@@manuelguillermotisocyupanq7618 Exactly. Most Americans buy into this lounge chair communist and his propaganda, with his che guevara t shirt and empty rhetoric, but you and I know he's nothing but a propagandist trying to pass as a real artist. He's just a commie piece of shit.
Switchcraft actually custom made toggle switches for Morello there for a while. Morello said that the typical Fender telecaster and old Radio Shack switches would wear out in just a few shows so he started having them custom made with more heavier components
Personally, I like mine kinda high like Tom does. To me, it just makes it easier on your wrists when you're not reaching way down there and then trying to bar the strings. Plus, I don't have monster sized hands like Gilbert, Buckethead, Vai, and some of these other freaks of nature that have hands the size of Texas.
@@bloobis_6814 dudes talking shit on a super-iconic amp. I almost guarantee that he doesn't realize how many albums the jcm800 has been used on. Likewise, I'm willing to bet that if he's into rock n roll, he enjoys a lot of albums that utilized this amp.
Tom Morello is the boutique amp, boutique pedal and exotic high end guitar industry’s worst nightmare!!! He embodies a “Shut up and PLAY” attitude that is extremely inspiring!!! I stopped tone chasing years ago. Great interview 👍🏽
A big part of the "heaviness" of Morello's riffs is the lack of low end thickness in his tone. It gets him out of Tim Commerford's way so that the bass and guitar blend together to make 1 super huge sound.
It's super interesting how the artists think out of the box but the internet "pros" are always shitting rules. "You can't play heavy stuff on a single coil strat" "you can't use this pedal after/before" etc.
Cause the "internet pros" are full of shit. I followed this one guy on Instagram who shit all over active bass pickups and said bass players should never use them EVEN THOUGH LES CLAYPOOL, FLEA, RUDY SARZO, TIM COMMERFORD, PIGGY D, VICTOR WOOTEN and a plethora of other bass players use EMG/active pickups. Internet pros can suck my ass. Update: to be fair, I have and still learn from watching other bass players on RUclips. People who post well made covers of songs I wanna learn or employ the right techniques at the right time really help myself and other bass players out, but beyond that "internet pros" who give you "pro tips" are the ones full of shit. You're your greatest teacher. Experience is priceless. do gigs, give the songs justice, learn from your mistakes and what it really takes to put on a good performance. That shit you cant learn from a video.
Yep. "No buffers before a Fuzz". It might be true for many germanium fuzz face pedals, but I've tried a Booster/Buffer in front of silicon and hybrid Ge/Si Fuzzes with no problems. A buffer *after* a BC183 Fuzzface can sound rad. And every modulation, except for chorus (but not always) sounds better before gain imo. Rotary being the main exception. I love heavy sounds with Teles and P90-equipped axes. There are no rules, no hard & fast answers - only better questions. I discovered *the* heaviest sound by running a treble booster>Big Muff>Compressor. But you can't run Compressors after gain! Poppycock, says I.
And the model of that "single coil disguised as a humbucker" is the EMG H (if you're interested: www.emgpickups.com/guitar/humbucking/active-humbucking/h.html) Edit: Also for bonus points, Tom's bridge pickup on Arm the Homeless is the EMG 85 (www.emgpickups.com/guitar/humbucking/active-humbucking/85.html)
Holy crap, that is so damn liberating... to just basically say to yourself, "This is it, I'm no longer going to continue to spend time and effort (and money) to chase after tone. This gear I have, the tone I have now IS going to be my tone. From this point on 100% of my time and effort is going to be about playing." That approach to tone is something that has never occurred to me. It seems like I've always tried to sound like, well, several players all wrapped into one tone, all the while tweaking knobs and settings, buying new gear, adjusting pickup heights, trying out different strings, etc...In one statement from Tom I'm now thinking that I'm done with all that, time to just play!!
@@cameronfarris7171 That mindset stayed with me for a several months before me deciding to try new gear, which lasted a few years. I then got new gear again about 1.5 years ago. I don't tweak anymore, the current setup I have is the best I've ever played through and don't see a need to change anything anytime soon, if ever.
It's funny, I didn't realize that Morello preferred the neck so heavily but since I got my first tele about 2 years ago I think I've played in that position > 80% of the time. It really is an incredible and versatile sound. The tele is just sounds so bright already that even in the neck position it remains articulate where a lot of other guitars might lose their clarity.
Dan Alexander I love teles and I really rate Dimarzio twang kings , both neck and bridge are amazing I love my set , the middle setting is heavenly too which is often a position that gets neglected
A few bands do actually. As Cities Burn uses one and they maintain a heavier sound with the bass. Circa Survive, if you consider them heavy, use them. If you want a heavy sound that's not as muddy, a tele is a way to go.
After watching the rig rundown on J. Mascis....holy shit. Mascis has like 20 pedals running through two different kinds of amps simultaneously and Tom Morello's guitar sound destroys his. It was shocking enough that Jimmy Eat World use so many pedals they store them off stage.
I’ve talked so much shit about how overrated Morello I thought Morello was. Great guy, great songwriter, but didn’t think he was as technically gifted as everyone says. Well, not ashamed to say, I’m wrong.
Thank you! A lot of people hear rage or Tom in general and think, “well gee, give me 500 effects pedals all cranked to 11 and I can make funny sounds and record needle scratches too” then you see he’s running like 3 or 4 modest pedals aside from the whammy/wah and 99% of his sound is in his attack and groove and just killer riffing and your mind is blown. Not to mention the dude is really actually very intelligent and charismatic about his art.
Christian check out him and one of his heroes Springsteen performing Springsteen's song that RATM covered "The Ghost of Tom Joad". Tom sounds like Johnny Cash and has a solo that is a tearjerker. Goosebumps.
Thank you again Premier Guitar. Rigrundown is such a great idea. It is so inspriring to hear great musicians talk about their gear, their music, their life. Thank you and the great musicians again for letting us take a look in their "kitchen".
Wow...after all these years...so many Tom Morello tone secrets!!! Even on the hippo guitar, he sticks to the neck pickup almost exclusively; and that its a single-coil disguised as a humbucker??? Mind blown.
@@gabrielgabe6949 its a simple trick...if you got different pickups on neck and bridge then put some delay mode and just play your pickup switch up and down with hammer pull-offs on the left hand
"Perhaps the heaviest music, is often very quiet" Love this guys passion for all things music! damm this guy is a guitar hero......are you listening Rick Beato! His name is TOM MORELLO. And so polite, to boot.
I've heard him say It before, but the story of Tom just making do with his guitars, and amps. Not really giving a shit about what they're like Is very inspiring. I'm planning the next guitar purchase, and It's way too easy to over think the process. You can't be too precious about these things.
That’s the difference between someone who plays guitar and loves playing it and someone that collects guitars and joins bands for getting hookers and blow. Tom Morello and guys of his skill could play a piece of firewood through a transistor radio and still make it shred.
I'm amazed at what he can do with $279 (Way back in the day) Made in Mexico Tele in the neck position. Those were always solid, great playing and sounding guitars. I owned several MIM Strats and a couple Tele models and I was set. My 4X12 cab cost over twice as much as a MIM Fender Strat. Goes to show that if you are a great guitarist you can make the cheapest piece of junk guitar sound great.
This is incredible! Thank you so much for this. This is one hell of an artist, with lots of talent, tons of creativity and just so much charisma. This is such an inspiration, motivation, especially hearing his workout routine, how he approach things, how he creates his own world without listening to "you can't do that" kind of people. He is living proof that there's always room for creativity and new things. As Victor Wooten says... You can play wrong notes as long as it feels good... Big bow and thank you. All the best for whole Premier Guitar, commenters, Tom.
This is legitimately the most inspirational tone video I've ever seen. "I got my best settings and that was the end of the conversation." That is completely awesome. Make it work with what I'm giving you. And a 50 watt 4x12 is so restrained for when he did it in the 80's-- people were rolling up to small clubs with full stacks. So, the most limited (in terms of gear) guitar player is probably the most innovative since Hendrix. I've heard J. Mascius say he won't use alternate tunings because he needs restrictions. Food for thought.
I grew up absolutely idolizing Rage and Audioslave as a young teenage kid in the mid-2000s. I would have *absolutely* shit my pants had I seen this 15 years ago and would've watched it repeatedly. Seeing him unabashedly go through all of his old riffs and old solos from all of his bands with no objections just makes me so happy (I feel like a bunch of players would feel weird about paying fan service to the degree that Morello does--you could probably walk up to him in Guitar Center and ask him to play an old classic riff of his, and he'd probably just grab the first Squier he saw hanging on the wall and rip into it). And I get sad to think he was in a band with Cornell and that is all permanently gone now. If you can't tell, this little video totally gave me a bunch of feels. So awesome to see.
The interviewer definitely avoiding audioslave questions and songs on purpose and letting Tom add just a little did only one little snippet of like a stone because I bet he's still devistated and reeling
I love the way he forced himself to quit fidgeting with his gear, and just make music. There have been times in my life when I had no money for gear, and times when I had a lot of money for gear. At this point I recognize that it was whether I had ideas or not that really mattered if I could do anything interesting. I’m also a photographer, and the same thing applies to my work. Run What Ya Brung.
Love Tom. A real guitarist’s guitarist. A lot of people don’t realize how good of a player he is because they hear the effects and think that’s all it is, when the effects don’t color his sound as much as his attack, timing and groove does. I read an article long ago where Dimebag himself made sort of a thinly veiled slight towards Rage and Tom - funny thing is it was either right before or around Far Beyond Driven... And what pedal was Dime using to get a lot of those nasty textures on that album...? I like to think at some point Dimebag acknowledged, and maybe he did, that he and Tom Morello had a lot more in common than he was willing to admit or hear for himself....
Thanks PG! Chris handled the interview amazingly like he and Tom were old band mates. Best RRD to date guys! He and Bollinger seem to have the most insiteful questions. Glad to see the artist show chops during the rrd
@@bucket303 yep and I'll bet you good money he never tried the phaser or wah in front of the amp. I'm guessing he read the inputs and outputs of his amp, went "oh so that's where the pedals go" and he was DONE.
On the first Rage record he had it in front of the amp. It sounds like a normal wah sound. From empire on, the tone changes to more of a filter effect you get from putting it in the FX loop.@@FrankHerfjord
Never realized how coked he was the first time I watched this lmao. What an absolute badass though. Smallest pedalboard ever and the most original sounds and heaviest fucking riffs \m/
I had seen this once before and I just noticed the same. 😂 I was just scrolling the comments to see if anyone commented on how jacked he is. He is going a mile a minute!!
I find it amusing how so many guitarists feel the need to chain three different Strymons on their pedalboard with 10+ effects, in order to sound like everyone else, while Tom needs a Digitech whammy and an old DD-3 to make something absolutely unique. Limitations breed creativity.
Tom maybe the most creative guitar player I`ve ever came across when it comes to create sounds. It's mindblowing how many sounds he gets out of this rather small setup...
@@gabereynal Yeah it's great. I love RATM, i don't share their political views but i do respect them and love their music (Even their lyrics even thought i don't think like them)
Finally!! i have waited for this forever.. now, i already knew all of this, but this was the one episode that i have been missing for a long time. only down part was it would have been more cool if it had been during the POR tour to feature more of his guitars. but anyway, thanks PG
Awyeah, finally! I saw Rage Against the Machine live when I was 15 in the summer of ’97. They were my favourite band at the time and a big part of my young life. The lyrics, the intensity and Morello’s awesome riffs and wacky solos, which sounded like nothing I’d ever heard before. After the concert me and some other kids waited outside their hotel, hoping to catch a glimpse of them and maybe get an autograph (if we were lucky) before they drove off to their next festival gig. Tom Morello saw us standing there when they left the hotel and came over to talk to us. He told us that he'd noticed us jumping around during the concert and asked us what we thought about the gig. After a while and some high fives and autographs, some people from their entourage told him to get on the bus. It seems like such a small thing and he didn’t have to do it, but when you’re young these things matter and make a big impression on you. I might not be a kid anymore, but he’s still an inspiration - I'll try not to buy more guitars! - and he seems like a great, down-to-earth guy.
What's interesting is he almost has two distinct personality types in one person. On one hand he's very academic, business minded, and i'm assuming plan oriented, but on the other he has this wild, crazy inventive, off the cuff, bombastic artistic sense, you typically only get one or the other. One of my favorites, and a big inspiration to me growing up! thanks for the rundown.
Well, it totally makes sense. He's a Gemini after all. That would also explain why he's got so much nervous energy and why he talks so fast. John F. Kennedy (another Gemini) was just like him: he talked really fast.
@R. Ortega seven written words by you, venting your opinion, and you still had to edit that? man, you must be sour. maybe try focusing your energy on something sustaining, furthering yoiur beliefs, instead of slandering someone who has an outlasting success as an artist made possible through activism of a worldview that you are refusing so much.
@@seriouscatisserious You mentioned two completely different things that are not even related to each other. I'm not here to convince anyone of the validity of astrology, I'm just humbly sharing (an action that is often sadly forgotten nowadays) with whoever studied the subject my two cents on Morello's outward personality, or better yet: my perception of his outward personality (based on this video).
I've been a fan of Tom since I saw him with Lockup at Cal State Northridge opening for an English act Desolation Angels. My friends band Lord were also on the bill. My friend and I were very impressed by his originality. Everyone including myself were trying to shred like Eddie Van Halen and George Lynch. Tom can shred with the best but is such and individual. Probably one of the smartest men in music if not the world. I also like to listen to Tom speak. I always come away with new knowledge.
I honestly love Tom’s playing, he’s one of the most badass guitarists I’ve ever heard and his sound is so damn innovative. Also, for those who want to hear some of his stuff with Springsteen I’ll suggest the song Ghost of Tom Joad; Rage covered it in the 90s but check out the rendition from Bruce’s _High Hopes_ album and I guarantee you won’t be disappointed
Everbody, involved in music making: "you need a really good guitar, made from a known company, that minimum costs 2k, or you´ll sound like shit" Tom Morello: "hold my beer"
Tom: “In 1988, I spent a few- like two or three hours with that guitar, and this amp- head, and the Peavy cabinet and said ‘This is as good as a tone- I’m going to stop banging my head against the wall. This is going to be my tone.’ I marked the amp. You can see the markings. They’re on there. They’re.. on there, and I never changed them since! I was just like.. ‘We’re going to be done ever thinking about that, or talking about that. This is going to be the tone. I’m going to make songs with that tone.’ The end.” Chris: “Damn.”
"this is my sound, I'm gonna stop loosing time on it, these are my tools, now I'm going to work with them"... now this guy is my favourite guitar player.
Tom Morello is possibly one of the most down to earth artists around full of genuine and unique dexterity. Never knew he was this much of an energetic guy 🤘🏽
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do you know what is sendero luminoso, assholes? the worst terrorism group of my country.
How was the guitar sound mic'd for the sound of this video? Sounds great.
@@manuelguillermotisocyupanq7618 Exactly. Most Americans buy into this lounge chair communist and his propaganda, with his che guevara t shirt and empty rhetoric, but you and I know he's nothing but a propagandist trying to pass as a real artist. He's just a commie piece of shit.
I think the real hero here is a RadioShack recorder
Paul Vandergriff that recorder belongs in a museum
I had one for that purpose in the early 90s
Savage 😂😂😂
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Lol !!! Good one ☝️
Is there a shelter for abused Tom Morello toggle switches. LOL.
There be no shelter here!
Lmao good one David
Switchcraft actually custom made toggle switches for Morello there for a while. Morello said that the typical Fender telecaster and old Radio Shack switches would wear out in just a few shows so he started having them custom made with more heavier components
@@randyrazor6780 I didn't think a normal switch would ever hold up to that kind of assalt very long.
Toggle abuse from tom morello what a monster
I like the fact that HE is doings his own rig rundown. Not a "Tech"
Yes! It's so weird and douche when the guy isn't doing he's rig. And kinda of low key saying you suck at playing guitar.
any rig rundown with a tech i don't like, it detracts from the fun for the most part
@@KeeperOfPoops I agree!!
Here let me play my guys gear cuz he doesn't have to be here
@@ddub1253 LOL
He probably sees guitars below the hip in his nightmares
so basically nightmares of hetfield?
Nightmares see him
One of the reasons I liked him was strictly that he held his guitar like I did. (What everyone told me wasn't cool)
Personally, I like mine kinda high like Tom does. To me, it just makes it easier on your wrists when you're not reaching way down there and then trying to bar the strings. Plus, I don't have monster sized hands like Gilbert, Buckethead, Vai, and some of these other freaks of nature that have hands the size of Texas.
derek17005 dude I can relate.
Tom's roommate:'this was the worst trade deal in the history of trade deals,maybe ever"'
How? Sounds like a pretty fair trade. 50w Marshall tube heads ain’t cheap
@@ayelmao1224 its a joke
@Linden Butler you seem like a line 6 spider kind of guy.
His roommate was Adam Jones of Tool
@@bloobis_6814 dudes talking shit on a super-iconic amp. I almost guarantee that he doesn't realize how many albums the jcm800 has been used on. Likewise, I'm willing to bet that if he's into rock n roll, he enjoys a lot of albums that utilized this amp.
Tom Morello is the boutique amp, boutique pedal and exotic high end guitar industry’s worst nightmare!!! He embodies a “Shut up and PLAY” attitude that is extremely inspiring!!! I stopped tone chasing years ago. Great interview 👍🏽
As I should do like TODAY.
And yet you're never in doubt that it's Tom when you hear his music playing somewhere.
Well said!
He sounds like Rock-Obama
@Dr. Jack Kevorkian You'll never be remembered, unlike Tom Morello.
@Dr. Jack Kevorkian Hi. Why the dipshit username? Ashamed to be yourself?
They both went to Harvard.
@@marcpstl He took the fake name because all his friends and family committed suicide for knowing him.
after these last two years I take it smart people scare you
A big part of the "heaviness" of Morello's riffs is the lack of low end thickness in his tone. It gets him out of Tim Commerford's way so that the bass and guitar blend together to make 1 super huge sound.
100% I try and run my rig with as little bass as possible. Guitars stand out so much more when they're full of crunch and occupy the mid range.
Good take. Agreed. And Brad’s big drumming brings it home. Honestly by fav power quartet after Led Zep. RATM is criminally underrated.
You can see in the video that his bass knob is turned up to 10 lol
@@feddomeijerwiersma6955 They are not underrated in any way.
It's super interesting how the artists think out of the box but the internet "pros" are always shitting rules. "You can't play heavy stuff on a single coil strat" "you can't use this pedal after/before" etc.
And that's why they will never get further than r/guitar
@@TheTillhammer That should be engraved on a golden placard and hanged up in a guitar shop somewhere..
Cause the "internet pros" are full of shit. I followed this one guy on Instagram who shit all over active bass pickups and said bass players should never use them EVEN THOUGH LES CLAYPOOL, FLEA, RUDY SARZO, TIM COMMERFORD, PIGGY D, VICTOR WOOTEN and a plethora of other bass players use EMG/active pickups. Internet pros can suck my ass.
Update: to be fair, I have and still learn from watching other bass players on RUclips. People who post well made covers of songs I wanna learn or employ the right techniques at the right time really help myself and other bass players out, but beyond that "internet pros" who give you "pro tips" are the ones full of shit. You're your greatest teacher. Experience is priceless. do gigs, give the songs justice, learn from your mistakes and what it really takes to put on a good performance. That shit you cant learn from a video.
those people probably never left their bedroom with a guitar
Yep. "No buffers before a Fuzz". It might be true for many germanium fuzz face pedals, but I've tried a Booster/Buffer in front of silicon and hybrid Ge/Si Fuzzes with no problems. A buffer *after* a BC183 Fuzzface can sound rad.
And every modulation, except for chorus (but not always) sounds better before gain imo. Rotary being the main exception.
I love heavy sounds with Teles and P90-equipped axes. There are no rules, no hard & fast answers - only better questions. I discovered *the* heaviest sound by running a treble booster>Big Muff>Compressor. But you can't run Compressors after gain! Poppycock, says I.
His main pick up on arm the homeless-"a single coil disguised as a humbucker." Well I'll be damned!!!
And the model of that "single coil disguised as a humbucker" is the EMG H (if you're interested: www.emgpickups.com/guitar/humbucking/active-humbucking/h.html)
Edit: Also for bonus points, Tom's bridge pickup on Arm the Homeless is the EMG 85 (www.emgpickups.com/guitar/humbucking/active-humbucking/85.html)
strong coffee was it?
Colombian no doubt
I been searching for this comment, I knew I wasn't the only one.
@@rogerb6950 No you weren't my friend! #metoo
@@tompoynton :D
Can you imagine if Perry was the interviewer, not Chris K?
my mind is blown that he's used the same 3 guitars, the same amp (with the same settings), and basically the same pedalboard for 30 years.
whagaman then Soul Power came along
Why mess with perfection?
It’s an attitude. And he’s not wrong, I wish I could maintain that mindset. It’s 6 strings and a piece of wood.
That blows your mind?
The DJ scratch trick was like a revelation to me! That was so cool! It’s kinda simple, but it’s truly Tom Morello.
His riffing is a punch in the face. He and John Frusciante had such a distinctive sound during the 90s... legend.
very true, especially in the case of frusciante.
They're both kinda garbage
@@soulsociety5768 dont cut yourself on all that edge...
@@soulsociety5768 Slow down there buckaroo
Alex Carriere and you’re kinda an idiot
I have fond memories of this man destroying me in guitar hero 3 when I was 13
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Same
Holy crap, that is so damn liberating... to just basically say to yourself, "This is it, I'm no longer going to continue to spend time and effort (and money) to chase after tone. This gear I have, the tone I have now IS going to be my tone. From this point on 100% of my time and effort is going to be about playing." That approach to tone is something that has never occurred to me. It seems like I've always tried to sound like, well, several players all wrapped into one tone, all the while tweaking knobs and settings, buying new gear, adjusting pickup heights, trying out different strings, etc...In one statement from Tom I'm now thinking that I'm done with all that, time to just play!!
Amen Brother!
so 3 years later how's it working out?
He basically has no idea how to use his gear or actually play anything technical, hes literally just effects and silly noises 😂😂😂
@@cameronfarris7171 That mindset stayed with me for a several months before me deciding to try new gear, which lasted a few years. I then got new gear again about 1.5 years ago. I don't tweak anymore, the current setup I have is the best I've ever played through and don't see a need to change anything anytime soon, if ever.
@@chaosclg you must have a very successful rock band, then
When Tom started playing Know Your Enemy and Chris smiled so hard his ears wiggled was hilarious. 23:30
"Fully stock...I just put some stickers on it..."
Tom Morello's first rule about playing guitar:
- play the guitar as high up your chest as you can
Its the bass moto!
Oposite of green day
If the guitar isn't tucked under your chin like a violin are you even raging properly?
@@neonlights_12 the proper way to play is holding it above your head. SMH beginners 🙄
Never realized how much he used the neck pickup, might have to re-think some things a little bit!
The neck pick up is really good especially if you got a pickup that can handle gain
It's funny, I didn't realize that Morello preferred the neck so heavily but since I got my first tele about 2 years ago I think I've played in that position > 80% of the time. It really is an incredible and versatile sound. The tele is just sounds so bright already that even in the neck position it remains articulate where a lot of other guitars might lose their clarity.
Dan Alexander I love teles and I really rate Dimarzio twang kings , both neck and bridge are amazing I love my set , the middle setting is heavenly too which is often a position that gets neglected
Anyone know what pickup he used in the neck ?
@@scottyd2262 I'm guessing it's stock? No idea what that would be though
14:46 Me when I see a bug on the floor
RockstarImotski Jesus LOL
I'm literally dying rn 💀💀💀
made my day
Tom needs a MIKU
Rage against the UwU
😂
Yes please
Miku against the machine
suzuki earl underrated comment
Nobody:
Tom Morello : LETS PLAY SOME HEAVY THINGS ON THAT TELECASTER
A few bands do actually. As Cities Burn uses one and they maintain a heavier sound with the bass. Circa Survive, if you consider them heavy, use them. If you want a heavy sound that's not as muddy, a tele is a way to go.
You can also get pedals that thicken your sound to be more like a gibson...
Have you ever heard of jim root
najmi hakim khairi but Jim root uses EMGs in his telecaster, very different sound and setup to Tom
Humbuckers will sound "big" but a tele with single coils will rip your face off, one of the most vicious metal tones I've found
I like how simple his rig is and the facts hes made alot of money and still useing his old guitars and amp.
My thoughts exactly. I just saw rig rundown for red hot chili peppers and was shocked at the amount of gear used . really refreshing to see this
Those guitars and amps made him his money lol
After watching the rig rundown on J. Mascis....holy shit. Mascis has like 20 pedals running through two different kinds of amps simultaneously and Tom Morello's guitar sound destroys his. It was shocking enough that Jimmy Eat World use so many pedals they store them off stage.
Like when Jack white used his old out of tune broken guitars in the white stripes
@@Radb707 I don't know that it destroys it,just depends on what kind of sound you're going for.
I’ve talked so much shit about how overrated Morello I thought Morello was. Great guy, great songwriter, but didn’t think he was as technically gifted as everyone says. Well, not ashamed to say, I’m wrong.
Thank you! A lot of people hear rage or Tom in general and think, “well gee, give me 500 effects pedals all cranked to 11 and I can make funny sounds and record needle scratches too” then you see he’s running like 3 or 4 modest pedals aside from the whammy/wah and 99% of his sound is in his attack and groove and just killer riffing and your mind is blown. Not to mention the dude is really actually very intelligent and charismatic about his art.
The more digging you do the better he gets and the harder it is to think of him as Tom Morello from RATM. He's passionate and brilliant...like Zach!
Christian check out him and one of his heroes Springsteen performing Springsteen's song that RATM covered "The Ghost of Tom Joad". Tom sounds like Johnny Cash and has a solo that is a tearjerker. Goosebumps.
Tom Morello would make a great sports commentator
If we all were on coke and could keep up with him lol 👀
and just when i felt insecure about my playing, Tom Morello now plays the GUITAR CABLE better then i can play guitar..... i quit
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😆 I hear ya
I've been waiting for this since I subscribed years ago. Thank you so much Premier Guitar!
Same!!!
when he started rhythm scraping/scratching i instantly remembered how hard it was to beat that on guitar hero
Thank you again Premier Guitar. Rigrundown is such a great idea. It is so inspriring to hear great musicians talk about their gear, their music, their life. Thank you and the great musicians again for letting us take a look in their "kitchen".
Sure. Sure.
I love that they let him go for 30 minutes. I could listen to Tom Morello talk/play for hours.
he has a masterclass video/series where he does this
18:05 guess Tom has a toggle switch on his voice too
Lol!!
holy crap that was hilarious....good catch
hahhaa damn!
Wow...after all these years...so many Tom Morello tone secrets!!! Even on the hippo guitar, he sticks to the neck pickup almost exclusively; and that its a single-coil disguised as a humbucker??? Mind blown.
"Your strings will last forever" Tom Morello 2019
I hope Glenn Fricker doesn't see/hear that 😂
That will stick with me
21:38: Thanks me later.
Thank you... I aaaaaalways wondered how he played that. Shiiiiiiiiit was dope.
GRAZIE
@@gabrielgabe6949 its a simple trick...if you got different pickups on neck and bridge then put some delay mode and just play your pickup switch up and down with hammer pull-offs on the left hand
Nice at the drive in t-shirt
vaya!
"Perhaps the heaviest music, is often very quiet" Love this guys passion for all things music! damm this guy is a guitar hero......are you listening Rick Beato! His name is TOM MORELLO. And so polite, to boot.
I've heard him say It before, but the story of Tom just making do with his guitars, and amps. Not really giving a shit about what they're like Is very inspiring. I'm planning the next guitar purchase, and It's way too easy to over think the process. You can't be too precious about these things.
He said he did that after years of trying though. It's not like he just grabbed a guitar off the rack and sounded like that.
@@Vichedges what he said is that he gave up.
That’s the difference between someone who plays guitar and loves playing it and someone that collects guitars and joins bands for getting hookers and blow. Tom Morello and guys of his skill could play a piece of firewood through a transistor radio and still make it shred.
chris: says anything
tom: SURE!
I have to ask Tom sir, seriously, how long does your pickup switch last on average?
I'm amazed at what he can do with $279 (Way back in the day) Made in Mexico Tele in the neck position. Those were always solid, great playing and sounding guitars. I owned several MIM Strats and a couple Tele models and I was set. My 4X12 cab cost over twice as much as a MIM Fender Strat. Goes to show that if you are a great guitarist you can make the cheapest piece of junk guitar sound great.
A rig rundown with the man himself, awesome!
Not just a rig rundown, but a tone and technique rundown. That's more than you really get out of most of these.
This is incredible! Thank you so much for this.
This is one hell of an artist, with lots of talent, tons of creativity and just so much charisma.
This is such an inspiration, motivation, especially hearing his workout routine, how he approach things, how he creates his own world without listening to "you can't do that" kind of people. He is living proof that there's always room for creativity and new things.
As Victor Wooten says... You can play wrong notes as long as it feels good...
Big bow and thank you. All the best for whole Premier Guitar, commenters, Tom.
This filled my soul with so much creativity.
This is legitimately the most inspirational tone video I've ever seen. "I got my best settings and that was the end of the conversation." That is completely awesome. Make it work with what I'm giving you. And a 50 watt 4x12 is so restrained for when he did it in the 80's-- people were rolling up to small clubs with full stacks.
So, the most limited (in terms of gear) guitar player is probably the most innovative since Hendrix. I've heard J. Mascius say he won't use alternate tunings because he needs restrictions. Food for thought.
Sure is, too bad J Mascis was the one to say it. He's not that good a songwriter
Kurt
I grew up absolutely idolizing Rage and Audioslave as a young teenage kid in the mid-2000s. I would have *absolutely* shit my pants had I seen this 15 years ago and would've watched it repeatedly. Seeing him unabashedly go through all of his old riffs and old solos from all of his bands with no objections just makes me so happy (I feel like a bunch of players would feel weird about paying fan service to the degree that Morello does--you could probably walk up to him in Guitar Center and ask him to play an old classic riff of his, and he'd probably just grab the first Squier he saw hanging on the wall and rip into it). And I get sad to think he was in a band with Cornell and that is all permanently gone now. If you can't tell, this little video totally gave me a bunch of feels. So awesome to see.
I’m with you dude
Fap on.
Imagine posting this without irony
Exactly what i thought. The guy is a true legend and a soul brother. The best.
The interviewer definitely avoiding audioslave questions and songs on purpose and letting Tom add just a little did only one little snippet of like a stone because I bet he's still devistated and reeling
why does the interview guy, for the whole interview, look like he is about to deadlift Tom?
drmedwuast I honestly think he’s just wishing he could play the rig and try to sound like him.
He sounds like Brian from Family Guy
😆😆😆 LOL
G Birdo he reminds me of Eric Andre
You mean Brian sounds like Tom Morello. ;)
Now I cant un hear it 😂
You mean Seth MacFarlane
Dudes smile when Tom played "know your enemy" was priceless and matched my own lol
I love the way he forced himself to quit fidgeting with his gear, and just make music. There have been times in my life when I had no money for gear, and times when I had a lot of money for gear. At this point I recognize that it was whether I had ideas or not that really mattered if I could do anything interesting. I’m also a photographer, and the same thing applies to my work.
Run What Ya Brung.
That’s a really cool concept to apply to every creative endeavour.
Love Tom. A real guitarist’s guitarist. A lot of people don’t realize how good of a player he is because they hear the effects and think that’s all it is, when the effects don’t color his sound as much as his attack, timing and groove does. I read an article long ago where Dimebag himself made sort of a thinly veiled slight towards Rage and Tom - funny thing is it was either right before or around Far Beyond Driven... And what pedal was Dime using to get a lot of those nasty textures on that album...? I like to think at some point Dimebag acknowledged, and maybe he did, that he and Tom Morello had a lot more in common than he was willing to admit or hear for himself....
"A lot of people don’t realize how good of a player he is" 00:25:43 yeah thats amazing.
"Sorry Peavey" we've all said it.
"So do you go through a lot of toggleswitc-"
_TOM: INITIATE KILLSWITCH 101 TEDTALK SEQUENCE_
And even though I know of all his _tricks_ , this is still a hugely inspiring watch. What a guy.
Probably the most original guitarist since Hendrix. IMO
My thoughts exactly. Right up there with Jimi's originality.
Definitely agree , Morello and Hendrix are the only 2 to actually change the way people view the capabilities . Neither can ever be imitated .
You forgot to sandwich EVH in the middle. As much an intuitive genius as Jimi, a true innovator, and inspired guitarists the world over.
Eddie van halen
Because of the scratching?
I'll be like Tom and quit trying to purchase the right sound, just make do with the guitar I have... right after the next one I buy.
when is part 2,3,4,5......
when rage tours again
@@usernametaken215 oh boy...
*Meanwhile, in the future*
Thanks PG! Chris handled the interview amazingly like he and Tom were old band mates. Best RRD to date guys! He and Bollinger seem to have the most insiteful questions. Glad to see the artist show chops during the rrd
You can tell both are musicians and audiofiles
How much of his tone is in his suspenders?
that's hilarious !
All of it
He hasn't even engaged them yet...
@@lensmusic98105 I know! I was totally waiting for him to say there's a secret I haven't shown you yet... suspenders sound!
It was too powerful. It broke the video, so they had to cut it.
This is the most interesting rig rundown so far. Thank you!
Aca un argentino saltando en su casa con sleep now in the fire !!!
Somos dos!
Tres
4
Me partieron la pera en el 2010!!
That delay with the killswitch thing was the best thing i've heard Tom play. it wasn't just noise for the sake of it.
One thing to note...ALL of those effects are in the FX LOOP of the amp.
I had a hunch that's what was going on, especially with how clean the delays sounded and how "nasally" the wah sounded.
What you mean by this?
HIs guitar goes into the front of the Marshall. All the pedals go into the FX Loop@@OniDasAlagoas
@@bucket303 yep and I'll bet you good money he never tried the phaser or wah in front of the amp. I'm guessing he read the inputs and outputs of his amp, went "oh so that's where the pedals go" and he was DONE.
On the first Rage record he had it in front of the amp. It sounds like a normal wah sound. From empire on, the tone changes to more of a filter effect you get from putting it in the FX loop.@@FrankHerfjord
Never realized how coked he was the first time I watched this lmao. What an absolute badass though. Smallest pedalboard ever and the most original sounds and heaviest fucking riffs \m/
I had seen this once before and I just noticed the same. 😂 I was just scrolling the comments to see if anyone commented on how jacked he is. He is going a mile a minute!!
That roomate wouldn't have known how his Telecaster woukd become an iconic guitar
I am fairly certain that Tom consumes caffeine…
22:50 my nerd ass thought that he was bout to play the halo theme song
he attempted to play MK at one point.
Def a nerd
Incubus played the themes of Halo 2. It's called "Follow" - check it out. Mikey Einziger is a fantastic and inventive player in his own right.
Ian Althouse the main theme has Steve Vai on it
I find it amusing how so many guitarists feel the need to chain three different Strymons on their pedalboard with 10+ effects, in order to sound like everyone else, while Tom needs a Digitech whammy and an old DD-3 to make something absolutely unique.
Limitations breed creativity.
27:36 Chris face :)
Haha, that's so relatable. :) Pretty much the face I imagine I made the first time I heard Tom Morello on the first RATM album.
Tom maybe the most creative guitar player I`ve ever came across when it comes to create sounds. It's mindblowing how many sounds he gets out of this rather small setup...
16:21 As an Argentinian, that would happen, trust me.
Exactly i can't wait to be one of those argentinians jumping at the sound of sleep now in the fire
@@gabereynal Yeah it's great. I love RATM, i don't share their political views but i do respect them and love their music (Even their lyrics even thought i don't think like them)
Ya pasó! Espero que se haya sentido orgulloso de nosotros
he love argentina and we love him
Dude sounds like Eric Andre.
rage against the coke machine
He’s straight edge lmaooo
Lol, so not.
Okay boomer. People say the same shit about me. Some folks are just naturally kinetic and excitable.
@@bluelarsen2093 funny reddit 4chan ok boomer meme so funny 100 gold
yaoihunter lol
Finally!! i have waited for this forever.. now, i already knew all of this, but this was the one episode that i have been missing for a long time. only down part was it would have been more cool if it had been during the POR tour to feature more of his guitars. but anyway, thanks PG
Tom is one of my favorite guitarists. He's so creative and original, it's truly inspiring.
And so communist.
@@Thirdgen83Even more reason to love the guy
Hearing that he wrote some of the heaviest RAGE riffs with the neck pickup of a tele?!?!?!? MIND BLOWN... Love this
He actually says that he wrote many of them on a nylon strung guitar that he has at home. (Both in this and a bunch of other interviews.)
22:14 The host is just frozen in time, mesmerized by Tom's genius playing
what song is that?
Awyeah, finally! I saw Rage Against the Machine live when I was 15 in the summer of ’97. They were my favourite band at the time and a big part of my young life. The lyrics, the intensity and Morello’s awesome riffs and wacky solos, which sounded like nothing I’d ever heard before.
After the concert me and some other kids waited outside their hotel, hoping to catch a glimpse of them and maybe get an autograph (if we were lucky) before they drove off to their next festival gig. Tom Morello saw us standing there when they left the hotel and came over to talk to us. He told us that he'd noticed us jumping around during the concert and asked us what we thought about the gig. After a while and some high fives and autographs, some people from their entourage told him to get on the bus.
It seems like such a small thing and he didn’t have to do it, but when you’re young these things matter and make a big impression on you. I might not be a kid anymore, but he’s still an inspiration - I'll try not to buy more guitars! - and he seems like a great, down-to-earth guy.
He speaks in music. It's fascinating to watch
Dito
So basically, nothing has changed. haha
What's interesting is he almost has two distinct personality types in one person.
On one hand he's very academic, business minded, and i'm assuming plan oriented, but on the other he has this wild, crazy inventive, off the cuff, bombastic artistic sense, you typically only get one or the other.
One of my favorites, and a big inspiration to me growing up! thanks for the rundown.
Well, it totally makes sense. He's a Gemini after all.
That would also explain why he's got so much nervous energy and why he talks so fast.
John F. Kennedy (another Gemini) was just like him: he talked really fast.
@R. Ortega Disfruta la vida, amigo. De verdad. El tiempo que pierdes de tu vida odiando a otros, por la razón que sea, no va a volver.
@R. Ortega seven written words by you, venting your opinion, and you still had to edit that? man, you must be sour. maybe try focusing your energy on something sustaining, furthering yoiur beliefs, instead of slandering someone who has an outlasting success as an artist made possible through activism of a worldview that you are refusing so much.
@@youreallygotmenow4855 not only is astrology absolutely invalid, so is this Meyers-Briggs-style black-and-white analysis of personality.
@@seriouscatisserious You mentioned two completely different things that are not even related to each other.
I'm not here to convince anyone of the validity of astrology, I'm just humbly sharing (an action that is often sadly forgotten nowadays) with whoever studied the subject my two cents on Morello's outward personality, or better yet: my perception of his outward personality (based on this video).
I love how u can tell he loves what he does. True passion for his art
I've been a fan of Tom since I saw him with Lockup at Cal State Northridge opening for an English act Desolation Angels. My friends band Lord were also on the bill. My friend and I were very impressed by his originality. Everyone including myself were trying to shred like Eddie Van Halen and George Lynch. Tom can shred with the best but is such and individual. Probably one of the smartest men in music if not the world. I also like to listen to Tom speak. I always come away with new knowledge.
I'm really impressed with his austere rig. 2 guitars, the same 2 he's had since he started. The same amp head. The same pedals.
I honestly love Tom’s playing, he’s one of the most badass guitarists I’ve ever heard and his sound is so damn innovative. Also, for those who want to hear some of his stuff with Springsteen I’ll suggest the song Ghost of Tom Joad; Rage covered it in the 90s but check out the rendition from Bruce’s _High Hopes_ album and I guarantee you won’t be disappointed
This man is the G.O.A.T., and he’s one of my favorite guitarist ever
I like how he holds is guitar high up on his body instead of down by his knees.
"Sure, sure, man."
*Tom Morello - 2019.*
He popped at least 9 adderall before the interview.
The fact that Tom did his own rig rundown is why we love him.
Everbody, involved in music making: "you need a really good guitar, made from a known company, that minimum costs 2k, or you´ll sound like shit"
Tom Morello: "hold my beer"
Said no one in the music industry
And that is how an Anarchist makes music and gives his time to share his knowledge.
Great Rig Rundown, been a big fan since the 90's.
Tom: “In 1988, I spent a few- like two or three hours with that guitar, and this amp- head, and the Peavy cabinet and said ‘This is as good as a tone- I’m going to stop banging my head against the wall. This is going to be my tone.’ I marked the amp. You can see the markings. They’re on there. They’re.. on there, and I never changed them since! I was just like.. ‘We’re going to be done ever thinking about that, or talking about that. This is going to be the tone. I’m going to make songs with that tone.’ The end.”
Chris: “Damn.”
"this is my sound, I'm gonna stop loosing time on it, these are my tools, now I'm going to work with them"... now this guy is my favourite guitar player.
This is Brian from family Guy on some fish scale nose candy
Please feature Max Newman from the main squeeze!
I love him but did he do a line of coke before this interview hahahah
Tom Morello is possibly one of the most down to earth artists around full of genuine and unique dexterity. Never knew he was this much of an energetic guy 🤘🏽