You just have to think.” Rock, riffs and radicalism – Tom Morello’s music education A lot of noises I make on the guitar you can make very easily. “My guitar playing is solely a product of my determination to explore, rather than any sort of great mastery of technique. I thought: If there are three shred guitarists on this shitty college campus stage, there doesn’t need to be a fourth.” But I sounded like every other guitar player that could play shredding solos. “I practised playing guitar eight hours a day, every day and amassed a pretty solid technique on the instrument. While guitar music may not be choking the top of the charts as it once did, it is no less great or important than it’s ever been.” It’s such an important instrument on the face of the planet but to me personally. Image: Lindsay Brice / Getty Images In his own words The most important bit of hardware in Morello’s armoury is undoubtedly his brain… Despite all this, the tools of his trade remain relatively simple, as we’ll detail here. Because Morello doesn’t really follow accepted rules, he invents new ones. His major artistic ventures – Rage Against The Machine, Audioslave, rap/rock supergroup Prophets Of Rage, solo escapades as The Nightwatchman and those sideman stints with The Boss have all involved different disciplines… if discipline is actually the right word. In his own view, Run-DMC and Public Enemy’s production team of The Bomb Squad have provided a keener compass for his playing than the usual metal, rock and soul players that are the ‘norm’ of modem guitar language. Muse’s Matt Bellamy is an enthusiastic student of Morello’s ethos, ( the two recently gifted each other guitars, sweet!) but who Morello himself took inspiration from? That’s harder to define.
Morello’s ‘otherness’ is why he’s so admired, but also one reason not many other players compare. READ MORE: Guitar Legends: Eric Clapton Pt 2 – from Layla to the Crossroads.You won’t find many who devote years coaxing otherworldly sounds out of new techniques and a bunch of boxes, and then go on tour as guitarist in Bruce Springsteen’s non-more classic E Street Band… Few lead guitarists describe their role in as “being the DJ in the band”. Plenty devote endless hours a day practising their shredding, but not many do it while simultaneously studying for a Bachelor’s degree at Yale.
Tom Morello isn’t like other guitar greats.
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