Tom Morello

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724 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Feb 2025 last heard Feb 2025

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The Magnificent Others with Billy Corgan · Tom Morello | The Magnificent Others with Billy Corgan · 12 Feb 2025 podcast

But I was, but it was, I started playing guitar at 17, but I was, had the calling at 19.

I was at the little rehearsal room under the, you know, where we had dinners under the cafeteria.

And it was, you know, the skies opened.

There was a moment of improvisation where I felt a calling like this.

And I had many other interests.

I was, I was an artist.

I was a writer.

I was interested in music.

leftist political revolt.

And I was like, I now am a guitar player and I have to bend everything around that.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

And then while balancing a poli-sci major at Harvard was a challenge because I can't be like the one black kid in town, the only person to get into Harvard who then comes home without a degree.

So I...

I get that.

Yeah, that was the hope.

The hope was to arm myself intellectually for the coming struggles.

you know, that's, that was, that was, you're in the right place now.

That was the hope.

Exactly.

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