''Axis of Justice: Concert Series Volume 1'' is a live CD/DVD by various artists in support of the

Axis of Justice Axis of Justice is a non-profit organization co-founded by Serj Tankian and Tom Morello in 2002. It was founded "to bring together musicians, fans of music, and grassroots political organizations to fight for social justice together." They "aim ...

organization.

Track listing

Audio: (Excerpts from The Axis Of Justice radio network) *Interview with

Michael Moore Michael Francis Moore is an American film director, producer, screenwriter, and author. Moore's work frequently addresses various Social issue, social, political, and economic topics. He first became publicly known for his award-winning debut ...

*Interview with

Janeane Garofalo Janeane Garofalo ( ; born September 28, 1964) is an American comedian, actress, and former co-host on Air America Radio's '' The Majority Report''. The accolades she has received include nominations for two Primetime Emmy Awards and a Screen Act ...

*Rants and raves with Serj And Tom

Personnel

CD

1. Where the Streets Have No Name * Performed By: :

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Brad Wilk Bradley Joseph Wilk (born September 5, 1968) is an American musician. He is best known as the drummer of the rock bands Rage Against the Machine (1991–2000, 2007–2011, 2019–2024), Audioslave (2001–2007, 2017), and Prophets of Rage (201 ...

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Tom Morello Thomas Baptist Morello (born May 30, 1964) is an American guitarist, singer, songwriter, and political activist. He is known for his tenure with the rock bands Rage Against the Machine and Audioslave. Between 2016 and 2019, Morello was a membe ...

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Acoustic Guitar An acoustic guitar is a musical instrument in the string family. When a string is plucked, its vibration is transmitted from the bridge, resonating throughout the top of the guitar. It is also transmitted to the side and back of the instrument, ...

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Pete Yorn Peter Joseph Yorn (born July 27, 1974) is an American singer, songwriter, and musician. He first gained international recognition after his debut record, '' Musicforthemorningafter'', was released to critical and commercial acclaim in 2001. He is ...

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Guitar The guitar is a stringed musical instrument that is usually fretted (with Fretless guitar, some exceptions) and typically has six or Twelve-string guitar, twelve strings. It is usually held flat against the player's body and played by strumming ...

Vocals Singing is the art of creating music with the voice. It is the oldest form of musical expression, and the human voice can be considered the first musical instrument. The definition of singing varies across sources. Some sources define sing ...

) : Tim Walker (

Electric guitar An electric guitar is a guitar that requires external electric Guitar amplifier, sound amplification in order to be heard at typical performance volumes, unlike a standard acoustic guitar. It uses one or more pickup (music technology), pickups ...

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Serj Tankian Serj Tankian ( , ; born August 21, 1967) is an Armenian-American musician. He is best known as the lead vocalist of the alternative metal band System of a Down, which was formed in 1994. Tankian has released five albums with System of a Down ...

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Maynard James Keenan Maynard James Keenan (born James Herbert Keenan; April 17, 1964) is an American singer, songwriter, philanthropist, record producer, and winemaker. He is best known as the singer and primary lyricist of the rock bands Tool (band), Tool, A Perfe ...

(Vocals) : Jonny Polonksy ( Keyboards) 2. (What's So Funny 'Bout) Peace, Love and Understanding * Performed By: :

Chris Cornell Christopher John Cornell ( Boyle; July 20, 1964 – May 18, 2017) was an American musician, best known as the lead vocalist, rhythm guitarist, and the primary lyricist for the rock music, rock bands Soundgarden and Audioslave. He also had a ...

: Maynard James Keenan 3. Alice in My Fantasies * Performed By: : Flea (Bass) : Brad Wilk (Drums) : Tom Morello (Guitar) : Pete Yorn (Guitar) : Serj Tankian (Vocals) 4. Piano Improvisation * Performed By: : Serj Tankian 5. Charades * Performed By: : Serj Tankian (Vocals/

Piano A piano is a keyboard instrument that produces sound when its keys are depressed, activating an Action (music), action mechanism where hammers strike String (music), strings. Modern pianos have a row of 88 black and white keys, tuned to a c ...

) 6. Until the End * Performed By: :

The Nightwatchman The Nightwatchman is the solo project of American musician Tom Morello (Rage Against the Machine, Street Sweeper Social Club and former Audioslave). Morello began performing as the Nightwatchman in 2003 as an outlet for his political views whil ...

7. I Feel Good Again * Performed By: : Pete Yorn (Vocals/Guitar) : Simon Petty (Acoustic Guitar) : Tim Walker (

Lead Guitar Lead guitar (also known as solo guitar) is a musical part for a guitar in which the guitarist plays melody lines, instrumental fill passages, guitar solos, and occasionally, some riffs and chords within a song structure. The lead is the featur ...

Pedal Steel The pedal steel guitar is a console steel guitar with pedals and knee levers that change the pitch of certain strings, enabling more varied and complex music to be played than with other steel guitar designs. Like all steel guitars, it can play ...

) : Malcolm Cross (Drums/

Percussion A percussion instrument is a musical instrument that is sounded by being struck or scraped by a percussion mallet, beater including attached or enclosed beaters or Rattle (percussion beater), rattles struck, scraped or rubbed by hand or ...

/Piano) : Sid Jordan (Bass/Piano) : Joe Mora (Guitar) 8. Get Up, Stand Up * Performed By: : Serj Tankian (Vocals) : Tom Morello (Guitar/Vocals) :

Wayne Kramer Wayne Stanley Kramer (''né'' Kambes; April 30, 1948 – February 2, 2024) was an American guitarist, singer, songwriter, producer, and Film score, film and television composer. Kramer came to prominence in the 1960s as the lead guitarist of t ...

(Guitar/Vocal) : Flea (Bass) :

John Dolmayan John Dolmayan () (born July 15, 1972) is an Armenian-American musician, best known as the drummer of System of a Down. He is also the former drummer for Scars on Broadway. Dolmayan was ranked number 33 on ''Loudwire''s list of ''Top 200 Hard R ...

(Drums) 9. Union Song * Performed By: : The Nightwatchman 10. (Free Jam) * Performed By: : Flea (Bass) : Brad Wilk (Drums) : Serj Tankian (Piano) 11. What's Golden * Performed By: :

Jurassic 5 Jurassic 5 (stylized JuraSsic 5) is an American alternative hip hop group formed by rappers Charles Stewart (Chali 2na), Dante Givens (Akil), Courtenay Henderson (Soup (Jurassic 5), Soup, Zaakir), and Marc Stuart (Marc 7); and disc jockeys Mar ...

12. Freedom * Performed By: : Jurassic 5 13. Speak on It * Performed By: : Knowledge : Serj Tankian 14. Chimes of Freedom * Performed By: : Tom Morello (Guitar/Vocals) : Serj Tankian (Piano/Vocals) : Pete Yorn (Guitar/Vocals) : Flea (Bass) : Brad Wilk (Drums) 15. Jeffrey Are You Listening? * Performed By: : Serj Tankian (Words/Melodica) : Tom Morello (Guitars) : Brad Wilk (Drums) : Brian O'Conner (Bass) * Tracks 1, 3-7, 9-14 Recorded live at Axis Of Justice Concert Series at The Avalon, Hollywood, CA, by Howard Karp and assisted by Ronny Mikkelsen on 7/19/04 * Track 2 Recorded live @ Lollapalooza, Seattle, WA, on 8/23/03 * Track 8 Recorded live @ The Axis Of Justice Concert Series at The Troubadour, Hollywood, CA on 3/31/04 by Bobby Crown * Track 15 Recorded at Serjical Strike Studios, 2004 * Produced By

* All Audio Mixed by David Bianco * Street Audio Mixed at Scream Studios, Studio City, CA except Tracks 2, 15 (Mixed at Mad Dog Studios, Burbank, CA) * Assistant

Engineer Engineers, as practitioners of engineering, are professionals who Invention, invent, design, build, maintain and test machines, complex systems, structures, gadgets and materials. They aim to fulfill functional objectives and requirements while ...

at Scream Studios: Alex "Odd Jobs" Uychocde * 5.1 Audio Mixed at Mad Dog Studios, Burbank, CA * Assistant Engineer at Mad Dog Studios: Rafael Serrano *

Mastered Mastering is a form of audio post production which is the process of preparing and transferring recorded audio from a source containing the final mix to a data storage device called a master recording, the source from which all copies will be ...

at Oasis Mastering, Studio City, CA * Mastered by Eddy Schreyer * Art Direction and Design by Brandy Flower * Photograph by Jim Wright, Kevin Estrada, Hampig Koulayan, George Tonikian,

Darren Doane Darren Doane (born September 20, 1972) is an American filmmaker, actor, and music video director.Ahmed Ahmed Ahmed Ahmed (), () is an Egyptian-American actor and comedian. Early life Ahmed Ahmed was born in Helwan, Egypt. His family moved to the United States when he was one month old. He was raised in Riverside, California. Career Ahmed Ahmed moved ...

(Spoken Word, Comedian) 2. President Evil * Performed By: : Knowledge (Spoken Word) 3. Speak on It * Performed By: : Knowledge (Spoken Word) : Serj Tankian (Piano) 4. Until the End * Performed By: : The Nightwatchman 5. The Road I Must Travel * Performed By: : The Nightwatchman (Acoustic Guitar/Vocals) : Serj Tankian (Piano) : Pete Yorn (Acoustic Guitar) : Brad Wilk (Drums) : Jonny Polonsky (Bass) 6. Piano Improvisation * Performed By: : Serj Tankian 7. Charades * Performed By: : Serj Tankian (Vocals/Piano) 8. (Free Jam) * Performed By: : Flea (Bass) : Brad Wilk (Drums) : Serj Tankian (Piano) 9. Chimes of Freedom * Performed By: : Tom Morello (Guitar/Vocals) : Serj Tankian (Piano/Vocals) : Pete Yorn (Guitar/Vocals) : Flea (Bass) : Brad Wilk (Drums) 10. Alice in My Fantasies * Performed By: : Flea (Bass) : Brad Wilk (Drums) : Tom Morello (Guitar) : Pete Yorn (Guitar) : Serj Tankian (Vocals) 11. Where the Streets Have No Name * Performed By: : Flea (Bass) : Brad Wilk (Drums) : Tom Morello (Acoustic Guitar) : Pete Yorn (Guitar/Vocals) : Tim Walker (Electric guitar) : Serj Tankian (Vocals) : Maynard James Keenan (Vocals) : Jonny Polonsky (Keyboards) 12. Bomb Day in Paris * Performed By: : Wayne Kramer (Spoken Word and Guitar) : Flea (Bass) : John Dolmayan (Drums) 13. 5 Million Ways to Kill a CEO * Performed By: :

Boots Riley Raymond Lawrence "Boots" Riley (born April 1, 1971) is an American film director, producer, screenwriter, rapper, and communist activist. He is the lead vocalist of The Coup and Street Sweeper Social Club. He made his feature-film directorial ...

(Vocals) : Tom Morello (Acoustic Guitar) 14. Improvizational Noise * Performed By: : Serj Tankian 15. Get Up, Stand Up * Performed By: : Serj Tankian (Vocals) : Tom Morello (Guitar/Vocals) : Wayne Kramer (Guitar/Vocal) : Flea (Bass) : John Dolmayan (Drums) * Recorded live at Axis Of Justice Concert Series at The Avalon, Hollywood, CA, on 7/19/04 * Bonus Footage Recorded Live at The Axis Of Justice Concert Series at the Troubadour, Hollywood on 3/31/04 * An XDOANEX Production * Directed by J. Graf * Produced by Darren Doane *

Executive Producer Executive producer (EP) is one of the top positions in the production of media. Depending on the medium, the executive producer may be concerned with management accounting or associated with legal issues (like copyrights or royalties). In film ...

s: Serj Tankian and Tom Morello * DVD Design Billy Maddox II

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Axis Of Justice: Concert Series Volume 1 Charity albums 2004 live albums 2004 video albums 2000s live video albums Albums produced by Serj Tankian Serjical Strike Records live albums