Whatever It Takes

<p><strong>&ldquo;I&rsquo;m both blessed and cursed to be a guitar player. I didn&rsquo;t choose it, it chose me. The challenge was to find a way to weave my convictions into my music in a meaningful way.&rdquo; - Tom Morello</strong></p><p>&nbsp;As the cofounder and guitarist of Rage Against the Machine, Audioslave, and Prophets of Rage, and as a solo artist and collaborator with artists as diverse as Bruce Springsteen and Wu-Tang Clan, few musicians have been as groundbreaking as Tom Morello. Now, for the first time, Morello&rsquo;s remarkable life as a guitarist, songwriter, singer, and political activist is captured in <em>Whatever It Takes</em>.</p><p>Telling the story, from his first guitar to the present day, Morello&rsquo;s commentary is accompanied by a wealth of photographs, handwritten notes, and set lists, many of which are previously unpublished and come from the author&rsquo;s personal archives. Stunning images of Morello&rsquo;s heavily customized guitars complete this jam-packed photographic memoir, and the result, like his incendiary guitar playing, is fascinating, honest, and completely unique.</p><p>Introduced by the Oscar-winning filmmaker Michael Moore, Jann Wenner, the cofounder of Rolling Stone, Morello&rsquo;s Prophets of Rage collaborator Chuck D, and Nora Guthrie, daughter of the legendary Woody Guthrie, <em>Whatever It Takes</em> is the defining document of one of the greatest rock guitar players of our times.&nbsp;</p><p><strong>&ldquo;He&rsquo;s not only a brilliant musician, but he has a deep heart and a social conscience, just like Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, Bono, or Jackson Browne. Tom is right up there with that gang. I think this excellent book helps prove why.&rdquo; - <em>Jann Wenner</em></strong></p><p><strong>&ldquo;Tom Morello is a Visionary Activist, meaning what he sees in his mind goes full throttle into him making IT happen.&rdquo; - <em>Chuck D</em></strong></p><p><strong>&ldquo;Fascists, white supremacists, centrists beware: Tom Morello is armed and dangerous, and his weapon is his music.&rdquo; - <em>Michael Moore</em></strong></p>