1996-09-05
Evil Empire - 1996 September/October North America Tour
Previous Show:
1996-09-04 - State Events Center San Jose, CA USA
Next Show:
1996-09-07 - Plaza of the Nations Vancouver, BC Canada

Setlist

    Good evening we're Rage Against the Machine from Los Angeles California
  • 1. Bulls On Parade
  • 2. Know Your Enemy
  • 3. Vietnow
  • This next one goes out to the brothers and sisters from the United Farm Workers. This song is called Without A Face.
  • 4. Without A Face
  • 5. Tire Me
  • 6. Fistful Of Steel
  • By the way, it's Brad Wilk's birthday today. [??] 34th birthday [??]
  • 7. Snakecharmer
  • 8. Bombtrack
  • 9. Down Rodeo
  • 10. Bullet In The Head
  • Encore Break
  • 11. People Of The Sun
  • This is a song we wrote in support of the Zapatista Movement. [??] democracy against a sixty five year old dictatorship [??] of the Mexican government. The US right now is sponsoring another little Vietnam and trying to oppress the Zapatistas in Mexico. This war is destroying their livelihood, destroying their way of life and their culture, and until we [??] until each one of us stand up and oppose the use of our tax dollars to fund the death of the Mexican people it's going to continue. This song is called The Wind Below.
  • 12. Wind Below
  • 13. Killing In The Name
  • Encore Break
  • 14. Roll Right
    Jam Version
  • 15. Freedom
  • 16. Township Rebellion
    Outro only

Show Notes

  • Setlist comes by way of a MTV News Report that calls out Bulls as the opener, Vietnow as the third song, Tire Me, and Freedom as well as a recording by bootlegconfession.com.
  • There were two encores: the first opened up People of the Sun, and the second Roll Right.
  • This is the last known performance of Wind Below and given their touring schedule I doubt that it was played again after this.
  • Zack tells the crowd it's Brad Wilk's 34th birthday after Fistful of Steel, and speaks about the Zapatista movement in Mexico before Wind Below.
  • Apparently Without a Face was dedicated to the United Farm Workers, although it's not on the recording.
  • This show was annouced the day before or a few days before so we're incredibly lucky to have a recording from it!

Recordings

Source 1

Audience FLAC
Recording Details
  • Length: 80 minutes
  • Complete: Yes
  • Taper(s): bootlegconfessions.com
  • Microphone: Unknown
  • Lineage: Unknown Mics + Recorder > CD-R > AIFF > XAct > FLAC
  • Added: 2025-02-14
Downloads
Notes

Huge huge HUGE thanks to Nicholas over at Bootleg Confessions for sending this over to me! Please visit his site and read his amazing article on this show: bootlegconfessions.com. Nicholas has been chronicling shows in the Bay Area on his site the last few years and it has been amazing to read through them this past year, especially as a Bay Area resident - highly recommend reading through the blog! I cannnot thank him enough for sending this my way.

Source 2

Audience FLAC
Recording Details
  • Length: Unknown
  • Complete: Yes
  • Taper(s): FUZZMONSTER
  • Microphone: Unknown
  • Lineage: Unknown Mics + Recorder > likely SSDSM6 + TCD-D7 > DAT M
  • Added: 2025-02-14
Notes

Confirmed to have been recorded by Fuzzmonster. Hopefully one day it gets shared!

Stats

Location Stats
  • Venue:
    This is one of 6 times Rage Against The Machine played at The Fillmore
  • City:
    This is one of 10 times Rage Against The Machine played in San Francisco
  • State/Province:
    This is one of 115 times Rage Against The Machine played in CA
  • Country:
    This is one of 339 times Rage Against The Machine played in USA
Song/Album Stats
Evil Empire (9 songs)
56.2%