a time traveler. Destination: First RATM concert! He was instructed not to disrupt the timeline, but broke all the rules.
he said fuck you I won't do what you tell me
Where? Second?
Had to check it wasn't me. Definitely a stop I would make if I ever got access to time travel
And the old guy standing in front of the speakers on the right wearing the blue baseball cap at 19:00 is Tom Morello, who has also traveled back to revisit the beginning.
19:48 the guy in red... what a legend
This is an absolute masterpiece. To whoever recorded this, I am VERY thankful!
Yeah - thanks, Zack's mom!
think about the large handycam they had to carry
Yeah thank you this is a piece of rock history
Yes, we are so fortunate for this!
I wouldn't be surprised if it was Rage themselves who set up a camera to film, to send in along with their demo or maybe to show venues hoping to get booked down the line. I doubt some random hero in the audience just stuck around and filmed the entire thing with a home video camera just on a whim. I think they probably recorded it themselves.
Zach giving 110% of himself from day one!
I know, right? His energy is amazing here. Adds so much to the performance.
I thought he may have had stage freight or was just was really shy when they played killing in the name 😂 boy was i wrong 😂🤘
I'm glad he dropped a lot of the hip hop moves later on.
Morello too. All of them, really.
That's why so many of us enjoyed the 90's music: there was no cheating or fake BS
Opening to 20 people.
9 years later 250000 at Woodstock.
And millions of people world wide
Yep it's called communism
Chris Redig ... 🤣
How ? Woodstock was in 1969, De la Rocha wasn't even born that year.
@@DaLoopDiggerz dur. Woodstock 99.
The two fella's in the front jamming out and looking like what are y'all doing....THIS IS HISTORY!!!!
THEY ARE TRUE LEGENDS!!!
I would do bad things to go back and be there....
The birth of a legend!!!!!
Tracklist:
Killing In The Name
(02:21) Take The Power Back
(08:55) Auto Logic
(13:09) Bullet In The Head
(18:57) Hit The Deck
(23:24) Township Rebellion
(28:57) Darkness Of Greed
(32:56) Clear The Lane
(37:16) Clampdown
(41:05) Know Your Enemy
(46:08) Freedom
Gracias buen sujeto
Tnx for that list!
Zack starting to break dance at 5:45 lol
Barry Masters he gots that funky running man rocking to!!! Zack is a cool mofo !!!
Eae
Reminds me of that Henry Rollins quote, "It doesn't matter how many people come to see you, if two people come to see specifically you, you give them the best fucking show of their life."
Can you imagine being the first guy to mosh at a R.A.G.E concert?
That person must have the greatest energy almost 30 years later.
29:39 ask purple shirt guy. The long haired backward hat guy occasionally got .
I like how you acronymized it
This reminds me of the first time i saw Godsmack in concert there was only about 100 people there.
AchillesWrath1 I grew up in Florida - I saw godsmack when I was 13 visiting my brother in New Hampshire at a bar called Sharkies- they were an Alice In Chains cover band. Then I remember them getting huge when I was in highscool. My buddy got a Godsmack tattoo - crazy
WTF? I was expecting the sound to be terrible on this camera. This is like super clear
Dude right? If I hadn’t known this was from 1991, my guess would have been like 2007 at least
That's how you know you have a great sounding band. And possibly a great sound guy too
These digital recorders had better mic than today's phone. And idiots still insist to film a show on their ishit instead of enjoying the moment
Good sound engineer. Not muddy sounding like most live gigs end up sounding, but it's an outdoor gig, so there would be no acoustic issues. And whoever filmed probably had a semi decent mic and an adjustable input.
Sounds like shit bois
It’s the fall of 1991, you’re young and in college in California and you’re about to experience a musical revolution in Seattle happen BUT also witnessing musical history happening on campus one day right in front of you. What a time to have been alive.
Sad I missed it
@@colelikeinminecraft sad I was only 4 and was too young to understand the importance of that
California had sooo many punk rock bands that influenced the world before nirvana. This took place by Los Angeles
@@bulletprooftiger1879 yeah but they all made trash music. There’s a reason you’ll never hear it, even the more popular Black Flag, on any radio airplay. Then you got Nirvana still playing 30 years strong
@@la213blanco nirvana doesn’t exist without cobain, they just keep releasing old stuff remastered deluxe pro 10 year 20 year 30 year anniversary
Smells like teen spirit came out 1 month before this
The fact that this was recorded is a miracle in of itself. This goes down as one of the best first public performance ever.
That instrumental at the beggining sounded really good they should have extended that into a full song
@Gupster 23 ? Isn't that by soundgarden?
@@TheMACnator This is a Nirvana´s song (smell like teen spirit).This intro I think that was killing in the name.
@@Summeru30 nirvana's is like an indian thing. we're talking about music so idk where you're coming from with that
😆
😂😂
Good to remember that all bands start with patches of empty grass and people passing by without looking
Well, the Beatles have supposedly sold approx. 800 million albums so that means at least 6.2 billion people alive on earth today haven't bothered buying one of their albums (that is assuming that those 800 million albums sold were all sold to different individuals, which isn't true obvs i know i have 23 of those lol, and we forget about the people who have died since the sixties) so even tho they are stadium fillers its still a relatively small percentage of the world that really gives as much of a fuck to buy one of their albums but whatevs. :-)
Yup
@@fumbleify Nobody buys albums anymore anyhow. Also you don't need a album for every person listening in the room. Also they can be shared. I don't get the point of what you are saying, lol.
@@MrStronglime wrong! I do buy the actual cds of bands I like mate 🙂
@@irobot2258 If I report him, is it Minority Report?
Imagine not being famous yet and having at least 5 legendaries songs in your setlist that will forever remain in rock History. Imagine being THAT good
This is the most astonishingly tight first public performance EVER!
They're giving it everything as if they're playing a sold out Madison Square Garden show!
(meanwhile, Freddie Mercury nonchalantly strolls through at 25:17, then Adam Driver [who was only 8 at the time] strolls by at 25:24)
If only someone could go back in time and tell these people that they witnessed the first concert of one of the greatest bands ever
I would've known that if I was there at the time.
I would travle back in time just to see them live
I met Zach and half of the people at a yuppie coffee shop didn’t know who he was. I was like really?
Someone did it at 19:30 wearing a red shirt
Red shirt guy.
The crowd was empty in the beginning, full at the end... sign of a LEGENDARY band
37:00 "These guys any good?" You got no idea son
37:10 ^
Proceeds to deliver awesome rendition of the clash's clampdown
What a slice of history. Sometimes You Tube really delivers as a vehicle for people sharing decent content with no strings.
The guitars have strings though?
Look and you shall find lol
I’m amazed at how decent it sounds too
32 years later… People walking by like they aren’t there… they are now a bucket list concert for me personally. I would give my 1st born to see them live. And whom ever recorded this is an absolute legend!! God they sound fantastic even those days!
You morons call everyone and everything a legend
As someone who saw them not long after this live in Lawrence KS, let me tell you, it should be the top of your bucket list. Best concert I've ever been too. I thought the place was going to collapse.
It's insane how fully formed they were right from the beginning. Obviously they worked their butts off to get to this point, but these guys are total professionals and they knew they had something special.
Like they already had most of killing in the name of at the start
It's insane how they never got better.
@@Montrovantis nope! Same from day 1. Tommy is the sound. Nothing without him.
Tom’s previous band was signed to Geffen records, Zach had toured with a hardcore punk band. So they were both pretty seasoned at this point. The end result: RATM comes out of the gate and destroys everything in its path from the very first note haha
@@4DgreesWarmer bass players and drummers never get any love, without their Rhythm tom wouldn’t Sound good
This jam band is pretty good. They should make an album!
They were used to, but not anymore :)
Hasanuddin Abu Bakar 🍽
I used to listen to you're tunes @Freemandubstep
Eric Enloe I remember you from all the SoundCloud notifications❤️
@@freemandubstep8917 haha Yessir I haven't been on there in a LONG TIME!
This is one of a very few not so much recognized diamonds on RUclips!
I'm confused
this, along with the wayseer manifesto for me
Simply amazing. I keep coming back to watch this performance.
Yes! I discovered this nearly 8 years ago, still keep coming back and imo prefer listening to this than any of their later gigs, of which are awesome too.. just something about this seems more.. appreciating
Tom never changed to this day lol
Omair Sheikh - I agree!
Pretty sure ive seen him in other clothes.
@@cammo777 😂
Cool fact, he uses an allen wrench to play guitar, to get those weird sounds, similar using a slide but he has the hexagonal shape and it's metal, so creates that rage against the Machine sound, audioslave, etc..
Tom Chicagos finest!
I love how the crowd gradually builds up as the gig goes on. As if they're hearing something new and fresh they've never heard before
They were. Their sound was something completely new.
I remember Rage blowing my mind when I first heard them … and they already had arrived!
That chick and dude with jello shirt had every one lit lol
Them and Nirvana changed music
It’s unknown technically if RATM would’ve continued beyond this gig, if it wasn’t for the energy Red Shirt Guy provided as fuel and inspiration.
Nice. The woven cloth of time.
Darren Parker fuck that guy
look like they had all the energy already. i seen zach really made all the difference in overall energy after he started singing everyone matched him. it was amazing
haha!
Haha, the old guy in the blue hat is totally confused by him.
I can't even imagine how crazy it must have been to hear them for the first time back then. I would have been so completely blown away by that new incredible sound. No one could ever capture that same uniqueness ever again.
Just watched the entire set and have zero regrets.
Why would you have regrets?? This is F'n awesome!!!
I love at minute 45, where the old, hunched guy walks by, throws a peace sign, and the sole guy in the front, dancing, throws a peace sign right back. The 90's were great.
Imagine the hangover after a really good party that got crashed by the cops way too early.. The 90's in a nutshell. Musically garbage, except for maybe AIC and Rage. It was like an entire decade of future Nickelback sperm cells spreading their mancreme into the water supply. Christ even Metallica sucked ass back then.
@@raven7389 You don't have a clue...
@@raven7389 wow. Fraud. You were absent from the 90's. Rage, NIN, White Zombie, Pantera, Tool, Helmet, Ministry, Corrosion of Conformity, Prong, Alice in Chains, Butthole Surfers, STP, Pearl Jam, Primus, Type O Negative, Marylyn Manson, Primer 55, System of a Down, Smashing Pumkins, Nirvana, Soundgarden, etc... etc... etc...
@@raquelitahinkerstoodle8672 Lies. You forgot Eminem.
@@raven7389 wrong genre.
What an honor to see the beginnings: they already so good and the crowd don't know how good this band is at the time!!!
Red shirt guy gives zero f's what anyone thinks. All he cares about, is having fun.
Legend.
he dances very good
The shirt with a collar is an added bonus. Maybe Zack took a page out of his book for his future tours? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rage_Against_the_Machine#/media/File:Rage_Against_The_Machine_(cropped).jpg
I have NEVER seen a band perform such a musically, tight show, SO EARLY ON......this is insane. easy to see how they got signed and blew up.....
Them and Tool were tight from the start. They all had to gain experience elsewhere so once they came together and clicked, it was history after that. Happened to Tool as well. Maynard was almost chosen as the vocalist for RATM back when Brad and Tom rehearsed with both Zach and Maynard.
Check out no doubt playing like 92 on Fullerton college campus.so tight and pro. That's when I realized u either have it or u don't
Yeah I’m not even a fan of this band...I’m a metal core kinda guy...but this shit is good...and for a first show?! Amazing
Same thing I thought! They sounded ready to record right off the bat.
Being in a couple small bands myself, I'm just impressed that they played on a stage like this for their "first" show. Mine was just a typical open-mic night 😂😂😂 I didn't get the chance to perform in front of people like this at an outdoor venue for probably a year or so, but our area's scene is a little different than this, and playing music like this rarely lands you gigs such as this.
Someone needs to do a documentary on
“The guy in the Red Shirt”
Goddamn this grew on me. Never heard Rage until yt recommended me this almost a year ago. I enjoyed the first instrumental song alot and the discovery of an amazing band for the first time for the crowd, but listening to it again all these months later I cant hit pause. Think i found a new favorite
The instrumental was killing in the name of
These people witnessed the creation of an entire new genre of music and didn't even know it. Incredible footage of history being made.
Not really. Jane’s Addiction, Primus, Red Hot Chili Peppers, and don’t forget Nirvana was the new band so Soundgarden and Meat Puppets and all those other guys already existed and travel to LA all the time. Nirvana and rage were kind of new pups on the scene.
Their first show was over 50 minutes long. That’s absolutely unheard of.
4840 hB.t AO it’s unlikely there first.They def played in small clubs/venues before.Might be technically there first “public” show I guess
Youre lucky to get 30 minutes depeing on what gigs
It's awesome not only because of the quality of their songs and performance, but because the confidence they show even for a first concert
It is like they knew they were good ;)
Well zack was in inside out who were one of the biggest post hardcore bands around, it’s not like it’s his first time on stage.
That's what happens when artists are born to be great.
I mean....the know they're good and they know they're right.
Can't imagine just having a casual conversation while rock history takes place behind me
Legend has it “red shirt guy” is immortal and has danced at every influential bands first gig.
hes a time traveller with good taste in music
Apparently he asked jagger if he'd guessed his name.
It’s true I saw “ Red Shirt Guy “ dancing at the Beatles first performance in Liverpool.
Fucker is having a good time that’s for sure.
He is an absolute LEGEND!
So THIS is why the internet was created.
I did laugh and enjoyed this beauty!
If we met in a bar, I'll pay the first 6 beers.
Nope, it was the military.
This is *how* the internet was birthed
why and how.
Not even a huge RATM fan, but this is one of the most incredible things I’ve ever seen. Tight unit; never had more respect for Tom Morello. The energy of Zack de la Rocha is at an 11, like they are already playing to stadium of screaming fans.
Fake it til you make it baby
@@destroyermaker except these guys didnt even need to fake it, they knew they had the potential to become something special
@@jaeger6919 And become something special they did.
Zack spitting out "Clampdown - The Clash" was just awesome!
damn zack, wrote those lyrics while so damn young... hes a kid here.
they all are, and the talent is amazing.
MORELLLOOOOOOOO
Everyone talks about the dancing guy who wears a red shirt, but the heroes in this video are the Indian dude who wears a white shirt and the tall guy who wears a Warner Bros t-shirt. They can be seen standing there since the beginning and it's thanks to their support that the crowd formed.
you know they were discussing the vast probability of this band becoming something great and remembering other shows they had been to in the past lol
I think a crowd would have formed regardless of whether those guys were standing there.
Exactly
Bitcoin Takeover yeah
The "Warner Bros." shirt is a Jello Biafra (Dead Kennedy's singer) shirt.
37:09 "These guys any good?" HAHAHAHA. If only they knew. Never clicked on a video so fast when I saw this. HA. Thx whoever recorded.
Lmao I heard that too... you think that guy sees this video and hears his own voice and face palms himself? Lol
Ditto
The Hoff danggit! You beat me to it!
Spot on!!
The Face Palm emoji was invented because of this stupid fuck 🤦🏽♂️
They're actually ahead of time, pure brilliant talent!
They had it right from the start
fuck yea they did
It's amazing how developed their sound already was, unreal.
Must have been a friend of the band. The video quality is excellent for '91!
F'n tight considering they hadn't been together long.
Yep! was thinking after 30 seconds that they sound really polished already.
that guy in a red shirt understands the future :D
yan zil lmao!!
Time traveler. Haha
Kkkkkkkkk realy!!!
I bet he’s fróm the future
Second?
Man this is gold!!i like how zach has his own choreography
Yeah some nice hiphop noves!
So awesome. Tom Morello is a f*cking king in my world. The dude that filmed this footage is a hero.
Yes!!! this guy to filmed is a hero!!! the only one!!
The long haired guy with the cap on may be the very first real fan of RATM
Tucked shirt mosh guy tho
Yup but purple shirt is the first die hard fan.......lol
SnffsndRR
"The long-haired guy with the cap..."
... and the Jello Biafra t-shirt!
He was already primed for a radical analysis of the system.
Long hair guy with a cap, I think, is Adam Jones of Tool. Def RATM’s first fan.
You think? I know Adam Jones and Tom Morello were in a same band in high school, but is that him?
1991 = approximately 20 fans
1993 = approximately 30 millions fans
2020 = almost 400 millions fans
this is Rage, pal !!!
@Ascensyon then how many do you think? I will edit it for you
@Ascensyon what do u mean bruh?
Nothing much has changed, they were calling out everything wrong in the world and its still broken. We need Rage in this time, and not charging 400$ a ticket, that's how they pay Zach's psychiatrist bill.
exactly
2020 zero fans in attendance but watching the show at home on their phones and computer screen
I'm amazed how much this sounds like the album versions of the songs.
"Killing in the Name" clearly hadn't been perfected/finalized.
And all their key songs were there
They're fucking GOOOOD
i mean, Zack doesn’t really sing so it’s easy to replicate rapping.
@@willlame5597 not sure I'd call that easy. My main point was, very few bands have their songs together for the first gig. Those things usually evolve over months or even years.
It's amazing how tight they are considering it's a first gig. One of the best rhythm sections ever😊
Wow. They had “it” from the beginning. The energy was undeniable the moment Zack started. And Tom was clearly a generational talent - virtuoso.
I said the same thing to a friend when I showed him this video.
I said the crowd is mesmerized into staying still, they had “It”
They've all been in bands before and stuff. These are seasoned musicians playing in a new band live for the first time.
Fun fact: Tom Morello was teached by Joe Satriani.
When you have this much energy and sound this good in your first live performance, you can't help but succeed.
Imagine a sweltering summer day in the early 90s, somewhere in the humid stretch around Washington DC. It was Lollapalooza, my first festival experience, and the lineup was irresistible-Primus, Alice In Chains, and Tool and others. I’d missed the first Lollapalooza with Jane’s Addiction, one of my favorite bands at the time, but this year promised a lineup that I couldn't pass up. My friends and I arrived early, naively expecting a day of laid-back music and easy vibes, sprawled on blankets under the sun.
We settled in just 20 feet from the main stage, surrounded by a sea of relaxed concert-goers. The air buzzed with the quiet anticipation of an audience not yet knowing what to expect. As the first act was introduced over the PA, no one seemed to recognize the name. There was a collective shrug-a nod to the unknown, a grooving jam to start the day. The band began to play, and it was easygoing enough, a groove that fit our mellow mood perfectly.
But then, out of nowhere, a cowbell cut through the music. Everything stopped. A wild-eyed frontman charged the stage, his energy so intense it seemed to ripple through the crowd. With a scream that could split the sky, he roared, “Killing in the name of!” The beat dropped like a 747 800mph straight i to the ground, and suddenly, the entire crowd was on its feet.
It was like a bomb went off, blasting us out of our comfortable positions and pulling us toward the stage with an unstoppable force. We were hit with a tidal wave of raw, powerful sound. The band-Rage Against the Machine-was unlike anything I’d ever experienced. Their performance was a shock to the system, an explosion of energy that left no room for complacency.
I didn’t know their name when they started, but by the time they finished, it was burned into my memory. The sheer intensity of their music was a punch in the face, a transformative blast that swept us all up in its wake. Their message might have been a bit too radical for me to fully embrace, but their presence was undeniable, and I was hooked. I bought their album as soon as I could, eager to relive the electrifying experience.
That day at Lollapalooza wasn’t just a concert; it was a turning point. It was the moment I discovered the raw, unfiltered power of live music. It opened the door to a journey that would lead me to other festivals, like the epic WHFestival, and to some of the most interesting and defining acts of the 90s-Soundgarden, Beck, The Cardigans, Jamiroquai, The Mighty Mighty Bosstones, Fishbone, Squirrel Nut Zippers and many more.
Lollapalooza wasn’t just about seeing the big names I’d come for. It was about those unexpected moments, the surprises that turned a simple concert into a life-changing experience. It was the beginning of a musical odyssey, each performance a new discovery, a new chapter in a story that was just starting to unfold.