Disgraceland is a production of Double Elvis.

This is a story about someone who mattered.

It's about choosing the long way around and about getting outside

your comfort zone. It's a story about basements and rehearsal spaces and about the real scene

that beats like a tired heart just out of the manufactured scene playing out on national television.

It's about rat houses, anarchist compounds, and the dark end of the street.

This is a story about misconnections as well, about David Bowie peeling off in his gold

jaguar, and Mia Zapata left behind, watching the star man slip away and wondering what her next move was and

what she'd have to sacrifice to get there.

And speaking of Mia Zapata, this is a story about the Gits, one of the most underrated bands

from the so-called grunge scene of the 1990s, an artist in a band that made great music.

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

That was a preset loop from my Melotron called Star Buckingham Knicks MK2.

I played you that loop because I can't afford the rights to

That's the Way Love Goes by Janet Jackson.

And why would I play you that specific slice of pre-Nipplegate cheese?

Could I afford it?

Because that was the number one song in America on July 7th, 1993.

And that was the day that Mia Zapata was found brutally murdered on the streets of Seattle

in the early hours of the morning.

On this episode, the long way around, comfort zones, rat houses, misconnections, so-called grunge,

the dark end of the street, and Mia Zapata.

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