Zack de la Rocha was the real political nut in that group. It was his heavy hand with the politics that caused them to disband.
The others actually just wanted to make some music. 
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Oh, man, politics and artistry. No
from me.
Tried to collaborate with someone during the Viet Nam thing on a novel and got into that problem. He wanted to make it a mouthpiece story on social --meaning socialistic --issues. We had been good shootin' / foodin' / marriage problem discussin' buddies before politics reared its ugly head. We had never really discussed politics before, and it wrecked our collaboration.
In mid-project, he moved to a People's Republic State and we tried to continue doing the novel by mail. (Surface mail back then, 1960s.)
No good. He was the type who would mention Nixon, spelling his name with a swastika for the "x."
Put it this way: he had burned his draft card, and I still have mine.
I finished the novel myself, never tried to publish it. It ended up being kind of a mish-mosh and I didn't want to rewrite it.
Yeah, friggin' politics.
Terry
