Tom Morello Has Cameo Appearance In "Iron Man" Movie
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Blabbermouth.net reports via The Pulse of Radio: If you're one of the tens of millions of people who saw "Iron Man" this past weekend, you might have noticed that a guard in the terrorist camp where the early part of the film takes place looked a lot like RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE guitarist Tom Morello. A glance at the cast list during the closing credits confirmed that Morello does indeed make a cameo appearance in the film, although he has no dialogue and gets creamed by the first incarnation of "Iron Man" pretty quickly. Morello also played guitar on part of the film's score, which was composed by Hans Zimmer.
Morello's previous acting credits include "Star Trek: Insurrection" and "Made". The latter was directed by Jon Favreau, who also directed "Iron Man".
The guitarist has also contributed to the scores of "Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby" and "Dodgeball".
Morello just completed a stint as THE NIGHTWATCHMAN on the Justice Tour '08 and will hit Europe with RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE later this month to begin a series of summer festival shows.
"Iron Man", which stars Robert Downey Jr. as the Marvel Comics super hero, earned more than $100 million at the box office since opening on Friday (May 2), with a sequel already announced for spring of 2010.
Source: Blabbermouth
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I like Audioslave, not a fan of RATM and I can take or leave his guitar playing. He's good, but I wouldn't call him a guitar god or anything. As far as Iron Man goes, I wanna see it as soon as possible lol. Was never a big fan of the comics, it was ok but nothing special but I'm told the film rules. Plus with Tim Roth in it, how can you go wrong?
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tom morello isnt that great of a guitar player. hes more known for effects than technical skill. RATM is hit or miss for me and i dont like audioslave at all. iron man looks like a pretty cool film though, one of these days i'm gonna check it out.
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OK, gonna make this short and sweet, so uh RATM is my favorite band in the world, so obviously, in my mind he is a guitar god, so to all the people up above who posted comments about putting RATM/Tom Morello down, yeah...uh Screw U guys!!!
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To Post #16, Tom Morello is a f***ing hack becasue what he does is hardly based on ear or talent. His guitar have shorts in the pickups and all kinds of killswitches so all he has to do is make noises. This prevents him from actually playing anything resembling music. His repertoire consists of the same 10 "funk-metal" riffs he wrote back in 1991, rehashed and chopped-up ad nauseam, static, and distorted ground noises. It shames me to even see this guy hold a guitar since what he does can be done with, oh, let's say, a violin, or a bass, or a fuxking panflute. He is lame and he's not even trying. RATM's riffs were some of the first riffs I ever learned (1992, maybe) and now, 16 years later, after schooling, and scales and mode-work, his riffs are still some of the most laughable guitar moments in history. Anyone who has been playing guitar for three years and CAN'T play Morello's crap needs to put the fxcking guitar down because they're irrepairably retarded.
CrawfordTexasJingoJango, if u can send me a sound clip of u on the guitar playing every tom morello riff (played well) i will personally hand you $500,000 American. So what if his technique isnt the greateast? hes still better than you. but what makes him great is that he can make the guitar almost sound like anything and if you could do the same you would be making a lot of money too so STFU NOOB.
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^ its called an effects processor, and he knows how to use one. that doesnt make his playing ability any better. but it apparently has the ability to fool people like you into thinking he's an amazing player when he isnt.
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Hey CrawfordTexasJingoJango - guess how many people like Tom Morello: millions. Guess how many people like you: 0. Why? Because you're a talentless a$$hole who likes to get on message boards and post about how terrible guitarists are just because you're a jealous little sh**. Go kill yourself. Maybe then someone will know who you are when they read your obituary you stupid f***.
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Tom Morello is a fxcking hack and since I'm the first post, I want to say that anyone that looks at this post becasue they appreciate Tom Morello needs an ear transplant.