May 24, 2024

156. MAMA CASS, THE SOLO YEARS (FEATURING MICHELLE PHILLIPS) (Discograffiti, the music obsessives’ podcast)

1 hour 15 minutes

First there were all the seminal, early folk outfits…then came The Mamas & The Papas…and now welcome to The Solo Years, where plenty of buried treasure and fascinating insanity awaits! (I’m lookin’ at you, John.)

In Part 6 of this without-precedent 16-hour interview, Michelle Phillips guests along with band biographer Richard Campbell (@richcbart) & creator/host Dave Gebroe as we put our hearts & minds together for the singular purpose of exploring and rating Cass Elliot’s solo recording career.

In this episode, we reveal:

Brutal details about Cass’s fumbled 1968 solo career coming-out party in Las Vegas, when she took the stage high on heroin;

The confusing divide between Cass’s predilection for both tin pan alley-style song selection and countercultural material;

And a fact-based demystification of the details surrounding her death.

Listen: https://podfollow.com/1592182331

If you’re a Michelle Phillips & Mamas And The Papas superfan like me, you’ll want the DIRECTOR’S CUT of this & the rest of the installments of Discograffiti’s “Michelle Phillips: Interview of a Lifetime” Series—this episode alone features no ads and AN ADDITIONAL 18 MINUTES of essential material that we had to cut for time: https://www.patreon.com/discograffiti/shop/

Or subscribe! In addition, the 30-minute Denny Doherty Solo Years episode (also featuring Michelle) is for Patreon subscribers only (Major Tier & higher), and was released earlier this week!

Extended edits of all shows are available on either the Lieutenant (longer) or Major (longest) Tiers. Discograffiti’s 4-show-a-week release schedule can be yours for the price of a cup of coffee a week.

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Order your copy of our guest Richard Campbell’s incredible new book Gettin’ Kinda Itchie-The Groups That Made The Mamas & The Papas right now!

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