Local H - Whatever Happened to P.J. SolesNULL

Primary Artist
Local H
Album Title
Whatever Happened to P.J. SolesNULL
Release Date
April 6, 2004 
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Review by Mark Deming
After chronicling the regrettable life and times of a going-nowhere rock dude on 1996's As Good As Dead and one band's humiliating and unsuccessful bid for the big time on 1998's Pack Up The Cats, Local H songwriter, guitarist, bassist, vocalist, and general point man Scott Lucas returns to his favorite theme -- failure -- on the band's fifth full-length album, 2004's Whatever Happened To P.j. Solesnull While it would be unfair and inaccurate to say Local H "failed," as an act whose commercial peak came with the mid-'90s grunge boom (whether they liked it or not) and went with the corporate reorganization of their record company not long after Pack Up The Cats was released, Lucas certainly has a perspective on what it's like to end up in the "didn't you used to be that guyNULL" file, and that experience seems to have informed much of the material on Whatever Happened To P.j. Solesnull..... Read More