Latest / DISGRACELAND / Bonus Episode: The Grateful Dead Psyop Theory and the Laurel Canyon Pop Star Military Industrial Complex
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- 0:01Speaker 1: Hey, Discos, need a little more Disgraceland in your life,
- 0:05Speaker 1: just to touch, to get you through. Yeah, me too.
- 0:08Speaker 1: This is the podcast that comes after the podcast.
- 0:11Speaker 2: Welcome to Disgraceland, the after Party.
- 0:28Speaker 1: Welcome to the Disgraceland bonus episode, a little thing we
- 0:31Speaker 1: like to call the after party. This is the show
- 0:34Speaker 1: after the show, the party after the party, the bridge
- 0:36Speaker 1: to get from one full episode of Disgraceland to the other.
- 0:38Speaker 1: The backyard, to dig into the dirt, our mission to
- 0:42Speaker 1: uncover the truth, to confront the myth, to reclaim the story.
- 0:45Speaker 1: On this bonus episode, we're disrupting the Grateful Dead CIA
- 0:49Speaker 1: psyop theory, previewing next week's new episode, Part two of
- 0:52Speaker 1: Our Inexcess Tale. And in the exclusive section, we dive
- 0:56Speaker 1: into Laurel Canyon pop stars in their Military Industrial Complex parents.
- 1:00Speaker 1: Plus we get into your emails, comments, dms, and as always,
- 1:04Speaker 1: a whole lot of rosie. This is the podcast for
- 1:06Speaker 1: the musically obsessed, the outsiders, the independent thinkers who know
- 1:09Speaker 1: that the best history is the history that gets buried.
- 1:11Speaker 1: Disgracelands where I tell the stories they didn't want told,
- 1:14Speaker 1: the kind you'll end up telling someone else, all Right,
- 1:16Speaker 1: Discos let's get into it. So apparently you can't spell
- 1:32Speaker 1: Jerry Garcia without Cia Garcia. Now, there are some that
- 1:40Speaker 1: will have you believe that Jerry Garcia was a knowing
- 1:44Speaker 1: participant in the federal government's covert manipulation of American youth,
- 1:49Speaker 1: and that The Grateful Dead's iconic de facto leader was
- 1:53Speaker 1: a working spy along with the band's sound man Augustus
- 1:57Speaker 1: Stanley bear Owsley, and the rest of the Dad's band members,
- 2:00Speaker 1: including Bob Weir, they were compromised supposedly as well, and
- 2:05Speaker 1: that you know this all proves that Weir's and Mickey
- 2:08Speaker 1: Hart's membership at Bohemian Grove was nothing but a malevolent
- 2:13Speaker 1: extension of the band's CIA affiliation. Wackado. No shade to
- 2:20Speaker 1: anyone who believes this, but I'm gonna tell you why
- 2:22Speaker 1: you're wrong. I don't believe this, obviously, and if you
- 2:26Speaker 1: listen to my recent episode on Bob Weir, you'll learn
- 2:29Speaker 1: exactly what I think about Bob Weir's affiliation with Bohemian Growth. However,
- 2:34Speaker 1: at the end of that episode, I put the question
- 2:36Speaker 1: to you, guys, what do you think of my assessment
- 2:38Speaker 1: of Bobby's affiliation with Bohemian grove, and some of you
- 2:42Speaker 1: do indeed believe that the Grateful Dead was far more
- 2:44Speaker 1: involved with the CIA's efforts than I do, and that
- 2:48Speaker 1: the Dead were in fact knowing participants in mk Ultra.
- 2:52Speaker 1: The CIA is psyop to counter and discredit the impact
- 2:55Speaker 1: of the hippie movement. As a quick refresher, mk Ultra
- 2:59Speaker 1: was a top secret illegal human experimentation program conducted by
- 3:04Speaker 1: the Central Intelligence Agency from nineteen fifty three through the
- 3:07Speaker 1: early nineteen seventies. It is a documented fact, guys, that
- 3:11Speaker 1: the CIA, through its mk ULTRA program used willing and
- 3:15Speaker 1: I repeat the word willing participants Americans to experiment on
- 3:21Speaker 1: with LSD and other drugs to test the drugs effectiveness
- 3:26Speaker 1: when it came to mind control basically, and many now
- 3:30Speaker 1: notable Americans signed up to be guinea pigs for this project. Okay,
- 3:35Speaker 1: Whitey Bulger when he was at Alcatraz, the unibomber ted Kazinski,
- 3:39Speaker 1: author Ken Kesey, and Grateful Dead lyricist Robert Hunter. Those
- 3:44Speaker 1: are facts. But what's less proven but believable is that
- 3:48Speaker 1: the CIA used Americans on the fringe of society, sex workers,
- 3:53Speaker 1: homeless and transient men for their drug tests as well,
- 3:58Speaker 1: supposedly discarding these individuals once their brains were properly scrambled
- 4:02Speaker 1: by the drugs and their usefulness had run its course. Okay,
- 4:06Speaker 1: and then there's the nearly proven but not totally locked
- 4:10Speaker 1: down theory that the CIA had roped in x Con
- 4:13Speaker 1: Charles Manson, roped him into their MK Ultra program, and
- 4:17Speaker 1: that they weren't only experimenting on him, but we're using
- 4:19Speaker 1: him and as wack could do hippie dippy bullshit to
- 4:22Speaker 1: discredit the hippie movement. I happened to believe this Manson theory,
- 4:25Speaker 1: or at least part of it. But what I don't
- 4:27Speaker 1: believe is that The Grateful Dead's band members were willing,
- 4:31Speaker 1: in active participants with the CIA and the CIA's the
- 4:35Speaker 1: agency's efforts in the sixties, whatever those efforts may have been,
- 4:40Speaker 1: and that the band was or is, as some have claimed,
- 4:44Speaker 1: a quote unquote ssyop. Now you can go and read it.
- 4:48Speaker 1: You can read extensively about this, You can read about
- 4:51Speaker 1: it elsewhere. Okay, there are lots of elements of this theory,
- 4:56Speaker 1: but the least batshit crazy belief fievable version of this
- 5:01Speaker 1: theory is that Robert Hunter again, the Dead's lyricists that
- 5:07Speaker 1: his participation in the acid tests, which you can hear
- 5:10Speaker 1: about in Our Grateful Dead Part one episode, proves that
- 5:13Speaker 1: the band were CIA affiliated. I can kind of see that, okay.
- 5:19Speaker 1: And again, this is the least batshit version of this
- 5:23Speaker 1: Grateful Dead as a psyop theory, which I don't believe,
- 5:26Speaker 1: by the way, I'm just giving it to you, Okay.
- 5:28Speaker 1: The theory also states that as the band matured and
- 5:32Speaker 1: their troubles with the law progress arrests on the road
- 5:36Speaker 1: fans who went missing deaths at their shows in the
- 5:39Speaker 1: nineteen seventies in the eighties, that Grateful Dead band members
- 5:43Speaker 1: became compromised and, in an attempt to keep themselves out
- 5:47Speaker 1: of jail, began working for the federal government the CIA,
- 5:51Speaker 1: using their music to affect mind control on the masses,
- 5:55Speaker 1: some sort of mass hypnosis to dumb down liberal American youth.
- 6:00Speaker 1: I find this theory to be funny as shit. Okay, wait,
- 6:04Speaker 1: I forget the best part that Bob We're Mickey Hart's
- 6:06Speaker 1: affiliation with Bohemian Gross supposedly ends up proving this conspiracy
- 6:09Speaker 1: in the end. Okay, forget about that. That's important, and
- 6:13Speaker 1: also so does the lyric from the Dead song of
- 6:15Speaker 1: us Blues, it goes Uncle Sam, That's who I am
- 6:17Speaker 1: been hanging out in a rock and roll band. These
- 6:20Speaker 1: are some of the uh this is saw, some of
- 6:22Speaker 1: the so called truth that the theorists, conspiracy theorists believe.
- 6:25Speaker 1: The more I learn about this conspiracy theory, the more
- 6:29Speaker 1: I love it, okay, and also the more I hate it.
- 6:32Speaker 1: I love it because it's so absurd that it's actually comical.
- 6:37Speaker 1: Because once you get to know the character of the
- 6:39Speaker 1: individual band members from researching them, or you know, from
- 6:43Speaker 1: diving deep into the music being a fan, whatever, it
- 6:46Speaker 1: becomes obvious that the Grateful Dead were physically, mentally, intellectually
- 6:52Speaker 1: and spiritually unable to work on any level with authority
- 6:56Speaker 1: figures of any kind. Jerry Garcia would have marched himself
- 7:02Speaker 1: off to the gallows smiling before he'd work with the
- 7:04Speaker 1: federal government on any effort to harm anyone, never mind
- 7:08Speaker 1: dead heads. On the other hand, I hate this theory
- 7:13Speaker 1: because it totally discredits the actual Grateful Dead Cia conspiracy
- 7:16Speaker 1: theory that I believe is true, and that's that the
- 7:19Speaker 1: Dead unknowingly, that the Grateful Dead unknowingly was used and
- 7:23Speaker 1: manipulated by the CIA into influencing American use through LSD proliferation,
- 7:29Speaker 1: and in a lot of ways. The result of this
- 7:30Speaker 1: was that a benevolent counterculture was created that otherwise wouldn't
- 7:34Speaker 1: have existed without the CIA's malevolent efforts. Okay, how's that
- 7:38Speaker 1: for irony? Again? More on that in episode one. And
- 7:42Speaker 1: this is the problem with conspiracy theorists. They go so
- 7:45Speaker 1: far that they discredit themselves. The less juicy version of
- 7:50Speaker 1: this theory is actually supported by the facts. The theory
- 7:53Speaker 1: that I just stated, and that I believe will one
- 7:55Speaker 1: day be proven. But to make this case, you got
- 7:58Speaker 1: to work your way through a of eye rolls that
- 8:01Speaker 1: stem from the ludicrous claims of the juicier version of
- 8:04Speaker 1: the theory. Okay, isn't it enough to believe that the
- 8:07Speaker 1: grateful dead soundman bear Owsley was a likely CIA asset
- 8:12Speaker 1: or a pawn of the CIA, and that his efforts
- 8:17Speaker 1: directly influenced the band on behalf of the agency. Do
- 8:21Speaker 1: we have to go all the way to Jerry and Bob.
- 8:23Speaker 1: We're using LSD to implant false memories into dead heads.
- 8:27Speaker 1: Man Cornell's seventy seven never happened, Man Scarlet pigonis.
- 8:31Speaker 3: Never get played.
- 8:32Speaker 1: Dude, you let the CIA stash trick you and everyone
- 8:35Speaker 1: else into thinking that there were a show that never
- 8:37Speaker 1: took place. That's a good one. Look that one up.
- 8:40Speaker 1: There's literally a theory that claims that the Dead Live
- 8:43Speaker 1: album in the show the actual show Cornell from nineteen
- 8:46Speaker 1: seventy seven. Cornell seventy seven is a theory that the
- 8:52Speaker 1: show never took place, and that the Grateful Dead, along
- 8:57Speaker 1: with the CIA, wanted to what's the term memory hole
- 9:00Speaker 1: their fans into believing that they actually attended an event
- 9:03Speaker 1: that didn't happen as a means to test out the
- 9:06Speaker 1: mind control capabilities of LSD's It's a good one. It's
- 9:10Speaker 1: a good one worth looking up again. Like I said,
- 9:12Speaker 1: but this offends me on a personal level because Cornell
- 9:16Speaker 1: seventy seven is my favorite favorite recording of any recording
- 9:20Speaker 1: of The Grateful Dead. Now, what doesn't offend me are
- 9:23Speaker 1: the rays of truth shining through all this conspiracy muck
- 9:29Speaker 1: my cynicism around the Grateful Dead MK ultra theory does
- 9:32Speaker 1: not extend to Charles Manson. Manson's relationship with the federal
- 9:36Speaker 1: government and the absolute bogus pile of lies that we
- 9:40Speaker 1: were fed about. Helter Skelter is for many reasons, much
- 9:44Speaker 1: more plausible to me, and it's occurring to me now
- 9:46Speaker 1: as I write this set. For as much as I've
- 9:48Speaker 1: written about Charles Manson here in Disgrace and I never
- 9:50Speaker 1: fully explored the MK ultra angle, and that maybe that's
- 9:54Speaker 1: that's something we should dive into somehow in an episode
- 9:57Speaker 1: or something. Another story connected to MK ultra in music
- 10:00Speaker 1: history and the Grateful Dead that I'm super interested in
- 10:04Speaker 1: is about the musicians from Laurel Canyon in the nineteen
- 10:06Speaker 1: sixties who were supposedly linked to military intelligence and used
- 10:10Speaker 1: by the CIA to discredit and control, supposedly control the
- 10:14Speaker 1: hippie movement. And these musicians, these pop stars, were the
- 10:19Speaker 1: sons and daughters of military men, the again big time
- 10:24Speaker 1: rockstars Frank Zappa, Stephen still Is, Jackson Brown more. This
- 10:27Speaker 1: theories one that has always always fascinated me. I have
- 10:31Speaker 1: never looked into it. I should, I am, I will Zeth,
- 10:34Speaker 1: and I are going to dig into the story of
- 10:36Speaker 1: more detail and the exclusive all access section of this
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- 10:45Speaker 1: ad free listening. All right, this whole conversation about MK, Ultra,
- 10:49Speaker 1: the CIA and the Dead. We're obviously talking about this
- 10:51Speaker 1: because of the Bob Weir episode in the Feed this week.
- 10:54Speaker 1: Check that out if you have not already, along with
- 10:57Speaker 1: our two other episodes on the Grateful Dead and for
- 11:00Speaker 1: more on the subject of the CIA munking up the
- 11:03Speaker 1: lives of our rock stars. We've got our Bob Marley
- 11:05Speaker 1: episode coming at you in our rewind slot right after
- 11:08Speaker 1: this after party next week on Tuesday, Part two of
- 11:12Speaker 1: our Inexcess story hits and look in Excess. They're not
- 11:18Speaker 1: the band that we thought they were, or at least
- 11:21Speaker 1: their origins. They're origins, you know, for a band that
- 11:25Speaker 1: sort of personified this, this sort of like pretty popstar
- 11:28Speaker 1: eighties thing they come from just you know, ultra violence.
- 11:33Speaker 1: It's incredible. The world, the scene, the Australian music scene
- 11:37Speaker 1: that these guys came from and what they became. You
- 11:39Speaker 1: kind of get it with ac DC, You're like, oh,
- 11:41Speaker 1: I get how these guys were part of a tough
- 11:43Speaker 1: scene back home. It's it's more counterintuitive. Within Excess, obviously
- 11:49Speaker 1: some incredible bands from down Under. In Excess ACDC, just
- 11:52Speaker 1: name a few, And it occurred to me that we
- 11:54Speaker 1: often limit our view of consequential rock bands to just
- 11:56Speaker 1: the United States and England. But obviously they're a great
- 12:00Speaker 1: bands from all over. So when you're listening to the
- 12:03Speaker 1: in Excess episode, be thinking about great groups from elsewhere
- 12:08Speaker 1: and get at me and let me know which international
- 12:11Speaker 1: artists bands not from the United States or from England.
- 12:15Speaker 1: Let me know which international group or musical artists you
- 12:19Speaker 1: think has had the most impact on popular culture. Is
- 12:23Speaker 1: it in Excess? Is it ACDC? Is it Bad Bunny?
- 12:26Speaker 1: Is it? I don't know? Is it I was gonna
- 12:30Speaker 1: say the undertones, but it's not the undertones? Who is it?
- 12:33Speaker 1: Neil Young from Canada? Who let me know which international
- 12:36Speaker 1: artist has influenced this the most? Let me know your thoughts.
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- 12:46Speaker 1: gonna take a quick break. I'll be back after this
- 12:48Speaker 1: with your voicemails, text dms and more. Feel Feel Feel
- 13:09Speaker 1: Feel ma he I've been walking around all week singing
- 13:12Speaker 1: that to the annoyance of my wife and kids because
- 13:15Speaker 1: I got boogie Knights on the brand, guys, because you
- 13:18Speaker 1: know what today is today or this week, i should say,
- 13:21Speaker 1: is the release of our newest episode of our new
- 13:24Speaker 1: video podcast, This Film should be Played Loud, our show
- 13:28Speaker 1: that looks at the convergence of music and film, great
- 13:31Speaker 1: soundtracks from the greatest movies, and we've got a doozy
- 13:34Speaker 1: of a release this week. Our new episode is on
- 13:37Speaker 1: the great Paul Thomas Anderson movie Boogie Nights. This was
- 13:42Speaker 1: a blast record. I learned that Zeth takes performance enhancing
- 13:45Speaker 1: drugs and that Walter Egan wasn't in Steely Dam, which
- 13:48Speaker 1: begs the question, who the hell was Walter Egan? And
- 13:51Speaker 1: Zeth learned all about the connection between Reid Rothschild and
- 13:53Speaker 1: the Rothschild's Eyes wide Huck conspiracy theory. All right, you're
- 13:57Speaker 1: not gonna want to miss this. Here's a club.
- 13:59Speaker 3: PTA worked with this music supervisor on this movie, yes,
- 14:03Speaker 3: in order to get this the way that it is.
- 14:05Speaker 3: Her name is Karen Rackman, and she kind of has
- 14:08Speaker 3: a fascinating backstory. I just wanted to get into this
- 14:11Speaker 3: for a second.
- 14:12Speaker 4: Here.
- 14:12Speaker 3: Her credits before this included she did Reservoir Dogs, pulp fiction,
- 14:17Speaker 3: Reality Bites, some other movies before she gets in here,
- 14:20Speaker 3: and her sort of origin is that Tarantino was making
- 14:23Speaker 3: Reservoir Dogs and he wrote that scene with Steelers Wheel
- 14:27Speaker 3: song and it stuck in the middle with you. He
- 14:29Speaker 3: wrote that with that song in mind, and he was
- 14:31Speaker 3: having a really hard time getting Jerry Rafferty and the
- 14:34Speaker 3: other guy to let him use the song because one
- 14:35Speaker 3: of them was hardcore Christian didn't want to end this
- 14:39Speaker 3: scene with all this violence and stuff. He meets this woman,
- 14:41Speaker 3: Karen Rackman, and she's like, hang on, I'll deal with it.
- 14:44Speaker 3: And she goes and she sweet talks to those guys,
- 14:47Speaker 3: gets them to green light the song, and Quentin Tarantino
- 14:49Speaker 3: was like, you're gonna supervise my whole movie, and then
- 14:52Speaker 3: brings her on board for pulp fiction and then she
- 14:54Speaker 3: goes onto this Where did.
- 14:56Speaker 1: Quentin Tarantino meet Karen Rackman? Do we have any idea?
- 15:00Speaker 3: I don't have any I don't have that level of information.
- 15:03Speaker 1: Because I just did a little snooping on the and
- 15:05Speaker 1: the interwebs here and you know who Karen Rackman's brother is?
- 15:08Speaker 1: Who Ricky Rackman head Banger's Ball. Yes, yes, Ricky Rackman
- 15:14Speaker 1: back on the head Bangers Ball.
- 15:16Speaker 3: It's my birthday show of Head Banger's Ball tonight.
- 15:18Speaker 5: I don't know why.
- 15:19Speaker 3: I always thought Ricky Rackman's last name was actually fake.
- 15:22Speaker 3: It sounds like a stage name.
- 15:23Speaker 1: I always thought Ricky Rackman was Casey Casey's kid, and
- 15:26Speaker 1: I'm still I'm still not convinced otherwise, because they're kind
- 15:29Speaker 1: of the same, a younger version of it. I thought
- 15:31Speaker 1: that way. Anyways.
- 15:32Speaker 3: I love that.
- 15:33Speaker 1: But yeah, Ricky Rackman's sister so pretty legendary. I mean,
- 15:35Speaker 1: come on, like what lists those movies again? That she's
- 15:38Speaker 1: a music supervisor And for those who don't know what
- 15:39Speaker 1: a music supervisor is, they're essentially the buck stops with
- 15:43Speaker 1: them on music in the film, aside from the director,
- 15:45Speaker 1: because the buck stops with the director on everything in
- 15:48Speaker 1: a film, but the music supervisor is in charge of
- 15:51Speaker 1: not only getting the soundtrack figured out and the license,
- 15:54Speaker 1: the song's license for the movie, for the needle drops,
- 15:57Speaker 1: but also handling the composer basic everything. I mean, it
- 16:01Speaker 1: didn't really start as that, but that's what it's kind
- 16:03Speaker 1: of become, right, And and it sounds like she just
- 16:07Speaker 1: kind of got pulled into this by by Tarantino and
- 16:12Speaker 1: this career just she made this happen for herself with
- 16:16Speaker 1: Reservoir Dogs, and then what was the next one? She did?
- 16:18Speaker 3: Pulp fiction, reality bites, Clueless, Get Shorty, Basketball Diaries, Romeo
- 16:23Speaker 3: and Juliet Off of Space She essentially I think you
- 16:27Speaker 3: could argue that she Yeah Boo nights. Of course, I
- 16:29Speaker 3: think you could argue that she kind of changed movie
- 16:32Speaker 3: soundtracks forever. I feel like there's a before and then
- 16:35Speaker 3: after these nineties soundtracks, don't you think.
- 16:38Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, oh Man off of Space down. It feels
- 16:41Speaker 1: good to do gangs so good.
- 16:43Speaker 6: We gotta do that one, all.
- 16:46Speaker 1: Right, Karen Rackman, gonna pour one out for Karen Rackman.
- 16:49Speaker 1: I feel I feel I'm ashamed that I haven't ever
- 16:52Speaker 1: come across this name before. All right, guys, you want
- 16:55Speaker 1: to watch or listen to this film should be played loud.
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- 17:04Speaker 1: and then jump into the chat with the rest of
- 17:06Speaker 1: us discos and let us know what you think. Or
- 17:09Speaker 1: you can just call me at six one seven nine
- 17:11Speaker 1: oh six six six three eight, just like this voicemail
- 17:15Speaker 1: from the seven to two seven, Hey, Jake.
- 17:18Speaker 4: This is Alex from the seven two seven. I've become
- 17:21Speaker 4: a fan of Mani Street Preachers in the past few years,
- 17:25Speaker 4: and I was wondering if you've ever done an episode
- 17:27Speaker 4: on the number of Manu Street Preachers that disappeared years ago.
- 17:32Speaker 4: I think it would be a really fascinating episode. Anyway,
- 17:36Speaker 4: keep it up. You're my favorite podcast. Peace Alex.
- 17:39Speaker 1: Thanks for the call. Man have not Richie Edwards as
- 17:42Speaker 1: who you're talking about from Mani Street Preachers. We got
- 17:45Speaker 1: close to doing a whole season Payne Lindsay and I.
- 17:48Speaker 1: That was going to be the season we did of
- 17:49Speaker 1: Dead and Gone, but it ended up being Grateful Dead,
- 17:52Speaker 1: and then we're thinking about it for season two. And
- 17:55Speaker 1: then I actually had talks with some studios about a
- 18:00Speaker 1: a limited television series, but it never went anywhere. So
- 18:04Speaker 1: it's kind of been on the burner here for a while.
- 18:07Speaker 1: Something we're absolutely going to get into at some point.
- 18:10Speaker 1: It's a fascinating and sad story. I should really dive
- 18:14Speaker 1: into Manic Street Preachers musically as a band I never
- 18:17Speaker 1: really have. Maybe that'll inspire motivate me, I should say,
- 18:20Speaker 1: to get into telling this story. Thanks for the call.
- 18:22Speaker 1: Appreciate you, Alex. All right, let's check out this voicemail
- 18:26Speaker 1: from the nine to one six Jay.
- 18:29Speaker 5: This is mister Taylor from Raleigh, North Carolina, and I
- 18:33Speaker 5: just finished the Media as a Potat episode and it
- 18:35Speaker 5: was great, But I was struck by the fact that
- 18:37Speaker 5: on multiple occasions you referenced me as privilege upbringing, growing
- 18:42Speaker 5: up in a penthouse overlooking Central Park, and it reminds
- 18:45Speaker 5: me from growing up in the nineties when authenticity was
- 18:48Speaker 5: often weaponized against musicians. Hip hop artists were criticized for
- 18:52Speaker 5: not being real gangsters, right, which is absurd the idea
- 18:55Speaker 5: that largely suburban white kids would regularly criticize black artists
- 19:00Speaker 5: for not being gangster enough. I remember people slamming Nirvana's
- 19:04Speaker 5: unplugged performance because Kurt used an electric guitar on the
- 19:09Speaker 5: Man who Sold the World to get that haunting Nick
- 19:12Speaker 5: Ronson sounds, And to this day I still hear people
- 19:15Speaker 5: hate on the Strokes because doing Casablanca's father was a
- 19:18Speaker 5: rich and powerful fashion executive, as though that had any
- 19:22Speaker 5: impact on the incredible music they wrote. So what is
- 19:25Speaker 5: it about music fans that we demand authenticity? Are we
- 19:29Speaker 5: asking too much of our musicians that they continue destructive behavior.
- 19:34Speaker 5: I mean, I'm sure many of us have said some
- 19:36Speaker 5: version of the old line they were better before they
- 19:38Speaker 5: got clean, as if being a junkie makes you a
- 19:41Speaker 5: better guitarist. So I mean this idea that trauma and
- 19:45Speaker 5: destructive behavior are the key themes behind this podcast. We
- 19:48Speaker 5: know that without it we wouldn't have this amazing show
- 19:51Speaker 5: and these stories. But why are music fans so critical
- 19:54Speaker 5: of musicians who aren't harnessing bill trauma? Is the music
- 19:58Speaker 5: better if it comes from people who are self destructive?
- 20:02Speaker 5: I'm just curious to hear your take on this. Appreciate
- 20:04Speaker 5: all the hard work rock.
- 20:05Speaker 1: And ROLLA hey, fantastic call, Thank you a lot to
- 20:11Speaker 1: get into. On me as a pada, and on our
- 20:15Speaker 1: mentioning of her privileged background, I hope that wasn't I
- 20:19Speaker 1: don't think you were. I don't think you took that
- 20:20Speaker 1: as we're being critical of her or claiming that she
- 20:24Speaker 1: was an authentic because of her privileged background. I just
- 20:27Speaker 1: think we was mentioned as a point of fact because
- 20:30Speaker 1: it obviously is a contrast between the life she lived
- 20:35Speaker 1: as a musician and was living as a musician and
- 20:38Speaker 1: the themes and some of the some of the themes
- 20:40Speaker 1: in her music, et cetera. You would not expect that
- 20:43Speaker 1: somebody from privilege would have that point of view. And
- 20:46Speaker 1: I think you can say the same thing about a
- 20:48Speaker 1: lot of artists, and I wasn't. We weren't discrediting her
- 20:52Speaker 1: in any way because of that. Not that I necessarily
- 20:55Speaker 1: think that was your point, but after playing the message,
- 20:58Speaker 1: I could see some people hearing it and taking that
- 21:01Speaker 1: as your point. So I just wanted to clarify that,
- 21:03Speaker 1: you know, I don't know. I don't to answer your
- 21:05Speaker 1: question about why there's such a a fervor or such,
- 21:11Speaker 1: why fans are so demanding that their artists be authentic.
- 21:14Speaker 1: I think in a lot of ways, rock and roll
- 21:16Speaker 1: is born of feral authenticity, and all the great movements
- 21:23Speaker 1: in popular music, whether it's blues, country, punk, grunge, hip hop,
- 21:31Speaker 1: there's always this hardcore authenticity at the center of it
- 21:36Speaker 1: in ways that isn't necessarily represented in other elements of society,
- 21:42Speaker 1: in Hollywood, in politics and sports, and rock and roll.
- 21:49Speaker 1: In a lot of ways, popular music, I should say,
- 21:51Speaker 1: in a lot of ways kind of cornered the market
- 21:53Speaker 1: culturally on authenticity, and I think that leads that has
- 21:56Speaker 1: led to the demand. I have never been one of
- 21:59Speaker 1: these people. I loved the Strokes when they came out,
- 22:04Speaker 1: excuse me, And I was smart enough to know that
- 22:06Speaker 1: a lot of the a lot of the DC hardcore
- 22:08Speaker 1: band's not going to name any names that I that
- 22:10Speaker 1: I was into growing up, or even some of the
- 22:12Speaker 1: New York hardcore bands, or like the Beastie Boys or whoever,
- 22:15Speaker 1: like that these guys came from families that were, you know,
- 22:19Speaker 1: of a different class than the family that I came from,
- 22:22Speaker 1: and that was part of the reason. I mean, certainly
- 22:24Speaker 1: the Beastie Boys for example, you know, if if their
- 22:28Speaker 1: parents weren't who they were, and I'm not saying that
- 22:31Speaker 1: you know their parents were truly and Casablancis's parents, but
- 22:35Speaker 1: you know I didn't. I you know, Mike D's mom
- 22:38Speaker 1: was like a famous art dealer, you know what I mean.
- 22:41Speaker 1: Like who their parents were directly impacted who the Beastie
- 22:46Speaker 1: Boys became. I'm not going to besmirch them for that
- 22:50Speaker 1: in any way, but I don't know. I hope I
- 22:52Speaker 1: answered your question on the authenticity piece. I hope I did.
- 22:56Speaker 1: I just think that historically we have look to rock
- 23:00Speaker 1: and roll with a higher standard when it comes to
- 23:03Speaker 1: the concept of authenticity, then we do other elements of
- 23:07Speaker 1: our culture, and that's why fans are so demanding of it.
- 23:11Speaker 1: Hope that answered your question. Thanks to Carlin. Appreciate it.
- 23:13Speaker 1: Keep calling back. Four eight zero writes in I received
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- 23:21Speaker 1: to send those T shirts out the merch. Not everybody
- 23:24Speaker 1: got T shirts. Some people got merch stickers, pins, but yeah,
- 23:28Speaker 1: everything went out. I think I got one to mail
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- 23:56Speaker 1: help power the show. They help with discovery. I've been
- 23:58Speaker 1: saying this for years. You all know what I'm talking about.
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- 24:33Speaker 1: three eight. Got this text from Flow and the three
- 24:36Speaker 1: one seven, who says I would like to first thank
- 24:38Speaker 1: you sincerely for the time and research it takes to
- 24:41Speaker 1: run all your podcasts. They're enthusiastically composed, well read, and
- 24:44Speaker 1: thorough two things. When can we expect Almarsey or The
- 24:48Speaker 1: Smith's Pod. Also, you mentioned bourbons quite often. I was
- 24:52Speaker 1: merely curious if there were a few bourbons you enjoy
- 24:55Speaker 1: more than others. As a chef, I can't help a
- 24:57Speaker 1: pair of stuff together. And when I listen to Disgrace
- 24:59Speaker 1: Land and I like pairing a bourbon with mood of
- 25:02Speaker 1: whichever pod I'm sinking my ears teeth into. Thanks for
- 25:07Speaker 1: all that you do, rock a rolla. Yeah, there's a
- 25:10Speaker 1: lot of bourbons that I like. I think, you know,
- 25:13Speaker 1: if it depends on what shape my bank account's in.
- 25:16Speaker 1: But I do enjoy some Blantons, and I try to
- 25:19Speaker 1: keep at least one bottle of Blantons in my bar
- 25:23Speaker 1: here at home for when I you know, when I'm
- 25:25Speaker 1: gonna have just one bourbon, just me alone with one
- 25:28Speaker 1: drink that night, I'll go for a Blantons. I like
- 25:30Speaker 1: the knob Creek rye. Not exactly bourbon, but I like
- 25:33Speaker 1: their rye a lot. Can't go wrong with Woodford Reserve.
- 25:36Speaker 1: I know some snobs will say otherwise. In Buffalo Trace.
- 25:39Speaker 1: Buffalo Trace is a good affordable, mid mid level, affordable bourbon.
- 25:45Speaker 1: And you know, I've had some Van Winkles at my
- 25:46Speaker 1: time too, and tasty, damn tasty. So there you go.
- 25:50Speaker 1: I'd love to talk more bourbon. Anyone else want to
- 25:52Speaker 1: talk about bourbon, hit me up. I don't want to
- 25:54Speaker 1: pretend that I know a lot about it. I don't.
- 25:55Speaker 1: I basically just gave you my whole, all of my
- 25:58Speaker 1: knowledge as somebody's been done a bourbon tour before. Not
- 26:03Speaker 1: a lot of it's stuck. And you can probably guess why.
- 26:05Speaker 1: But if anyone on any of you are bourbon connoisseurs,
- 26:08Speaker 1: get in touch. I'd love to learn more from talking
- 26:10Speaker 1: to you. All about it six one seven nine oh
- 26:12Speaker 1: six six six three eight voicemail text to get in
- 26:15Speaker 1: touch at Disgrace Lampod on the Socials, Colton over on
- 26:19Speaker 1: Spotify says, let's hear about the Doors. Well, we do
- 26:21Speaker 1: have a doors episode for you, Colton, you can check
- 26:23Speaker 1: that out over on Instagram. Too Weird to Live, Too
- 26:27Speaker 1: Rare to Die comments that, Hey, Laurel Canyon, it's pretty
- 26:31Speaker 1: straightforward and that's in reference to our Bob Weird episode.
- 26:35Speaker 1: And you can hear more about Laurel Canyon in our
- 26:38Speaker 1: exclusive section of this after Party. As I mentioned before.
- 26:41Speaker 1: Moose Falcon over on Instagram as well, also writes, in
- 26:45Speaker 1: relationship to Bob Weir's Bohemian Grove affiliation, this ticked me
- 26:50Speaker 1: off like no other. Never could stomach this dude after
- 26:53Speaker 1: finding this out, and I had hundreds of hours by
- 26:56Speaker 1: this band on record the whole I'm Uncle Sam, That's
- 26:59Speaker 1: who I am. High out in a rock and roll band.
- 27:01Speaker 1: In Plain Sight, Jerry talks about working with the government
- 27:04Speaker 1: and new clippings. In the insert CD of Dix picked
- 27:07Speaker 1: seventy two from Maryland with the crab on the front,
- 27:10Speaker 1: and it just blew me away. I love Jerry and Phil,
- 27:12Speaker 1: but something about Bobby just pisses me off and I
- 27:15Speaker 1: have no control over it.
- 27:17Speaker 5: Hey, what what is this?
- 27:19Speaker 1: What is this about Jerry talking about working with the government.
- 27:22Speaker 1: Get back at me, Moose Falcon. Let me know, Marlow
- 27:26Speaker 1: underscore Stanfield four two o rights. Bobby was a great
- 27:29Speaker 1: man that did positive things to help the world. Why
- 27:32Speaker 1: are you trying to bash him? Well, you see Marlow
- 27:34Speaker 1: Stanfield four two oh. Despite your your wire reference in
- 27:38Speaker 1: your in your title, dude, I'm not bashing Bob Weir
- 27:43Speaker 1: even in the slightest. I'm asking questions. I'm curious, dude, curious.
- 27:49Speaker 1: All right, Guys at dis Gray sand Pot on the
- 27:52Speaker 1: Socialist you want to have a conversation there, I guess
- 27:55Speaker 1: we can do it there, but it's better to just
- 27:57Speaker 1: hit me up on the cell six point seven nine
- 28:00Speaker 1: six six sixty three eight voicemail and text talk about
- 28:03Speaker 1: anything you want. I'll be back after this with your emails.
- 28:21Speaker 1: Freddie Glover emails us saying hey, died too young. I've
- 28:24Speaker 1: been listening to you since you started appreciate all the
- 28:26Speaker 1: time you and the crew behind the scenes due. But anyways,
- 28:30Speaker 1: how about a Cliff Burton from Metallica episode appreciate y'all? Freddy,
- 28:33Speaker 1: my man, Freddie, Freddie. We've got a Cliff Burton from
- 28:36Speaker 1: Metallica episodes in the archive. Go check that out. You're
- 28:38Speaker 1: gonna dig it. Dan Kerns writes in with a Hall
- 28:41Speaker 1: of Fame teas Here in the email, Jake says, hey,
- 28:45Speaker 1: Dan from the eight one eight and og Disco from
- 28:48Speaker 1: drop one even through the Amazon era. Google Brian Harvey
- 28:52Speaker 1: slash House of Freaks and check out what happened to
- 28:54Speaker 1: him and his wife and two daughters. I was at
- 28:57Speaker 1: the Freak's debut LP release party in LA where they
- 28:59Speaker 1: play a scorching set, and I was hooked there from Richmond,
- 29:02Speaker 1: Virginia and came to LA like so many before and after,
- 29:05Speaker 1: they make it, and they achieved a modicum of success
- 29:07Speaker 1: and returned to Richmond, which was their goal all along,
- 29:10Speaker 1: and after some years they're playing locally. It happened. This
- 29:13Speaker 1: should spurn you to check out what happened. Fucking brutal,
- 29:18Speaker 1: br ut al all caps. The only aspect of this
- 29:21Speaker 1: story that might keep it from Disgraceland is that hof
- 29:25Speaker 1: were fairly obscure, but believe me in La they were
- 29:28Speaker 1: hot dk Dan, obscurity does not scare me. If this
- 29:34Speaker 1: is truly a compelling story, I will dig into it.
- 29:36Speaker 1: Does anyone else know about House of Freaks? Let me
- 29:38Speaker 1: know I'm gonna dig into this. I'm gonna make a
- 29:41Speaker 1: note right now because this sounds very interesting. Appreciate you
- 29:44Speaker 1: Dan six one seven nine oh sixty six six three
- 29:46Speaker 1: eight voicemail, text, or you can email me Disgrace Laandpod
- 29:50Speaker 1: at gmail dot com, send in your recommendations for future episodes,
- 29:54Speaker 1: or hit me with anything you guys want to talk about.
- 29:56Speaker 1: All right, Matt, you know what I want to talk
- 29:58Speaker 1: about this? Get ready? All right? Listen this. This is
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- 30:22Speaker 1: When do you realize that the Boston Red Sox that
- 30:26Speaker 1: their lineup going in to spring training in the twenty
- 30:30Speaker 1: twenty sixth season. Could could could include the following Roman, Anthony,
- 30:38Speaker 1: Alex Bregman, Raphael Devers. Right, all the Red Sox had
- 30:42Speaker 1: to do is basically nothing except spend a little bit
- 30:45Speaker 1: of money. And I'm not talking about Dodgers money. I'm
- 30:48Speaker 1: not talking about Mets, Mets money, Yankees money. I'm not
- 30:51Speaker 1: even talking about Blue Jays money. Just a don't trade
- 30:55Speaker 1: raffievers for basically nothing in return. Maybe instead try applying
- 30:59Speaker 1: a little humility to relationship that you messed up and
- 31:02Speaker 1: b give Alex Bregman the no trade clause that he
- 31:05Speaker 1: wanted in a competitive offer. Instead, the Red Sox have
- 31:09Speaker 1: to be too clever by half. You can't win championships
- 31:12Speaker 1: and the MLB by being too clever by half without
- 31:16Speaker 1: stacked stars in your lineup. That means you have to
- 31:19Speaker 1: spend money. You can't even compete in the postseason without
- 31:23Speaker 1: spending money. This isn't the NFL parody does not play
- 31:26Speaker 1: into it. This is gross, is what it is. It's depressing. Roman, Anthony,
- 31:32Speaker 1: Alex Bregman, Raffie Devers. Imagine that that's Manny Ramirez, David Ortiz,
- 31:37Speaker 1: Johnny damon level. It's a bum out, man, It's a
- 31:40Speaker 1: bum out that. How'd I do it?
- 31:42Speaker 6: A minute and a half?
- 31:43Speaker 5: Jake?
- 31:44Speaker 6: And since we're talking baseball, just want to say rip
- 31:48Speaker 6: to Bill Mazerowski who brought us one of the greatest
- 31:51Speaker 6: World Series moments ever in nineteen sixty The y insers
- 31:55Speaker 6: know who I'm talking about.
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- 33:03Speaker 1: All right, Speaking to Patreon, Speaking of the all access
- 33:06Speaker 1: portion of Disgraceland, we are going to get into our
- 33:09Speaker 1: Laurel Canyon Military Industrial Complex, pop star disinformation music history
- 33:16Speaker 1: campaign in the exclusive section of this after party where
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- 33:39Speaker 1: Welcome guys. As always mentioned a bunch of Disgraceland episodes
- 33:43Speaker 1: here in this episode, couple of Kind of Mind, the
- 33:45Speaker 1: Doors Metallica Mount have the episode information in the show notes,
- 33:49Speaker 1: so you can easily navigate your way to those episodes
- 33:51Speaker 1: should you want to listen to them. Gonna recap real quick,
- 33:54Speaker 1: all right. Number one. This week our new episode on
- 33:57Speaker 1: Bob we are part three of our Grateful Dead saga.
- 33:59Speaker 1: That's a very before you're right now. Number two get
- 34:01Speaker 1: a rewind episode coming up right after this on Bob Marley.
- 34:04Speaker 1: Next week our part two episode on in Excess. Number
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- 34:27Speaker 1: one seven nine oh six six six three eight. Your
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- 34:31Speaker 1: So keep calling, texting with your answers to this week's
- 34:34Speaker 1: question of the week or whatever else you want to
- 34:35Speaker 1: talk about. Number seven. Don't forget discos. This isn't just content.
- 34:38Speaker 1: It's a community, a community of the obsessed, and no
- 34:41Speaker 1: one cares about music books records in the Crime and Grime.
- 34:44Speaker 1: It ties them all together, like you do. And well
- 34:47Speaker 1: that's a disgrace, all right. The CIA's favorite syop, I'm kidding.
- 34:52Speaker 1: Jerry Garcia from The Grateful Dead died on August ninth,
- 34:55Speaker 1: nineteen ninety five, and this was what America was listening
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