Meet the Mayor: Paradise Rock Club

Welcome to "Meet the Mayor," a segment in which we interview local Foursquare Mayors in their natural habitats.

Paradise Rock Club
Danielle Madigan 

This place has been here, like, forever. Is it haunted?
I don't think I've been here late enough when it's empty to experience any of that. But there are definitely rumors of ghost sightings.

Which dead rock star would you prefer to be haunted by?
This might be a boring answer, but John Lennon, 'cause he seemed like such a calm guy. Kurt Cobain might be too disturbed.

Speaking of, I just saw Butch Vig outside. He produced Nevermind. Should we savagely beat him up later? He's old. He won't be able to defend himself.
I do not think we should do that, no. He's done some good stuff with his career. He's worth keeping around and not injuring.

Is calling this "the Paradise" hyperbolic?
Music-wise, it's a pretty good paradise. Maybe if they redid the bathrooms, it'd be closer to paradise. When they renovated two summers ago, the staff was like, "Are they gonna redo the bathrooms?" They're like, "Yeah, We're gonna redo everything!" We came in, and we were like, "This looks so great!" Then we went into the bathrooms and we were like, "Aw, man, they ran out of time . . . "

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