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90s at 9 How Does Tom Morello Make His Guitar Sound Like a Vinyl Record Scratch?

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.

by Nikki "Nikilicious" Montgomery

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.

Rage Against The Machine "Bulls on Parade" 1996
Nikki "Nikilicious" Montgomery

I'm a Central Wisconsin girl born and raised. I grew up in Port Edwards and participated in cheerleading, basketball, volleyball and softball as well as many clubs like National Honor Society, SADD, yearbook and forensics. I was a very busy high school student and still managed to get good enough grades to go to college at UW-Stevens Point where I was just as busy between working 3 jobs including executive staff positions at the campus alternative rock radio station and volunteering at the campus television station.

After graduation I thought I would take my BA in Mass Communications with emphasis in Broadcasting and Journalism and Minor in Political Science and become a big time reporter in some major city. But instead my internship with our news station here at Midwest Communications turned into a part-time job and opened the door to the morning show co-host position at WDEZ. After 9 1/4 years of fun in the mornings I was promoted to Assistant Brand Manager and moved to The Workday Getaway.

I couldn't deny my love for rock anymore! It was time dive head first into the genre I spent my formative years listening to day in and day out. When the opportunity arose for me to become the Brand Manager for Rock 94.7 and host the morning show I couldn't pass it up.

I'm so happy that I stayed in Central Wisconsin I couldn't imagine raising my three daughters anywhere else.

Favorite band: STP

First concert: Bryan Adams 1992 at the Target Center in Minneapolis (I was 12)

Favorite color: Yellow

Favorite pasttime: Watching Walking Dead, American Horror Story and Covert Affairs

Vice: Wine