Hey, this goes Jake Brennan here. Listen to new episodes of Discrets Land from season

11 every Tuesday and catch the after party episodes every Thursday. This is where we go

deeper into the artist's stories. I'll share what I'm reading, listening to, and what

I'm watching, and I'll respond to your messages and questions, and of course, I'll be reading

the phone book.

You've probably realized that we're releasing a lot of previously exclusive episodes this

month. We've got episodes on Studio 54, Prince, the Missfits, Selena, way more that you've

probably never heard before. You can listen to all those episodes in a bunch more Discrets

Land right now wherever you get your podcasts. Apple Podcasts, I Heart Radio, Spotify

Stitcher, Cast Box, Amazon Music, you get the picture where everywhere thank you for

listening. Let's get into it.

Discrets Land is a production of Double Elvis.

The stories about the Grateful Dead in their early days as a band specifically about

their harmonica player Pigpen are insane. A band known for their drug use, Pigpen did not

get high. His bandmates would smoke grass and he would drink booze. His bandmates would

drop LSD and he would drink more booze. His bandmates would play improvisational electric

music and Pigpen would play the blues. Ron Pigpen McCurnen was obsessed with the blues.

He was one of the band's strongest links to the traditional American music they loved.

In part, because Pigpen was committed to living the life of his blues musician heroes. Part

of this meant dedicating himself to the canon of pre-imposed war black American music,

but it also meant the steady diet of cheap, highly potent alcohol known as rock gut supplemented

with even cheaper barbeque and hot links. A diet that did him in at the age of 27.

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