TOM MORELLO: GUITAR HERO, POLITICAL ACTIVIST… EXOTIC DANCER?
Wednesday, November 4th, 2009 at 2:00pm by Axl Rosenberg
So we read on Metal Insider, who read on Drowned In Sound, who read on nme.com, that Rage Against the Machine’s Tom Morello used to be a stripper. Seriously. Says Morello:
When I graduated from Harvard and moved to Hollywood, I was unemployable. I was literally starving, so I had to work menial labour and, at one point, I even worked as an exotic dancer. ‘Brick House’ [by The Commodores] was my jam! I did bachelorette parties and I’d go down to my boxer shorts. Would I go further? All I can say is thank god it was in the time before YouTube! You could make decent money doing that job – people do what they have to do.
This news surprises me only insofar as while Morello’s not an ugly dude, he doesn’t strike me as someone that women would pay to see naked. Then again, I have no experience whatsoever with male strippers (unless you count that time that Vince got totally wasted and ran around the Mansion naked screaming the lyrics to “Hot for Teacher”), so maybe the chicks who go to see these dudes are like the dudes who go to see female strippers: willing to shove money down just about any available thong.
But I’d wager Morello was pretty good at stripping – I mean, the dude’s playing has a lotta funk, so I could definitely see him getting down.
And now I’ve spent too much time thinking about Tom Morello naked.
-AR
i didnt see this one coming
now that i think about it, dude DOES kinda look like a bald fabio.
Is that hard to get a job even if you graduated from fucking Harvard?!
He’s so full of shit
When he graduated from Harvard… he was “unemployable”? Wow, I guess that school has really gone downhill.
Didn’t he go nude at Lollapalooza?
Fuck you, I won’t do what you tell me. Unless you tell me to take off my pants.
i had to wikipedia this havard thing. seems legit. also said he introduced adam jones to maynord and danny carrey…. so tom morello had hand in the lineup of tool. thats fucking amazing.
To be fair he graduated from Harvard in political science. I don’t think it matters where you graduate from when your major is poli sci
haha true. it’s the same for any place in the world, really.
Stripping in the name of..
buns on parade!
Dude, you’re supposed to stip to PAY for College, not start after you graduate! Done fucked the game up!
And I dare anyone to run up on him at one of his Nightwatchmen solo acoustic shows and slip a 1 in his waistband. (Sure, kinda sick if you’re hetero, but still funny!)