Biography of Tom Morello

Thomas Baptiste Morello (born May 30, 1964) is a Grammy Award-winning American guitarist best known for his tenure with the bands Rage Against the Machine, Audioslave, his acoustic solo act The Nightwatchman, and his newest group, Street Sweeper Social Club. He was featured as one of the guitarists in Rolling Stone's "The Top 20 New Guitarists" article and was ranked #26 on Rolling Stone's list of the "100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time". He is also an outspoken political activist





Morello was born on May 30, 1964, in Harlem, New York. His mother, Mary Morello, is of Irish and Italian descent. She was a teacher at Libertyville High School and was the homeroom teacher for Tom's classmate and fellow guitarist Adam Jones, of the band Tool. His father, Ngethe Njoroge, a Kenyan, was the country's first ambassador to the United Nations.
Morello grew up in Libertyville, Illinois, at the time a virtually all white suburb of Chicago. There he attended Libertyville High School. He sang in the school choir and was active in speech and drama club; a prominent role was Oberon in A Midsummer Night's Dream.
He showed his political leanings early. Morello has described himself as having been "the only anarchist in a conservative high school", but has since identified as a nonsectarian socialist. In the 1980 mock elections at LHS, he campaigned for a fictitious anarchist "candidate" named Hubie Maxwell, who came in fourth place. He also wrote a piece headlined "South Africa: Racist Fascism That We Support" for the school's alternative paper The Student Pulse.
Morello graduated in 1982 and began attending Harvard University. He graduated in 1986 with a BA degree (with honors) in political science. He moved to Los Angeles, where he briefly worked as an aide to Senator Alan Cranston as he set about trying to join or start a band. Adam Jones moved to L.A. as well; Morello introduced Jones and Maynard James Keenan to Danny Carey, who would come to form the band Tool.





At age 13, Morello joined his first band; a Led Zeppelin cover band as the lead singer. At this same age, Morello purchased his first guitar. Around 1984, Morello first started studying the guitar seriously. He had formed a band in the same year called the Electric Sheep which featured future Toll guitarist Adam Jones on bass. The band wrote original material that included politically charged lyrics. None of the songs composed by the Sheep contained solos; soloing was a skill that Morello began learning in college.
At the time, Morello's musical tastes lay in the direction of heavy metal, particularly Kiss, Iron Maiden, Alice Cooper, Led Zeppelin, and Black Sabbath. Morello developed his own unique sound through the electric guitar. Later, his music and musical politics were greatly influenced by punk rock bands like The Clash, The Sex Pistols, and Devo

Questions And Answers:


1.-Where you born?

I born in Harlem, New York
2.-what is the name of your mother?

Mary Morello
3.-What she founded?

She founded a famous organization

what is your actual band?

My actual band is Rage against the Machine

4. what is your actual band?
My actual band is Rage against the Machine

5.-what was your first famous group?

My first group was Rage against the Machine
6.-When founded Rage against the machine?
It’s founded in 1989
7.- Where was your last concert?
In the Olympic Auditórium
8.-When was?
Was in 13/09/2000
9.-Wich was your most famous guitar?
The “arm the homeless”
10.- what was your first guitar was use in Rage Against The Machine?
Was the “Sendero luminoso”
11.-and the first guitar was use in Audioslave?
También fue “Sendero luminoso”
12.- dime algunos de tus efectos q usas en tus conciertos
Marshall JCM 900 (50 watt)
Peavey 4x12 Cabinet.
Pedales.
DigiTech Whammy WH1
DOD FX40b Equalizer.
Jim Dunlop Crybaby Wah.
BOSS DD-2 Digital Delay.
BOSS TR-2 Tremolo.
MXR Block Phase 90 Phaser.
Ibanez DFL Flanger.
13.-what estyle are the riffs you play?
Are the sounds of heavy metal and punk and the sounds are inspirate of hip hop
14.-what was your first experience whit the guitar?
It`s was when y listen KISS
15.-What was the first you learned?I learned tune the guitar