Axis of Justice: Concert Series Volume 1 is a live CD/DVD by various artists in support of the Axis of Justice

Axis of Justice

Axis of Justice is a non-profit organization co-founded by Serj Tankian and Tom Morello. Its purpose is to bring together musicians, fans of music, and grassroots progressivism to fight for social justice together.-Formation:...

 organization.

Track listing

Audio: (Excerpts from The Axis Of Justice radio network)

• Interview with Michael Moore
  Michael Moore
  Michael Francis Moore is an American filmmaker, author, social critic and activist. He is the director and producer of Fahrenheit 9/11, which is the highest-grossing documentary of all time. His films Bowling for Columbine and Sicko also place in the top ten highest-grossing documentaries...
  
  
• Interview with Janeane Garofalo
  Janeane Garofalo
  Janeane Garofalo is an American stand-up comedian, actress, political activist and writer. She is the former co-host on the now defunct Air America Radio's The Majority Report. Garofalo continues to circulate regularly within New York City's local comedy and performance art scene.-Early...
  
  
• Rants and raves with Serj And Tom

CD

1. Where the Streets Have No Name

• Performed By:

Flea

Flea (musician)

Michael Peter Balzary , better known by his stage name Flea, is an Australian-American musician and occasional actor. He is best known as the bassist, co-founding member, and one of the composers of the rock band Red Hot Chili Peppers...

 (Bass

Bass guitar

The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....

)

Brad Wilk

Brad Wilk

Brad Wilk is an American musician, best known as the drummer of the American rock bands Rage Against the Machine and Audioslave.-Family and early life:...

 (Drums

Drum kit

A drum kit is a collection of drums, cymbals and often other percussion instruments, such as cowbells, wood blocks, triangles, chimes, or tambourines, arranged for convenient playing by a single person ....

)

Tom Morello

Tom Morello

Thomas Baptiste "Tom" Morello is a Grammy Award-winning American guitarist best known for his tenure with the bands Rage Against the Machine, Audioslave, his acoustic solo act The Nightwatchman, and his newest group, Street Sweeper Social Club...

 (Acoustic Guitar

Acoustic guitar

An acoustic guitar is a guitar that uses only an acoustic sound board. The air in this cavity resonates with the vibrational modes of the string and at low frequencies, which depend on the size of the box, the chamber acts like a Helmholtz resonator, increasing or decreasing the volume of the sound...

)

Pete Yorn

Pete Yorn

Peter Joseph Yorn is an American singer-songwriter and guitarist who first gained international recognition after his debut record, Musicforthemorningafter, was released to critical acclaim in 2001.-Early history:Yorn's father is a dentist and his mother is a former concert pianist who worked as a...

 (Guitar

Guitar

The guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...

/Vocals

Singing

Singing is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice, and augments regular speech by the use of both tonality and rhythm. One who sings is called a singer or vocalist. Singers perform music known as songs that can be sung either with or without accompaniment by musical instruments...

)

Tim Walker (Electric Guitar

Electric guitar

An electric guitar is a guitar that uses the principle of direct electromagnetic induction to convert vibrations of its metal strings into electric audio signals. The signal generated by an electric guitar is too weak to drive a loudspeaker, so it is amplified before sending it to a loudspeaker...

)

Serj Tankian

Serj Tankian

Serj Tankian is a Lebanese-born Armenian-American singer–songwriter, composer, multi-instrumentalist, playwright, record producer, poet, and political activist...

 (Vocals)

Maynard James Keenan

Maynard James Keenan

Maynard James Keenan is an American rock singer, songwriter, musician, record producer, winemaker, and actor. Originally from Ohio, Keenan spent his high school and college years in Michigan. After serving in the Army in the early 1980s, he attended Kendall College of Art and Design in Grand Rapids...

 (Vocals)

Jonny Polonksy (Keyboards

Musical keyboard

A musical keyboard is the set of adjacent depressible levers or keys on a musical instrument, particularly the piano. Keyboards typically contain keys for playing the twelve notes of the Western musical scale, with a combination of larger, longer keys and smaller, shorter keys that repeats at the...

)

2. (What's So Funny 'Bout) Peace, Love and Understanding

• Performed By:

Chris Cornell

Chris Cornell

Chris Cornell is an American rock musician best known as the lead vocalist and rhythm guitarist for Soundgarden and as the former lead vocalist for Audioslave. He is also known for his numerous solo works and soundtrack contributions since 1998...

Maynard James Keenan

3. Alice in My Fantasies

• Performed By:

Flea (Bass)

Brad Wilk (Drums)

Tom Morello (Guitar)

Pete Yorn (Guitar)

Serj Tankian (Vocals)

4. Piano Improvisation

• Performed By:

Serj Tankian

5. Charades

• Performed By:

Serj Tankian (Vocals/Piano

Piano

The piano is a musical instrument played by means of a keyboard. It is one of the most popular instruments in the world. Widely used in classical and jazz music for solo performances, ensemble use, chamber music and accompaniment, the piano is also very popular as an aid to composing and rehearsal...

)

6. Until the End

• Performed By:

The Nightwatchman

The Nightwatchman

The Nightwatchman is the alter-ego and solo act of Rage Against the Machine, Street Sweeper Social Club and former Audioslave guitarist Tom Morello...

7. I Feel Good Again

• Performed By:

Pete Yorn (Vocals/Guitar)

Simon Petty (Acoustic Guitar)

Tim Walker (Lead Guitar

Lead guitar

Lead guitar is a guitar part which plays melody lines, instrumental fill passages, guitar solos, and occasionally, some riffs within a song structure...

/Pedal Steel

Pedal steel guitar

The pedal steel guitar is a type of electric guitar that uses a metal bar to "fret" or shorten the length of the strings, rather than fingers on strings as with a conventional guitar. Unlike other types of steel guitar, it also uses pedals and knee levers to affect the pitch, hence the name "pedal"...

)

Malcolm Cross (Drums/Percussion

Percussion instrument

A percussion instrument is any object which produces a sound when hit with an implement or when it is shaken, rubbed, scraped, or otherwise acted upon in a way that sets the object into vibration...

/Piano)

Sid Jordan (Bass/Piano)

Joe Mora (Guitar)

8. Get Up, Stand Up

• Performed By:

Serj Tankian (Vocals)

Tom Morello (Guitar/Vocals)

Wayne Kramer

Wayne Kramer (guitarist)

Wayne Kramer is an American guitarist, singer, songwriter, producer and film and television scorer....

 (Guitar/Vocal)

Flea (Bass)

John Dolmayan

John Dolmayan

John William Dolmayan is a Lebanese-born Armenian-American songwriter and drummer. He is best known as the drummer of System of a Down. Dolmayan is also the drummer for the band Scars on Broadway and Indicator....

 (Drums)

9. Union Song

• Performed By:

The Nightwatchman

10. (Free Jam)

• Performed By:

Flea (Bass)

Brad Wilk (Drums)

Serj Tankian (Piano)

11. What's Golden

• Performed By:

Jurassic 5

Jurassic 5

Jurassic 5 was an American alternative hip hop group formed in 1993 from members of two previous groups, Rebels of Rhythm and Unity Committee by rappers Charles Stewart , Dante Givens , Courtenay Henderson , Marc Stuart , and disc jockeys Mark Potsic and Lucas Macfadden...

12. Freedom

• Performed By:

Jurassic 5

13. Speak on It

• Performed By:

Knowledge

Serj Tankian

14. Chimes of Freedom

• Performed By:

Tom Morello (Guitar/Vocals)

Serj Tankian (Piano/Vocals)

Pete Yorn (Guitar/Vocals)

Flea (Bass)

Brad Wilk (Drums)

15. Jeffrey Are You Listening?

• Performed By:

Serj Tankian (Words/Melodica)

Tom Morello (Guitars)

Brad Wilk (Drums)

Brian O'Conner (Bass)

• Tracks 1, 3-7, 9-14 Recorded live at Axis Of Justice Concert Series at The Avalon, Hollywood, CA, by Howard Karp and assisted by Ronny Mikkelsen on 7/19/04
• Track 2 Recorded live @ Lollapalooza, Seattle, WA, on 8/23/03
• Track 8 Recorded live @ The Axis Of Justice Concert Series at The Troubadour, Hollywood, CA on 3/31/04 by Bobby Crown
• Track 15 Recorded at Serjical Strike
  Serjical Strike Records
  Serjical Strike Records is an American record label, owned by Universal Music Group, and operates under Universal Republic Records.-Background:...
  
   Studios, 2004

• Produced
  Record producer
  A record producer is an individual working within the music industry, whose job is to oversee and manage the recording of an artist's music...
  
   By Serj Tankian
  Serj Tankian
  Serj Tankian is a Lebanese-born Armenian-American singer–songwriter, composer, multi-instrumentalist, playwright, record producer, poet, and political activist...
  
  
• All Audio Mixed
  Audio mixing (recorded music)
  In audio recording, audio mixing is the process by which multiple recorded sounds are combined into one or more channels, most commonly two-channel stereo. In the process, the source signals' level, frequency content, dynamics, and panoramic position are manipulated and effects such as reverb may...
  
   by David Bianco
• Street Audio Mixed at Scream Studios, Studio City, CA except Tracks 2, 15 (Mixed at Mad Dog Studios, Burbank, CA)
• Assistant Engineer
  Audio engineering
  An audio engineer, also called audio technician, audio technologist or sound technician, is a specialist in a skilled trade that deals with the use of machinery and equipment for the recording, mixing and reproduction of sounds. The field draws on many artistic and vocational areas, including...
  
   at Scream Studios: Alex "Odd Jobs" Uychocde
• 5.1 Audio Mixed at Mad Dog Studios, Burbank, CA
• Assistant Engineer at Mad Dog Studios: Rafael Serrano
• Mastered
  Audio mastering
  Mastering, a form of audio post-production, is the process of preparing and transferring recorded audio from a source containing the final mix to a data storage device ; the source from which all copies will be produced...
  
   at Oasis Mastering, Studio City, CA
• Mastered by Eddy Schreyer

• Art Direction and Design by Brandy Flower
• Photograph by Jim Wright, Kevin Estrada, Hampig Koulayan, George Tonikian, Darren Doane
  Darren Doane
  Darren Doane is a Christian filmmaker and music video director. In 2007, Darren formed a new commercial, music video and branded content production company called LEVEL4 with Executive Producer Josh Karchmer...
  
  

DVD

1. Airplane Skit

• Performed By:

Ahmed Ahmed

Ahmed Ahmed

-Early life:Ahmed Ahmed was born in Helwan, Egypt. His family came to the United States when he was one month old and he grew up in Riverside, California.-Career:...

 (Spoken Word, Comedian)

2. President Evil

• Performed By:

Knowledge (Spoken Word)

3. Speak on It

• Performed By:

Knowledge (Spoken Word)

Serj Tankian (Piano)

4. Until the End

• Performed By:

The Nightwatchman

5. The Road I Must Travel

• Performed By:

The Nightwatchman (Acoustic Guitar/Vocals)

Serj Tankian (Piano)

Pete Yorn (Acoustic Guitar)

Brad Wilk (Drums)

Jonny Polonsky (Bass)

6. Piano Improvisation

• Performed By:

Serj Tankian

7. Charades

• Performed By:

Serj Tankian (Vocals/Piano)

8. (Free Jam)

• Performed By:

Flea (Bass)

Brad Wilk (Drums)

Serj Tankian (Piano)

9. Chimes of Freedom

• Performed By:

Tom Morello (Guitar/Vocals)

Serj Tankian (Piano/Vocals)

Pete Yorn (Guitar/Vocals)

Flea (Bass)

Brad Wilk (Drums)

10. Alice in My Fantasies

• Performed By:

Flea (Bass)

Brad Wilk (Drums)

Tom Morello (Guitar)

Pete Yorn (Guitar)

Serj Tankian (Vocals)

11. Where the Strees Have No Name

• Performed By:

Flea (Bass)

Brad Wilk (Drums)

Tom Morello (Acoustic Guitar)

Pete Yorn (Guitar/Vocals)

Tim Walker (Electric Guitar)

Serj Tankian (Vocals)

Maynard James Keenan (Vocals)

Jonny Polonsky (Keyboards)

12. Bomb Day in Paris

• Performed By:

Wayne Kramer (Spoken Word and Guitar)

Flea (Bass)

John Dolmayan (Drums)

13. 5 Million Ways to Kill a CEO

• Performed By:

Boots Riley

Boots Riley

Boots Riley is an American musician, vocalist, writer, and public speaker most known for being the front man and producer of The Coup as well as the front man for Street Sweeper Social Club.-Biography:...

 (Vocals)

Tom Morello (Acoustic Guitar)

14. Improvizational Noise

• Performed By:

Serj Tankian

15. Get Up, Stand Up

• Performed By:

Serj Tankian (Vocals)

Tom Morello (Guitar/Vocals)

Wayne Kramer (Guitar/Vocal)

Flea (Bass)

John Dolmayan (Drums)

• Recorded live at Axis Of Justice Concert Series at The Avalon, Hollywood, CA, on 7/19/04
• Bonus Footage Recorded Live at The Axis Of Justice Concert Series at the Troubadour, Hollywood on 3/31/04
• An XDOANEX Production
• Directed by J. Graf
• Produced by Darren Doane
• Executive Producers: Serj Tankian and Tom Morello
• DVD Design Billy Maddox II