Discograffiti

Discograffiti is the deep-dive podcast for music obsessives. Host Dave Gebroe talks with Spirit biographer Ryan Gabrinetti about the classic psych band’s entire recorded output, with commentary, stories, and star ratings for every release. Part 9 covers Randy California’s creatively listless final years, which produced a handful of problematic records with terrific cherrypicking moments…before he tragically lost his life.

Here are just a few of the many things that Ryan discusses with Discograffiti in this podcast:

The most surprisingly ambitious project on which Randy worked during his last decade;

Details surrounding the long slide down in Randy’s relationship with Spirit;

The legitimately tragic and valiant death of Randy California;

Noteworthy posthumous releases;

Spirit’s arc, as determined by Dave;

Our top 3 Spirit albums, and our least favorite;

And an in-depth deep dive on some of the songs off Rapture In The Chambers, Sea Dream, Tent Of Miracles, and California Blues.

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For the full, ad-free, 34-minute podcast, either subscribe to Discograffiti’s Patreon at the Major Tier or higher, or just grab the episode as a one-off at the same link.

The Full Podcast: Patreon.com/Discograffiti

Purchase the 8-episode Spirit series at a 33% discount (hear as they appear): Patreon.com/collection/1928400

Dave's Show Notes are available at a separate link for Majors & up.

Discograffiti is the deep-dive podcast for music obsessives. In this episode, we feature the next entry in The Chuck Granata Pet Sounds Interview Series: it’s Chuck’s chat with legendary songwriter/singer Jimmy Webb.  This beautiful little interview serves as the perfect palate cleanser before Discograffiti launches into our unprecedented 21-episode Love Series, which kicks off next week.

Winning the Grammy Award for Song of the Year at the age of 21, Webb has written multiple platinum-selling songs, including ”Up, Up and Away”, “By The Time I Get to Phoenix”, “MacArthur Park”, “Wichita Lineman”, “Worst That Could Happen”, “Galveston”, and “All I Know”. He had successful collaborations with Glen Campbell, Michael Feinstein, Linda Ronstadt, The 5th Dimension, country supergroup The Highwaymen, The Supremes, Art Garfunkel, Richard Harris, and Carly Simon. He’s the only artist ever to receive Grammy Awards for music, lyrics and orchestration.

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

What George Martin had told Jimmy about Pet Sounds;

The importance of multi-track recording for works like Pet Sounds to even exist;

Magic Alex and the freeing possibilities of recording potential during the 1960s, which we now take for granted;

Jimmy’s favorite song off Pet Sounds;

And the fascinating story about Jimmy’s prospective project with Frank Sinatra, which unfortunately never got off the ground.

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For the full, ad-free, 39-minute podcast, either subscribe to Discograffiti’s Patreon at the Private Tier or higher, or just grab the episode as a one-off at the same link.

The Full Podcast: Patreon.com/Discograffiti

Discograffiti is the deep-dive podcast for music obsessives. Host Dave Gebroe talks with Spirit biographer Ryan Gabrinetti about the classic psych band’s entire recorded output, with commentary, stories, and star ratings for every release. Part 8 covers arguably the last blast of true creative inspiration that exploded out of Randy California.

Here are just a few of the many things that Ryan discusses with Discograffiti in this podcast:

A cherry-picking overview of Randy’s second attempt to launch his solo career, a period covered by the 4-CD Euro-American box set, which includes a handful of buried gems you’d certainly otherwise never learn about;

The events that led to the exhumation of the Potatoland project;

Why, even though it’s not Potatoland proper, it’s arguably just as amazing and important for entirely different reasons;

How Spirit spent their second and final classic line-up reunion;

Why 1984 is such a landmark, signpost year for Spirit;

And an in-depth deep dive on every song off Spirit’s Potatoland and The 13th Dream, plus Randy’s solo album Euro-American.

The Free Teaser: linktr.ee/discograffiti

For the full, ad-free, 33-minute podcast, either subscribe to Discograffiti’s Patreon at the Major Tier or higher, or just grab the episode as a one-off at the same link.

The Full Podcast: Patreon.com/Discograffiti

Purchase the 8-episode Spirit series at a 33% discount (hear as they appear): Patreon.com/collection/1928400

Dave's Show Notes are available at a separate link for Majors & up.

Discograffiti is the deep-dive podcast for music obsessives. In this episode, Graham Nash comes clean with host Dave Gebroe about Crosby & Nash’s debut album as a duo, Graham Nash David Crosby, and CSNY’s first attempt at recording their great lost album, Human Highway, featuring commentary and stories from that time. Discograffiti’s Wild Tales: The Graham Nash Interview Series tackles every last release the great Graham Nash ever had a hand in creating, including CSN/Y, C&N, and his solo career, detailing a history almost too wild to be believed. 

Here are just a few of the many things that Graham discusses with Discograffiti in this podcast:

The infuriating experience with Crosby that inspired David Geffen to not only fire CSNY, but to dissolve his entire music management business;

The final recorded studio appearance of Jerry Garcia’s pedal steel guitar;

The start of the recorded CSNY in-fighting swipes in song;

The final appearance of PERRO on Graham’s records, with The Dead acting as C&N’s backing band;

The story behind the writing of Graham’s hit single, “Immigration Man”;

The only single Graham ever partnered up with Neil Young to do, as a duo;

And an in-depth deep dive on every song off Graham Nash David Crosby.

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For the full, ad-free, 50-minute podcast, either subscribe to Discograffiti’s Patreon at the Private Tier or higher, or just grab the episode as a one-off at the same link.

The Full Podcast: Patreon.com/Discograffiti

Dave's Show Notes are available at a separate link for Lieutenants & up.

Discograffiti is the deep-dive podcast for music obsessives. Host Dave Gebroe talks with Spirit biographer Ryan Gabrinetti about the classic psych band’s entire recorded output, with commentary, stories, and star ratings for every release. Part 7 covers the wildly prolific and diverse years at the end of Spirit’s Mercury Records era, which included a reunion of the classic era line-up and the absolute peak of Randy California’s loner recording weirdness.

Here are just a few of the many things that Ryan discusses with Discograffiti in this podcast:

The unquenchable spiritual search of Randy California;

How the original line-up managed to reform;

The particular kind of slick that occurred when Spirit veered into mid-1970s slickness territory;

The reunion’s sudden, disastrous finale, a single moment that killed off any future prospects for the original line-up;

The insane whiplash about-face from Farther Along to Future Games;

And an in-depth deep dive on every song off Spirit’s Son Of Spirit, Farther Along, and Future Games.

The Free Teaser: linktr.ee/discograffiti

For the full, ad-free, 53-minute podcast, either subscribe to Discograffiti’s Patreon at the Major Tier or higher, or just grab the episode as a one-off at the same link.

The Full Podcast: Patreon.com/Discograffiti

Purchase the 8-episode Spirit series at a 33% discount (hear as they appear): Patreon.com/collection/1928400

Dave's Show Notes are available at a separate link for Majors & up.