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Rage Against The Machine's Tom Morello Joining Bruce Springsteen At Philly Concert

The Rage Against the Machine and Audioslave guitarist will sit in with The Boss on select songs at the May concert in Philadelphia.

Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band performs in concert during their ‘High Hopes Tour’ at Hershey Stadium on Wednesday, May 14, 2014, in Hershey, Pa.
Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band performs in concert during their ‘High Hopes Tour’ at Hershey Stadium on Wednesday, May 14, 2014, in Hershey, Pa. (Owen Sweeney/Invision/AP)

PHILADELPHIA — Bruce Springsteen announced a special guest will join him on his upcoming tour that features a stop in Philadelphia.

According to Springsteen, Rage Against the Machine and Audioslave guitarist Tom Morello will perform alongside The E Street Band and Springsteen on the "Land Of Hope And Dreams American Tour."

The tour will come to Xfinity Mobile Arena in Philadelphia on May 8. Get tickets online here.

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Morello will join Springsteen and the band for select songs on every tourdate.

After covering "The Ghost of Tom Joad" with Rage Against the Machine, Morello first performed the song live with Springsteen and The E Street Band in April 2008.

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He later toured extensively as a guest of Bruce and the band from 2012-2015, and appears on the Springsteen albums "Wrecking Ball" and "High Hopes" — while Springsteen appears on the 2021 Tom Morello album, "The Atlas Underground Fire."

Most recently, the two shared the stage at Morello's "Defend Minnesota: A Concert of Solidarity and Resistance" in January.

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