Tom Morello performs as the Nightwatchman with Carl Restivo at the Rolling Stone studio. “I first began calling myself the Nightwatchman when I started writing acoustic songs and performing at open mic nights,” Morello tells Rolling Stone. On tour with Audioslave at the time, he used his free moments to hone his craft at local coffeeshops, using the nickname in hopes of avoiding unwanted attention: “After awhile the material grew into the name.”
