First Concert Memories #34: Rage Against The Machine with Ryan Condal of House of the Dragon

About this episode

Ryan Condal shares his first concert experience with Rage Against The Machine and discusses the band's impact on his musical tastes and worldview.

On First Concert Memories 34 we welcome friend of the show and 2 time former guest Ryan Condal, Co-Creator and Executive Producer of House of the Dragon, onto our monthly podcast about those special moments growing up when your favorite rock band is everything. Ryan transports us back to New Jersey in the late 1990's when he took his buddies and his little brother to see Rage Against The Machine with openers The Wu Tang Clan. Hear the astute and well read Ryan talk about learning history through the lyrics of Rage Against The Machine and warming up for lacrosse games with it blaring over the field. He espouses about the tones and funky sounds of guitarist Tom Morello laying the foundation for the anti-establishment lyrics from Zack de la Rocha. For Ryan's generation, Rage represented more than just the teenage angst of bands like Nirvana or Smashing Pumpkins - they educated kids on why the world was unfair and what they needed to do to change that. As The Wolf and Action Jackson are not only years older than Ryan but their musical tastes always skewed older for their own generation, they loved hearing from Ryan how RATM was such an important factor in molding his musical tastes…

People in this episode

Host: Mac B.

Guest: Ryan Condal

Topics covered

• first concert memories
• Rage Against The Machine
• music history
• teenage angst
• cultural impact of music
• House of the Dragon

Keywords

• first concert
• Rage Against The Machine
• Ryan Condal
• music education
• 1990s rock
• House of the Dragon
• Wu Tang Clan
• Tom Morello
• Zack de la Rocha

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: House of the Dragon, Rage Against The Machine, The Wu Tang Clan, The Stuff That Dreams Are Made Of

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