“I’m the strongest I’ve ever been in my life” Rage Against The Machine bassist Tim Commerford shares health update after cancer diagnosis
Rage Against the Machine bassist Tim Commerford has shared an update on his battle with prostate cancer two years after revealing his diagnosis.
The 56-year-old musician shared the news back in December 2022, noting that he’d undergone surgery just two months before Rage Against the Machine’s then-reunion tour.
“My dad died in his early 70s from cancer and my mom died from cancer in her 40s. Split the difference to 65 and I’ve got 10 years. I’m trying to get to the 100-song mark – I have some goals now,” Commerford said at the time.
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Now, in a new interview with TotalRock, Commerford says that “I’m the strongest I’ve ever been in my life.”
“And I’m 56 years old. And I’m artistic, and I’m focused on that, and I’m proud of it,” he adds. “I’ve always been very proud of being fit as an older person, because most people that are my age are not; that’s the truth of it. And I feel really good about that.”
The bassist also recalled feeling “broken” when he found out he had cancer: “It took me a couple of years before I could even discuss cancer without just getting emotional, crying about it,” Commerford explains. “But what brought me over the edge with that and made me not have to cry all the time was the physicality of, like, ‘Yo, yeah, I’m sick.’”
“Like, I have a cadaver hamstring tendon that’s in my shoulder that the doctor’s, like, ‘Well, your shoulder is only gonna be 75 percent as strong on the left as it is on the right.’ And I’m, like, well, then if I get 200 percent stronger than I would have gotten, then I’ll be 125 percent stronger.”
Earlier this year, the former Audioslave member opened up about how his life has changed following his cancer diagnosis. Commerford told Rolling Stone, “This is a different life now. It changed who I am, and in a lot of ways for the better. It slowed me down. It made me just take my time a little bit more on just noticing the world.”
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