10 INCREDIBLE Guitar Secrets In Rock Songs You Totally Missed

10. Tom Morello As DJ - Bulls On Parade

It was impossible for any hard rocker in the 90's to ignore the nu metal boom. Instead of the typical mix of heavy riffs and shouting vocals, metal had congealed with hip hop to create a visceral electronic landscape. Though many bands have utilized turntables to create their ethereal tones, Rage Against the Machine had their resident DJ in guitarist Tom Morello.

Across the band's records, Morello would document every single weird sound that he could emit from his guitar and end up incorporating it into his music and solos. While the man could certainly shred on songs like "Take the Power Back," some of his best work came when he used his effects and pedals to their fullest extent.

During the break of the song "Bulls On Parade," most of the DJ scratches are actually employed by Morello using a mix of the toggle switch and scraping the strings against his guitar neck to get that alien-like sound.

The effects that Morello created ended up sounding so off-the-wall that many pressings of the album would come equipped with notifications that every strange noise was being produced by drums, guitar, and bass. Rage's riffs may have hit like a sledgehammer, but it was with Tom Morello's weird sounds that the band got their real soul.