Streaming Weasel

¨When I was doing press for the Screeching Weasel collection on Fat [Wreck Chords], they had me do a thing for Alternative Press where guys in famous bands interview their idols,´¨ Weasel says of his first conversation with Kennerty, who had chosen Weasel as his idol. ¨Mike asked what I was doing musically. I said, Here´s my phone number.´¨

Given Weasel´s frustration with trying (and failing) to assemble a full-time band and the fact that Kennerty and Gaylor were willing to work for free, the decision was an easy one.

Weasel says he has tentative plans to release a follow-up to These Ones Are Bitter and continue developing Mendota. But first he must gauge the success of his current digital-only release.

¨I know I´m not going to change the world with this stuff,¨ Weasel says. ¨But it would be great to say I was able to do it, that I was the underdog but was able to pull it off. Part of the fun is doing something you shouldn´t succeed at, but succeeding anyway.¨

Twenty-one years and more than a dozen albums later, that´s something Weasel has proven more than capable of handling.