In 2020, Rage In opposition to the Machine introduced they might be reuniting, embarking on their first full-length tour in 20 years. Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, their “Public Service Announcement Tour” confronted a number of postponements, and was ultimately rescheduled to happen in 2022 and 2023. Nevertheless, on solely the third present of the tour, frontman Zach de la Rocha injured his leg. Regardless of trying to push by way of it, performing whereas seated on the subsequent 15 gigs, RATM had been compelled to cancel the rest of their concert events in an effort to permit de la Rocha to correctly heal.
Since then, these extremely anticipated reunion exhibits have garnered fairly a little bit of criticism on-line, particularly from those that declare the band required a COVID-19 vaccination in an effort to attend the tour – one thing which guitarist Tom Morello has repeatedly denied over the previous couple of years.
Now, Morello is addressing one other criticism: that the band’s ticket costs had been too costly.
On Thursday (Could twenty ninth), a person on Twitter/X accused RATM of promoting tickets “between $300 and $600,” including that “by agreeing to play at venues just like the United Heart in 2022, which required proof of vaccination or damaging COVID-19 checks for some exhibits, Rage for the Machine implicitly endorsed these guidelines.”
In an try to set the document straight, Morello replied: “Lies. 90% of tickets had been $125. For the opposite 10% each single penny went to charity in every metropolis.”
Morello continued, refuting the declare that vaccinations had been required to attend their concert events: “And all of the exhibits had been offered out in 2019 earlier than any vax mandates in place and all mandates had been lifted in each single venue, together with the United Heart, after we carried out in 2022. ZERO followers required proof of vax or damaging checks.”
