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DISGRACELAND

Dennis Hopper: Dynamite, Cocaine, Cheating Death, Subverting Hollywood, and Life on the Fringe

DISGRACELAND

Jake Brennan

True Crime, Music, Society & Culture

4.613.1K Ratings

🗓️ 4 March 2025

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Dennis Hopper revolutionized American cinema by bringing the counterculture to the mainstream with his 1969 film Easy Rider. But he also lived his life in tandem with his art, on the fringes of society and sanity. His stubborn attitude and crazy ideas quickly transformed him from a hippie prophet into a longhaired loser. Hopper's journey from success to failure and back again took him through jungles, deserts, and mountains, and involved varying degrees of drugs, guns, hallucinations, and ex-wives - all part of a lifelong search to save his career, and his life. This episode contains content that may me disturbing to some listeners, including domestic violence. Dennis Hopper brought a rock 'n' roll sensibility to filmmaking. Jake wants to know: Which actor or actress from Hollywood history is the most rock 'n' roll? Tell us at 617-906-6638, [email protected], or on socials @disgracelandpod. To listen to Disgraceland ad free and get access to a monthly exclusive episode, weekly bonus content and more, become a Disgraceland All Access member at disgracelandpod.com/membership. Sign up for our newsletter and get the inside dirt on events, merch and other awesomeness - GET THE NEWSLETTER Follow Jake and DISGRACELAND: Instagram YouTube X (formerly Twitter)  Facebook Fan Group TikTok To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:41.0

Please check the show notes for more information.

0:44.6

Disgrace Land is a production of one of the most rock-and-roll characters to ever work in Hollywood.

1:06.4

An artistic revolutionary, a drug-crazed lunatic.

1:13.4

A man who once tried to blow himself up in front of a crowd in Texas, a man who took a $300,000 hippie art film and turned it into a $40 million

1:20.6

box office smash. It's a story about Dennis Hopper, a man whose movies and whose myth inspired great music. Unlike that

1:33.8

music I played for you at the top of the show, that wasn't great music. That was a preset loop

1:39.9

for my Melotron called Frank's Oxygen Mask, MK1.

1:45.9

I played you that loop because I can't afford the rights to

1:49.2

in the year 2525 by Zaggar and Evans.

1:54.3

And why would I play you that specific slice of futuristic cheese,

1:59.1

could I afford it?

2:04.5

Because that was the number one song in America on July 14, 1969. And that was the day Dennis Hopper's Easy Rider was released. An event that brought

2:13.4

60s counterculture into the mainstream kicking and screaming and set its director, Dennis Hopper,

2:19.8

on a path that would take him to the highest of highs and the lowest of lows.

2:24.8

On this episode, Artistic Revolution, the Dynamite Death Chair Act,

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