Tell Us the Truth Tour

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Billy Bragg, Steve Earle, Lester Chambers, Tom Morello. Also Janeane Garofalo, Jill Sobule and others.

check out www.tellusthetruth.org

The website is worth a visit for some good info and links.

Gotta love these guys! Should be some great music, too (if you see Steve, tell him I said hi...sigh...)

Ha -- I just noticed that on his website, Steve Earle uses the same quote that I have in my sig line, but he took the profanity out. LOL.

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1. Tom Morello

my freakin idol... hes going as 'the nightwatchman' his new solo acoustic project, or thats what i presume it to be, cause, i couldnt really find any info on it last time i looked...

hes a harvard grad too... political sciences... and with 2 multi-platinum bands? this man has accomplished a helluva lot in his life... that and hes politically active too... and they say there are no positive rolemodels in music these days.

-LK

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2. Rage Against the Machine?

That guy? I haven't heard of this "nightwatchman" either.

Here's some quotes I found from him about this tour:

"It's very stripped down and Woody Guthrie-esque, sort of early Bob Dylan 'The Times They Are A- Changin' ' kind of show," Morello said. "It's unlikely that there will be any moshpits, but one never knows."

Describing his Nightwatchman alter ego, Morello added: "He is an artist of the people. Media consolidation needs smashing and globalization needs unmasking, and that is what the Nightwatchman is called to do on this tour, and he will respond to that challenge."

According to MTV, Morello will be playing songs he has written specifically for the tour. Morello has always been a social and political activist. He believes the tour is essential is remind people of the problems with, amongst other things, George Bush.

"I'm certain Bush won't be re-elected," he said. "From the economy being in the toilet to American kids dying every day in a war we should never have gotten into, that's not a very solid resume. All of his personal jack-assed-ness aside, the one thing that was clear at the end of the day is that The Dixie Chicks were right. They had every right to be embarrassed that that guy is from Texas."

LOL. Love this guy already.