Discograffiti

07/16/2025

This Friday, 11am EST / 8am PST, I’ll be doing my initial live appearance on Discograffiti’s Patreon, open to the Private Tier & higher ($5/month). I’ll answer pretty much anything, but the really good questions get priority. I’m thinking this will probably wind up becoming a regular event. RSVP if u can, & see u there…DG

Patreon.com/Discograffiti

07/16/2025

⭐️ NEW PODCAST ⭐️

The Director’s Cut of The Honeys’ Marilyn Wilson-Rutherford & Ginger Blake (Part 2, Ep. 216)

This extended edit of this episode is ad-free and features 20 additional minutes of essential material. 

Subscribe to Discograffiti’s Patreon at the Major Tier and receive a ceaseless barrage (4 shows a week) of must-hear binge-listening: ⁠Patreon.com/Discograffiti⁠

Or just grab The Director’s Cut as a one-off at the same link.

The Free Version premieres this Friday.



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07/14/2025

NEW PODCAST ⭐️

THE PET SOUNDS TIMELINE: A BRIAN WILSON DIARY (WITH AUTHOR/EXPERT CHUCK GRANATA & FRED VAIL) (Ep. 215B)

Recorded only two days before the great man’s passing, this audiobook-style episode is a Brian Wilson diary that covers the 27 sessions it took to accomplish one of his great works, a span of six months that kicks off at the moment in December 1965 when he first heard The Beatles’ Rubber Soul and vowed to make the greatest rock record of all time, to The Beach Boys’ Pet Sounds’ release in May 1966. I’m joined by the world’s foremost Petsoundsologist Chuck Granata, author of the incredible book Wouldn’t It Be Nice: Brian Wilson And The Making Of The Beach Boys’ Pet Sounds. This episode also features a critical cameo by the great Fred Vail.

Here’s just a few of the many things that Chuck discusses with Discograffiti in this podcast:

* The Pickwick Bookstore acid flashback that inadvertently provided the initial inspiration for Pet Sounds;
* The unlikely figure who first introduced Van D**e Parks to Brian Wilson;
* The only song on the record that features The Beach Boys playing instruments;
* The record company’s real motivation for releasing “Sloop John B” as a single;
* How Brian countered record company disinterest in a classic meeting held at Capital HQ;
* The importance of Bruce Johnston’s UK Pet Sounds unveiling;
* And a beautiful cameo by Fred Vail describing the atmosphere at the mastering session, which was attended only by Fred and Brian’s wife Marilyn.

Full Episode: Patreon.com/Discograffiti (available on the Major Tier & up)

Free Sneak Peek: linktr.ee/discograffiti

07/10/2025

This Is the first photo I ever found myself wishing was AI-generated.

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07/09/2025

07/07/2025

⭐️ NEW PODCAST ⭐️

MOBY GRAPE’S SKIP SPENCE Part 6 (with biographer Cam Cobb) (Ep. 214B)

This is the final episode of the Grape Expectations Series, which covers Skip’s life during the years 1981-1999. Here’s just a few of the many things that Cam discusses with Discograffiti in Part 6 of our discussion:

* How Robert Plant became instrumental in sparking a Spence family reunion;
* Skip’s final music project, Eternity’s Gate;
* The details surrounding Skip’s track “Land Of The Sun”, which was created for the X-Files TV show LP, but was left off the album;
* How the More Oar compilation project was assembled;
* And what it was like to hang out with the band back in 1996 when I was an awe-struck and overly stoned 24-year-old fan geek.

There’ll be a short sneak peak running publicly for free, but the entirety of this podcast will only be accessible on the Major Tier of Discograffiti’s Patreon. Don’t miss it, or you’ll only be getting part of the story. Get it as a one-off, get the full series, or better yet just subscribe.

Full Episode: Patreon.com/Discograffiti (available on the Major Tier & up)

Free Sneak Peek: linktr.ee/discograffiti

Subscribe to Discograffiti’s Patreon and receive a ceaseless barrage (4 shows a week!) of must-hear binge-listening. It’s completely free to be a basic member, $1 to get your backstage pass, $5/month for the weekly Sunday show by & for our community, $10 for weekly early release, ad-free, super-extended Director’s Cuts of the main show plus access to half our Patreon episode archive, & $20 for Discograffiti’s weekly bonus episodes and access to our entire Patreon episode archive. There are now over 300 Patreon episodes.

07/02/2025

⭐️ NEW PODCAST ⭐️

THE DIRECTOR’S CUT OF WOULDN’T IT BE NICE IF CHUCK GRANATA GAVE ME ALL HIS PET SOUNDS INTERVIEWS? (Ep. 214)

The Director’s Cut of this episode is ad-free and features 12 additional minutes of essential material.
Subscribe to Discograffiti’s Patreon at the Major Tier and receive a ceaseless barrage (4 shows a week) of must-hear binge-listening: ⁠Patreon.com/Discograffiti⁠

Or just purchase The Director’s Cut as a one-off at the same link.

The Free Version premieres this Friday.



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07/01/2025

50 years ago today, Lou Reed’s Metal Machine Music was released, the album that inspired by ambient reimagining, Metal Machine Muzak. If you’ve never heard it, annoy a neighbor today by giving it a spin—it’s unlike anything else you’ve ever heard.

Order the Digital version of the METAL MACHINE MUZAK 2xLP (feat. Lou Barlow, Cory Hanson, Mark Robinson, & W. Cullen Hart): www.patreon.com/discograffiti/shop/197404

Order the METAL MACHINE MUZAK Double Vinyl + Digital package: www.patreon.com/discograffiti/shop/169954

06/30/2025

⭐️ NEW PODCAST ⭐️

213B. MOBY GRAPE’S SKIP SPENCE PART 5 (THE 1970’s: SKIP DREAMS BIG, THEN NOT AT ALL) WITH BIOGRAPHER CAM COBB (GRAPE EXPECTATIONS EPISODE 11)

Here’s just a few of the many things that Cam Cobb discusses with Discograffiti in Part 5 of our discussion:

* The importance of meeting Gordon Stevens at the beginning of the 1970’s;
* Skip’s plans to mount an surprisingly ambitious live show around his Oar LP;
* Moby Grape’s reunion…and also the very first reunion in rock history;
* The disastrous consequences of Skip tossing his psych meds out a car window;
* Bill Graham’s Moby Grape meltdown;
* Whatever happened with Skip’s short-lived 1972 band The Yankees;
* And Moby Grape’s co***ne era.

There’ll be a short sneak peak running publicly for free, but the entirety of this podcast will only be accessible on the Major Tier of Discograffiti’s Patreon. Don’t miss it, or you’ll only be getting part of the story. Get it as a one-off, get the full series, or better yet just subscribe.

Full Episode: Patreon.com/Discograffiti (available on the Major Tier & up)

Free Sneak Peek: linktr.ee/discograffiti

Subscribe to Discograffiti’s Patreon and receive a ceaseless barrage (4 shows a week!) of must-hear binge-listening. It’s completely free to be a basic member, $1 to get your backstage pass, $5/month for the weekly Sunday show by & for our community, $10 for weekly early release, ad-free, super-extended Director’s Cuts of the main show plus access to half our Patreon episode archive, & $20 for Discograffiti’s weekly bonus episodes and access to our entire Patreon episode archive. There are now over 300 Patreon episodes.

06/25/2025

⭐️ NEW PODCAST ⭐️

213. THE DIRECTOR’S CUT OF GRAHAM NASH ON PET SOUNDS BY THE BEACH BOYS

The Director’s Cut of this episode is ad-free and features 12 additional minutes of essential material.

Subscribe to Discograffiti’s Patreon at the Major Tier and receive a ceaseless barrage (4 shows a week) of must-hear binge-listening: Patreon.com/Discograffiti

Or just purchase The Director’s Cut as a one-off at the same link.

The Free Version premieres on Friday.



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06/23/2025

⭐️ NEW PODCAST ⭐️

212B. SKIP SPENCE WITH BIOGRAPHER CAM COBB (PART 4: WEIRD HERALD, PACHUCO, & THE DOOBIE BROTHERS) (GRAPE EXPECTATIONS EPISODE 10)

Grape Expectations’ Episode 10 will hip you to one of the greatest lost psych bands of the 1960s, as we explore the late 1960s-early 1970s in Skip’s life, a time when he gave it his best shot acting as Dad to four kids when he just couldn’t hack it, as the pull of the lifestyle got the better of him...but not before helping to assemble one of the most successful bands of the 1970s.

Here’s just a few of the many things that Cam Cobb discusses with Discograffiti in Part 4 of our discussion:

* The batsh*t insane drug called “LBJ” that Skip may possibly have taken when he had his breakdown;
* The first wave of Grape acolytes who found their way west to search for Skip and the gang…and with whom Skip played matchmaker, creating a band by accident that wound up practically owning the 1970s;
* A side deep-dive on Weird Herald, Billy Dean Andrus’s band that existed concurrently with Moby Grape’s initial run, plus a track-by-track rundown of their recently released masterpiece, Just Yesterday;
* And the short-lived band in which Skip played with Billy Dean Andrus called Pachuco.

There’ll be a short sneak peak running publicly for free, but the entirety of this podcast will only be accessible on the Major Tier of Discograffiti’s Patreon. Don’t miss it, or you’ll only be getting part of the story. Get it as a one-off, get the full series, or better yet just subscribe.

Full Episode: Patreon.com/Discograffiti (available on the Major Tier & up)

Free Sneak Peek: linktr.ee/discograffiti

Subscribe to Discograffiti’s Patreon and receive up to 4 shows a week. It’s completely free to be a basic member, $1 to get your backstage pass, $5/month for the weekly Sunday show by & for our community, $10 for weekly early release, ad-free, super-extended Director’s Cuts of the main show plus access to half our Patreon episode archive, & $20 for Discograffiti’s weekly bonus episodes and access to our entire Patreon episode archive. There are over 300 Patreon episodes.

06/17/2025

⭐️ NEW PODCAST ⭐️

212. THE DIRECTOR’S CUT OF MOBY GRAPE’S PETER LEWIS (PART 3) (GRAPE EXPECTATIONS 9)

The Director’s Cut of this episode is ad-free and features 25 additional minutes of essential material.

Subscribe to Discograffiti’s Patreon at the Major Tier and receive a ceaseless barrage (4 shows a week) of must-hear binge-listening: Patreon.com/Discograffiti

Purchase the full Grape Expectations Collection: www.patreon.com/collection/1467935

Purchase The Director’s Cut as a one-off at Patreon.com/Discograffiti.

The Free Version premieres on Friday



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