The Replacements: Classic or Dud?

So for anybody that doesn't have it, I just re-ripped the 7th Street Entry show from YouTube:

http://db.tt/3RlPMX6a

weeeeeeeeeeee are the noooormmal
we live and we die
no reason why

I skipped through the YouTube clips, and for me the two songs that leave the others behind are "Kids Don't Follow" and "Johnny's Gonna Die." I wonder if they have any idea how good they are? Chris Mars in the latter has this faraway look that's hard to read. Of the four people up there, I imagine three of them thought of all this in terms of months, if not weeks.

"goddamn job" isn't in the 6 part twintone thing for some reason, but it's def from the show and i threw it on the thing--that one is by far the best of the set imo. for that little moment at the end where paul & bob just effortlessly lock into this palm-muted thing, i get fooled into thinking "goddamn job" is my favorite mats song.

this vid

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IINrFUCF8-g

just to add to all these live Mats memories:

I saw them headlining on the DTAS tour in Phoenix and they were great, playing for around 2 1/2 hours and getting progressively drunker over the course of it. I remember Tommy running out on stage and nearly falling over when he reached the end of his cord. Slim pouring a beer onto his amp. After they'd played pretty much all of their well-known songs Paul said, "Uh, any requests?" and me and my friend yelled out "I Don't Know" (which was our dorky male-bonding favorite song) and the band launched into it.

I also saw Paul solo in 95 or 96 in Iowa City and it was pretty cool. He was obviously kind of annoyed that the Mats songs got a better response than the solo songs. But I got to shake his hand.

http://www.spin.com/sites/all/files/styles/style620_413/public/91-08-spin-cover.jpg

Did Spin's writers report back, or did they just disappear into a black hole of madness and despair?

They did! It was a great issue, actually. EiC gave all their writers a ticket to some random place in search of the soul of rock and roll. Of course, with Paul they had a ringer.

BTW, anyone who hasn't heard Chris Mars' solo stuff really should:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2KerXTzuqc

If you only knew this, you would never guess this was the former Mats drummer.

^^ Minnesota deep cuts

This one's good too, especially the chorus:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GRd3wai3Y-Y

(I thought I'd posted that before, but if not on this thread, I'm not sure where.)

like both of those, dam

This "Chris Mars WAS the Replacements" stuff is giving me flashbacks to people saying that it isn't Van Halen without Michael Anthony.

IT ISN'T.

^^

Please welcome new guitarist.... HAR MAR SUPERSTAR

Uh,kidding right?

I am serious!

Yup

https://twitter.com/jesshopp/status/347722154143539201

huh

DJP can be the drummer and the entire show can be him shouting at Westerberg "I never thought you were that great!" and just playing drum solos based on Information Society songs that Har Mar freestyles over.

Which, of course, I would pay to see without hesitation.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/de/Har_Mar_Superstar.jpg

does he have an album called Young Ron Jeremy because if not he's slipping

Wait could we get Prince to play drums for them?

Ha they should get Grant Hart.

they should use Savage Aural Hotbed as their drum section

TBF, every band should.

Shoulda gotten Buckethead.

id say the chances of SAH are much higher than grant

Minor details!

Shoulda gotten Buckethead.

― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, June 20, 2013 11:14 AM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I just said the same thing to someone in my office!

this would be much easier to deal with if the news accounts were that sean tillman was the guitarist in the replacements and people had to dig to figure out who he was.

i can see calvin krime era guitaring working pretty well in this actually.

Wait could we get Prince to play drums for them?

― This amigurumi Jamaican octopus is ready to chill with you (Phil D.), Thursday, June 20, 2013 10:08 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Would not be surprised if it was Michael Bland.

i can see calvin krime era guitaring working pretty well in this actually.

yeah dude was a minnesota indie rocker before the vodka ad stuff.

i want to believe he and tommy hooked up in hollywood and bonded over their roots or something

Really, they should have gotten Izzy to play guitar.

BTW, anyone who hasn't heard Chris Mars' solo stuff really should:

that first album is kinda hard to find actually!

Popular Creeps ftw

Garrison Keillor to round out the reunion lineup

love Popular Creeps, yes

in fairness....Har Mar's previous incarnation (as Sean Na Na) isn't really all that far from the Replacements, and you can see him here playing guitar, doesn't seem as weird if you see this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LGnogeF22PY

or his previous previous incarnation in Am Reppers Calvin Krime:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5q-_Io1PVtY

It's the thought that counts, and I think they could find someone better.

I've heard Bland hates to tour and won't do it anymore.

xp

A scam! Sorta.

http://m.spin.com/articles/replacements-har-mar-superstar-guitar-reunion-shows/

But we have the real one

https://twitter.com/max_read/status/347815642881224704

replacements on fire

btw, spin just reposted this heartbreaking story on Bob Stinson from 1993

http://www.spin.com/articles/hold-my-life-bob-stinson-the-replacements-interview-june-1993/

v vivid memories of reading that when it originally ran :(

i wonder what happened to his son

btw, spin just reposted this heartbreaking story on Bob Stinson from 1993
that's the one i wrote the letter about and they published it! i found it when they put their archives online. i think i posted about it somewhere but was too ashamed to link.