DISGRACELAND - Bonus Episode: A Brief History of Gun Violence from Music’s Past

Episode Date: November 20, 2025

“The Devil’s Right Hand" – the gun. Many have died by it in music history. From the unknown piano player who helped influence rock ‘n’ roll to iconic stars like Marvin Gaye and John Lennon. On the heels of our Dr. John episode detailing the shooting that changed the trajectory of his career, and in advance of our Martin Scorsese archive episode detailing the rock ‘n’ roll director’s plan to shoot and kill his producer, we are giving you a brief history of gun violence in music history with a special dive into the shooting of jazz great Lee Morgan in the exclusive section of this bonus After Party episode. You can become an All Access member and hear this and more exclusive content, along with ad-free listening of all Disgraceland episodes, by going to disgracelandpod.com and signing up via Patreon or Apple Podcasts. To hear more great Disgraceland stories, check out our archive for episodes like these: Episode 121 - Otis Redding Episode 12 - James Brown Episode 24 - Spade Cooley To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoicesSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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On this bonus episode, we're giving a brief history of gun violence from music's past, digging into the music that you listen to to lift you up, Rewinding back from the Dr. John shooting to the potential Martin Scorsese shooting, previewing next week's episode on the band. We get into your voicemails, text, DMs, and as always, a whole lot of rosy. This is the podcast for the musically obsessed, the outsiders, the independent thinkers who know that the best history is the history that gets buried. Disgraceland is where I tell the stories they didn't want told, the kind you'll end up telling someone else. All right, discos, let's get into it.

Last night I saw the trailer for a new documentary on HBO called Thoughts and Prayers. The film examines active shooter preparedness in modern American life, and it got me thinking about all the rock stars who've lived and died by the gun, by what Steve Earle called the devil's right hand. My first pistol was a cap and ball colt, shoot as fast as lightning, but it loads of might slow. Loads of might slow as I soon forward. found out, it can get you into trouble, but it can't get you out. So then I went and bought myself

a Colt 45 called a peacemaker, but I never knew why. I never knew why I didn't understand. Mama said the pistol is the devil's right hand. Music history is outlaw history, and this history is fascinating, something more akin to a Scorsese movie than what was inside those history books that they gave us in high school. So in this bonus episode, let's dive into a brief history of violence, gun violence from music's past. We start with one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century, an artist whose name is almost completely lost to history, because of a bullet, James Pinetop Smith, a piano player whose boogie-wogie style back in the 1920s led to the creation of rock and roll. Pinetop literally invented the...

term boogie-woogie. And his style and even some of his lyrics can be heard in those excellent Ray Charles Atlantic recordings from early in Ray's career. Songs like Mess Around and What I Say. Pine Topps' future was wide open when he was playing back in the late 20s, but a stray bullet at a Chicago house party cut him down, ending his career and his life at the age of just 25. This was a decade after blues musician, Leadbelly, shot Will Stafford between the eyes and killed the man over an argument. Leadbelly did about eight years a hard time before he was released on a pardon. The Texas governor at the time was reportedly moved enough by a leadbelly performance to grant the musician and killer clemency.

On Christmas Day, 1954, R&B singer Johnny Ace, accidentally put a bullet in his head while playing Russian roulette by himself. In 1963, in an obscure juke joint, James Brown nearly shot Otis Redding, who was on stage performing at the time. Now, Otis wasn't the target. Singer Joe Tex, who James Brown hated, he was the target. Both survived, but the legend of this incident

still looms as an example of the violent Chitland circuit from back in the day. In 1972, in one of Manhattan's East Village Dives, jazz trumpeter Lee Morgan was shot, and killed by his wife, Helen, who, after nursing her husband back from a debilitating heroin addiction, was none too happy with Lee Morgan's flagrant philandering. Lee Morgan could have survived his wife's bullet, were it not for the raging snowstorm outside Slug's saloon where he lay bleeding out. The ambulance arrived too late to save the horn

player, and this story's friggin' wild. I could talk about this all day. More details on this coming up for you guys in the exclusive all-access section of this afterparties. Seth and I are going to get into it over there. So stick around. You'll hear that. Sam Cook, shot and killed. Marvin Gaye, shot and killed. John Lennon, Kurt Cobain, Tupac, Biggie, Selena, Jam Master Jay, Dye, Daimberg, Daryl.

The list of musicians who died by the gun goes on and on and on. The eras change. The scenes change. The style of music may change. the gun remains. Spade Cooley, Phil Spector, Taked K-47, Jim Gordon, Roger Troutman, maybe Jerry Lee Lewis. All these dudes, I'm not saying Jerry Lee Lewis, but all the other dudes, they all used the devil's right hand, as Steve Rall said, to kill. Dr. John, this week's full episode subject of disgrace and was nearly killed in a gunfight. His hand was shot up and he was forced to give up playing guitar

and to become a piano player. Perhaps that was something good that came from gun violence. You can make that argument, I guess. Martin Scorsese, the subject of our next rewind episode, not a musician, but arguably the most rock and roll filmmaker of all time. He had to be talked out of shooting his producer on taxi driver by none other than Steve and Spielberg. And that story, as incredible as it is, like the Dr. John's story, is revelatory.

But neither story, they're not hard to believe. Because the gun in gun violence has been at the same. center of music history going back over 100 years. It's as much a part of the American soundtrack as boogie-wogie piano playing and jazz trumpets and Otis Redding and Marvin Gay and all the rest because music history is outlaw history. And personally, I can't get enough of it. I'll be back after this with your calls, texts, emails, and more. There's two golden rules that any man should live by. Rule one, never mess with a country girl. You play stupid games, you get stupid prizes. And rule two, never mess with her friends either. We always say that trust your girlfriends.

I'm Anna Sinfield, and in this new season of the girlfriends, oh my God, this is the same man. A group of women discover they've all dated the same prolific con artist. I felt like I got hit by a truck. I thought, how could this happen to me? The cops didn't seem to be. care. So they take matters into their own hands. I said, oh, hell no. I vowed. I will be his last target. He's going to get what he deserves. Listen to the girlfriends. Trust me, babe. On the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. This season on Dear Chelsea, with me, Chelsea Handler, we have some fantastic guests like Amelia Clark. When like young people come up to me and they want to be an actor or whatever.

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So consider us your slacker movie clerks in podcast form. I would like to establish a timeline of the moment you figured out who Channing Taitan was. Every Tuesday, we dig into the movies we can't stop obsessing over, from hidden gems to big screen favorites. New episodes drop every week on the exactly right network. Listen to Dear Movies I Love You on the Iheart radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. All right, good people of disgrace and discos across the United States of America and beyond. We are here hanging on the telephone back in the saddle again in the after party and talking about Dr. John this week's full episode subject of disgrace land. Dr. John, the great Mac Revenick,

prompted the question of the week, which was, what music heals you? What music do you put on to pull yourself out of those dark places that James L. Roy warned us about? Let's check out Ben from the 541. Hey, Jake, this is Ben from the 541. I'm a counselor, and I love music and art, and I definitely use music to help my mood. But I have different ones. Like when I'm really down and I just, I don't know what to do, I'm feeling really low. I love to listen to old Delta Blues, like Leadbelly and Sun House, up to like Muddy Waters. So I love that genre right there.

And then if I'm angry, I want to listen, I want to listen to Rage Against the Machine. I want to listen to Tool. You know, I want to listen to things that kind of get that aggression out. But when I'm happy, man, I want to listen to Grateful Bed. I want to listen to Sublime. I want to listen to Hank Williams Jr. or Dolly Parton. I mean, it's the vibe of the person. It's a vibe of the band more than the genre when it comes to being happy.

I've been listening to you since your first episode, man. I found you just based on the picture on the iTunes there, and I hadn't heard anybody produced a show like you. I hadn't anybody tell a story like you with the music and the beat and the, man, I've been hooked ever since, brother. You're doing a great job. Ben, you and I have the exact opposite approach in regards to calibrating our emotions with music. It looks like you reinforce the emotion with your music selection.

I kind of do the opposite when I'm sad, at least. I don't listen to sad music. I just, I want to go totally opposite. I want to listen to Casey and the Sunshine. band like I mentioned, I want to listen to Sheik. By the way, this is an unpaid endorsement here, but the Studio 54 station on Sirius is Mine and Zeth's New Obsession. It's really hard to find, for me anyways, for some of you it won't be hard, but for me, it's hard to find obscure disco on the fly. I mean, I know it's out there. I'm not a connoisseur of it. And if I go to any of the

streamers and I try to search for disco that I like, that's maybe, be new to me that I haven't heard, that's soulful, that's not just like all the shit we've heard a million times. It's, it's hard to find that stuff on Spotify and elsewhere, but I got to say the Studio 54 station does a good job with the disco choice nugs. And it will lift you up out of your funk, all right? Unlike the Delta Blues there, Ben, I can't go there when I'm sad. But I hear you. You know, there was a time when I did, just not anymore. I'm more with you when you're feeling unhappy already and you're putting on the dead or when you're you know you're in the gym and you're rocking out to rage i get that i get that but uh i can't reinforce the sadness with the sad vibes

nonetheless thanks for your call ben appreciate you let's check out scottie from the three one three hey jac it's scotty from the three one three yo what up troy i wanted to answer a question regarding music that heals you and i agree with you um you know when i'm feeling like i need to healed by music. It's a lot of upbeat stuff like funk, soul, R&B. But I wanted to share with you something that healed me in a time when I really needed it. Back in 2007, I was in Afghanistan and I discovered a record by Eels. Remember Eels? Nova came for the soul? Well, they had an album called Blinking Lights and Other Revelations. And this album was very long, very underrated, and it is a journey to listen to.

But towards the, probably the second third of the album, there's a track on it called, hey, man, now you're really living. And I encourage anyone who is listening to this to reach out and listen to that track. During the many years that I spent in Afghanistan and Iraq, any time I was feeling down,

which was a lot of times, I would put that particular song on and then I would cry and then I would be somewhat healed. 20 years later, I still listen to that song whenever I need a quick picnic. So thanks for listening. Scotty, thanks for the call man. I love Eels. Don't know this record. I say I love Eels.

My relationship with Eels is every time I've ever heard a song, I've gone like, oh, what's this? This is very interesting. I kind of like it a lot. And then I find out it's the Eels and then I don't dig in any deeper. So I'm going to take your message here as a prompt to listen to this album. I'm going to check it out. I'm going to check out, hey, man, now you're really living as well. Appreciate you sharing your story here. Thank you for your service, Scotty. Appreciate you. If anyone out there listening right now knows Mark from Eels, shoot him this episode. I'm sure he'd appreciate hearing what Scotty has to say about his music and how it helped him while he was overseas in a dark place. Thanks for the message, Scotty. By the way, love the Eels tune that was in Black Rabbit recently, Prize Fighter. See, I know that song. All right, let's check out Chris from the 612.

Hey, Jake, this is Chris, calling from the 612. You asked a question about what band or music had revived you. And I have an experience at the Minnesota Zoo with Government Meal. I had just gotten out of jail that morning after a DUI. My life was not good at all. I was going down the wrong track. And it all hit me at once. You know what?

Life's pretty simple. And all you got to do is go see good music and enjoy the beauty that's all around us and do the best you can. And that was about 25 years ago and my life's been stellar ever since. And it keeps getting better. Thanks for a lot. Keep doing what you're doing. I appreciate it. Chris, my man, you're calling in from your own episode of disgrace in here, brother.

You're absolutely right. Life is pretty simple. Just listen to the music. Happy to hear that music set you straight and that you are doing well. 617-906-66-6638 guys you can hit us up anytime voicemail and text let us know how you're doing let us know what you're up to give us your thoughts on the question of the week you can leave a voicemail like chris and scottie and uh ben who we just heard from or you can send us a text like the 775 who writes in hey jake your cadence feels a little higher in the dr john episode was this a conscious

decision or pure accident? Interesting. I didn't catch that. Not on purpose. One thing that has changed recently in the last couple months is I switched up the way I record. For the last couple of years, I've been standing up in a booth doing it. Prior to that, I was sitting down. I'm back to sitting down. And not only am I sitting down on my desk, as opposed to sitting down in a booth. And maybe it's freed me up a little. I don't know. But a high cadence doesn't it doesn't indicate me being free. It indicates me being kind of cooped up. So I have no idea, but I appreciate the text. Thanks, 775. 512 writes in, hey, Jake, this is Nathan from Houston via 512. You asked where we listened to the podcast. And I thought you might appreciate that I did a

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You can find our email on the site, and we'll be. We will sort it out. I know that there's a way to manage your RSS feed, has to do with Apple subscriptions, has to do with Patreon. I'm not exactly sure what. I know that this has come up for people in the past. I want to sort it out for you. The bottom line, if you are a subscriber, you should absolutely be getting these episodes

ad-free. And if you're not, get in touch and we will figure it out for you. 615 writes in, my husband and I are watching a documentary on Led Zeppelin, and I'm going to make a highly unpopular statement. I thought most of their songs were boring, not all, but most. 615, I could not disagree more strongly, but I appreciate the, I just the confidence in your dislike of Led Zeppelin. Yeah, go for it. Especially because you wrote later, you wrote back in, he said you like Thin Lizzie in BTO a lot more. And I dig that too. Way to go. I thought

the Zeppelin documentary was boring, though. I'll tell you that. That's what happens sometimes when the artists are fully cooperating, as they say, with the filmmakers. Anyhow, 617-906-66-66-36-3-8. You want to hit me up on voicemail? I want to hit me on text. Get at it. Next week is Thanksgiving week. So we are giving you our Thanksgiving episode.

You know the one, the one on the band in the last waltz. And, you know, you should also fire up the last waltz next week. I tend to do this every year. For sure, the greatest Thanksgiving concert film ever. and after you watch it, hit us up. 617-906-66-6-6-3-8 and let us know what your favorite concert film of all time is. Is it the last waltz? It's got to be, right?

Is there even a close second? I have a close second, but you're going to have to wait to next week's after-party to hear my choice. 617-906-6638. If you want to hit me up, leave a voicemail. Maybe you'll hear yourself on the after-party next week. Send me a text. Maybe I'll read it. Get the voicemails and the text in quick, though.

If you're hearing this after-party on a Thursday, on a Friday, call me up right away because we are recording next week's bonus episode super early because of the holiday. And we're not going to be around next week. So there you go. Get at me. Can't wait to hear from you. I'll be back in a flash with your emails. It's been a minute since I read some emails. So here they come right after this. There's two golden rules that any man should live by. Rule one, never mess with a country girl. You play stupid games. You get stupid prizes. And Rule 2, never mess with her friends either.

We always say that trust your girlfriends. I'm Anna Sinfield, and in this new season of the girlfriends... Oh my God, this is the same man. A group of women discover they've all dated the same prolific con artist. I felt like I got hit by a truck. I thought, how could this happen to me? The cops didn't seem to care. So they take matters into their own hands.

I said, oh, hell no. I vowed. I will be his last target. He's going to get what he deserves. Listen to the girlfriends. Trust me, babe. On the IHart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast.

This season on Dear Chelsea, with me, Chelsea Handler, we have some fantastic guests like Amelia Clark. When, like, young people come up to me and they want to be an act or whatever. My first thing is always, can you think of anything else that you can do. Rather be disappointed in. Do that.

Dennis Leary. I wake up and I'm hitting him in the head with a water bomb. And Bruce Jenner is on the aisle in a karate stance. Like he's about to attack me. Like making karate noises. And the entire the Kardashian family over there, everybody's going. And the air marshal is trying to grab my arms and screaming. And I immediately know that I've been asleepwalking.

David O'Yellowo. I love this podcast, whether it's therapy or relationships or relationships or religion or sex or addiction or you just go straight for the guts. Guy Branham. So anyway, Nicole Kimman broke up with Keith Thurban. Being half of a country couple was always a hat she was going to wear, not like a life she was going to lead. Oh, interesting.

I like that. Did you practice that on your way over? Gaten Matarazzo from Stranger Things. Tena, Monjou, Camilla Morone, Carrie Kenny Silver. And more. Listen to these episodes of Dear Chelsea on the Iheart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Remember when you'd walk into your local video rental place and there were always those two employees behind the counter arguing about movies? Well, that's us. I'm Millie de Cherico.

And I'm Casey O'Brien. And now we're arguing about movies on our podcast, Dear Movies I Love You, from the Exactly Right Network. Can I say something about the criterion closet? Go ahead, dude. They're letting too many people in there. Okay, that's another film, grape I got two. Sadly, that rental place doesn't exist anymore. It's probably a store that sells running shoes. Or an ice cream shop with an extra pee and an E at the end. So consider us your slacker movie clerks in podcast form.

I would like to establish a timeline of the moment you figured out who Channing Tatum was. Every Tuesday, we dig into the movies we can't stop obsessing over, from hidden gems to big screen favorites. New episodes drop every week on the Exactly Right Network. Listen to Deer Movies I Love You on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. All right, discos, we often do recommendations here in the after party. I've been doing them for a while. And I really love giving book recommendations, movie recommendations, music recommendations. I know you guys like the recommendations.

They become very popular. Get a lot of feedback. You guys send me your recs. It's great. here's what happens though. I get too lost in the recommendations. And it eats up a lot of time, specifically in these after parties. It makes the after parties go way long. So, but then I go, like, I can't do this. I can't. I just like, and then I don't do any recommendations for like a month or two or something like that. So it's just, I think what I want to do, I'm going to do this thing

in every episode. I'm trying to do this thing where from now on, okay, I'm going to do a quick recommendation segment. One book, one record, one documentary. I'm going to try and tie them to whatever episodes we're talking about this week. Okay, we've got a Scorsese episode coming up in the rewind slot this week, and then we've got the last Waltz episode coming up next week. So Scorsese is going to be the theme of my recommendations this week. And I know that the new Scorsese doc, Mr. Scorsese on Apple, is not an unknown commodity for you guys. But if for some reason, you guys have not, any of you are a Scorsese fan,

you haven't seen this yet, Paul Prue, I'm talking to you, run, okay, don't walk. It's incredible. It's so, so, so good. So that's the doc recommendation, Mr. Scorsese. For the book that I'm recommending, it's Made Men, which is the story of the making of Goodfellas, which Zeth asked me about yesterday,

and it turns out I've read it, and I just forgot I read it. I read it so long ago. But there's information in this book that I forgot about that Zeth reminded me of about the songs that Scorsese chose to be in the soundtrack for Goodfellas that didn't make it into that film.

That's in that book. It's a great reason to read the book, among many other reasons, made men by Goodfellas. But I'm going to talk more about that that little piece of info there on the Scorsese soundtrack in a bit. Put a pin in that.

my recommendation, my music recommendation, my record, my album recommendation is Jericho by the band. Now, this album has nothing to do with Martin Scorsese. Martin Scorsese's cocaine buddy Robbie Robertson isn't even on this album. It came out in the 90s, again, without Robbie Robertson. However, it's a great record and it has a scorching, scorching version of the band doing Bruce Springsteen's Atlanta. Manic City. And it's a great version, but it's not even the best version of the band doing. This is a live version that you can find of them doing this tune. That is also fantastic. I think it's from Austin City Limits or something like that. Don't quote me on that piece. But anyways,

just check out Jericho by the band. It's fantastic. It's an early 90s record. Really, really good. All right. Those are my wrecks for this week. Mr. Scorsese for documentary. Made Men, the book about the making of Goodfellas. That's my book wreck and Jericho by the band is my album wreck. If you guys want to recommend one book, one record, or one documentary, or anything else to me, hit me up 617-906-66-36-3-8. Okay, I'm going to bring you guys up to speed on something here. One of my favorite things on the planet is the convergence of great music and film. And we talk about it a lot, not in any formal sort of way, though. It's tangential to the music history and true crime

conversation that we're having on an ongoing basis. However, you know I'm a huge film nerd. You know who my guys are. You know the same about Zeth. So Zeth and I thought, why don't we do this new show? We'll do it for fun. We'll do it. We'll do it for our All Access members. And it will be just about the greatest music in the greatest movies of all time. All the great soundtracks, the great needle drops, the incredible scores, the albums that get by with super weird minimal scores, anywhere music meets film in an interesting way, that's what we're going to talk about in this podcast. We're going to talk about one film per episode, and we're going to talk about the music in that film. The new podcast is a video podcast. It's called This Film Should Be Played Loud,

which is a obvious reference to the very first frame of the last waltz. You see in huge letters, this film should be played loud, come across the screen, and you know to buckle up and to turn your television up to 11. So the first episode we filmed, we did this last night, was on the movie Goodfellas. Okay, now you can imagine Goodfellas is like the greatest soundtrack ever. There's a lot of interesting footnotes, music footnotes, in that movie. songs like I mentioned before that didn't make it into the film that Scorsesey wanted in the film. Actual musicians who are in the film, relatives of musicians who are in the film.

The way in which Scorsese uses music in this film is completely novel, and it's gone on to influence all of my favorite filmmakers after that pretty much, not all of them, but a lot. The music in Goodfellas is groundbreaking in so many different ways. and we spent about 45 minutes talking about it last night. Honestly, we could have spent three hours talking about it. We had a lot of fun in the lead-up, sort of sharing our notes, talking about our favorite scenes, et cetera, and a lot of that is going to come across on screen. So that is going to be available for you guys in a couple weeks in the middle of December.

It's going to be part of our All Access offering. You can get that. Go to disgrace. com to sign up. It's only going to be available for Patreon members at first. We might find a way to make the audio available for Apple subscribers at some point. But right now, if you're on Patreon, you're in for something cool coming your way soon. If you're just a free follower of ours on Patreon, now is the time to sign up.

This film should be played loud. It will be released monthly. And again, the first episode is coming your way in a couple weeks in the middle of December. Go to disgracefoddopod.com to sign up. All access members, you guys also know you get these mini episodes. I hope you dug the one this week on Dr. John. escaping the psych ward. Just fascinating.

For those of you who are not all-axis members, here is a taste. Here is a taste of what you're missing. The good doctor had seen it all. Vengeance, violence, drug-addled depravity. He once watched a kid from the neighborhood get his eye shot out. He himself looked down the barrel of Art Blakey's 9mm,

which Art pulled on him when he was caught sneaking through the drummer's place at night on the hunt for dope. Art's little girl was there when it happened, and she looked at her daddy and said, well, you're going to shoot him? Not yet, came Art Blakey's reply. Naturally, being a creature of the New Orleans underground where the musicians were on the level with junkies, pimps, and horrors, the good doctor had seen that woman down at the blue cat lounge who fucked a zebra.

Actually, it was a mule, but they painted the beast to look like a zebra. thus ensuring that the spectacle was not just regular all kinds of fucked up, but exotically all kinds of fucked up too, I guess. This, of course, was before that meddling DA, Jim Garrison, got himself obsessed with the assassination with President John F. Kennedy and had nothing better to do than to harass the clientele of New Orleans nightclubs and put a lot of hard-working cats out of work, the good doctor included. But I digress.

My point is that the good doctor, had seen so many things in his life. But 28-year-old Mac Rebinack, aka Dr. John, had never seen this before. Ella Fitzgerald, working as a nurse in a psych ward. All right, guys, disgraceandpot.com to sign up to become an all-access member today

and support the show. We really appreciate it. Your support helps us make all kinds of cool new content like this film should be played loud. Coming your way soon. I know. I promised I would read you guys some emails. Daniel Shea writes into us and the subject reads The Fish from Vermont.

Hey Jake, as a member of the fish community since 1994, I have to say you nailed it. I was terrified you're going to trash them. But in the best disgrace land style possible, you really tied everything together and created a great episode. I personally can't stand the nitrous at shows and think it really puts a dark vibe on the scene. Lots of folks love it, but I think it's a scourge on the community, the absolute mess left behind after shows. I personally don't think the nitrous is going anywhere due to the stacks of cash available. I think it would be amazing if you checked out a live fish show

to be able to witness the mostly amazing community in action. Hopefully I'll see you on Lott this summer or at MSG for the annual New Year's run. Keep up the great work. By the way, the fish from Vermont phrase comes from newsman Peter Jennings. He announced them that way during the millennium news coverage. ABC cut to a live feed at Big.

Cyprus and that's how we introduced them. It's been a fan, P-H-A-N joke ever since. And as a good example of how the band likes to mess with the mainstream, Trey told the festival crowd to chant cheesecake when ABC went live and to say, say it like you're pissed. It made the broadcast people so confused. As Zappa said, humor belongs in music, rockerola. Great email, Daniel. Appreciate you. And here I am thinking that we invented the fish, but it was Peter Jennings all along. Disgraceantpot at gmail.com Fish fans you want to get in touch or anybody else. Hit us up. Matt Robertson writes in subject matter radio head episode suggestion. Hey, Jake, love the podcast and the bonus episode. So a suggestion for a radiohead episode is in 2012. There's a stage collapse in Toronto that killed a drum tech.

And afterwards, there was a long drawn-out court battle with lots of finger pointing. Anyhow, I'm a big radiohead fan and thought this might work for you. Might be a way in Matt. Appreciate you out there in the 204 hitting us up. Yeah, I like this. I like this. Maybe it's a way to get into the sort of the sort of paranoia vibes of radiohead. Disgraceland pod at gmail.com. You guys want to hit us up. Matt, prep that old buzzer beater for me, will you? This is the 60 seconds sports rant in under 30 seconds

and is once again sponsored by Five Hour Energy's new pumpkin spice flavor, your favorite fall drink and an energy shot. You can pick up a Pumpkin Spice Five Hour Energy shot available online at fivehourenergy.com Or Amazon. You know, I'm not one of these sports fans who thinks he knows everything. Who's right all the time? So I am right more often than not, I will say, but I do on occasion get it wrong, as we all do. And when it comes to my thoughts on the lack of moves made by the Patriots' trade deadline, I think I was dead wrong.

Sure, they could use another edge rusher, but it looks like the paths knew exactly what they had in-house with running back Trayvion Henderson. And my rant a couple weeks ago, bitching about how Rabel in the front office whiffed on bringing backfield depth in was, well, wrong. This Henderson kid looks like the second coming at Tony Dorset out there. He can do it all power, breakaway speed, he can catch. Block and and, and it appears he can do all of that while holding onto the football. What a novel idea. I was wrong. There, I said it.

I was wrong. Let's hope I continue to be wrong. And this running back continues to shine. And the Patriots can ride him all the way to the Super Bowl. Matt, how did I do, my friend? 49 seconds this week, buddy. Not too bad. There you go.

Maybe we need more trade deadline help around here. Get me to produce these under the deadline more often. All right, that was the sports rant sponsored by Five Hour Energy's new pumpkin Spice flavor. These new Pumpkin Spice 5-Hour energy shots are fall in a bottle and bring that classic pumpkin spice flavor that we all know and love our favorite fall drink and an energy shot. You can pick up a pumpkin spice five-hour energy shot available online at 5-hourenergy.com or Amazon. So guys, as you may recall back in the B block, we're definitely doing an episode of disgrace and on Lee Morgan at some point. And that story has always intrigued me. And I could

have spent 20 minutes talking about it here earlier. I held back because Zeth and I are going to get into the details with a little more fullness, a little more descriptiveness, a little more of an info dive on this crazy story that will eventually be a disgrace to an episode. However, we're going to kind of pregame it here, do a little research and development in the exclusive section of this year after party. If you're not a All Access member and you want to hear this exclusive content and all kinds of exclusive content just like it, like our mini episodes. We want our ad-free listening experience. Just go to disgracecentpod.com and sign up.

Okay, Otis Redding, James Brown, Spade Cooley, in a ton more, too many to mention. Basically, every artist we mentioned in the B block, there's an episode of Disgracen on TK47, John Lennon. It just goes on and on. Matt will put the information to a couple of these episodes like he does every week in the show notes. So you can just dive into the show notes and you can navigate to these stories in our massive archive fairly quickly. 255 episodes plus and growing every week, guys.

Okay? Archive can be hard to navigate around. Matt's going to hook you up. Let's recap, shall we? Number one, this week's full episode on Mac Rebenack, aka Dr. John, is available for you right now. Number two, new mini episode for all access members on Dr. John escaping a psych ward. You're going to want to hear that. That's available for our patrons and our Apple subscribers.

Listeners. Number three, rewind episode on the most rock and roll of all film directors, Martin Scorsese. That's coming your way at the end of this week right after this. Next week comes our Thanksgiving episode on Scorsese, the band, and the Last Waltz. Fives, that gives you those Hollywoodland vibes in the Hollywoodland podcast. Make sure you are subscribed. 617-90666-3638. Your voice keeps us digging into the dark corners of music history. So keep calling, texting with your answers to this week's question of the week or with whatever else you want to talk about. And don't forget, this goes, this isn't just content. It's a community, a community of the obsessed. No one cares about music, books, records, and the crime and grime that

ties them all together like you do. And well, that's a disgrace. All right, Dr. John was shot on December 24th, 1961 in an event that changed the trajectory of his career and arguably in a positive way. And this is what America was listening to on that day, according to the Billboard charts. Number one, the lion sleeps tonight, the tokens. Last week, one. Weeks on chart, 15. Peak position, one. Number two, run to him, Bobby V.

Last week, three. Weeks on chart, 15. Peak position, two. Number three, the twist. Chubby Checker, last week. Four, weeks on churn, 30th. Peak position, one. Number four, goodbye, cool world, James Darren.

Last week, six, weeks on church, 17. Peak position, three. Number five, walk on by. Talking and start mixing. Cut it! When a group of women discover they've all dated the same prolific con artist, they take matters into their own hands. I vowed, I will be his life.

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