Tom Morello continues to benefit from his time in Europe, becoming a member of fellow alt-rock heroes Jane’s Addiction throughout their present on Tuesday (June twenty fifth) in Cologne, Germany.
The Rage In opposition to the Machine guitarist is within the midst of a competition circuit throughout the continent, however discovered time to drop in on Perry Farrell and firm for a pair of songs through the band’s headlining efficiency on the Carlswerk Victoria.
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Morello, an outspoken Jane’s fan, made his first onstage cameo for a rendition of “Mountain Music” — the sixth tune within the set.
The tune is among the band’s most recognizable songs (touchdown at No. 3 on Consequence‘s latest checklist of the greatest basslines of all time), and including one other axe to the combination definitely didn’t detract from its depth. Morello checked out house enjoying alongside Farrell and Dave Navarro, as seen in fan footage of the gig.
After taking his go away, Morello returned to the stage for the night’s remaining quantity, the rhythmic “Chip Away” — this time as an ancillary percussionist pounding away on the toms together with Navarro and Jane’s drummer Stephen Perkins.
Morello heaped excessive reward on Jane’s Dependancy in a 2021 interview, recalling how he as soon as snuck into one in all their rehearsals earlier than Nothing’s Stunning had been launched.
“They have been it,” he advised the Tuna on Toast with Stryker podcast. “As a result of what they did — together with a pair different bands, I’d credit score Soundgarden and Residing Color on kind of a brief checklist — is that they redeemed laborious rock and steel music. All of us who liked laborious rock music however have been considerably embarrassed by the satan stuff and the groupie stuff and that, swiftly there have been bands that have been kicking my ass simply as laborious, simply as laborious as [Black] Sabbath and AC/DC and Led Zeppelin, however there was like a creative and mental content material and a poetic content material to it. And so I used to be all in on Jane’s.”
Jane’s Dependancy are wrapping up their European tour within the subsequent couple days, however the band can be again out for a co-headlining North American tour with Love and Rockets starting in early August (get tickets here).
Beneath you may watch fan footage of Tom Morello becoming a member of Jane’s Dependancy in Cologne, Germany.