The 10 Best DISGRACELAND Podcast Episodes
1) Zeppelin: Dark Power, Cocaine, Backstage Brawls and Heavy Metal Magick
Led Zeppelin were the biggest band on the planet. The great white shark of the seventies. They defined excess. The designed the avatar for the heavy metal rock star; themselves. Along the way there we...Show More
adam_p recommended:
Great listen although don't expect these rocks gods to continue to be worthy of your worship. Interesting podcast. Well written, well desig...Show More
AUDIO REMOVED: The podcast creator has removed the audio for this episode.2) Spade Cooley: Jealousy, Torture, Murder
Spade Cooley was one of the Postwar America’s biggest celebrities and most talented musicians. He was also a violent, drunk and homicidal psychopath who had no heart. Mean, jealous, abusive and almost...Show More
adam_p recommended:
This story is told from the perspective of Cooley's twisted psychotic state in such detail that I would not recommend listening unless graph...Show More
AUDIO REMOVED: The podcast creator has removed the audio for this episode.3) U2: Death Threats, a Song that Inspired a Killer, and the Murder of Rebecca Schaeffer
Years before a free album made them the most unpopular popular band on the planet, U2 ran into the arms of America. In 1987, touring behind their blockbuster album The Joshua Tree, their songs became ...Show More
4) Eminem: Taking His Shot, Pulling a Glock, and Facing the Real Slim Shady
On a single Saturday in 2000, Marshall Mathers assaulted two separate men with a pistol and fought with his wife outside a nightclub, resulting in lawsuits and charges that hung over the completion of...Show More
mijustin recommended:
Really well done.
AUDIO REMOVED: The podcast creator has removed the audio for this episode.5) Disgraceland Presents: Blood on the Tracks Season 2, Chapter 1: John Lennon and Yoko Ono
John Lennon’s second wife and creative muse, Yoko Ono, recalls their time as one of the most simultaneously beloved and feared couples of 1970s New York City. Yoko’s tales include drug busts, governme...Show More
elsak recommended:
I have long been a fan of Disgraceland and am very glad Jake created Blood on the Tracks.
AUDIO REMOVED: The podcast creator has removed the audio for this episode.6) Grateful Dead: Freedom is just another word for…
The Grateful Dead became one of the most influential bands of all time and propelled themselves with improvisation, LSD and an ethos of “freedom”. Through drug busts and CIA surveillance, they thrived...Show More
AUDIO REMOVED: The podcast creator has removed the audio for this episode.7) Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes: Hit Me Again and I'll Burn Your House Down
TLC’s Lisa “Left Eye” Lopes was known as “the crazy one”. She did, after all, burn down her NFL playing boyfriend, Andre Rison’s mansion. But given the fact that it was done after what was then one of...Show More
Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes: Hit Me Again and I'll Burn Your House Down
31:11 | Apr 17th, 2018
1 recommendation
AUDIO REMOVED: The podcast creator has removed the audio for this episode.8) Charles Manson the Music Man: Lost Records and a Prosecutorial Song too Crazy to Sing
In and out of juvie and jail since childhood, Charles Manson learned guitar in prison from the last of the great Depression-era gangsters. He also made music industry connections in jail like the Roll...Show More
AUDIO REMOVED: The podcast creator has removed the audio for this episode.9) Bruce Springsteen: Shootouts, Killing Sprees, and the Making of Nebraska
Unprovoked killing sprees. Nightclub gunfights. Mafia assassinations. True crime stories and modern folklore make up the backbone of many of the characters from Bruce Springsteen’s Nebraska, one of th...Show More
Bruce Springsteen: Shootouts, Killing Sprees, and the Making of Nebraska
37:27 | May 16th, 2023
1 playlist
10) The Beatles Pt. 1: Stoned with Dylan, Dosed with Acid, Outrunning Knife Wielding Maniacs and Driving the World to the Brink with Beatlemania
This is Part 1 of a two-part Disgraceland episode on The Beatles. To hear Part 2 now, for free, visit amazon.com/disgraceland. The Beatles caused fans to enter into manic states, literally. People di...Show More
AUDIO REMOVED: The podcast creator has removed the audio for this episode.