If you're ever in line for the bathroom with Pearl Jam guitarist Mike McCready, may you should just let him cut in front of you...because knives might come shooting out of his ass. According to seattletimes.com:
McCready suffers from Crohn's disease, a painful gastrointestinal disorder that can make finding restrooms an extremely urgent and embarrassing task. On Thursday, he asked Washington state lawmakers to mandate emergency access to businesses' private restrooms for sufferers of Crohn's and related disorders.
"Imagine the worst diarrhea you've ever had, and then times it by 10, with a knife in it," McCready said after testifying before a legislative committee. "You have maybe a half-a-second to find out where a bathroom is."
"I was in the middle of a solo and it hit, and I can't go anywhere because I'm playing in front of 20,000 people," McCready told The Associated Press after he testified. "So I just let go. I went back stage and cleaned up, because the show must go on."
Another attack happened just before McCready took the stage during a Pearl Jam-Rolling Stones concert, leaving him rushing for a portable toilet.
I'm not sure if I would pay more or less to see a member of Pearl Jam shit himself during a concert. On one hand, watching a grown man shit himself isn't what I would consider a "good time." But, on the other, the "I saw the guy in Pearl Jam shit himself" story would make you a big hit at parties. This is a tough call.
Im a huge PJ fan and have known about McCready's condition for years and this is just so awesome. I just keep thinking of this bootleg video my friend has of them in Amsterdam where he comes out for the encore wearing nothing but his guitar. Imagine if his Crohns had acted up then. Refunds may have been in order. Seriously how bad ass do you have to be if you keep shitting yourself and somehow are able to keep your job?
I have a friend who has Crohns and it's a very serious disease, so I feel bad for this guy. However, I would like it if he would elaborate more as in; where and when was the show, so I can search for any live clips of this solo. I've often wondered what it would be like to shit oneself while soloing. I mean, would I just sustain that high note until it passed, or play a long, fast chromatic run ending in a dive domb with lots of echo and delay.
These are serious questions that must be answered before the world can truely be as one.
I have Crohns so i know how he feels. But i think i would have run off the stage before i shit myself. It seems like it would be kind of weird doing that in front of an audience.
I work for the Washington state legislature and I get so sick of all these rock stars from the 90s coming down to push their cause du jure, but McCready did a good job and even dissed the Rolling Stones (I don't think I can embed a video in the comments so you have to manually forward to 00:33:40):
"...you should just let him cut in front of you...because knives might come shooting out of his ass."
If this was the case I would rather have him behind me. What if just as you let him cut in front of you the knife or knives came shooting out of his ass? You would be in quite the predicament as you would standing precisely in the flying cutlery target zone.
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January 30th, 2009 at 09:52 am
Im a huge PJ fan and have known about McCready's condition for years and this is just so awesome. I just keep thinking of this bootleg video my friend has of them in Amsterdam where he comes out for the encore wearing nothing but his guitar. Imagine if his Crohns had acted up then. Refunds may have been in order. Seriously how bad ass do you have to be if you keep shitting yourself and somehow are able to keep your job?
January 30th, 2009 at 11:05 am
I have a friend who has Crohns and it's a very serious disease, so I feel bad for this guy. However, I would like it if he would elaborate more as in; where and when was the show, so I can search for any live clips of this solo. I've often wondered what it would be like to shit oneself while soloing. I mean, would I just sustain that high note until it passed, or play a long, fast chromatic run ending in a dive domb with lots of echo and delay.
These are serious questions that must be answered before the world can truely be as one.
January 30th, 2009 at 11:41 am
I have Crohns so i know how he feels. But i think i would have run off the stage before i shit myself. It seems like it would be kind of weird doing that in front of an audience.
January 30th, 2009 at 12:06 pm
Knifing Diareah = Great Music!
January 30th, 2009 at 12:11 pm
Knives in my Diarrhea is a great band name.
January 30th, 2009 at 01:16 pm
I work for the Washington state legislature and I get so sick of all these rock stars from the 90s coming down to push their cause du jure, but McCready did a good job and even dissed the Rolling Stones (I don't think I can embed a video in the comments so you have to manually forward to 00:33:40):
http://www.tvw.org/media/mediaplayer.cfm?evid=2009010173&TYPE=V&CFID=2072471&CFTOKEN=98780084&bhcp=1
January 30th, 2009 at 02:08 pm
"...you should just let him cut in front of you...because knives might come shooting out of his ass."
If this was the case I would rather have him behind me. What if just as you let him cut in front of you the knife or knives came shooting out of his ass? You would be in quite the predicament as you would standing precisely in the flying cutlery target zone.
January 30th, 2009 at 03:49 pm
You make a very good point. Maybe we should just run away?
January 30th, 2009 at 08:50 pm
When I read the title, I thought Holy Taco was quoting yet another unfunny Dane Cook joke. I'm glad I was mistaken.
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