In 2013, Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band were heading out on tour a man down – long-standing guitarist and Sopranos star Steve Van Zandt was committed to filming his Lilyhammer show and couldn’t make it. In his place, Springsteen invited Rage Against The Machine’s Tom Morello to join the band and the move led to something special. When the tour hit its Australian leg in early 2014, fans Down Under were treated to one of the most iconic live team-ups ever.
It was all Morello’s idea, the guitarist explained to Louder’s Niall Doherty. “We were playing in Perth, the home of Bon Scott, and I visited his grave to pay my respects late one night,” said Morello. “I was there and I couldn't find his grave. It's a big cemetery and Bon Scott's grave does not have a spotlight on it. And out of the darkness comes this motorbike and there is me and a guy in a motorbike in the middle of a cemetery. And the fella’s got like a German World War Two helmet on and a T-shirt that says “I don't give a shit but if I did, you're the one I'd give it to”. I was like, "that guy is probably gonna know where Bon Scott's grave is". Sure enough, he did, and I paid my respects.”
