The Replacements: Classic or Dud?

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.

The one by Charles Aaron? Yes, very moving.

i found the letter -- my name has been removed for privacy
still embarrassing, i invite him over to my house and chide his bandmates for "treating him like shit"
lol youth!
http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5523/9094504103_99fe0aa8c3_o.png

i remember being really alarmed by his substance abuse
so of course i invited him over to my parents' house

<3 <3 <3

that was 20 years ago!
dang

I remember reading that harrowing SPIN article in a newsagents in the Norfolk Broads, England. I can picture the place now. Fuck, time.

No wonder Westerberg declined the interview

I also salute your letter La Lechera

I remember that Spin piece, and that's a great letter, LL. I remember not really being able to process the news when I'd heard he died. My memory is of hearing it on the radio followed by, of all things, a Gin Blossoms song.

xpost So it's all Hopper's fault?

damn, that article.

My memory is of hearing it on the radio followed by, of all things, a Gin Blossoms song.

Interestingly, the Doug Hopkins story is actually not all that different from the Bob Stinson story.

I remember reading that harrowing SPIN article in a newsagents in the Norfolk Broads, England. I can picture the place now.

Ditto, I read it on a newsstand in Rochester, NY. I haven't read it since but remember being totally bummed out by it. Doesn't it end with him plaintively asking Aaron if he wanted to go score some heroin? Anyway, after reading that, his death a few years later came as no suprise at all.

The photo that accompanies it is haunting. I can remember seeing Bob around town a few times post-Replacements, and that sad, blank, not-all-there look.

18 seconds of "Favorite Thing" from rehearsal today. No clue who the mystery drummer is.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZWQ5_g2quk

"Alex Chilton" too.

It's Neil Peart

That is so funny it should be excelsiored. Oh wait. No, don't wait.

Had a friend (in her defense, drunk) insist that the Replacements were just ok, then in the next breath praise Oingo Boingo. I just held my tongue, because what can you say to that?