Some bands want you to feel the music.
Others want you to sign a waiver.
In The Show Must Go Wrong, Charles and Lisa dive headfirst into the beautiful disaster zone of live music where safety is optional, chaos is guaranteed, and the stage is just another weapon.
Charles breaks down the legacy […]
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This week on Jackalope Tales, Charles and Lisa crank the amps, dim the lights, and wave hello to the invisible guy in the trench coat taking notes from across the street.
Lisa dives into the rumor-soaked paranoia buffet of Devo—a band so weird, so anti-normal, and so aggressively “we’re all devolving […]
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Part 2 of our descent into the beautiful chaos that is Marky Ray—and this time, the guitars don’t survive.
In this episode, Marky pulls back the curtain on life on the road with Nine Inch Nails, where industrial rage wasn’t just a vibe, it was a line item in the budget. […]
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This week, Charles and Lisa crack open the tour-stained, whiskey-splashed saga of a true road warrior: Professor Marky Ray, Cleveland’s own Master of Music and the man lovingly (and fearfully) known as The Rock and Roll Mercenary.
For five decades, Marky Ray has been everywhere—onstage, backstage, under the stage, lost behind […]
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John Lennon’s companion during his infamous “Lost Weekend” in the mid-70s was May Pang, and she talks all about her relationship plus the film it inspired: “The Lost Weekend: A Love Story” coming soon to a theater near you.
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In this week’s darkly educational episode, Charles and Lisa unzip the fur suit and expose one of the music industry’s most ridiculous, poorly-kept secrets: when a label says a musician was “attacked by a bear,” it usually means the only wildlife involved was cocaine, bad decisions, and a manager who’s […]
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This week, Lisa and Charles dig through the dusty grooves on the flip side of the record—where the strangest and sometimes darkest stories hide.
Lisa drops the needle on “Unchained Melody,” the iconic B side that soared without Phil Spector’s meddling hand—though he somehow strutted off with the credit anyway. She […]
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Part of the Jackalope Tales Halloween Series
Check into the Chelsea Hotel… if you dare. In this chilling installment of Jackalope Tales, Charles and Lisa pull back the bloodstained curtains on the notorious New York landmark where creativity met calamity. From doomed lovers and deranged artists to rockstars who never […]
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Jackalope Tales takes a look at two song writers who created two major hits for other musicians to perform. Lisa delves into the story of the governor of Louisiana who may have had some mafia ties, and Charles takes a look at a children’s book writer and musician who […]
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Jackalope Tales Podcast bonus content this week discusses an article in a magazine that celebrated the 25th anniversary of the Toadies’ album, Rubberneck. Find out why some members wouldn’t be in the same room with each other for the photo sessions!
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