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Tape Spaghetti

Blake Wyland & Scott Marquart

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.

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All Episodes

58:23

Rust, Soul, and Static: Brittany Howard Before the Fame

Tape Spaghetti ·

2026/02/17

Before she was a household name, before the Grammys, before the headlining tours, Brittany Howard was dragging herself to rehearsals after 12-hour shifts as a mail carrier.Before that, she grew up in a trailer in a junkyard in rural Alabama, enduring poverty, prejudice, and the tragic loss of her sister. This episode of Tape Spaghetti tells the story of Howard’s meteoric rise—and the grit that powered it. From bluegrass jams at the ripe age four, to teaching herself recording on a donated

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76:56

Rolling Stones: The Road To Altamont Part 2

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2026/02/11

Last week Scott & Blake dove into the birth of the Rolling Stones' touring empire.In Part II, they find out what it cost. After reinventing the modern mega-tour in 1969, the Stones faced backlash from a counterculture that suddenly saw them as corporate villains. Their response, a massive free concert celebration in Northern California, was meant to be an olive-branch. Instead, the Altamont Speedway Free Festival became the moment rock lost its innocence. Poor planning, a ground-level stage, and

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65:32

Rolling Stones: The Road To Altamont (Part 1)

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2026/02/03

In the 1960s the Rolling Stones were already rock royalty. In 1969, they became an empire.In this week's Tape Spaghetti, Scott & Blake hone in on the year the Stones built the model by which all future mega-tours would function. For the first time, rock shows became carefully choreographed spectacles, with the band providing total oversight to sound engineering, lighting, transitions, tempos, merchandise, and box office financials. But scaling came with consequences. Ticket prices soared. Crowds

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66:00

George Clinton, Bootsy Collins & Parliament...

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2026/01/27

Welcome aboard the Mothership. In this episode of Tape Spaghetti, Scott & Blake are joined by special guest Richard Oliver (Wampler Pedals, Chasing Tone, Amplify Creative) who shares his personal history and expertise in a deep, joyful, and occasionally unhinged journey through the universe of Parliament-Funkadelic.P-Funk’s unexpected evolution from 1960s doo-wop into a genre-shattering collage of funk, rock, psychedelia, and Afrofuturism included a rotating cast of unreal musicians (see: Bootsy

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65:48

No Practice Allowed: Ya Ho Wha 13 & The Hang-Glider...

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2026/01/20

Welcome to The Source – a buzzy Sunset Strip health-food restaurant... that also happens to be the intersection of kale, celebrities, and the cosmic control of a self-proclaimed deity calling himself Father Yod. Sound weird? That's because it is weird. And why is this the subject of this week's Tape Spaghetti? Because in the cult of The Source, music is mandatory – but sounding good is forbidden. Yep, get ready for a trip through a bizarre take on 1970s "wellness" in which, Jim Baker, a magnetic

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76:04

How Michael Jackson Bought the Beatles (and Why It...

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2026/01/13

Why are music's biggest megastars cashing out their catalogs for jaw-dropping sums—and who’s buying? If you've ever seen a headline like “Queen sells catalog for $1.27B” and wondered "…how does that even work?" – this episode's for you.Scott and Blake break down the recent gold rush of music rights sales, including the acquisitions of Bieber, Dylan, and Springsteen's oeuvres. They also turn back the clock to some legendary/infamous cases of royalty bonanzas. Little Richard got fleeced. David

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61:39

From Stone Cold’s Glass to Taker’s Bells: Jim...

Tape Spaghetti ·

2026/01/06

If thinking about the sounds of glass shattering or funeral bells tolling on live TV send chills down your spine, you've already met Jim Johnston —you just didn’t know his name.In this episode of Tape Spaghetti, Scott & Blake break kayfabe and pull back the curtain on how WWE's most legendary entrance themes, which often emerged out of pure chaos. The in-house composer who scored wrestling's golden era under absurd pressure, Johnston often had as little as 90 minutes to write the music that would

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72:07

Not Quite “When Harry Met Sally”: When Scott Met Blake

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2025/12/23

Gather round, children of the Spaghetti. From the vaults beneath the Shred Shed, Blake unearthed the ancient scrolls: Tone Mob episode 20, the first recorded encounter between Blake Wyland and Scott Marquart. Back when a “mobile rig” meant earbuds, an iPhone, and whatever flimsy connection the 3G overlords were willing to grant, these two met in the wild and immediately started talking like they’d been swapping gear opinions since the Bronze Age. What starts as “an hour about guitar strings”

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66:33

From Tiki Bars to Bing Crosby: The Real Story of...

Tape Spaghetti ·

2025/12/16

In this year’s Tape Spaghetti Christmas special, Scott & Blake ask a question that you’ve probably never considered – but won’t be able to unhear afterward: why does Christmas music sound so… Hawaiian?Unraveling X-Mas tunes’ tropical DNA takes us back to 19th-century Hawaiian royalty, to the invention of the steel guitar, through WWII, tiki bars, surf rock, and suburban America’s obsession with escapism. Along the way, elements of Hawaiian music quietly crept into mainstream country, pop, and

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82:53

Geese’s Getting Killed and Tyler Childers’ Snipe...

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2025/12/10

In this special edition of Tape Spaghetti, Scott and Blake wrap up and run down their favorite albums of 2025…. and, as usual, a whooole buncha other stuff.From revelations about their own streaming habits, strong opinions on production choices and pedal chains, a victory lap on year one of Tape Spaghetti, and oh yeah, spotlights on the guys’ picks for the best albums of the year, this one is a journey of deep-dives and nostalgia bombs that touches on Euro-country, lush indie rock, and a surprise

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64:56

From Punk Disaster To Ad King: Moby’s Unlikely Comeback

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2025/12/03

What if we told you that the biggest electronic album of all time started as a complete flop?In this episode of Tape Spaghetti, Scott and Blake tell the unbelievable story of how Moby’s Play went from career-killing failure to a global phenomenon thanks to the most shamelessly brilliant licensing plan ever executed. After alienating his fans with a hardcore punk passion project and getting dropped by his U.S. label, Moby was broke, discouraged, and convinced his next record would be his

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68:27

Rolling Stones, Metallica, Kanye: When Album Covers...

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2025/11/25

Remember the feeling of being a kid and encountering an album cover that you just *knew* you weren’t supposed to be looking at? On this week’s Tape Spaghetti we’re turning that feeling up to 12 as Scott and Blake dive into the flat-out shocking world of controversial album art.From covers that got bands banned in department stores, to designs that sparked lawsuits, protests, and panicked parents, the guys explore infamous cases of musicians pushing the visual envelope (literally). Why have

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57:21

How Muzak Brainwashed America (The Weird History of...

Tape Spaghetti ·

2025/11/18

Is elevator music... evil?In this week’s Tape Spaghetti, Scott and Blake go on a tour through the highly unlikely, slightly dystopian history of Muzak – the music nobody loves, but everyone hears. Born from military experimentation, electrical engineering breakthroughs, and a dream to make Americans more productive through calibrated background sound, Muzak might sound aimless, but it was designed to manipulate and control. Workers alternately found it calming or patronizing. Counterculture

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63:47

Pearl Jam vs Ticketmaster: The 90s Battle That Still...

Tape Spaghetti ·

2025/11/11

What happens when one of the biggest bands in the world takes on its industry’s Death Star?In 1994, Pearl Jam was willing to find out. On this week’s Tape Spaghetti, Scott & Blake revisit the grunge-era showdown that pitted a group of scrappy rock idealists against Ticketmaster, the ultimate corporate monolith. Having locked down every major venue in America, Ticketmaster strangled fans with specious “service charges” and squeezed bands with exclusivity contracts. At the height of their

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59:33

Nazi Mind Control or Math? 440 vs 432 Hz

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2025/11/04

We all know we have to tune our guitars… but we don’t usually think about *why* we tune the way we do.In this weeks’ Tape Spaghetti, Scott and Blake do just that, in a discussion fit for a tin-foil hat. For instance, what if we told you that tuning your guitar was actually part of a Nazi mind-control plot? Or that certain frequencies align us with the universe and balance our “water memory?” Or what if we told you…. that’s all nonsense, and that the real story might be even MORE interesting than

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49:25

Blood, Black Magic & Death Row: The Brutal Case of...

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2025/10/29

This week on Tape Spaghetti, Scott and Blake head to Malaysia for perhaps the darkest story in Southeast Asian pop history: the twisted tale of Mona Fandey.Once an aspiring starlet, Fandey’s talent didn’t take her very far – but her transformation into a self-proclaimed shaman gave her access to some of the most powerful figures in Malaysian politics. Her promise to deliver power and success through magic led to a windfall of cash, notoriety, and ultimately, a gruesome murder that shocked the

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76:39

Chris Cornell, Billie Eilish & Nancy Sinatra: The...

Tape Spaghetti ·

2025/10/23

The name’s Spaghetti. Tape Spaghetti.This week, Scott and Blake go undercover into the glamorous, brassy, and occasionally super weird world of James Bond music. After Monty Norman’s jazzy/surfy 1962 theme became the sonic blueprint for every espionage movie ever, each successive Bond theme played a pivotal role in shaping one of the world’s biggest franchises. Decade over decade, a chronological hotlist of pop stars participated – and some, including Johnny Cash and Alice Cooper, just missed

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59:12

A REAL Outlaw Musician: The Ballad of Chalino Sánchez

Tape Spaghetti ·

2025/10/14

There is gangsta rap, there are murder ballads, and then... There is Chalino Sánchez.The real life outlaw who turned the chaos of the Mexican cartel into song. In this episode of Tape Spaghetti, Blake and Scott unravel the brief, violent life of the Godfather of Narcocorridos. After committing a bloody act of vengeance at the age of fifteen, Chalino Sánchez found his calling while serving time, taking tales of his and his fellow inmates’ criminal hustles and spinning them into song. Sánchez’s

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61:29

The United States of America vs Pete Seeger

Tape Spaghetti ·

2025/10/07

When Pete Seeger sang the lyric “This Land Is My Land”—then dared to prove it.In this episode of Tape Spaghetti, Scott and Blake dig into folk icon Pete Seeger’s fiery 1955 showdown with the House Committee on Un-American Activities. At the height of the Red Scare, Seeger was hauled before Congress and grilled about his political beliefs, the people he sang for, and the songs he played. But Seeger refused to play along. Instead of hiding behind the Fifth Amendment, he cited the First, telling

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56:07

Sounds Like Purple (Binaural Beats, Chromesthesia &...

Tape Spaghetti ·

2025/09/30

What does your favorite song look like? In this episode of Tape Spaghetti, Scott and Blake tumble down the rabbit hole where hearing and vision meet. From unforgettable album art to the kaleidoscopic effects of chromesthesia to the full sensory spectrum of synesthesia, sometimes you can experience music with your entire brain…. in good ways and weird.The guys share stories of some of their most visually evocative musical experiences and highlight artists running the gamut from Aphex Twin to

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