Prophets of Rage (Rage Against the Machine + Public Enemy + Cypress Hill)

Prophets of Rage

Bell Center

Montreal

Aug 23 2016

Rage Against the Machine (minus de la Rocha), B-Real from Cypress Hill and Chuck D and DJ Lord from Public Enemy formed a new supergroup called Prophets of Rage.

The Prophets are basically playing a best of version of their bands.

I had never seen Rage Against the Machine live and this would be the closest I will probably ever be to watch the original in concert.

As Zach de la Rocha is doing his own solo album, the remainder of RATM are back to cause some chaos and hopefully let everyone know that everyone should vote and change the future...mostly the future elections in the US which are coming up fast.

Needless to say that I was really excited for this show and had been since they announced a tour together. Prayers were answered and they added a date in Montreal!

The show started with DJ Lord doing a medley and creating magic with his turntables.

That was quite a show we experienced watching him perform in front of us mixing the classics from old hip hop passing through its history and finishing up in the 90s with some rock songs and ending with Nirvana in a 15 minutes mix.

They started the show with their new song Prophets of Rage, then played 2 RATM songs which energized the crowd.

Unfortunately, they played a really slow song and nobody was reacting too much to it.

Then they put some energy back into the crowd with People of the Sun and a bunch of great songs.

In the middle the show, members of RATM left to let Chuck D, B-Real and DJ Lord "rap into your(our) face". Chuck D and B-Real got closer to the crowd and even jumped in the crowd to rap a medley of their best songs.

It was a really entertaining moment.

Rage came back after this so Tom Morello could do more amazing solos with his guitar.

He was just the star of the show, so good at playing his instrument in so many different ways and managing to always impress everyone in the crowd.

Ghost of Tom Joad was performed with Awolnation singer which was the weakest moment of the show, but fortunately Morello would save the song with his solos which at least gave a special touch to this (boring) song.

Tom and DJ Lord started a competition between each other to show who was the best with his instrument! One of the highlights for sure.

Bulls on the Parade was played and seemed to please the fans who continued to trash heavily on the floor and then Killing in the Name Of was played which enflamed the crowd even further into a huge trash.

After their salutations as a group and their "legalize it" moment they left us with their message to fight back authority.

They had a few backgrounds throughout the show, but the last one was "Make Canada Rage Again" banner which was a nice touch for us :)

Great show and pleased that it happened in my town !

Set List:

1-Prophets of Rage 

2-Guerrilla Radio

3-Bombtrack

4-Miuzi Weighs a Ton

5-People of the Sun

6-Take the Power Back
7-(Rock) Superstar

8-Testify

9- Hand on the Pump / Can't Truss It / Insane in the Brain / Bring the Noise / I Ain't Goin' Out Like That / Welcome to the Terrordome
10- Sleep Now in the Fire

11- Cochise / She Watch Channel Zero?!

12- The Ghost of Tom Joad
13- Bullet in the Head

14- Shut 'Em Down

15 - Know Your Enemy

16- The Party's Over

17 - No Sleep Till Brooklyn / Fight the Power

18- Bulls on Parade
19- Killing in the Name