A brand new documentary titled Women & Gents … 50 Years of SNL Music is ready to premiere Monday night time (January twenty seventh) on NBC. One of many key revelations from the movie is that Rage Towards the Machine have been locked down by the US Secret Service following their efficiency of “Bulls on Parade” on the late-night sketch present.
RATM have been the musical visitor on Saturday Night time Reside on April thirteenth, 1996, an episode hosted by billionaire Steve Forbes, who was then a current Republican presidential candidate.
Because the story’s been informed, Rage Towards the Machine had their crew grasp the other way up American flags on their amps, however the flags have been eliminated by the SNL stage crew proper earlier than the band launched into the music. RATM by no means received to play their second music, “Bullet within the Head,” and have since by no means been invited again to play on the present.
Within the new documentary, RATM guitarist Tom Morello provides extra perception into the incident, revealing a brand new tidbit concerning the Secret Service locking the band in its dressing room.
“One factor I feel is essential is to weave your convictions into your vocation, no matter it’s, whether or not you’re directing a movie or working a digital camera or taking part in guitar in a rock ‘n’ roll band,” begins Morello in Women & Gents … 50 Years of SNL Music. “And for a band like Rage, SNL was an ideal alternative to try this. Being on SNL was one thing that was valued. It was part of the DNA of American tradition and leisure. So, when the supply got here to be on it, we have been like, ‘We’d be blissful to.’ However Rage by no means did issues in a traditional approach. So, we have been pondering, like, ‘how will we make this into some kind of loopy efficiency artwork factor?’”
He continues, “We heard that Steve Forbes was going to be the host. He had simply been a Republican candidate for president. He’s Forbes of Forbes journal, one of many richest folks in America, and one of many driest and most boring people to ever stroll the face of the earth… Let’s see how that works out.”