These days, when he's not writing, playing music, giving recovery speeches, or driving three and a half hours to the next one, he's by the ocean or taking walks in the wetlands. He's an escapist when it comes to music and literature—it's sci-fi, fantasy and mellow soul for him—but he sees his own story as downright Dickensian.
"It's a fucking Southern California Christmas Carol. I really was an asshole that basically got a look at himself, woke up and said, 'No, man. I'm in the wrong business.' It doesn't mean I don't play in T.S.O.L.—because of T.S.O.L., I've had the chance to stick my hand out to a lot of people," he says. "Guys come out to the show and say, 'Hey, man, I'm having trouble; I'm hurting,' whatever. I freely give my number out; I hand it out onstage and say, 'Call me. Here's my number; call the house,' whatever.
Photo by John Gilhooley; Hair and makeup by Mae Hess
Edward C. Colver
Jack Grisham onstage
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An American Demon: A Memoir by Jack Grisham; ECW Press, Independent Publishers Group. $19.95.
Book-release party with T.S.O.L., the Crowd, the Hated, Love Canal and Yeastie Boys aboard the
Grand Romance Riverboat. Sun., 2-6 p.m. Free.
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This article appeared in print as "The Devil In Mr. Grisham: In his new book, the infamous front man of OC punk legends T.S.O.L. describes how he exorcisedAn American Demon: Himself."
