![]() You know, when the big riff in the song drops. "As I was demonstrating how it affects the way one plays guitar, I just started playing that riff. "I was giving a guitar lesson and teaching a student how to do drop D tuning, where you detune the lowest string on the guitar to the D note," he told triple j's Richard Kingsmill in 2009. ![]() Morello stumbled across it while working one of his many pre-fame day jobs. ' Killing in the name of…' de la Rocha cries, before the band launches into a titanic-sounding riff that carries the song's verses. "That opening riff, that kind of bouncing part at the beginning: that was all Timmy C. "Timmy C came in with a fantastic surprise," Rage Against The Machine guitarist Tom Morello told triple j's Richard Kingsmill in 2009. Well, four bangs really, as the band systemically strike a D chord in unison: a simple but explosive way of introduction.Įverything fades out, then Tim Commerford's bass rises.
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