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Matt Mills

The Secret Service locked Rage Against The Machine in their dressing room after bassist tried to “attack” a billionaire on SNL

Rage Against The Machine.

Rage Against The Machine were locked in a room by the US Secret Service after bassist Tim Commerford tried to “attack” billionaire Steve Forbes backstage at Saturday Night Live.

Guitarist Tom Morello discusses the altercation in new documentary Ladies & Gentlemen… 50 Years Of SNL Music. It happened the night the California rap metal band played Bulls On Parade on the weekly TV programme in April 1996. Forbes, the editor-in-chief of Forbes magazine who ran for US president in 1996 and 2000, hosted the show that night.

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