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Back to SearchThe Eagles Pt. 2: Death, a Plane Crash, and Innocence Lost at What Cost
Season 9 Episode 98
In the 1970s, The Eagles made taking off into the upper stratosphere of the charts look easy. Their near decade-long reign of rock afforded them hobbies like dismantling hotel rooms with chainsaws, p…
Published on 3 years, 8 months ago
The Eagles Pt. 1: International Drug Smuggling, Endless Cocaine, and California Excess
Season 9 Episode 97
From games of chicken on private planes to one member surviving a private plane crash, the Eagles as a group very narrowly survived themselves. During their early days, they dosed out on Peyote and r…
Published on 3 years, 9 months ago
Bonus Episode: Just A Cook, Napkin Hats, and Big Country
Season 15
This week Jake talks the inspiration and background behind this week's brand-new DISGRACELAND episode on Anthony Bourdain, plus your emails, voicemails, texts, and DMs. What did you think of the Bour…
Published on 3 years, 10 months ago
Hank Williams: Sanatoriums, Poison Pills, and Fired from the Grand Ole Opry
Season 9 Episode 96
Hank Williams defined the genre we now call country with a guitar in one hand and a bottle of booze in the other. In between stints in the local drunk tank, he cultivated a knack for blue-collar blue…
Published on 3 years, 10 months ago
Sublime: Hoodlums, Police Helicopters, and Getting Dirty at Denny’s
Season 9 Episode 95
With their newfangled ska-punk, Sublime preached the gospel of Long Beach’s seedy shores unlike any band before them. They also incited a riot at the first show, vandalized their record label’s headq…
Published on 3 years, 10 months ago
Tom Petty: House Fires, Hiding a Heroin Habit, and Run-Down Dreams
Season 9 Episode 94
When a mystery arsonist set Tom Petty’s house on fire in the late 1980s, he barely escaped with his life. But there was another danger looming around the corner — a heroin addiction that drove him in…
Published on 3 years, 11 months ago
Taylor Swift: Horrifying Stalkers
Season 9 Episode 93
Taylor Swift has a list of stalkers longer than her stadium tour setlists. One drove over 900 miles to hand-deliver his “love” letters to her then-record-label, Big Machine Records. Others have showe…
Published on 3 years, 11 months ago
Derek and the Dominos: Clapton, Cocaine, Motorcycles, and Murder
Season 8 Episode 92
In 1960s London, for young guitar enthusiasts, believing that “Clapton is God” was practically the 11th Commandment. In 1970 he lent his big, sticky tone to yet another band: Derek and the Dominos. T…
Published on 4 years ago
Woodstock Pt. 2: A Disaster Movie
Season 8 Episode 91
The original Woodstock was a literal disaster, declared so on its first day by the state of New York. There were fights, onstage, armed black-shirted hippie gestapo on patrol, and most notably, two d…
Published on 4 years, 1 month ago
Woodstock Pt. 1: A Disaster Movie
Season 8 Episode 90
Woodstock is remembered as the generation-defining moment when the baby boomers demonstrated to the world the power of peace, love and communalism. In reality, what went down at Old Man Yasgur’s farm…
Published on 4 years, 1 month ago