With the drug trial in Toronto weighing down on him, Jimi Hendrix feels like he’s losing his grip. He’s late to Woodstock, the three-day music festival he’s supposed to open. Overworked and overdrugged, he hotwires a truck with Neil Young. Tells a judge and jury what they want to hear. And attempts to recharge in Morocco, where he feels closer to death than he ever has.

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With the drug trial in Toronto weighing down on him, Jimi Hendrix feels like he’s losing his grip. He’s late to Woodstock, the three-day music festival he’s supposed to open. Overworked and overdrugged, he hotwires a truck with Neil Young. Tells a judge and jury what they want to hear. And attempts to recharge in Morocco, where he feels closer to death than he ever has. Learn more about your ad-choices at <a href="https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com">https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com</a>

Jim Morrison, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, and many more musical icons all died at the age of 27. Scandalous, tortured, dramatic, and incredibly talented, these artists torched a wild path to their early graves and shifted and shaped our culture along the way. 27 Club tells their stories. Season 4 of 27 Club brings you the story of Amy Winehouse. 27 Club is hosted and created by Jake Brennan, host and creator of the award-winning music and true crime podcast DISGRACELAND. 27 Club is not a journalistic podcast. It is an entertainment podcast inspired by true events. Certain dialogue and scenes are sometimes fictionalized for dramatic purposes as they are in most scripted entertainment media based on true events. Sources for each episode are available at 27clubpod.com.

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With the drug trial in Toronto weighing down on him, Jimi Hendrix feels like he’s losing his grip.

Jimi Hendrix Episode 7: Stealing Trucks with Neil Young/Haunted by a Rolling Stone

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Welcome to DISGRACELAND in 2024. Jake Brennan will continue to bring you the most insane stories about rock stars getting away with murder and behaving very badly ... and will also tell other stories about icons from beyond the world of music who possess dangerously compelling rock 'n roll hearts. Like Anthony Bourdain. Andy Warhol. Hunter S. Thompson. Kobe Bryant. Garth Brooks. Public Enemy. Van Halen. And so many more. Get the scoop on the exciting 2024 we have planned for you, the biggest and most iconic year in DISGRACELAND history. Rocka rolla.

Welcome to DISGRACELAND in 2024. Jake Brennan will continue to bring you the most insane stories about rock stars getting away with murder and behaving very badly ... and will also tell other stories about icons from beyond the world of music who possess dangerously compelling rock 'n roll hearts. Like Anthony Bourdain. Andy Warhol. Hunter S. Thompson. Kobe Bryant. Garth Brooks. Public Enemy. Van Halen. And so many more. Get the scoop on the exciting 2024 we have planned for you, the biggest and most iconic year in DISGRACELAND history. Rocka rolla.

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Ron “Pigpen” McKernan’s lifelong devotion to drinking wasn’t the cause of his medical issues – chalk those up to a genetic disease. But no matter how he tried, Pig couldn’t kick the illness, he couldn’t repair the damage that had been done. He played music, followed his diet, and hoped against all hope that something would turn around. But nothing ever really did. He could never quite get up that hill. And just as Pig had slowly departed from the Dead, he was now slowly departing from the world.

Sources:

A Long Strange Trip: The Inside Story of the Grateful Dead, by Dennis McNally

Living with The Dead: Twenty Years on the Bus with Garcia and the Grateful Dead, by Rock Scully with David Dalton

Searching for the Sound, by Phil Lesh

The Grateful Dead FAQ: All That’s Left to Know About the Greatest Jam Band in History, by Tony Sclafani

This Is All a Dream We Dreamed: An Oral History of the Grateful Dead, by Blair Jackson and David Gans

Death Don't Have No Mercy: Pigpen, Ten Years Gone (Relix)

Pigpen Forever: The Life and Times of Ron McKernan, by Blair Jackson

Grateful Dead's Bob Weir and Phil Lesh reflect on bandmate Pigpen (Marin Independent Journal)

Grateful Dead Guide: Pigpen Solo (Dead Essays)

Greatest Stories Ever Told - "Stella Blue" (Dead.net)

Unsolicited Endorsement: Wake of the Flood by the Grateful Dead (Triad City Beat)

Jerry Garcia’s final show (YouTube)

So Many Roads: Remembering Jerry Garcia's Last Grateful Dead Show (Classic Rockers)

Listen to Grateful Dead perform 'Box of Rain' as their final encore before Jerry Garcia's death (Far Out)

"It was the tour from hell": Inside the Grateful Dead's last shows, and Jerry Garcia's final days (Salon)

Bruce Hornsby Looks Back on Jerry Garcia's Last Days: 'I Miss Him So Much' (Rolling Stone)

A Grateful Dead Analysis: The relationship between concert and listening behavior (First Monday)

Grateful Dead Guide: Pigpen Solo (Dead Essays)

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Jim Morrison, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Amy Winehouse and many more musical icons all died at the age of 27. Scandalous, tortured, dramatic, and incredibly talented, these artists torched a wild path to their early graves and shifted and shaped our culture along the way. 27 Club tells their stories. 27 Club is hosted and created by Jake Brennan, host and creator of the award-winning music and true crime podcast DISGRACELAND. 27 Club is not a journalistic podcast. It is an entertainment podcast inspired by true events. For more shows like 27 Club, check outwww.doubleelvis.com.

Ron “Pigpen” McKernan’s lifelong devotion to drinking wasn’t the cause of his medical issues – chalk those up to a genetic disease. But no matter how he tried, Pig couldn’t kick the illness, he couldn’t repair the damage that had been done. He played music, followed his diet, and hoped against all hope that something would turn around. But nothing ever really did. He could never quite get up that hill. And just as Pig had slowly departed from the Dead, he was now slowly departing from the world.
Sources:
<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Long-Strange-Trip-History-Grateful/dp/0767911865/">A Long Strange Trip: The Inside Story of the Grateful Dead, by Dennis McNally</a>
<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Living-Dead-Twenty-Garcia-Grateful/dp/0815411634/">Living with The Dead: Twenty Years on the Bus with Garcia and the Grateful Dead, by Rock Scully with David Dalton</a>
<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Searching-Sound-Life-Grateful-Dead/dp/0316154490/">Searching for the Sound, by Phil Lesh</a>
<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Grateful-Dead-FAQ-Greatest-History/dp/1617130869/">The Grateful Dead FAQ: All That’s Left to Know About the Greatest Jam Band in History, by Tony Sclafani</a>
<a href="https://www.amazon.com/This-All-Dream-We-Dreamed/dp/1250058562/">This Is All a Dream We Dreamed: An Oral History of the Grateful Dead, by Blair Jackson and David Gans</a>
<a href="https://relix.com/articles/detail/death_dont_have_no_mercy_pigpen_ten_years_gone_relix_revisited/">Death Don't Have No Mercy: Pigpen, Ten Years Gone</a> (Relix)
<a href="https://archive.org/details/pigpen-forever-the-life-and-times-of-ron-mc-kernan-blair-jackson/Pigpen%20Forever%20the%20Life%20and%20Times%20of%20Ron%20McKernan%20-%20Blair%20Jackson/page/n59/mode/1up?view=theater">Pigpen Forever: The Life and Times of Ron McKernan, by Blair Jackson</a>
<a href="https://www.marinij.com/2013/03/15/lib-at-large-grateful-deads-bob-weir-and-phil-lesh-reflect-on-bandmate-pigpen/">Grateful Dead's Bob Weir and Phil Lesh reflect on bandmate Pigpen</a> (Marin Independent Journal)
<a href="http://deadessays.blogspot.com/2011/04/pigpen-solo.html">Grateful Dead Guide: Pigpen Solo</a> (Dead Essays)
<a href="https://www.dead.net/features/greatest-stories-ever-told/greatest-stories-ever-told-stella-blue">Greatest Stories Ever Told - "Stella Blue"</a> (Dead.net)
<a href="https://triad-city-beat.com/unsolicited-endorsement-wake-of-the-flood-by-the-grateful-dead/">Unsolicited Endorsement: Wake of the Flood by the Grateful Dead</a> (Triad City Beat)
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Df9-lp2QQE">Jerry Garcia’s final show</a> (YouTube)
<a href="https://weareclassicrockers.com/article/so-many-roads-remembering-jerry-garcias-last-grateful-dead-show#:~:text=On%20July%209%2C%201995%2C%20Jerry,concert%20as%20the%20band's%20frontman">So Many Roads: Remembering Jerry Garcia's Last Grateful Dead Show</a> (Classic Rockers)
<a href="https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/jerry-garcia-grateful-dead-final-song-performed-box-of-rain/">Listen to Grateful Dead perform 'Box of Rain' as their final encore before Jerry Garcia's death</a> (Far Out)
<a href="https://www.salon.com/2015/12/06/it_was_the_tour_from_hell_inside_the_grateful_deads_last_shows_and_jerry_garcias_final_days/">"It was the tour from hell": Inside the Grateful Dead's last shows, and Jerry Garcia's final days</a> (Salon)
<a href="https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/bruce-hornsby-interview-jerry-garcia-grateful-dead-1038619/">Bruce Hornsby Looks Back on Jerry Garcia's Last Days: 'I Miss Him So Much'</a> (Rolling Stone)
<a href="https://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/2273/2064#:~:text=Concert%20tours%20were%20the%20primary,Lundquist%2C%201996%E2%80%932007">A Grateful Dead Analysis: The relationship between concert and listening behavior</a> (First Monday)
<a href="http://deadessays.blogspot.com/2011/04/pigpen-solo.html">Grateful Dead Guide: Pigpen Solo</a> (Dead Essays)
For behind the scenes info and news on this episode, follow:
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Jim Morrison, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Amy Winehouse and many more musical icons all died at the age of 27. Scandalous, tortured, dramatic, and incredibly talented, these artists torched a wild path to their early graves and shifted and shaped our culture along the way. 27 Club tells their stories. 27 Club is hosted and created by Jake Brennan, host and creator of the award-winning music and true crime podcast DISGRACELAND. 27 Club is not a journalistic podcast. It is an entertainment podcast inspired by true events. For more shows like 27 Club, check out<a href="http://www.doubleelvis.com"> www.doubleelvis.com.</a>

Ron “Pigpen” McKernan” Episode 10: Good, Old, Grateful, and Dead

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Against doctor’s orders, Ron “Pigpen” McKernan hit the road one more time with the Grateful Dead. The band’s 1972 tour of Europe is legendary. But at the time, Pigpen was just trying to stay above ground. You could hear it in his voice when he took the mic onstage. Close your eyes and his voice was a window into the past. But listen closer, and you’d hear something else. Something you couldn’t quite put your finger on. A distance. Some pain. Truth was, Pigpen was on borrowed time.

Sources:

A Long Strange Trip: The Inside Story of the Grateful Dead, by Dennis McNally

Living with The Dead: Twenty Years on the Bus with Garcia and the Grateful Dead, by Rock Scully with David Dalton

Searching for the Sound, by Phil Lesh

The Grateful Dead FAQ: All That’s Left to Know About the Greatest Jam Band in History, by Tony Sclafani

This Is All a Dream We Dreamed: An Oral History of the Grateful Dead, by Blair Jackson and David Gans

Grateful Dead live at Chateau D’Herouville, France, 6/6/1971 (YouTube)

Château d'Hérouville: The Castle Studio Where Bowie, Elton, and Pink Floyd Recorded (Reverb)

June 21, 1971: Herouville, France (Dead Sources)

Grateful Dead at the The Honky Chateau (06-21-71) (Holiday at the Sea)

Grateful Dead live at the Fillmore East, 4/28/1971

April 1972: Weir & Pigpen Interview (Dead Sources)

Donna Jean Godchaux interview (YouTube)

The Lasting Impact, and Sudden Death, of the Grateful Dead's Keith Godchaux (Ultimate Classic Rock)

Enter Keith Godchaux (Dead.net)

Donna Jean MacKay 3/28/98 (Levity)

Grateful Dead live at the Boston Music Hall, 12/2/1971

April 1972: Weir & Pigpen Interview (Dead Sources)

Grateful Dead live at the Hollywood Bowl, 6/17/1972

Mother McCree’s Uptown Jug Champions - Top of the Tangent (1964) (The Savage Saints)

For behind the scenes info and news on this episode, follow:

Instagram: @DoubleElvis@Disgracelandpod 

Twitter: @DoubleElvisFm@Disgracelandpod

Tik Tok: @Disgracelandpod

Pinterest: @doubleelvisfm 

Facebook: Double Elvis Productions

Jim Morrison, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Amy Winehouse and many more musical icons all died at the age of 27. Scandalous, tortured, dramatic, and incredibly talented, these artists torched a wild path to their early graves and shifted and shaped our culture along the way. 27 Club tells their stories. 27 Club is hosted and created by Jake Brennan, host and creator of the award-winning music and true crime podcast DISGRACELAND. 27 Club is not a journalistic podcast. It is an entertainment podcast inspired by true events. For more shows like 27 Club, check outwww.doubleelvis.com.

Against doctor’s orders, Ron “Pigpen” McKernan hit the road one more time with the Grateful Dead. The band’s 1972 tour of Europe is legendary. But at the time, Pigpen was just trying to stay above ground. You could hear it in his voice when he took the mic onstage. Close your eyes and his voice was a window into the past. But listen closer, and you’d hear something else. Something you couldn’t quite put your finger on. A distance. Some pain. Truth was, Pigpen was on borrowed time.
Sources:
<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Long-Strange-Trip-History-Grateful/dp/0767911865/">A Long Strange Trip: The Inside Story of the Grateful Dead, by Dennis McNally</a>
<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Living-Dead-Twenty-Garcia-Grateful/dp/0815411634/">Living with The Dead: Twenty Years on the Bus with Garcia and the Grateful Dead, by Rock Scully with David Dalton</a>
<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Searching-Sound-Life-Grateful-Dead/dp/0316154490/">Searching for the Sound, by Phil Lesh</a>
<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Grateful-Dead-FAQ-Greatest-History/dp/1617130869/">The Grateful Dead FAQ: All That’s Left to Know About the Greatest Jam Band in History, by Tony Sclafani</a>
<a href="https://www.amazon.com/This-All-Dream-We-Dreamed/dp/1250058562/">This Is All a Dream We Dreamed: An Oral History of the Grateful Dead, by Blair Jackson and David Gans</a>
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jck2Z0sfGr8&amp;t=322s">Grateful Dead live at Chateau D’Herouville, France, 6/6/1971</a> (YouTube)
<a href="https://reverb.com/news/le-chateau-dherouville-un-studio-mythique">Château d'Hérouville: The Castle Studio Where Bowie, Elton, and Pink Floyd Recorded</a> (Reverb)
<a href="http://deadsources.blogspot.com/2012/07/june-21-1971-herouville-france.html">June 21, 1971: Herouville, France</a> (Dead Sources)
<a href="https://www.holidayatthesea.com/music/grateful-dead-at-the-the-honky-chateau-06-21-71">Grateful Dead at the The Honky Chateau (06-21-71)</a> (Holiday at the Sea)
<a href="https://archive.org/details/gd71-04-28.sbd.murphy.2248.sbeok.shnf">Grateful Dead live at the Fillmore East, 4/28/1971</a>
<a href="http://deadsources.blogspot.com/2014/09/april-1972-weir-pigpen-interview.html">April 1972: Weir &amp; Pigpen Interview</a> (Dead Sources)
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1RzbN-NBTo">Donna Jean Godchaux interview</a> (YouTube)
<a href="https://ultimateclassicrock.com/keith-godchaux-dies/">The Lasting Impact, and Sudden Death, of the Grateful Dead's Keith Godchaux</a> (Ultimate Classic Rock)
<a href="https://www.dead.net/deadcast/enter-keith-godchaux">Enter Keith Godchaux</a> (Dead.net)
<a href="http://www.levity.com/gans/Donna.980328.html">Donna Jean MacKay 3/28/98</a> (Levity)
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61nYKFMd_X4">Grateful Dead live at the Boston Music Hall, 12/2/1971</a>
<a href="http://deadsources.blogspot.com/2014/09/april-1972-weir-pigpen-interview.html">April 1972: Weir &amp; Pigpen Interview</a> (Dead Sources)
<a href="https://archive.org/details/gd72-06-17.aud.hanno.16470.sbeok.shnf">Grateful Dead live at the Hollywood Bowl, 6/17/1972</a>
<a href="https://savagesaints.blogspot.com/2014/02/mother-mccrees-uptown-jug-champions-top.html">Mother McCree’s Uptown Jug Champions - Top of the Tangent (1964)</a> (The Savage Saints)
For behind the scenes info and news on this episode, follow:
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Jim Morrison, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Amy Winehouse and many more musical icons all died at the age of 27. Scandalous, tortured, dramatic, and incredibly talented, these artists torched a wild path to their early graves and shifted and shaped our culture along the way. 27 Club tells their stories. 27 Club is hosted and created by Jake Brennan, host and creator of the award-winning music and true crime podcast DISGRACELAND. 27 Club is not a journalistic podcast. It is an entertainment podcast inspired by true events. For more shows like 27 Club, check out<a href="http://www.doubleelvis.com"> www.doubleelvis.com.</a>

Ron “Pigpen” McKernan” Episode 9: Conquering Europe, Wasting Away, and Making a Last Stand

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Jimi Hendrix Episode 7: Stealing Trucks with Neil Young/Haunted by a Rolling Stone

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