Mike McCready is really well known for his explosive guitar solos, not so much for his explosive diarrhea. But he’s got it — Crohn’s Disease, to be specific — and he wants his fellow victims to be afforded emergency access to private business bathrooms. Read this article for more on his noble campaign, or for the story about how he shat his pants at a show, mid-solo. That’s on you.
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Even Flow no more.
i would like to design the special badge
oh humiliation.
the dreaded ‘brown noise’. the legends are true.
I’m so glad he is using his celebrity status to do this. I have a very similar disease called Ulcerative Colitis, and trust me, when you can’t negotiate with your bowels, it’s a big pain to be declined bathroom use to the closest location in proximity. I have experienced public humility because of a very stupid and misunderstanding waitress in Worcester, MA. Wherever she is, I hope she’s covered in poo right now.
Yes sir I have crohn’s/colitis as well. I want a poop card. I would so wear it like a sheriff’s badge everywhere I went. I have been humiliated by small business owner’s the world over. It is a fact of life with this disease.
Top Five Moments
1. Sneezing and losing control over my bowels at a bowling alley. (ok that one is no one’s fault, but it is sort of funny)
2. Being deprived of bathroom use at my own bank and then crapping behind their dumpster and notifying the manager after the fact, then changing my bank.
3. Arguing over restroom use in my bad pigeon french with algerian women in Paris metro.
4. Arguing with an irate Dublin bartender about using the toilet without buying a pint first, only to discover the toilet had no toilet paper after buying pint.
5. Being told at a convenience store in record heat somewhere in DC that there is no public restroom. Asking for directions to the nearest place while I am filling my trousers.
Non-Small business owner item, but maybe 5.1
Having to crap over the side of my kayak on a long crossing between islands in lake michigan in very cold weather.
He can afford to give a crap.
He should at least sponsor adult Diapers.
actually he’s finally realized he’s in this douche shite band called Pearl Jam and it upsets his stomach
keith wikle, best comment ever on Stereogum
agreed