The Replacements: Classic or Dud?

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!"

http://o.canada.com/2013/08/25/the-replacements-toronto/

http://wpmedia.o.canada.com/2013/08/replacements1.jpg?w=680&h=480

Audience recording out in the wild. Will report back.

These two links were posted by a friend on FB, don't know if they're any good:

http://filecloud.io/nqrezap4
http://www.putlocker.com/file/DACA6EBF36018632

That "Takin' A Ride" video gave me the chills.

That's what I grabbed. They sound fucking great.

I'm still against calling this the Replacements, but the Paul & Tommy project rocks. Color me impressed.

Really fun evening, Replacements more funnier energized than when I saw 'em in '91. Pretty great setlist, loved hearing so many "Sorry Ma" tracks. Odd to hear (I think it was) "Tommy Gets His Tonsils Out" morph into "Third Stone From The Sun". Good timing for the show to end (on schedule) right before the rain started, though I personally would've welcomed it

"funnier and more energized"

CMI looks like it's exactly the right place in the setlist

Also loving Wake Up in there

i have been smh @ myself ever since i saw the setlist
what a fool i am! a complete and total fool. i should have gone.

You had chance to and you didn't?

Don't they play Chicago next?

Well I would have had to 1) buy a ticket and 2) go by myself. None of my friends would have cared enough to go and I doubt anyone would have wanted to go that much anyway.
I go all of the places by myself usually no problem. But standing in a field of dudes crying about the Replacements was too much for me to imagine. For comparison's sake, when I went to see Grant Hart I totally freaked and started crying. Doing that again in a field only this time all alone? I just couldn't bear the thought of it! That's the honest reason I didn't go.

Also I know "Achin to Be" isn't the world's best song, but I'm glad they played it. The songs I'm deeply sick of (Kiss Me/Bus, Can't Hardly Wait, even Left of the Dial) seem to be at a minimum and it was mostly songs I would have REALLY wanted to hear. Maybe they'll swing back around and I won't be such a complete freakazoid about it.

tl;dr i am mush-hearted

This wasn't at Riotfest? I have been avoiding all news of it! Didn't even know when it was so I wouldn't be blue about not being there.

I didn't go and I'm ok with that.

Especially after seeing that facebook shirt.

Haha, otm

yeah i mean i don't want to feel this way but i kind of can't help it
would not wear a tshirt about it

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That was Riotfest Toronto. Chicago is...a week from next weekend, I think?

First: Better to raise this on another thread, I know, but did you go to the Grant Hart show at Red Line Tap? Argh, I meant to go and just spaced out, I think. Or...maybe I didn't want to go alone myself? Oh, geez.

i did!

oh god it's next week? news i do not want to use.

I have all sorts of misgivings about seeing the Replacements in 2013 -- most, but not all, of which have more to do with me than with them. I dunno, I've seen a couple of reunions that I cared a lot about but left me cold and messed with some good memories/idealizations...but then I've also seen a couple of bands that have been going continuously since I was in high school that really were incredible.

There are questions coming left/right from all sorts of people I both would and wouldn't expect -- asking if I'm going, which are all starting to bore into my brain. I'm getting the feeling that I end up going and probably end up really enjoy myself even though I didn't plan to.

Also, I'm going to pull up the Grant Hart thread and ask for some elaboration there, k?