Disgraceland is a production of Double Elvis.

The stories about Leonard Skinnered are insane.

Their singer Ronnie Van Zan was a violent bully from the mean streets of Jacksonville, Florida.

He tried to maim one of his guitar player's hands with a broken bottle.

He knocked out his piano player's front teeth not once, but twice. He held a gun to his drummer's

head during rehearsal. And when his bandmates followed suit with their own debauched antics,

Ronnie turned their drug and alcohol flirtations with death to hit songs, great songs,

some of the best and most enduring American rock and roll songs of all

time. Unlike that music I played for you at the top of the show, that wasn't great music.

That was a preset loop from my Melotron called You Can Call Me Betty, MK1.

I played you that loop because I can't afford the rights to You Light Up My Life

by Debbie Boone. And why would I play you that specific slice of pining by the window cheese

could I afford it? Because that was the number one song in America on October 20, 1977.

And that was the day that Leonard Skinner's plane dropped from the sky

and crashed into a Mississippi swamp,

killing six passengers, including Ronnie Van Zand.

On this episode, busted teeth, broken bottles, pining by the window cheese, and Leonard Skinnered.

I'm Jake Brennan, and this is The Scraiceland. Leonard Skinner's drummer, Artemis Pyle, was covered in blood.

He dragged his battered body through the swamp.

His ribs felt like they were shattered. Just like

that Conver CV-240 was shattered into God-know-ness how many pieces when it dropped out of the sky

and crashed landed here. Wherever here was. South Carolina, Mississippi, Louisiana,

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