Jane’s Addiction (Pt. 2): Nothing’s Shocking, Not Dead Teenage Girls or Onstage Brawls

DISGRACELAND

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Society & Culture, Music, True Crime

4.6 • 13.4K Ratings

🗓️ 3 February 2026

⏱️ 37 minutes

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An onstage brawl in Boston. A dead teenage girl turned into art. Warehouse shows and a freak scene bankrolled by transgression. Listen to find out how Jane’s Addiction helped build the alternative nation – and how the freedom that they worshiped eventually turned into control, violence, and collapse. To listen to Disgraceland ad free and get access to weekly bonus content and more, become a Disgraceland All Access member at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠disgracelandpod.com/membership⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. Sign up for our newsletter and get the inside dirt on events, merch and other awesomeness - ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠GET THE NEWSLETTER⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Follow Jake and DISGRACELAND: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠YouTube⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠X⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ (formerly Twitter) ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Facebook Fan Group⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠TikTok⁠ 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/adchoices

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0:00.0	Double Elvis.
0:07.6	Disgrace and is a production of Double Elvis.
0:10.1	This is a story about freaks and frauds, about the underground going mainstream, and about
0:30.3	some of the people who dragged it there. It's about sex, drugs, and a teenage girl whose memory
0:36.8	was turned into a shrine for the alternative nation.
0:41.0	It's a story about Perry Farrell, the outlaw who built a church for the weird and then crowned
0:47.5	himself as its high priest. And it's also about the cost of control, about what happens when the carnival barker becomes the cop.
0:57.4	This is the origin story of Jane's addiction, so it's a story about great music.
1:04.8	Unlike that music, I played for you at the top of the show.
1:07.9	That wasn't great music.
1:09.9	That was a preset loop from my Melotron called Venice Beach
1:14.1	Sweepbox, MK2. I played you that loop because I can't afford the rights to Vision of Love by
1:22.7	Mariah Carey. And why would I play you that specific slice of multi-octave vocal-run cheese could I afford it?
1:32.2	Because that was the number one song in America on August 21st, 1990. And that was the day
1:39.9	that Jane's Addiction released their second studio album, Ritual De La Bitual,
1:45.2	a record inspired by the tragic death of one of Perry Farrell's muses, a death that foretold
1:51.7	much darker days ahead.
1:55.6	On this episode, Freak Scenes, Alternative Nations, Outlaws, Weirdos, Perry Farrell, and Jane's Addiction.
2:05.2	I'm Jane's addiction lied.
2:42.0	It turns out that everything was shocking.
2:45.4	Or I should say that everything still had the capacity to shock.
2:49.5	Even in 2024, when we, the audience, the fans, those who had
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