Rage Against the Machine and Audioslave bassist Tim Commerford is certainly ready to make some statements with his new music project, Future User.
After subjecting tennis great John McEnroe to waterboarding in the group’s first video, he’s now recruited another sports legend for a video all about “misplaced outrage over performance-enhancing drugs”: Lance Armstrong.
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In the clip, a skateboarder thrashes around Los Angeles taking what are presumably steroids. At the end, Armstrong makes a cameo with some severe trash-talking to Commerford.
Watch it here:
Commerford told Rolling Stone that Armstrong’s audio was taken from a real-life incident.
“Lance is a friend, an awesome person and, as far as I’m concerned, a punk rocker,” he said. “We’re ‘cycling buddies’ and kind of go after each other in a trash-talking.”
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He continued, “We’ll jokingly leave each other voice messages like, ‘Dude, I’m gonna crush you the next time I see you. I’m gonna take you down.’ I thought it’d be cool to put one of his voice messages in the song…. When it came time to make the video, I asked him to recreate the voicemail and he was totally cool with it.”
The video’s intent, said Commerford, was to address what he sees as misplaced outrage over performance-enhancing drugs.
“The amount of attention given to PEDs is incredible, especially when you consider the amount of drugs — recreational, illegal and pharmaceutical — that America supports and profits from.”