The Secret Service was involved.
“You might notice Rage is not in the farewells on that particular show,” Morello quipped.
“I still went to the afterparty.”
Rage Against the Machine performs in 1996.Credit:Tim Mosenfelder/Getty
The publisher had just concluded a run for the Republican nomination for president.
“‘Just to be clear, that’s what you’re saying right now.
They knewSNLwas “part of the DNA of American culture and entertainment.”
Tom Morello remembers Rage Against the Machine on ‘SNL’.Sara Jaye/Getty
“Our roadies have been told to, like, defend the perimeter,” Morello said.
“There’s 35 seconds till we’re live.
The stage manager sends theSNLcrew.
There’s a quick scrum on stage.
But that wasn’t all.
“It’s a rockin’ performance.
We go back to the dressing room and it’s tense,” Morello recalled.
“Our dressing room is right across the hall from Steve Forbes.
And then they leave us alone.
That was their mistake.”
“You might call it a weapon,” Morello said.
“And he entered Steve Forbes' dressing room across the way to attack him.
Steve Forbes was not in his dressing room, but his family was.
So Timmy launches his American flag ball rocket at aunts, cousins, wives, children.
Still, there were consequences for attempting to assault the politician.
“The hallway floods with Secret Service.
We’re now locked in our room,” Morello said.
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