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Pleaseeasaur, our local retarded genius of entertainment, has signed a three-EP deal with Warner Bros. subsidiary, Razler Records. Pleaseeasaur, a.k.a. J.P. Hasson, has been known to perform while dressed as an astronaut or an abominable snowman (or whatever goofy garb strikes his creative fancy), and his shows are never short of hilarious--even when Hasson is singing about dog shit.
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What about Pearl Jam's Mike McCready getting up onstage and jamming with Cheap Trick on "Surrender" last week at the Showbox? And the Green Room, the Showbox's downstairs hangout, was ablaze with star power after the show, as it was following Echo and the Bunnymen's performance the following night. Both Ian McCulloch and Will Sergeant were holding court.
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In other Pearl Jam news, on July 27, Billboard.com was a wealth of gossip, reporting that Stone Gossard claimed that he and aforementioned bandmate Mike McCready have been playing around in a rented Seattle studio, and that all of the band's members have been rootin' through the ol' archives for material for an upcoming rarities album. Now, before you get all fizzed up, no release date has yet been imagined. Gossard also slipped in a bit about one of his many other bands--this time Brad, who will apparently be playing a Seattle show or two in early September as the band finishes work on its third album. Brad, which also features Shawn Smith, Regan Hagar, and Mike Berg, is looking for a new label.
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And speaking of labels, it's rumored that a young upstart at the Seattle Weekly is looking to gain notoriety of "Is Grunge Too White?" proportions by penning an "exclusive report" pitting bands signing to small local labels against those who have recently signed to major labels. What fucking year is this?
For those who don't remember, "Is Grunge Too White?" was a serious article published in the Weekly in the mid-'90s that was so poorly conceived, timed, and contrived that its paper is still trying to live down all the laughter and derision it caused. The writer was nearly run out of town, for chrissakes. The new investigative journalist has been putting in serious time at the Cha Cha these past few weeks, sidling up to bands of both minor and major status, attempting to gather info. We could be in for a great laugh....
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As for my own bad reporting, all I can say is that, in retrospect, nearly every item in the last two It's My Party columns was riddled with misinformation. Even my corrections needed corrections. You should never, ever believe a word I may have said. This week, however: GOLDEN.
