Editing Rage Against the Machine (section)

=== 2000–2001: ''Renegades'' and breakup ===
On January 26, 2000, during filming of the video for "[[Sleep Now in the Fire]]", directed by [[Michael Moore]], an altercation caused the doors of the [[New York Stock Exchange]] to be closed and the band to be escorted from the site by security<ref name="greenleft">{{cite web|date=March 15, 2000 |title=Rage against Wall Street |work=[[Green Left Weekly]] #397 |url=http://www.greenleft.org.au/2000/397/24186 |access-date=October 11, 2007 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071012080309/http://www.greenleft.org.au/2000/397/24186 |archive-date=October 12, 2007 }}</ref> after band members attempted to gain entry into the exchange.<ref>{{cite web | last=Basham | first=David | date=January 28, 2000 | title=Rage Against the Machine Shoots New Video With Michael Moore | work=[[MTV News]] | url=http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1433553/20000128/rage_against_the_machine.jhtml | access-date=February 17, 2007 | url-status=dead | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070313230512/http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1433553/20000128/rage_against_the_machine.jhtml | archive-date=March 13, 2007 | df=mdy-all }}</ref> The video shoot had attracted several hundred people, according to a representative for the city's Deputy Commissioner for Public Information.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.mtv.com/news/1433553/rage-against-the-machine-shoots-new-video-with-michael-moore/ |title=Rage Against The Machine Shoots New Video With Michael Moore |work=[[MTV News]] |date=January 28, 2000 |access-date=September 28, 2015 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151009193258/http://www.mtv.com/news/1433553/rage-against-the-machine-shoots-new-video-with-michael-moore/ |archive-date=October 9, 2015}}</ref> New York City's film office does not allow weekday film shoots on Wall Street. Moore had permission to use the steps of [[Federal Hall National Memorial]] but did not have a permit to shoot on the sidewalk or the street, nor did he have a loud-noise permit or the proper parking permits.<ref>{{cite news |last=Shone |first=Mark |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Lupf_ZdXF98C&pg=PA56 |title=Bullsh*t on Parade: Rage Against The Machine and Michael Moore Battle New York Cops |work=SPIN |date=May 1, 2000 |access-date=September 28, 2015 |archive-date=April 27, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230427024036/https://books.google.com/books?id=Lupf_ZdXF98C&pg=PA56 |url-status=live }}</ref> "Michael basically gave us one directorial instruction, 'No matter what happens, don't stop playing'", [[Tom Morello]] recalls. When the band left the steps, police officers apprehended Moore and led him away. Moore yelled to the band, "Take the New York Stock Exchange!"<ref>{{cite book |last1=Lynskey |first1=Dorian |title=33 Revolutions Per Minute |title-link=33 Revolutions per Minute (book) |publisher=Faber & Faber |date=2011 }}</ref> In an interview with the ''[[Socialist Worker]]'', Morello said he and scores of others ran into the Stock Exchange. "About two hundred of us got through the first set of doors, but our charge was stopped when the Stock Exchange's titanium riot doors came crashing down."<ref name="Devenish 2001 p. 105">{{cite book | last=Devenish | first=C. | title=Rage Against The Machine | publisher=St. Martin's Press | year=2001 | isbn=978-1-4299-2514-3 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PNuuHkTrrGoC&pg=PT105 | access-date=January 18, 2019 | page=105 | archive-date=April 27, 2023 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230427024033/https://books.google.com/books?id=PNuuHkTrrGoC&pg=PT105 | url-status=live }}</ref> Moore said: "For a few minutes, Rage Against the Machine was able to shut down American capitalism, an act that I am sure tens of thousands of downsized citizens would cheer."<ref name="greenleft" />

On September 7, 2000, the band performed "[[Testify (Rage Against the Machine song)|Testify]]" at the [[2000 MTV Video Music Awards]].<ref name="billboard1">{{cite magazine |url=https://www.billboard.com/articles/list/513488/mtv-vmas-top-10-crazy-moments-of-all-time |title=MTV Loves MTV: A Bad Romance |last1=Mapes |first1=Jillian |last2=Letkemann |first2=Jessica |date=September 9, 2010 |magazine=Billboard |access-date=September 20, 2010 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130213055039/http://www.billboard.com/articles/list/513488/mtv-vmas-top-10-crazy-moments-of-all-time |archive-date=February 13, 2013}}</ref><ref name="limp">{{cite web|url=http://newsroom.mtv.com/2010/09/03/rage-against-the-machine-2000-vmas/|title=The 2010 VMA Countdown: Rage Against The Machine Bassist Gets A Better Look At The Action|author=MTV news|date=September 3, 2010|work=MTV.com|publisher=[[MTV Networks]]|access-date=September 20, 2010|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100911220337/http://newsroom.mtv.com/2010/09/03/rage-against-the-machine-2000-vmas|archive-date=September 11, 2010}}</ref> After the Best Rock Video award was given to [[Limp Bizkit]], Commerford climbed onto the scaffolding of the set.<ref name="billboard1" /><ref name="limp" /> He and his bodyguard were sentenced to a night in jail and De&nbsp;la&nbsp;Rocha reportedly left the awards after the stunt.<ref name="billboard1" /><ref name="limp" /> Morello recalled that Commerford relayed his plan to the rest of the band before the show, and that both De&nbsp;la&nbsp;Rocha and Morello advised him against it immediately after Bizkit was presented the award.<ref name="billboard1" /><ref name="limp" />

On October 18, 2000, De&nbsp;la&nbsp;Rocha announced that he had left the band.<ref name="zackquit" /> He said, "I feel that it is now necessary to leave Rage because our decision-making process has completely failed. It is no longer meeting the aspirations of all four of us collectively as a band, and from my perspective, has undermined our artistic and political ideal."<ref name="zackquit" /> Morello said, "There was so much squabbling over everything, "and I mean ''everything''. We would even have fist fights over whether our T-shirts should be mauve or camouflaged! It was ridiculous. We were patently political, internally combustible. It was ugly for a long time."<ref name="ReferenceA">''[[Q (magazine)|Q]]'', May 2003, p60</ref> De&nbsp;la&nbsp;Rocha's departure was voted the "shittiest thing" of 2000 in the ''[[Kerrang!]]'' readers' poll of that year.<ref>{{Cite journal |date=January 13, 2001 |editor-last=Rees |editor-first=Paul |title=Readers' Poll 2000 |journal=[[Kerrang!]] |publisher=[[EMAP]] |issue=835 |pages=29–36}}</ref>

The band's next album, ''[[Renegades (Rage Against the Machine album)|Renegades]]'', was a collection of [[cover version|covers]] of artists as diverse as [[Devo]], [[EPMD]], [[Minor Threat]], [[Cypress Hill]], [[the MC5]], [[Afrika Bambaataa]], [[the Rolling Stones]], [[Eric B. & Rakim]], [[Bruce Springsteen]], [[the Stooges]], and [[Bob Dylan]].<ref name="allmusic"/><ref>{{Cite journal|title=Rock & Roll: The Last Days of Rage? - With No Lead Singer, Rage Consider Their Next Move|id = {{ProQuest|1193001}}}}</ref> It achieved platinum status a month later.<ref name="autogenerated1"/> The following year saw the release of another live video, ''[[The Battle of Mexico City]]'', while 2003 brought the live album ''[[Live at the Grand Olympic Auditorium]]'', an edited recording of the band's final concerts on September 12 and 13, 2000, at the [[Grand Olympic Auditorium]] in Los Angeles.<ref name="Bush"/> It was accompanied by an expanded DVD release of the last show, which included a previously unreleased video for "[[Bombtrack (song)|Bombtrack]]".<ref>{{cite magazine |last=Doyle |first=Patrick |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/videos/rage-against-the-machine-blast-through-bombtrack-in-1992-premiere-20121121 |title=Rage Against the Machine Blast Through 'Bombtrack' in 1992 - Premiere |magazine=Rolling Stone |date=November 21, 2012 |access-date=February 19, 2015 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141227015605/http://www.rollingstone.com/music/videos/rage-against-the-machine-blast-through-bombtrack-in-1992-premiere-20121121 |archive-date=December 27, 2014}}</ref>
[[File:Audioslave 2005.jpg|thumb|upright=1.5|Wilk, Commerford, and Morello performing with [[Chris Cornell]] as [[Audioslave]] at the [[Montreux Jazz Festival]] in 2005]] In the wake of the [[September 11 attacks]], the controversial [[2001 Clear Channel memorandum]] contained a long list of what the memo termed "lyrically questionable" songs for the radio, uniquely listing ''all'' of Rage Against the Machine's songs.<ref>{{cite web | last = Bertin | first = Michael | title = Imagine: The music business in a post-911 world | work = [[The Austin Chronicle]] | date = November 30, 2001 | url = http://www.austinchronicle.com/music/2001-11-30/83800/ | access-date = April 17, 2011 | url-status = live | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20120622031730/http://www.austinchronicle.com/music/2001-11-30/83800/ | archive-date = June 22, 2012 | df = mdy-all}}</ref>