ABOUT THIS PODCAST 🔗
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.
Update frequency:
weekly
Average audio length:
68 minutes
Guest interviews
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English
United States
76 episodes
since April 15, 2025
episodic
LATEST EPISODE 🔗
Beethoven died in 1827. Chopin died in 1849. Liszt died in 1886. But, apparently, that didn’t stop any of 'em from writing new music.
In the 1960s, an unassuming British widow named Rosemary Brown alleged Liszt appeared beside her piano and began guiding her hands through compositions she’d never …
PREVIOUS EPISODES 🔗
What happens when the biggest band in the world starts asking engineers to do things recording equipment was never designed to do? Things get weird. But, did the Beatles really revolutionize the gear and recording techniques that changed the game?
On this episode of Tape Spaghetti, Scott &…
By 1970, Elvis Presley had fame, money, guns, wicked karate skills, a collection of police badges, and the ability to get almost anything else he wanted. Then he decided he needed federal credentials. What followed was an absolutely bonkers few days.
On this episode of Tape Spaghetti, Elvis s…
In the early '90s, bands like My Bloody Valentine, Ride, Slowdive, and Lush transformed walls of distortion, oceans of reverb, and enough guitar pedals to bankrupt a small nation into Britain’s hottest new sound. Shoegaze had arrived, and seemed to be ushering in a new era of music out of England.
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No Lead Belly, no Beatles? Sounds like clickbait, but the musical family tree makes a surprisingly convincing case.
On this episode of Tape Spaghetti, Scott and Blake wrap up the incredible story of Huddy Ledbetter and trace how a former prisoner from the Louisiana-Texas border became one of moder…
Long before Kurt Cobain's legendary performance of “Where Did You Sleep Last Night?” on MTV Unplugged, there was Lead Belly.
Wandering folk hero. Convicted killer. Musical encyclopedia. A man so talented he supposedly sang his way out of prison...twice.
On this episode of Tape Spaghetti, Scott an…
Marvin Gaye made some of the most beautiful music ever recorded, but behind it was a life defined by a constant struggle for control.
On this episode of Tape Spaghetti, Scott and Blake trace Gaye’s journey from an abusive childhood to the pinnacle of Motown, where Berry Gordy’s hit-making machine …
Getting kicked out of a band is no fun at all. But what happens when losing the “wrong” person turns out to be exactly the right move?
This week on Tape Spaghetti, Scott and Blake dig into famous lineup changes that looked risky, unpopular, or downright catastrophic at the time, only to completely…
What happens when incredible music collides with impossible politics?
In this episode of Tape Spaghetti, Scott and Blake dive into the tangled history of Paul Simon's Graceland, tracing how one bootleg cassette led to a Grammy-winning masterpiece... and an international controversy.
When Simon la…
Everyone knows John Lennon was murdered outside the Dakota on December 8, 1980. Far fewer know just how strange and unsettling the full story really is.
In this episode of Tape Spaghetti, Scott and Blake trace the events leading up to one of music's darkest days, exploring Mark David Chapman's obs…
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