The Replacements: Classic or Dud?

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?

Lonely, I guess that's where I'm from, if I was from Canada - Neil Peart

One more time to do it all wrong.
One more night to get it half-right.
One more warning,
One more distant early warning sound
We're coming out.

"Tom Sawyer Gets His Tonsils Out"

"Somethin' To Xanadü"

"Don't Ask YYZ"

red, red barchetta on sunday

children by the millions scream for alex lifeson

"I'll By-Tor"

Here Comes A Randian

Geddy's Got a Boner

We are the sons of no one of the Temples of Syrnix.

Classic

so, first reunion show was last night

Nice setlist:

1. “Takin’ a Ride”
2. “I’m in Trouble”
3. “Favorite Thing”
4. “Hanging Downtown”
5. “Color Me Impressed”
6. “Tommy Gets His Tonsils Out”
7. “Kiss Me On the Bus”
8. “Androgynous”
9. “Achin’ to Be”
10. “I Will Dare”
11. “Love You ‘Til Friday”
12. “Maybellene” (Chuck Berry cover)
13. “Merry Go Round”
14. “Wake Up”
15. “Borstal Breakout” (Sham 69 cover)
16. “Little Mascara”
17. “Left of the Dial”
18. “Alex Chilton”
19. “Swingin’ Party” (“Special request from our friend Slim back home”)
20. “Can’t Hardly Wait”
21. “Bastards of Young”

ENCORE

22. “Everything is Coming Up Roses” (From ‘Songs For Slim’ EP)
23. “IOU”

jesus

that stings!

wow, great set list.
I like that they dug up Borstal Breakout!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6R1XH_Jj3Io

the first 5 songs probably would have made me pass out
prob would have hi 5ed someone at some point and embarrassed myself

friend of mine that was there said like 3 burly dudes around him were wiping away tears

he prob was too tbrr

That's a wonderful setlist

awww
buncha tenderhearts

especially great choices for the first 6 or 7... and they're short tunes too so would've had some great momentum early in there.

did anyone see it? the stooges were on right before them

I was not really all that enthused about this reunion idea, but damn if this opener didn't raise the hairs on the back of my neck.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cifW750ANKw

bunch of clips in this article. It was great.

The Stooges were great, too. Steve McKay's sax being a highlight for me. I got the impression they didn't want to leave the stage. And certainly not have someone upstage them afterwards.

Rocket From The Crypt were fun. They'd done their homework, telling (very inaccurate) stories about the history of Fort York and the War of 1812: "we came in freindship! Bringing cakes! And you treated us like invaders!"