Of Potato Heads and Polaroids

[B]

Also, this was a cooler cover.

[Jorge]

Of course B wouldn't know who Glenna Wiley is

[E.H. Ruddock]

This book misses some opportunities to be cooler than it is.

- Pages 44-45 include polaroids of Jack Word, Angie Redman, Rena O'Brien, Mary, Carla Wilcox, Erika Word, Erika Locatelli, Kaelyn, Chris, Glenna Wiley, and Julie Andres. I don't know who one, god damned person on that two-page spread is. How about a little bit of context? How about a date? A location? Anything?
- Even the crowd shots have no information. What show were these taken at? C'mon, McCready, throw us a bone. The whole book has about 300 words in it. You could have at least put decent captions on things.
- There are a couple of polaroids of people coming in for interviews with Mike for SiriusXM or Deep. Why not have someone drop in some tidbits from those interviews? Or again ... when they fucking happened?

This book doesn't satisfy any of my itches for more info about Pearl Jam, their friends, their influences, or Mike McCready's "life outside of Pearl Jam." It just leaves me with a bunch of questions.

I mean, haven't they just advertised it as a book of Polaroids? I don't think I was expecting any context unless it was written on that thick white bottom of the picture.

[B]

This book misses some opportunities to be cooler than it is.

- Pages 44-45 include polaroids of Jack Word, Angie Redman, Rena O'Brien, Mary, Carla Wilcox, Erika Word, Erika Locatelli, Kaelyn, Chris, Glenna Wiley, and Julie Andres. I don't know who one, god damned person on that two-page spread is. How about a little bit of context? How about a date? A location? Anything?
- Even the crowd shots have no information. What show were these taken at? C'mon, McCready, throw us a bone. The whole book has about 300 words in it. You could have at least put decent captions on things.
- There are a couple of polaroids of people coming in for interviews with Mike for SiriusXM or Deep. Why not have someone drop in some tidbits from those interviews? Or again ... when they fucking happened?

This book doesn't satisfy any of my itches for more info about Pearl Jam, their friends, their influences, or Mike McCready's "life outside of Pearl Jam." It just leaves me with a bunch of questions.

I mean, haven't they just advertised it as a book of Polaroids? I don't think I was expecting any context unless it was written on that thick white bottom of the picture.

Sure, nothing other than polaroids was explicitly promised but context would have been appreciated. It would have made the book worth more than a breeze through and never pick up again kind of book.

[Norah]

Stop buying shitty Pearl Jam merchandise and you won't be disappointed by it.

[Anders]

Stop buying shitty Pearl Jam merchandise and you won't be disappointed by it.

Did you see the last Deep magazine?

[Norah]

Stop buying shitty Pearl Jam merchandise and you won't be disappointed by it.

Did you see the last Deep magazine?

nope

[Anders]

Stop buying shitty Pearl Jam merchandise and you won't be disappointed by it.

Did you see the last Deep magazine?

nope

No big loss.

[VinylGuy]

Looks cool.

[B]

Stop buying shitty Pearl Jam merchandise and you won't be disappointed by it.

I liked my Singles reissues.

[Strat]

Mike is doing a life thing in seattle via facebook right now about this. Interview and stories etc. Its nice.

[E.H. Ruddock]

Yeh b should be watching this

[Strat]

This is great. I love mike

[Strat]

"just stop. just stop fucking ....dying..."


mike

[LoathedVermin72]

God this is such an awful title. Please stop bumping this thread so I can stop seeing it.

[E.H. Ruddock]

Mike is just the bees knees. He's talking about being a Soundgarden fan boy and bugging Matt with questions about them all the time

[Strat]

Mike does yoga

[Birds in Hell]

This is great. I love mike

How could anyone not?

What a lovely guy he seems to be.

[Strat]

This actually makes this book much more interesting. Fascinating how into polaroids he is and how such a strange camera and photo style it is. Some really cool photos.

[washing machine]

I really like how un-self aware the majority of this sentence is.

"As wonderfully intimate as group “selfies” with the likes of Neil Young, Questlove, Jimmy Page, Ann and Nancy Wilson, Joey Ramone, Johnny Ramone, The Edge, Ben Harper, Peter Buck, Paul McCartney, Mike Mills, Sting, Macklemore and Ryan Lewis, Carrie Brownstein, Robert Plant, Peter Frampton, Dave Grohl, Gene Simmons, Bono, Jack White, Danny Clinch, Lady Gaga, Laura Dern, Dustin Hoffman, Judd Apatow, Will Ferrell, Leslie Mann, Jimmy Fallon, Mira Sorvino, Tim Robbins, Hugh Jackman, Venus Williams, and Kate Hudson are, it’s the massive homage to the band’s fans taken from stage view, in places from the Pacific Northwest to Peru, from Brussels to Bolivia, that brings McCready’s manic intimacy come roaring to life.""