John Pierson (musician)
{{Short description|American musician}}
John Pierson, known also by the stage name Jughead and by the pseudonym Ian Pierce, is an American musician, writer, actor, and podcaster.
Biography
In 1986, Pierson and Ben Weasel co-founded the punk rock band Screeching Weasel in Chicago, Illinois. Pierson played guitar for the band{{cite news|url=http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=CSTB&p_theme=cstb&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=122C495F45F669B8&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM|title=Screeching Weasel back, more intense than ever|last=DeRogatis|first=Jim|date=24 August 2008|work=Chicago Sun-Times|accessdate=6 January 2012}}{{Dead url|date=February 2024}} until 2006.
In 2002, Pierson formed the acoustic pop-punk band Even in Blackouts,{{cite news|url=http://www.filmthreat.com/festivals/1248/|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130123065504/http://www.filmthreat.com/festivals/1248/|url-status=dead|archive-date=January 23, 2013|title=Faded Reflections And Contemporary Projections: The 57th Annual Edinburgh International Film Festival|last=Rae|first=Graham|date=30 August 2003|work=Film Threat|accessdate=6 January 2012}} with which he has recorded four albums and one EP and toured several times.
Pierson is also a playwright and novelist, usually writing under the name Ian Pierce. He formed a theater production company, Hope And Nonthings, in 1990 and produced ten plays before joining the Neo-Futurists; he has been performing in their long-running show Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind since 1996.
His semi-fictitious Weasels in a Box (2005) is a novelization of Screeching Weasel's history.{{cite news|url=http://www.avclub.com/chicago/articles/john-jughead-pierson,33495/|title=John "Jughead" Pierson|last=Ryan|first=Kyle|date=12 January 2006|work=The A.V. Club|accessdate=6 January 2012}}{{Dead url|date=February 2024}} His last novel, Last Temptation of Clarence Odbody, appeared in October 2011.{{cite web |date=22 August 2011 |title="Chalk and Saltwater: The Ladder Project" - The Neo-Futurists |url=http://www.chicagonow.com/off-broadway-in-chicago/2011/08/chalk-and-saltwater-the-ladder-project-the-neo-futurists/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303235615/http://www.chicagonow.com/off-broadway-in-chicago/2011/08/chalk-and-saltwater-the-ladder-project-the-neo-futurists/ |archive-date=2016-03-03 |accessdate=6 January 2012 |work=Off Broadway in Chicago}}
References
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External links
- [https://www.jugheadsbasementpodcast.com/ Jughead's Basement Podcast]
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Category:American punk rock guitarists
Category:Guitarists from Chicago
Category:American male guitarists
Category:Screeching Weasel members
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