Deja Vu: Pearl Jam Free At Gas Works

Pearl Jam has finally rescheduled a free concert here, to up make for the Memorial Day Gas Works Park event that was canceled by the city because of fears of crowd control. The show will be held Sept. 20 in Magnuson Park and will be limited to 26,000 concertgoers.

Tickets will be distributed Sunday at a location to be announced that morning on radio stations KNDD, KISW and KXRX. Packets containing two tickets and parking information will be distributed at that time. Some tickets will also go to radio stations, charitable organizations and community groups. No parking will be available at the park. Shuttle buses will carry concertgoers from the University of Washington's Montlake parking lot to the concert site.

The event, which is being called "Drop in the Park," will begin at noon and end about 4 p.m. Seaweed and another band to be announced will also play. As with the original concert, the show is in support of the "Rock the Vote" campaign, and concertgoers will be able to register to vote there.

"Drop in the Park" is being fully funded by the band, a classy way to say thanks to its hometown.

-- MTV will have a one-hour special on the film "Singles" at 7:30 p.m. Thursday. "Singles Scene" was taped at the movie's premiere party last night at the Park Plaza Hotel in Los Angeles. It will cover the celebrity-studded bash as well as feature live musical performances by Pearl Jam, Alice in Chains and the Lovemongers, all bands featured on the movie's hit soundtrack. Pearl Jam members Eddie Vedder, Jeff Ament and Stone Gossard also have speaking parts, playing members, along with Matt Dillon, of a fictional Seattle band. The special will also include behind-the-scenes footage made while the movie was being filmed here, and sneak preview clips from the film. Cast members Dillon, Bridget Fonda, Kyra Sedgewick, Campbell Scott and director Cameron Crowe will be interviewed. "Singles Scene" will be repeated at 12:30 p.m. Sept. 18, 11:30 a.m. and 7:30 p.m. Sept. 19, and 2 p.m. Sept. 20. More hype for the movie will be in the Oct. 1 issue of Rolling Stone, which will publish excepts from a diary Crowe kept while writing and directing the movie. Crowe will also be the subject of a profile in Pacific magazine in this Sunday's Seattle Times/PI. The movie opens here next Friday at several theaters.

-- After much haggling, the date for the Guns N' Roses/Metallica show here at the Kingdome will remain Oct. 6. At one point, a Metallica source said the date had been changed to Oct. 22, and then another Metallica source, in the band's inner circle, said they were trying to reschedule it for later this month. But promoter Dan Bean and Kingdome officials held firm for the Oct. 6 date, and prevailed. Some other show dates on the tour may be changed, but not Seattle's. As you may recall, the show originally was set for Aug. 18 but had to be postponed when Metallica member James Hetfield suffered severe burns from onstage fireworks Aug. 8 in Montreal. Seattle guitarist John Marshall of Metal Church has joined the tour as fill-in guitarist for Hetfield, who continues to do vocals but does not play guitar. An opening act has yet to be named for the Seattle show, which will start at 6:30 p.m. because the two headliners play long set. Some 36,000 tickets have been sold for the show.

-- Pinups of all your favorite Seattle bands fill the pages of Grunge!, a new $3.95, 48-page color "photo special" publication from RIP, the glossy rock monthly. All the top grungers are represented, including Mother Love Bone, Nirvana, Soundgarden, Temple of the Dog, Alice in Chains and Pearl Jam. Eddie Vedder is the subject of a giant pullout poster. Other bands that haven't yet achieved international stardom also get some play, including Tad, My Sister's Machine, Gruntruck, Mudhoney and Screaming Trees. Although many of the photos are new, most of the articles are reprints from RIP - including the last interview with the late Andrew Wood of Mother Love Bone.

-- The promising new band Flop, as well as Jim and Somebody's Daughter, will play tomorrow at a voter registration drive from 2 to 7 p.m. at Seattle Central Community College at Broadway and Pine. The free event will also include some solo musicians, poetry readings featuring the internationally acclaimed Denise Levertov, and political speakers.

-- The Seattle band Fosso is the only local finalist in "Soundcheck: The Yamaha Rock Music Showcase," a national competition for unsigned bands. It is one of only 20 groups in the nation selected for the finals. Fosso, headed by singer-songwriter Peter Fosso, will compete on Tuesday in Los Angeles for the $10,000 grand prize. The largely unknown band has had some airplay on local radio and had a video aired on "Bombshelter Videos" on KTZZ-TV. It will also be heard on the compilation album "Seattle Music Scene Vol. 1," due in November.