Nancy and Ken Berry, EMI Recorded Music deputy president , welcomed a largely executive crowd to Paramour, a onetime Catholic home for wayward girls in Los Feliz that was lavishly transformed into an upper-crust Bedouin campground by party planner Phillip Weingarten. On a porch not far from a buffet groaning with chili and shepherd's pie, Bonnie Raitt, who was escorted by her father John Raitt, was a little press shy after a trying 45-minute trip down the press gauntlet at the Grarnmys. And nominated band Everclear celebrated its first time at bat after losing the best rock instrumental performance Grammy to Pat Metheny. "I guess Pat Metheny outrocked us," said Everclear's Art Alexakis. "But it was fun just to be invited. Nice to come to parties. Free food from the label. I think we helped pay for a little free food over the last couple of years."
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