Tom Morello is well aware of the ongoing controversy around Ticketmaster and their use of dynamic pricing. In fact, Rage Against The Machine utilized dynamic pricing for their recent tour, but they managed to do some good in the process.
In a new interview with Rolling Stone, Morello touched on the ticket prices for Rage’s recent tour. (The tour was unfortunately cut short due to Zack de la Rocha sustaining a severe tear in his left Achilles tendon.) Morello called dynamic pricing an “awful idea.” He added, “Just to reiterate, every ticket for the show was $125 with the exception of about five to ten percent of tickets, which we did the dynamic ticket prices with, and gave away every cent.”
In other words: Rage used dynamic pricing to fundraise for local community groups. A breakdown of money raised and which groups benefitted can be viewed below.
“There was a total of about six or seven million raised on that tour in what was basically a Robin Hood tactic,” said Morello. “I wanted to say those things out loud since there was a lot of misinformation in the world about those two things.”
As for the future of Rage, Morello was peppered with questions to try and get some sort of answer. However, the guitarist didn’t budge. For now, the band is in a sort of limbo situation. In summation, he said, ” … When Rage Against the Machine is going to tour or break up or hold a seance on the ‘Joe Rogan Show,’ you’ll hear it from Rage Against the Machine. Until such a time, there is not news.”