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Chapter 1: What near-death experience did Dave Gahan have?
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Chapter 2: Where do rock stars go when they die?
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Chapter 3: What did Dave Gahan see during his near-death experience?
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Hey, discos. Need a little more Disgraceland in your life? Just a touch to get you through? Yeah, me too. This is the podcast that comes after the podcast. Welcome to Disgraceland, the afterparty. Welcome to the Disgraceland bonus episode, a little thing we like to call the after party.
Chapter 4: How do other rock stars describe their near-death experiences?
This is the show after the show, the party after the party, the bridge to get you from one full episode of Disgraceland to the other. It's the backyard to dig into the dirt where our mission is to uncover the truth, to confront the myth, and to reclaim the story from music history. On this bonus episode, Dave Gahan from Depeche Mode died and came back to life.
What he saw afterward has us asking, where do rock stars go when they die? the near-death experiences of the Depeche Mode frontman and other rock stars, plus your voicemails, texts, emails, comments, DMs, and as always, a whole lot of Rosie. This is the podcast for the musically obsessed, the outsiders, the independent thinkers who know that the best history is the history that gets buried.
Disgraceland is where I tell the stories I didn't want told, the kind that you'll end up telling someone else. All right, discos, let's get into it. Where do rock stars go when they die? They don't go to heaven where the angels fly.
In this week's episode of Disgraceland on Depeche Mode, part of the story focuses on the near-death experience of singer Dave Gahan and the time his heart stopped for two minutes after injecting a speedball in 1996. Dave survived. And I love NDE stories. That's near-death experience. So I love this story.
Chapter 5: What scientific perspectives exist on near-death experiences?
I love NDE stories, near-death experience stories, because it's the greatest trick in storytelling at play, where you tease the audience with the answer to a question that is just, they have to have the answer. They can't not have it. And this is the greatest question of all. What comes next?
I read a book on near-death experiences once by a neurosurgeon, a neurosurgeon who claims to have had an NDE himself. He suffered from a coma, and he came back, and he gave a scientific explanation of what he believes happened to him and where he went from while he was clinically dead and before he returned.
And he too, this neurosurgeon like Dave Kahan, like I said, was clinically dead for a moment. Now, Dave Kahan told NME in 2013 that when he died, he was floating above his own body in the hospital room and looking down at his former self while paramedics went about trying to save his life. He said that these seconds of death that he experienced, for him anyways, they moved like hours.
Time moved slow. He also said that he was screaming, but nothing was happening. And he believes this was his soul screaming out. And then came darkness, complete, all-encompassing darkness. And just this blackness, this is the important part, it was frightening.
Chapter 6: How does Dave Gahan's experience compare to others?
Until Dave was eventually thrust back into his body before waking up alive. Now, in the book, Proof of Heaven, A Neurosurgeon's Journey into the Afterlife, Dr. Eben Alexander, this is the neurosurgeon I was talking about earlier, he went further in his near-death experience than Dave Gahan. His time of unconsciousness lasted longer than the Depeche Mode frontman's.
Dr. Alexander was in a coma for a full seven days. He describes his time on the other side as a place of unconditional love, a place where love permeates every element of your being, of being tapped into a universal consciousness. where telepathic communication between other souls is possible, where rich, vibrant colors dance with a divine light, a portal of sorts, okay?
A gateway to, as he describes it, the all-knowing, loving creator. Should be noted, by the way, that Dr. Alexander was an atheist, I believe, before he wrote this book. And he doesn't go into spirituality or religion or faith very much at all. That's not what this book is. Again, it's a very scientific take on his experience. He describes...
He describes the afterlife as a place where one's soul continues to learn and grow and where everything is guided by the constant, overwhelming sensation of connectedness and love. That sounds fucking awesome. But it also sounds a little bit different than Dave Gahan from Depeche Mode's experience.
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He was experiencing an all-encompassing, frightening blackness. Now, I don't really know how Dr. Even Alexander lived his life. From what I remember from the book, and I read it, I don't remember how many years ago, it wasn't that long ago. From what I remember, he led a pretty normal life as not only as a doctor, but as a father, a husband, a brother, a son.
And his time in his coma was marked by family members who visited him, were caring for him. These are all the signs of a man who not only was loved, but who also most likely put a lot of love into the world. And my point is that we can probably assume that the doctor here
didn't live a life of Depeche Mode debauchery and leave a trail of emotional hardship and personal relationship casualties along the way, as most rock stars do. And maybe this is why his afterlife experience, The Doctors, was so different from the rock stars, from Dave Gahan's. And then again, maybe he just wanted to sell a lot of books. I don't know. People say a lot of things.
Okay, even doctors, but especially musicians. I just watched a video last night of Robbie Williams, by the way, claiming that he'd had sex with a reptile or with a woman who turned into a reptile in the middle of sex. I shit you not, he's dead serious.
Chapter 8: What upcoming topics will be discussed in future episodes?
I've talked about this before, John Lennon. We all love John Lennon, man of ā I don't need to qualify who John Lennon was. We all know who John Lennon was, right? But John Lennon went on a New York news program in 1974 and detailed, told a story in detail and in all seriousness to his fellow New Yorkers about the UFO that he saw flying over his 52nd Street apartment. Okay?
Rock stars say crazy shit. Keith Richards claims that he snorted the ashes of his cremated father. Quincy Jones said that Paul McCartney was the worst bass player he ever heard. He also claimed Marlon Brando had sex with a mailbox.
By the way, in the exclusive section of this After Party episode, Zeth and I are going to dive into the wild, wild comments from the last interviews that Quincy Jones gave before he died. All the outlandish stories that Quincy told.
Go to disgracelandpod.com to become an all-access member of Disgraceland, and you'll get our take on this Quincy Jones madness by unlocking this exclusive content and more. Back to our story, however. Where was I? Yes, the outlandish things that rock stars say. Quincy Jones said, like I mentioned, that Paul McCartney sucked. Billy Corgan says that he once encountered a shapeshifter.
Demi Lovato believes that her extraordinary vocal talent is derived from extraterrestrial origins. Grimes says that she was raised by N-H-E's, not to be confused with N-D-E's, N-H-E's. That's what we're talking about here. That's what Grimes is talking about.
And H-E's are non-human entities, aliens, tall whites or the grays or ultra terrestrials or shapeshifters or fucking reptile people, non-human entities. This is who Grimes believes raised her. Okay. Listen, who am I to judge? What do we actually know anyways? The more I learn, the less I know. That's how I feel. That's how I feel these days. The more I learn, the less I know.
So who am I to tell Dave Gahan that he didn't die? Or to tell a neurosurgeon, again, a literal brain surgeon, that he doesn't know what he's talking about? Now, there have been other rock stars who have claimed to have died, and not one of them describes their experiences as being one of love and connectedness, like the good doctor here. Not that I've seen anyways.
I'm talking about real rock stars. Not nice guys who play in jazz bands with their local pastors on the weekend. Not guys who... I'm talking about rock stars, okay? Depeche fucking Modes front man. Nikki Sixx, okay? All of the real rock star near-death experience descriptions that I've read align closer to Dave Gahan's description of fear and darkness.
When Nikki Sixx died, he described the incident as being painful. When Phil Anselmo of Pantera, when he died, as he claims his near-death experience, was a time spent in a black void. And there are others, but you get the gist. Fear, pain, a black void.
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