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DISGRACELAND

Brian Jones: To Be On Your Own Like A Sinking Stone

DISGRACELAND

Jake Brennan

True Crime, Music, Society & Culture

4.613.1K Ratings

🗓️ 24 February 2023

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Brian Jones invented “The World’s Greatest Rock ‘N Roll Band," The Rolling Stones, but would find himself kicked out of that band just a few years after helping rocket him and his bandmates to international success. He was ousted because of his excessive drug use and his abuse of women and shortly after bottoming out, Brian Jones was found dead at the bottom of his swimming pool under somewhat mysterious circumstances. To see the complete list of contributors, visit disgracelandpod.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hey, what is up, discos?

0:01.3

Jake Brennan, your host here this month.

0:03.1

As you know, we're celebrating our fifth year, our five year anniversary of this great

0:06.9

sign. We just launched our eleventh season to go along with that. So if you haven't already,

0:11.7

go listen to our new episodes, our episode on 50 Cent. We've got a great episode on ACDC.

0:16.4

They're both great, but ACDC is probably my first favorite band and I'm really pumped on the work

0:21.7

we did with both of these. So check them out. If you're already caught up, if you've heard these

0:25.7

two episodes, you can go listen to where it all began. You can go back to the beginning.

0:29.5

Listen to the previously exclusive season one of Discretsland with stories on Jerry Lee Lewis,

0:34.3

Sid Vicious, Bob Merley, James Brown, and many more. You can listen to Discretsland right now,

0:38.8

wherever you get your podcasts, Apple podcasts, iHeart Radio App, Spotify Stitcher,

0:42.8

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1:04.8

The stories about Rolling Stones founding guitar player Brian Jones are insane. He was a serial

1:11.1

abuser of women. He bragged of sleeping with 64 women in 19 days, fathering and estimated,

1:18.0

though precisely unknown, six illegitimate children. He dressed in full Nazi regalia,

1:24.4

a solid decade before the punk movement and only 15 years removed from World War II.

1:29.9

He sacrificed goats. He was the electric cool-aid acid testing ground. He was Bob Dillens and Jimmy

1:35.9

Hendrix's favorite guitar player and he was in part, if not almost entirely responsible, for young

1:41.6

London's obsession with the blues. He was also paranoid, wildly insecure and an incredibly weak man.

1:49.4

All traits that would eventually lead to his downfall. But no doubt about it. For a moment there,

1:55.2

Brian Jones made great music. That music you heard at the top of the show. That wasn't great music.

2:01.4

That was a preset loop from my Melotron called Slow Walt Celeste Low MK1. I played you that loop

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