Arteconciencias: Tom Morello’s greatest guitar solo wasn’t on any studio album – and it crammed all his tricks into one epic lead

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September 7, 2022

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Tom Morello's greatest guitar solo

When one thinks of bands that went supernova in the early '90s – defining a specific sound, selling millions of albums, and inspiring almost as many imitators that tried (and failed) to capture that same lightning in a bottle – Nirvana usually first comes to mind, and not without good reason.

Rage Against the Machine, however, stand right there with them, almost single-handedly launching rap-metal with their thought-provoking, fiery, and hard-hitting self-titled debut album in 1992.

Zack de la Rocha – and his militant, uncompromisingly political lyrics, delivered with fire and brimstone intensity – deserves plenty of credit for their success, but so does guitarist Tom Morello, who re-shaped what the world thought was possible on a guitar with his bold, genre-fusing riffing and sonic experimentation.

Morello's greatest guitar solo, however, isn't on that seminal debut album or, in fact, any other studio album released by Rage, Audioslave, Prophets of Rage, or on his own. It happens to be on the Japan-only Live & Rare compilation, and features just about every six-string trick that made him one of the late-20th and early-21st centuries' most boundary-pushing guitar heroes. Listen to it here.

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