Disgrace Land is a production about the replacements, one of the greatest rock and roll bands of all time.

It's also about a teenage bass playing fuck-up prodigy and his big brother in an ill-fitting

body suit on national television. It's about a drummer playing chicken on his motorcycle with the

cops and about one of the greatest singer-songwriters to ever pick up a guitar and stumble

toward a microphone. The replacements were chaotic, shambolic, devoid of any fucks to give, and they were most

definitely a band that made great music. Unlike that music I played for you at the top of the show,

that wasn't great music. That was a preset loop for my Melotron called Color

Me Possessed MK2. I played you that loop because I can't afford the rights to That's What Friends

are For by Dionne Warwick featuring Elton John, Gladys Knight, and Stevie Wonder.

And why would I play you that specific slice of,

I can't believe your mom loves this crap cheese?

Could I afford it?

Because that was the number one song in America on January 18, 1986.

And that was the day the replacements delivered a legendary performance on Saturday Night Live, a performance that came with a major consequence, one which ensured their short-term demise

while cementing their long-term legacy. On this episode, a teenage bass playing fuck-up prodigy, an ill-fitting body suit,

playing chicken with the cops, pissing off Lauren Michaels, and the replacements. I'm Jake

Brennan, and this is Disgraceland. is disgrace land. Lauren Michaels, creator and executive producer of NBC's Saturday Night Live,

listen to the voice on the other end of the phone drone on and on.

One excuse after another, and it pissed Lauren off.

And the longer the call went on, the more it wasted his time. So Lauren responded diplomatically

with just two words. I see. He said it calmly, but with a touch of menace.

He hoped his tone delivered his real message,

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