Tom Morello is one of the greatest guitar players of our time…if you don’t agree I’m taking my ball and going home. In the Rage Against the Machine song “Bulls on Parade” Morello makes his guitar sound like a vinyl record scratch, how does he do it? According to Wikipedia: it’s done by toggling between two pickups–one on and one off–while rubbing his hands on the strings over the pickups to create the effect that someone is scratching a vinyl disc. Morello has stated that the sound he was going for was a “sort of ‘
Geto Boys
‘ sound, menacing”
[4]
with
E♭ tuning
in both guitar and bass and a
wah-wah pedal
fully in the treble position to create a
Houston 5th Ward
gangland-style riff.
The guitar solo was listed at #23 on Guitar World’s Greatest Solos list in 2009.
“Bulls on Parade” was released in 1996 off the
Evil Empire
album. It reached #11 on the Modern Rock Tracks chart.
