Tim Commerford says he doesn’t know what the future holds for Rage Against the Machine because he is “the low man on the totem pole.”
Last month drummer Brad Wilk announced that the band wouldn’t play live again, and Commerford tells Rolling Stone, “I don’t get involved in that. I’m the bass player. I just wait for someone to tell me what to do. Brad said what he said, but he’s one step above me. He’s in the number-three spot. I am the low man on the totem pole. That’s all I can tell you. I’m the bass player. The bass players always are the last people to find out about [crap] like that.”
However, if the Top 3 people in Rage call on Commerford to play again, he’d do it in a minute. “When the Rage light gets shined up in the clouds, like the Bat-Signal that Batman would see and would know that he had to go do some [crap]…that’s how I live it. And that feels the best for me. This is the first time in my life that I’ve been able to really remove myself from it and be like, ‘Yeah, I live off the grid.’ And that in itself is enough.”