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Show Together at last Across Legendary acts reunite in 2007 1 5 Fake 9 Wager Brien Barrett, Alex Morrell and Dan Wohl The Daily Cardinal (U. Wisconsin) 12 8312007 (U-WIR- 14 15 17 18 19 Rage Against the Machine Like baseball season ending when the cold fall days start to arrive. Rage Against the Machine, who disbanded m 2000 on the eve of George W. Bushs ascendancy, seemed to leave us just when we needed them the most. But there was frontman Zack de la Rocha onstage at Alpine Valley Friday, Aug. 24, declaring that, while most congressional Democrats are too timid to slap a meaningless censure resolution on Bush, Rage would have no problem seeing him tried and executed for war crimes. wait, historys Thankfully, after a long, seven-ye- ar hard-lefti- st is As rock band back. astonishing premiere and prophetic as de la Rochas militant poetry was can a song like Vietnow have ever been more relevant? -- - its easy to forget how good Rages music was, too. Many have tried, but no band has ever come close to combining the potential power of both rock and rap the way Rage has. The convergence of Tom Morellos radical guitar technique and de la Rochas alternating current of and was a musical event. No new album is planned as of now, but the mere idea is almost unbearably tantalizing. Judging from how happy they looked performing in East Troy, though, a new album in, say, November 08 or so looks very possible. metal-screami- flow-spitti- ng Protective garment 13 Employ MADISON, Wis. E) Rational ng Singe Party device To be (Lat.) Lazy Susan Minerals 20 Teases 21 Common contraction 22 Enemy 23 Foodfish 24 Mutt 25 Easter plant 27 Acquired 30 Lounges 33 Nevada gambling city once-in-a-generat- ion The Police Notorious for physical confrontations and battling egos, many thought the Polices 1984 Synchronicity tour would be their last. Twenty-thre- e years later, the Police reunited in celebration of the 30th anniversary of their hit single Roxanne with a performance of the g tour that is set song at the Grammys and a to hit nearly every comer of the Earth. Even with ticket many stops on the tour prices ranging from sold out in minutes. stand at ChiIn July, the Police hosted a cagos historic Wrigley Field and played to an estimated 40,000 people each night. Absent from these performances was the bands high energy live show, which made the band stand out during their rise to fame in the late 70s, but the Polices more mature sound has allowed each member to showcase how he has developed year-lon- $50-25- 0, their first Van Halen tour together in more than 22 years. The classically trained Van Halen brothers, Eddie and Alex, along with the charismatic showmaster Roth, redefined rock with their emergence in the late 1970s-earniadmittance into the Rock and Roll Hall Fame of in March this year. Eddie Van Halens revoluguitar techniques are indelibly tionary, lightning-quic- k imprinted upon almost every hard rockheavy metal band that followed Van Halen, and the band rode their unique sound to a litany of No. 1 singles and massive album sales until Roths falling out with the band in two-nig- ht into an excellent musician over the years. Highlights of the Chicago show included a rousing rendition of Every Little Thing She Does is Magic, a spacey and extended Cant Stand Losing You and an impressive Driven To Tears, which proved how underrated Sting, Andy Summers and Stewart Copeland really are as musicians. If you fancy yourself even a slight fan of the Police, be sure to catch the band in 2008 when they will likely return to the Midwest. Van Halen Van Haleris nearly of lead singers appears to have finally merry-go-roufor now. Guitar virtuoso Eddie Van reached a halt Halen and original Van Halen lead singer David Lee Roth have quelled their notorious animosity and put a Band-Ai- d on their rancorous relationship to engineer nd ng 1985. Van Halen played a perpetual game of musical chairs with lead singers Sammy Hagar, Gary Cherone and Roth until months of recent speculation finally culminated on Aug. 13, 2007 with the announcement of te a North American Van HalenRoth reunion in immediate sell outs and additional dates. If you aim to catch this highly coveted reunion a wizard act, look for Eddie Van Halens teenage son on the bass-t- o play beside his father and uncle as he replaces former member Michael Anthony for the tour, which includes dates in Illinois on Oct 16 and 18 and in Minneapolis on the 24th. And if youve got hopes of a new album, Roth told Billboard.com, Were already plotting and planning. 25-da- , tour-resulti- ng 71 The Smashing Pumpkins During summer 2005, the Smashing Pumpkins singer Billy Corgan put out ads in Chicago newspapers advertising his desire to reunite the Smashing Pumpkins. This past summer, Corgans dream came to fruition as the Pumpkins released an album, Zeitgeist, and embarked on a world tour for the first time in seven years. Prior to the tour and release of Zeitgeist, skepticism surrounded the band and the fact that founding guitarist James Iha and bassist Darcy would be absent from the reunion, and some said it would not be the Smashing Pumpkins without the two. Upon their first show in Paris, many critical voices were silenced as the Pumpkins proved that the only essential members of the Pumpkins are Corgan and drumming virtuoso Jimmy Chamberlin. Throughout the summer, the band has played mostly Europeans dates along with a few festivals and a long residence in both San Francisco and Asheville, gui-taristle- week-and-a-h- ad alf N.C. The Pumpkins recently announced their first North American tour since 2000. Most noticeably absent from die dates are shows in Wisconsin and the Pumpkins home town of Chicago, so you might have to wait until winter to bask in the Pumpkins reunion glory close to home. Continued on page 12 SEPTEMBER 4, 2007 |