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Jettison

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Anyone that knows me, knows I love the Porcelain Boys.  I’ve shot hours of video for them.  I helped record their  second demo tape.  I even almost released a live record/tape  (which I years later finally edited down into what would have been a pretty great live record) that I recorded.   CD’s were really expensive back then, that’s why I say tape.

Anyway, Jettison is really just the Porcelain Boys.  I love these guys to death, but could never figure out why they would change their name just because they changed out one member.  The original PB’s was a 4 piece. Scott on Bass, Eric & Tom on Guitar and another kid (Brian maybe?) on drums.  I don’t think the drummer lasted even a year.  Eric moved to drums and the power trio line was cemented…at least for a few years.  Right before they broke up and Tom left the band, they brought in another guitarist, slowed everything way down…honestly…they needed to break up for the next phase of the band to happen.  Anyway, a few years later, with Tom gone,  Eric moved to back to guitar and they reform with the one and only Jason Knutson on drums.  What more could you ask for?  Jason is one of the nicest guys you will ever meet and a massive pop-punk nut (he did the cover art for the final Doc Hopper album) !!!

This lineup recorded the "…Away Awhile" album which saw re-recordings of some of their previously released tracks plus some new stuff.  They also toured a bit…outside of the midwest building up their name.  I have no idea why Jason eventually left the band (school?  work?), but he was replaced on drums with this guy and they changed the name to Jettison.   As far as I know, this was the only release under this name.

They have reunited as the Porcelain Boys since then, but I don’t know if much of anything became of it.  Check out their MySpace page that is run by a close friend of the band.

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One Response to “Jettison”

1. Nick Larsen Says:
   November 15th, 2012 at 2:49 PM

   There is nothing more crazy than doing a random search on the web and stumbling across information on a band you played in 13 years ago.

   I was the drummer on the Jettison record. Cook and I are still in touch and run into each other once in a while (saw him 2 weeks ago!) and Kaiser and I haven’t seen either other since the break up. I’ve been recently playing shows with Knudson’s new(er) band.

   The Jettison name came out of the studio sessions for Gun Girl album. We went into it as the PB’s, came out as Jettison. There was a sort of rebirth happening at that time, but there was also a lot of tension. I was the young one coming into a band with a lot of opinions and strong ones at that. I can look back at my 19-20 year old self and wish I’d done a lot of things differently, but that’s always the case.

   Anyway-this many years later and I’m still proud of that record. I’m super sad that I didn’t get to see the reunion show last fall with Kaiser, Cook, and Knudson. That lineup had a HUGE influence on me and I saw them play so many times and played shows with them in another band a lot before joining.

   Those were the days. 🙂

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