Tim Commerford

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Template:Unreferenced Tim Commerford (born February 26, 1968 in Irvine, California), alias Timmy C., Tim Bob, Simmering T, Y.tim.K, and tim.COM, was the bassist for Rage Against the Machine and is currently bassist for Audioslave. He is the youngest of five children.

His father was an aerospace engineer, and worked on the Space Shuttle. His mother was a mathematician. Tim's father divorced and remarried, while his mother moved to Sacramento, California to live with his sister, until she died of brain cancer when Tim was 10 years old.

Zack de la Rocha and Tim became friends in elementary school when Tim showed Zack how to steal food from the school's cafeteria. One morning Zack handed a bass to Tim and this ultimately became his first bass.

Tim has numerous tattoos, including a design covering his back, arms, chest and left leg.

Tim is a fan of jazz, and is an obsessive mountain biker, even going so far as to thank all of his bikes in the liner notes for The Battle of Los Angeles.

Tim mostly uses Fender Jazz basses, and Ampeg amplification. He uses several effects pedals, including two Jim Dunlop Cry Baby Bass Wah Wahs stuck together, Boss Super Chorus, and Aphex Compressors. Recently Tim began to tune BEAD and replaced the stock necks with left handed models.

His most famous tone, in Rage Against The Machine, was from his two Ampeg SVT-II Pro heads running into two separate Ampeg 8×10 cabinets. Into the first amp was his clean signal, in the second was his "dirty" signal. On the RATM album Evil Empire he used an original Marshall Guv'nor distortion pedal as his main distortion box.

The MTV Video Music Awards 2000 incident

The award for Best Rock Video was being presented and Rage Against The Machine, among many others, were nominated for it. In the end, the award went to Limp Bizkit. As Fred Durst was making his speech, Tim climbed onto the scaffolding of the set and threatened to jump. Fred Durst responded by saying Limp Bizkit was "the most hated band in the world".de:Tim Commerford es:Tim Commerford fr:Tim Commerford it:Tim Commerford pl:Tim Commerford pt:Tim Commerford fi:Tim Commerford sv:Tim Commerford Image: [[1]]