performed at Target Center during Republican National Convention

In September 2008, Rage performed at the Target Center in Minneapolis during the Republican National Convention . The previous day, they attempted to play a surprise set at a free anti-RNC concert at the Minnesota Capitol in St. Paul , but were prevented by the police. Instead, De la Rocha and Morello rapped and sang through a megaphone. Later that evening, Morello and Boots Reilly joined the songwriter Billy Bragg and the politician Jim Walsh for a three-hour jam session at Pepitos Parkway theater in south Minneapolis. In December 2008, Morello said his Nightwatchman project would be his “principal musical focus, as I see it, for the remainder of my life”. He repeated this point in an interview with the Los Angeles Times .