Rage Against The Machine Attacks Bush at Coachella

Rage Against The Machine Attacks Bush at Coachella Zack De La Rocha raged, "This current administration... should be hung and tried and shot." Tuesday, May 1, 2007 Reunited rockers Rage Against The Machine caused some controversy while playing their first show in seven years on Sunday at the phenomenally successful Coachella Festival in California. More than 60,000 fans packed the Empire Polo Fields site in Indio for the much-anticipated comeback - and the politically charged band came back with a vengeance. Frontman Zack De La Rocha was holding nothing back when he captured the moment and took aim at President George W. Bush's administration during the group's encore. He raged, "This current administration... should be hung and tried and shot. But the challenges we face go beyond the current administration. It's not a system that changes every four years. "It's a system we have to tear down, generation after generation." The frontman ended his onstage rant by screaming "Wake up!" And what the charged-up frontman didn't say from the stage he poured into venom on the group's classics like "Testify," "Bullet In Your Head" and "Know Your Enemy." Fans went wild when the group returned to the stage for an encore of "Freedom" and the anthem "Killing In The Name Of," which seemed to sum up the aggression of fans, who turned the main stage area into a violent mosh pit of dancing and pushing. On site police were ready with pellet guns for a night of hostility following the amped-up show - but fans left the festival peacefully.