Audioslave-drummer: "Cuba is indrukwekkend"

Artist news 07-11-2005 09:25

Audioslave is de eerste Amerikaanse rockband die in communistische Cuba heeft gespeeld na een jarenlang embargo. Over die bijzonder gebeurtenis vertelt Brad Wilk states :

"At the end of the day, we had to get Dick Cheney's signature and Fidel Castro's signature, and it was not an easy thing to do. But it feels pretty good to say we were the first American rock band to put a stop to the rock 'n' roll embargo. (...) We went to a music school that was once a high-falutin' country club before (the revolution). They turned it into a free school of music and we went in and watched these kids who couldn't have been more than 19 or 20 years old just do these jazz improvisations, and it was both humbling and inspiring. (...) It just blew my mind. The people and the culture there are incredible. What they don't have as far as materialistic goods that we have in America, they just make up for it ten-fold in their spirit and in the arts and in their music."

Audioslave is de samensmelting van de muzikale ruggegraat van Rage Aginast the Machine met de zang van voormalig Soundgarden-frontman Chris Cornell. In deze band krijgen twee invloedrijke acts uit de jaren negentig een succesvol vervolg in de eenentwintigste eeuw.

Lees het volledige interview hier.