Tim Commerford

Tim Commerford (2007)

Tim Commerford with Audioslave at the Montreux Jazz Festival on July 5th, 2005.

Tim Commerford (* 26. February 1968 , Irvine , California ) is an American rock - bass player . He became known through his work on Rage Against the Machine and Audioslave .

In 2014, Paste magazine listed him in the list of The 20 Most Underrated Bassists at number 8.

Career

Commerford's father was an aviation science engineer and worked on the space shuttle program . His mother was a mathematician . He is the youngest of five children. As with his mother cancer was diagnosed, the father divorced and left the family, after his mother and his sister in Sacramento , California, moved. Commerford stayed with his father in Orange County .

There he met Zack de la Rocha at school, who introduced him to the bass. They later founded Rage Against the Machine (RATM) with guitarist Tom Morello and drummer Brad Wilk .
Commerford's playing style in Rage Against the Machine was characterized by the frequent use of a distortion and a bass wah wah pedal (for example in Calm like a Bomb ).

Rage Against The Machine was nominated for the "Best Rock Video" award at the 2000 MTV Video Music Awards , among many others . But the award went to Limp Bizkit . When their front man Fred Durst delivered his speech, Commerford climbed onto the stage and threatened to jump. Fred Durst replied to this action that Limp Bizkit was the "most hated band in the world". The director decided to quickly take a commercial break. Tim Commerford and his bodyguards were sentenced to one night in prison for the fun.

When Zack de la Rocha left the band to pursue a solo career, the three remaining RATM musicians came together with the former Soundgarden singer Chris Cornell at the request of the well-known producer Rick Rubin , and after a joint rehearsal it was clear that that they'll form a band together. It released its debut album of the same name under the name "Audioslave" in November 2002 , which received very good reviews with its Led Zeppelin- influenced alternative rock.

In 2001, Tim Commerford married Aleece Dimas. With her he had a child who also appeared in the music video for Like a Stone by Audioslave.

In spring 2005 the second Audioslave album Out of Exile was released , followed in 2006 by the third album Revelations .

Commerford reunited with the other two band members and Zack de la Rocha to form Rage Against the Machine after Chris Cornell left in 2007. Together with his RATM colleague Brad Wilk he played the song "Momma Sed" in the band Puscifer , which appeared on the 2007 debut album V is for Vagina .

In 2013 he founded the band Future User and in 2015 released a studio album called SteroidsOrHeroin . In that year he founded the punk band Wakrat , in which he appears for the first time as a singer and frontman alongside the bass.

Since 2016 he has been playing with Tom Morello and Brad Wilk in the band Prophets of Rage , which is supposed to be a sequel to Rage Against the Machine . Instead of de la Rocha, the US rappers Chuck D and B-Real are the front singers .

Discography (studio albums)

Rage Against the Machine

• Rage Against the Machine (1992)
• Evil Empire (1996)
• The Battle of Los Angeles (1999)
• Renegades (2000)

Audio slave

• Audioslave (2002)
• Out of Exile (2005)
• Revelations (2006)

Puscifer

• V is for Vagina (2007)

Future user

• SteroidsOrHeroin (2015)

Prophets of Rage

• The Party's over (2016)

Wakrat

• Wakrat (2016)

Web links

• Tim Commerford in the Internet Movie Database (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The 20 Most Underrated Bass Guitarists :: Music :: Lists :: Paste