Zack de la Rocha Injures Leg During RATM Show
Zack de la Rocha sustained a leg injury during Rage Against the Machine’s show in Chicago last night (July 11) that resulted in the singer performing the bulk of the…
Zack de la Rocha sustained a leg injury during Rage Against the Machine's show in Chicago last night (July 11) that resulted in the singer performing the bulk of the setlist while seated.
Consequence reports de la Rocha's injury happened just four songs into Rage's set that resulted in a short break during which the singer exited the stage with help from nearby stage staff.
Fortunately, he was able to power through the injury and belted out the vocals while sitting on a stage monitor. Unsurprisingly, de la Rocha remained defiant telling the crowd in the United Center in the fan-shot footage below, "I don’t know what happened to my leg right now. Straight up, but you know what? We’re gonna keep this f---ing s--- going. I can crawl across this stage. We’re gonna play for you all tonight."
de la Rocha would then be carried off the stage at the end of the show while flashing a peace sign to the crowd. As Consequence notes below, someone better reach out to Dave Grohl to potentially rent his epic throne from when he broke his leg after falling off stage back in 2015. A handful of people have even used it after Grohl, most notably Axl Rose.
Rage Against the Machine finally kicked off their highly anticipated (and delayed by two years because of the pandemic) reunion tour over the weekend in East Troy, Wis.
The show was the band's first performance together in 11 years and boasted a tight 16-song setlist, which can be viewed below.
Rolling Stone noted, "At no point during the show did any member of the group address the crowd or their long absence from the stage, though Morello, who can still make his guitar sound like everything from a siren to a turntable, wore an 'I Love CRT' shirt during the final few songs, and 'Abort the Supreme Court' appeared on the screen."
Fan-shot video from the show can also be viewed below.
Setlist (Per Setlist.fm)
1. "Bombtrack"
2. "People of the Sun"
3. "Bulls on Parade"
4. "Bullet in the Head"
5. "Testify" (with "Revolver" intro)
6. "Tire Me" (First time live since 2008)
7. "Wake Up"
8. "Guerrilla Radio"
9. "Without a Face" (First time live since 2008)
10. "Know Your Enemy"
11. "Calm Like a Bomb"
12. "Sleep Now in the Fire"
13. "War Within a Breath" (First time live since 2008)
14. "The Ghost of Tom Joad" (Bruce Springsteen cover) (First time live since July 23, 2000)
15. "Freedom" (with Township Rebellion outro)
16. "Killing in the Name"
