It drives me nuts when they talk about bands and don't have their facts straight (I'm a music geek/snob). Then they take a call from someone who adds more useless chatter with no good info.
Zack left Rage Against The Machine after the bassist Timmy C climbed the stage prop at the MTV VMAs while drunk after losing to Limp Bizkit. I'm sure there were artistic and political differences brewing prior to that, but when Zack walked out of the awards ceremony after the police got Timmy down from that Statue Of Liberty prop, that was the end.
Rage members Zach De La Rocha and Tom Morello urged Commerford not to do it, and were disappointed in his actions. A month after the events, De La Rocha announced his departure from the band, saying in a statement, "I feel that it is now necessary to leave Rage because our decision-making process has completely failed. It is no longer meeting the aspirations of all four of us collectively as a band, and from my perspective, has undermined our artistic and political ideal."
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Stabbing Westward's "What Do I Have To Do" is one of their singles and it did well, but "Shame" is better remembered and one that Howard would have probably recognized and liked more. And yes the band toured recently (I saw them in Rhode Island in 2017), but after the album with "Save Yourself" they released their 4th and final album in 2001 - but it was largely pop, very different from their earlier work, even featuring acoustic guitar on some tracks. They disbanded and a couple of the guys formed The Dreaming. Stabbing reunited in 2016. When Howard says they had one hit with "Save Yourself" I groan.
The group's biggest success came during the year after the release of "Wither Blister Burn & Peel," in which two of the album's singles, "What Do I Have to Do?" and "Shame," propelled the record to peak at No. 67 on The Billboard 200 in September 1997.
Industrial rock quartet Stabbing Westward has called it a career after 10 years and four albums. The group posted a message on its official Web site over the weekend saying the members had amicably decided to part ways.
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