Tape Spaghetti

By Blake Wyland & Scott Marquart

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Subscribers: 9
Reviews: 1
Episodes: 62

S. Weaver
 May 19, 2025
Interesting stories, great delivery, and quality off-topic banter sprinkled in. If you dig music history this podcast is a must.

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Welcome to Tape Spaghetti—where music history gets tangled. Hosts Blake Wyland and Scott Marquart dive into the wildest, weirdest, and most unexpected stories from the music industry. From legendary feuds to bizarre scandals, insane characters… and even murder! On this show we unravel the chaos behind the songs you love, the musicians you know, and stories that you need to hear.

Episode Date
Chuck Berry, Dick Clark & Rock ’n’ Roll’s Payola Scandal
Jun 16, 2026
Sugar Ray, Smash Mouth, and the One-Hit Wonders That Weren’t
Jun 10, 2026
Jim Sullivan Drove Into the Desert and Disappeared
Jun 02, 2026
The FBI vs. The Fugs
May 29, 2026
Gram Parsons’ Friends Stole His Body and Burned It
May 19, 2026
The Beach Boys Made a Rap Song… And That’s Not the Worst Part
May 12, 2026
Waylon Jennings, Cocaine, and a DEA Raid Gone Wrong
May 06, 2026
Neil Young Got SUED for Not Sounding Like… Himself?
Apr 29, 2026
The Dark Secret of Portland’s Roseland Theater
Apr 21, 2026
Keanu Reeves Has a Band… and So Do These Actors
Apr 14, 2026
John Carpenter: The Man Who Scored Your Nightmares
Apr 07, 2026
The Langley Schools Music Project: A Choir From Another Dimension?
Mar 31, 2026
“Africa” Wasn’t Supposed to Happen (The Toto Story)
Mar 24, 2026
How Hollywood Fakes Rock Legends (JD Simo on Springsteen & Elvis)
Mar 17, 2026
Franz Liszt Was The First Rockstar
Mar 10, 2026
Chumbawamba, Tubthumping, & Total Anarchy
Mar 03, 2026
Oasis, Metallica & The War That Crushed Music
Feb 25, 2026
Rust, Soul, and Static: Brittany Howard Before the Fame
Feb 17, 2026
Rolling Stones: The Road To Altamont (Part 2)
Feb 11, 2026
Rolling Stones: The Road To Altamont (Part 1)
Feb 03, 2026
George Clinton, Bootsy Collins & Parliament Funkadelic: How P-Funk Tore The Roof Off
Jan 27, 2026
No Practice Allowed: Ya Ho Wha 13 & The Hang-Glider Finale
Jan 20, 2026
How Michael Jackson Bought the Beatles (and Why It Still Matters)
Jan 13, 2026
From Stone Cold’s Glass to Taker’s Bells: Jim Johnston's Sonic Kayfabe
Jan 06, 2026
Not Quite “When Harry Met Sally”: When Scott Met Blake
Dec 23, 2025
From Tiki Bars to Bing Crosby: The Real Story of Hawaiian Christmas Music
Dec 16, 2025
Geese’s Getting Killed and Tyler Childers’ Snipe Hunter: Tape Spaghetti’s 2025 Album Picks
Dec 10, 2025
From Punk Disaster To Ad King: Moby’s Unlikely Comeback
Dec 03, 2025
Rolling Stones, Metallica, Kanye: When Album Covers Go Too Far
Nov 25, 2025
How Muzak Brainwashed America (The Weird History of Elevator Music)
Nov 18, 2025
Pearl Jam vs Ticketmaster: The 90s Battle That Still Matters
Nov 11, 2025
Nazi Mind Control or Math? 440 vs 432 Hz
Nov 04, 2025
Blood, Black Magic & Death Row: The Brutal Case of Mona Fandey
Oct 29, 2025
Chris Cornell, Billie Eilish & Nancy Sinatra: The Music of James Bond
Oct 23, 2025
A REAL Outlaw Musician: The Ballad of Chalino Sánchez
Oct 14, 2025
The United States of America vs Pete Seeger
Oct 07, 2025
Sounds Like Purple (Binaural Beats, Chromesthesia & Aphex Twin)
Sep 30, 2025
The Artist Formerly Known As Prince
Sep 16, 2025
The Shaggs: The Prophecy That Built a Band
Sep 09, 2025
Alice Cooper’s Secret Club: The Real Hollywood Vampires
Sep 02, 2025
When Hank Williams Jr. Hit Rock Bottom (Literally)
Aug 26, 2025
Bob Marley, U2 & The Label That Changed Music Forever
Aug 19, 2025
How Guns N' Roses Spent $14 Million Dollars
Aug 12, 2025
Weezer’s Pinkerton & the Curse of the Sophomore Slump
Aug 05, 2025
Frank Ocean Outsmarted Def Jam. Here’s How.
Jul 29, 2025
This Mars Volta Album Was So Cursed, They Buried the Evidence
Jul 23, 2025
Blood, Bats & The Beatles: From Rabies Shots to Ringo Slander
Jul 15, 2025
Garth Brooks vs. The Internet: A Country- Fried Conundrum
Jul 08, 2025
Frank Sinatra, Judas Priest & Billie Holiday: Songs That Kill?
Jul 01, 2025
Do NOT Listen to This Episode
Jun 24, 2025
Kris Kristofferson: Country’s Real-Life Superhero
Jun 17, 2025
Nirvana vs The World: In Utero & The Sound Of Self Destruction
Jun 10, 2025
Dead Puppies, Fish Heads & Bologna: How Dr. Demento Made "Weird Al" Weird
Jun 03, 2025
The Miracle of ACDC’s ‘Back in Black’
May 27, 2025
Paul McCartney Is Dead & Eminem Controls Your Mind
May 20, 2025
Why Fela Kuti's "Zombie" Out-Punks Punk
May 13, 2025
The Ghost of Hank Williams
May 06, 2025
Tom Waits & The Album That Changed Everything
Apr 29, 2025
He Left Blink-182 For This?!?
Apr 22, 2025
The Mysterious Death of Sam Cooke
Apr 17, 2025
Charles Manson & The Beach Boys
Apr 16, 2025
Insanity vs Genius: Lee "Scratch" Perry & The Black Ark
Apr 15, 2025