DISGRACELAND - Bonus: From the Nitrous Mafia to the Italian Mafia, the Criminal Enterprises That Infiltrate Music Culture

Episode Date: November 13, 2025

Gangsters, rude boys, drug dealers, soviet bootleggers, ticket scalping syndicates, and psychedelic chemists—why do criminals like the “Nitrous Mafia” associated with Phish, and the Italian Mafia linked to Tommy James, so often infiltrate and influence music culture? This topic, along with your voicemails, texts, and emails, and in the All Access portion, Jake and Zeth unpack the fascinating history of violence in Jamaican music. 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. For more great Disgraceland episodes, dive into our extensive archive, including such episodes as: Episode 104 - George Harrison Episode 36 - Rolling Stones in Exile Episode 135 - Aerosmith 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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Hey, Discos, need a little more disgrace land in your life? Just a touch to get you through? Yeah, me too. This is the podcast that comes after the podcast. Welcome to Disgraceland, the After Party. Welcome to the Disgraceland bonus episode, a little thing we like to call the after party. This is the show after the show, the party after the party, the bridge to get from one full episode of disgrace land to the other, the backyard to dig into the dirt. Our mission to uncover the truth, to confront the myth, to reclaim the story on this bonus episode, we're talking about the criminal enterprises that have infiltrated music culture, digging into the music that you vibe on when you are recreating, Rewinding back from the Nitrous Mafia to the Italian Mafia with Tommy James and the Shondels, previewing next week's episode on Dr. John, and 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. Recently, the so-called Nitrous Mafia was linked to a murder outside a 2025 fish concert in Virginia. Historically, throughout the history of popular music, the Italian Mafia has been linked to numerous crimes, paola, extortion, racketeering, and of course, even murder. Other criminal enterprises, violent Jamaican kingpins, illegal drug chemists, South Boston ticket scalpers, and do-it-yourself commie bootleg artists have all left significant. marks on music culture. But why? Why have criminals so strongly impacted the world of music?

Italian mafioso, nitrous oxide peddlers, Jamaican sound system gangs, Soviet bootleggers, ticket scalping syndic, psychedelic chemists, and the Brotherhood of Eternal Love, all of these criminal enterprises successfully infiltrated and undoubtedly impacted music culture. From the earliest days of recorded music, up through the 1980s, the Italian mafia's influence on the music industry could be felt everywhere. Mobsters determined which songs got played on the radio through Paola, the act of bribing DJs and programmers to spin specific records. Wise guys used muscle and extortion to build and control a lucrative network of jukebox operators, whose machines help popularize records that mafia-connected executives profited off. of see our next rewind subject tommy james as exhibit a and chuck berry frankie valley and basically the

entire mca artist roster in the 1970s as exhibits b c and d respectively in fact the chicago mob's influence on mca records was so strong in the 1970s that rolling stone magazine claimed mca stood for mafia controlled artists the so-called nitrous mafia the ballooned people who infiltrated the docile community of fish fans, the ones we cover in this week's full episode of disgrace land, continue to run their own extortion rackets, wage turf wars, and enforce a code of silence straight out of a Scorsese film. Recently, like I said, the group was linked to a murder outside of a 2025 fish concert in Virginia. Back in the 1950s and up through the 1970s in Jamaica, sound systems, essentially street parties,

powered by giant PA systems, these massive amalgams of speakers and cables and turntables and amplifiers, were the engines that ran the Jamaican music scene. Sound systems, both the parties and the literal equipment, were big business. Without Jamaican sound systems, the Jamaican music economy wouldn't have been possible. Many Jamaicans relied on music to put food on the table and thus relied on powerful sound systems. Sound system operators, Jamaican legends like Duke Reed, an ex-cop turned enforcer, and Coxon Dodd, a one-time cricket prodigy, hired the original rude boys, violent street tufts to protect their sound systems and to even sabotage sound systems operated by rival music promoters. Violent tussles over turf and stolen equipment were common,

as were shootouts when rival crews tried hijacking dances, most infamously when gunmen raided a Duke Reed party in Kingston, leaving several wounded. Criminally-minded sound system operators in Rood Boys created the foundation for ska and reggae music distribution and promotion. Without them, there would be no reggae, quantifiably one of the most listened to styles of music on the planet. Ticket scalping syndicates from the Southie dukees. outside the garden trying to get you to bite it on floor seats for Arrowsmith back in the day to modern bot firms that buy up thousands of tickets the instant they go on sale and flip them at ten times the price to line the pockets of gangster resellers and corporate ticket brokers. These corrupt agents and practices are so rampant that we as consumers have largely

just accepted them. The simple act of buying a concert ticket is proof of music culture crime hiding in plain sight. This example here might be the craziest. Back in the day, in Soviet Russia, independent-minded music lovers known as, excuse the pronunciation here, run-knat, press their own bootleg rock records, albums by the Rolling Stones, the Beatles, and Elvis Presley, onto discarded x-ray film. X-rays with images of ribs, skulls, and spines, and they then cut those x-rays into seven-inch discs, burned holes into the center of the discs with cigarette butts, and used specifically made DIY machines to cut grooves into the discs at 78 revolutions per minute, all so they could hear and profit off of band music. Half a world away in the United

States, the Brotherhood of Eternal Love, a California commune turned LSD cartel, funded a near psychedelic revolution through smuggling, counterfeiting, in large-scale acid production. The Brotherhood of Love supplied drugs for the Grateful Dead, Jimmy Hendricks, and countless other artists who cemented the hippie dream counterculture ethos with the baby boomer generation, the most economically consequential generation in American history.

But why? Why do criminal enterprises like The Brotherhood of Eternal Love or the Nitrous Mafia, the Italian Mafia, and others, why do they so frequently infiltrate and ultimately influence music culture, because every culture that promises freedom ends up breeding its own outlaws. Musicians and criminals operate from the same playbook, defiance, risk, charisma, self-invention, and control outside the system. This playbook created a playing field ripe for corruption. After all, outlaws like musicians chase.

the same thing. Freedom on their own terms. I'll be back with your voicemails, texts, and more 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 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 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?

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elements back in the day. So we unpack this a little bit more in the exclusive section of the after party today. This whole sound system operator, Jamaican music history piece that we dug into in the B block here, Zethe and I get into it a little bit later coming up in the exclusive part of the after party. You can access that content by becoming an all-access member. Just go to disgraceandpod.com to sign up just five bucks a month for the time being that I know I've been saying this over and over again. The price is going up. We've been delayed. So you can take advantage of that and you can still get it at $5 before the price. does increase and I promise you it is increasing. So that's coming up later for all access members.

All right. That's there for you. What I want to do now, I want to get into your voicemails and your text. And, you know, I was struggling when we did the fish episode, I was struggling to think of a good question. And I just kind of went super basic, super super simple. You know, obviously when people go to see fish, they're getting fucked up. Some aren't. Some are. You know, I have my good. go-toes, you know, and I'm about two, maybe, maybe three. Bourbons deep. I know what I'm listening to. You know, everybody imbibes in their own way. Everybody unwinds in their own way. And I thought it would be interesting to ask this question. You know, what do you listen to when, as one of you put it, you're recreating? So let's check out some voicemails and text from you guys on this

question of the week, inspired by, of course, The Fish. And check out this voicemail here from the 563. Judy. Hi, Jake. This is Judy from the 563. And I finally can answer a question without having to think too much about it. But what do I like to listen to when I am recreating? And it's a great album, very underrated.

I don't hear anything about it, never heard much about it. it. But Beck's Midnight Vultures. It's great. It is just a high for all of your senses. The horns, the crazy lyrics,

the visuals that are put into my head while listening to it. It's just wonderful. I love it. Keeps you in a good mood. It does not disappoint. So I'm curious to hear what you think about that album. Rocky, I love Midnight Vultures. It's not my favorite Beck album. And my favorite Beck album is C-Change, which is not, it's not something I want to listen to when I'm recreating, as you say. But Midnight Vultures definitely is. I can see that for sure. Crazy lyrics. Lyrics are amazing. The visuals, great. Just, I hear you on the feel-good piece. That's kind of what I want to get into when I'm recreating. I'm stealing your

word here. I love it. I want to get into stuff that makes me happy, stuff that makes me feel good, stuff that puts me, as you said, in a good mood and does not disappoint. I don't want to get too heavy. You know, I think when I first started recreating back when I was a younger man, I would listen to heavier music, both literally heavy music and figuratively heavy music. But, you know, I like to keep it light these days. I don't know if that's a sign of getting old or not, But Judy, excellent pick here with Midnight Vultures. Let's see what the 703 has to say on the subject. Hey, what's up, Jake?

Hey, this is Eric from the 703. I think you left a message asking about what do you like to listen to when you have edibles. I just really started picking edibles. So I guess I'm kind of a newbie at this. But anyway, what I like to listen to when I'm doing edibles, man, What I really enjoy, you're going to laugh, is I really like the pet shop boys, early, early pet shop boys. Don't get me wrong. Definitely, early pet shop boys. I guess that's it. Take care. Fine. All right, 703, pet shop boys. Not just any pet shop boys, early pet shop boys. You know what I'm going to do for you, 703. Next time I'm recreating, I'm going to listen to little West End girls. This song's incredible, by the way. And girls, you know, this is going to pair well with Beck's Midnight Vultures as well.

I think you guys have stumbled into a sort of a good little vibe here for a playlist. Could have used you on the mixtape mixology session we had with the Patreon listeners a couple weeks ago last week. That was fun. By the way, if you were in on that. Still have made the mixtapes, but hey, it hasn't even been a full seven days. Actually, it hasn't been actually seven days, eight days. And I'm going to get into making those tapes soon and get them out to you guys. my boy ish in the 7-8-1 back in the bean hits us up let's hear what he's got to say

Jake just checking in let's talk about the fish yes am I guilty of going to a fish show yes am I guilty of going to a tray and Anastasio show yes am I guilty of crossing paths and hanging out with the balloon people yes that being said thank you for the light layer of anxiety that this episode triggered i enjoyed it uh i will listen to it again next week thank you again keep up the great work disco ish it's been a minute thanks for getting at us um did not mean to inspire any level of anxiety I like how you're sort of insinuating that, you know, the music you listen to when you

recreate is, of course, fish and with the balloon people. You're kind of bringing it around full circle there, but did not mean to trigger the anxiety there. And I actually dig how you're, you're just low-key mentioning that you're going to go back and listen to this again next week, which is awesome. And now I want to know more about your disgracefully on listening habits. So please let us know. Stay in touch. Don't be a stranger-ish. Always appreciate your voicemails Andrew Tex, speaking of texts, and speaking of recreating, the 978 writes, and you know what would be dope, an episode about snot between the life and death of Lynn, the straight up album after his death, and his short-lived replacement, Tommy vexed,

later from bad wolves being a complete piece of shit. You know, someone was heavy on this snot thing about a year or so ago, and we lost track of it. I just, part of me can't take this serious, but part of me feels like I have to. do. I have to look into this. On the recreating question 301, King Gizzard in the Lizard Wizard, when I first heard this name, I didn't take them seriously. And of course, they've become their own sort of musical phenomenon. And yeah, I can't say that I've ever, just as I've never seen fish on purpose. I've never listened to King Gizzard in the Lizard Wizard on purpose either. But I will have to get into that. 412 writes in, hey, as a person that first smoked the

weed back in the 1980s. Gotta say we all listen to Peter Frampton. Do you feel like we do when we smoked? Oh boy. These days I like stuff with a solid groove or a beat so I can just vibe out. But yeah, the old school weed smoking experience. Peter Frampton, highly recommend

Frampton. I feel like someone once said that that Peter Frampton album was issued to every kid in the suburbia when it came out in the, uh, didn't you come on the late 70s though? Was it the 80s? I don't know. Huge. The Frampton, the Frampton came to me late.

You know, I was never a real big Frampton fan, but I get it. I completely get it. 303 text, and hey, as a member of Gen X, which I call the great sampler platter generation, my musical tastes remain very broad. MTV exposed us to pop metal and hip hop, and I fell into the jam scene early in college, along with and enjoyed everything that came with it. I fell in love with the fish. They're saying the fish.

I fell in love with the fish from Vermont. most of all and have traveled all over the country chasing their music and their scene. So what does an older fan, spelled P-H-A-N, do when it's time to chill? Well, I like to listen to the sounds of fish, the fish. I've gone down a rabbit hole sticky with the roots of hip-hop, James Brown, Parliament, Funkadelic, Curtis Mayfield, Rick James. And I love sharing it with anyone who will listen. My kids have got me into anime, modern pop and hip-hop, M-F Doom, who you should cover, is my favorite. But so far, I love exploring all the different avenues that brings me down.

And I'm glad I came across your podcast back in 2018. C.C. Living in the 585, rep in the 303 and 303 in the 5885 sends in a bunch of photos here of his record collection, which looks kind of similar to my record collection. The first three albums, Curtis Mayfield, right here. And a tribe called Quest Midnight Marauders, Bob Marley and the Whalers. Mothership connection by Parliament, doing it to death by the JBs. I literally have all of these records that you're showing myself on vinyl. I do not have this Beastie Boys comp, however, which is in your last frame. Thanks for getting at us 585-3-303.

You know, as you were describing yourself, being a member of Gen X and what you're exposed to through MTV and how fish the fish. from Vermont hit you when you got into college, really just describing so many of my friends that I grew up with who were on that exact same trajectory, Bill Alitala, if you're listening, I'm talking about you specifically. Fish was just there for us. There's perfect timing, perfect.

617-906-66-68. If you guys want to get at me about anything related to your recreational habits, your affinity for fish, your record collection, whatnot. Obviously, this question of the week was inspired by the madness that accompanies the music of fish from this week's full episode. We've got more madness coming up in the rewind slot this week with the Tommy James and the Shondell's episode. And this is really the mafia madness that inspired the B block of this episode. and some of my favorite double elvis production is in this upcoming episode on Tommy James and the Shandals.

And if you like old school gangster stories, you're going to love this episode. So do not sleep on it. Check it out. And do not sleep on what we've got coming your way next week. By request, I can't remember who, which disco, which member, which All Access member, or which listener requested Dr. John. there were a couple of you, but we've got that episode coming your way next week on Tuesday. And it's a really good one. I'm really excited about it. And the theme for our Dr. John episode,

we could have gone in a million different directions, but the theme is really, it's really about healing, and it's about healing through music, okay? I know there are music therapists out there who listen to this show. So if you want to hit me up and talk about healing through music, that's great. for those of you who are not in sort of the music healing profession, but feel that you in your life, in your past, in your day-to-day, perhaps, are healed by music as I do. Feel free to reach out, 617-906-66-66-3-8. This is going to be the question of the week next week.

And let me know what music has healed you. What music does heal you? I don't mean for this to sound like a Mel Robbins episode, or I don't really know what Mel does, but I just assume it's this type of thing, or some sort of like self-help stuff. That's not what I'm going for here, but just it doesn't have to be heavy.

It can be. It can be the music that you listen to to get you out of your funk. It could be funk music that you listen to to get you out of your funk. It could be, I mean, that's kind of my jam. You know, whenever I'm feeling like run down by the day or I'm in a bad mood, you know, I gravitate towards funk. I gravitate towards R&B, Earth, Wind, and Fire, Sheik, Sly, funkadelic, all that stuff.

That's kind of, that in jazz is probably, are probably the two genres that I listen to the most. Instrumental jazz music, bebop in particular in the morning when I'm getting going, when I'm writing, I find it the perfect accompaniment to just grind, to just sit there at the keyboard and write and write and right and right. And then, you know, throughout the day when I'm just kind of trying to motor through everything that I've got to do, and in particular, when I feel bad and I feel like I need to be uplifted, it's funk, it's R&B, it's soul. So what is it for you? That's what I want to know on the heels of the Dr. John episode that's coming your way on Tuesday. Hit me up, 617-906-66-3638.

Send me a voicemail. I love hearing your voices. You can also send me a text if you're shy. 617-90666638. It can hit me up at Disgraceland Pod on the socials. I'll be back 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 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 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, 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 his 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 better sleepwalk. David O'Yellowo. I love this podcast, whether it's therapy 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 Durbin. Being half of a country couple was always a hat she was going to wear, not like a life she was going to lead.

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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 Tatum was. Every Tuesday, we dig into the movies. 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, guys, football season is, I gotta admit, it's fun this year. It's gotten fun.

It's got, you know, some teams that aren't usually good or good, and my team is one of them. And the New England Patriots are eight and two right now. They are atop the AFC East. They are the second seed in the AFC playoffs right now behind the Colts. I believe the Colts have a better divisional record than the Patriots have. Patriots lost to the Raiders. And yeah, and I don't think the Colts have lost to anyone in the division. Anyhow, eight and two.

And we didn't see this coming. None of us did. And if you did, kudos to you, but I think you're lying. And it's got me really excited, but it's also got me super, super cautious. All right? So listen, this is the 60 Second Sports Rant in under 30 seconds, and it's once again sponsored by our friends at Five Hour Energy and their new Pumpkin Spice flavor, your favorite fall drink in an energy shot.

You can pick up a Pumpkin Spice Five Hour Energy shot available online at Five Hour Energy.com or Amazon. Matt, give me the ticker. Let's go. Let's get into this. the New England Patriots, the long-suffering New England Patriots, the Tom Brady-Less, the Bill Belichick jettisoned Patriots have not made the postseason since way, way, way back in 2022.

Way back when Joe Biden was president, when Stranger Things was only in its fourth season of television, and Top Gun Maverick had just saved Hollywood way back then was the last time the past played in the playoff game. And they lost. They got destroyed, actually, by the Buffalo Bills. and it's been a dark, dark couple of years since, three years to be precise. So this year, now that we clearly have a quarterback who can play and we clearly have a coach who can coach, I am stoked on the future.

And the future is now, right now, as in 2025 this season. But can we pump the brakes, please, on the rampant happy talk around this team. The New York Times playoff simulator projects the Patriots going 13 and 4 and finishing with the best record in the AFC. This might happen, but let's not talk about this insanity, and let's not upset the football gods. They're an angry, fickle lot. They disperse swift judgment in the form of torn Achilles and unnecessary concussion protocols.

I want the Patriots to make the playoffs as much as the next Pats fan, but as the Manning, who shall not be named, you know, the one who beat us in the Super Bowl twice said, I'm not superstitious, but I'm a little stitious. So let's lay off. Let's chill. Let's chill on the happy talk. Let's see what happens. All right.

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Thank you so much. I also love talking, you know, music and crime, as you know. And so much of the content that you guys hear is driven from conversations between Zeth and I. Sometimes they're purposeful conversations around work. Sometimes they're just conversations around things that we're listening to or that we've just sort of learned, you know, reels we've come across on Instagram or whatever, just things we've seen on the internet

or things we've uncovered from the research we're doing on various artists. And we just get talking and it just spurs all this conversation. And that then drives the conversation that we each have in the after party and in Zeth's rap party over in the Hollywood Land feed, which you guys should be subscribed to. And of course, in the conversations with you guys that we have, oftentimes the subjects that we cover and that we dedicate a lot of man ours to producing our episodes,

those subjects are driven from conversations that we have with each other. And that is certainly the case with the Fish episode this week. I'm not sure which listener brought fish to my attention first, nor am I sure which Dr. John listener brought Dr. John to my attention. I should really start making a record of this, I guess, so I can thank you guys properly. Oftentimes, you know, I never would have thought of fish. We never would have thought of the Nitrous mafia, either if it weren't for one of Zest's friends who he was talking to, who hipped him to that whole scene. We know a lot about music. We don't, clearly, we don't know everything about music history, and you guys know

a ton and you just keep it coming. You know, if you're, if you text us these ideas, if you send us voicemails and you don't hear back from me, don't take it personally, you know, we try to answer as much as we can, we try to get into the emails, we try to get into the DMs, we try to unlock all the voicemails, all the texts. If we don't get back to you, we do see it all. And oftentimes it colors literally the content that we end up choosing to, to engage with and produce. So keep it coming. And it's all conversation driven, just like the conversation. between Zeth and I in the exclusive section of the afterparty that's coming up here shortly. As I mentioned before, I think that's based on the talk we had regarding the sound system operators in Jamaica that was driven from the B block here.

If you want to hear more on that insanity, you can do so by becoming an all-access member. Just go to disgraceandpod.com to sign up five bucks a month before that price goes up. And you're going to get exclusive content here in the after party. You're going to get the exclusive mini episodes every week, pretty much. And we've got more content coming your way through Patreon as well that we're planning. So get in, become an All Access member today. Arrowsmith, the Rolling Stones, Elvis Presley, the Beatles. These are just some of the artists we mentioned in this episode of the After Party.

We've got, I don't know, 10 episodes on The Beatles. No, I think it's nine, and I think we have six on the Rolling Stones. Matt will, I don't know, choose a couple of his favorites. And he'll include the episode information in the show notes to this bonus episode. So you can easily navigate to those huge archive guys. I think we're up to 257 full episodes right now. It's a lot of stories on a lot of artists. And they can all be accessed in the disgrace land archive.

All right. Let's recap, shall we? This week's full episode on The Fish is available for you right now. Now, number two, new mini episode for All Access members on the Nitris Mafia, connection to a recent murder. You're going to want to hear that, all right. Number three, rewind episode on Tommy James coming up right after this. Number four, next week comes our new episode on Dr. John.

Five, Zeth gives you those Hollywood and crime vibes over in the Hollywoodland feed, so make sure you're subscribed. Number six, six one seven, 90666.6638. Your voice keeps us digging into the dark corners of music history, so keep calling, keep texting with your answers to this week's question of the week. with whatever else you guys want to talk about. Seven, don't forget discos. This isn't just content. It's a community, a community of the obsessed. No one cares about music, books, records in the crime and grime. It ties them all together like you do, and that is a disgrace. All right,

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