The Replacements: Classic or Dud?

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?

i elaborated in excessive detail somewhere already -- HD poll results?

I bought a ticket to the Sunday Riotfest, which, amazingly, was not sold out. I figured Mats, Rocket from the Crypt, Mould, Burma and I suppose pseudo Pixies was worth the I'm-old-but-I-know-these-bands price.

One friend went to the Toronto show, another was thinking about it. $140--I'm sure it was great, but the idea of paying that much to see anyone pretty much stops and starts at Bob Dylan or the Velvet Underground in 1966 for me.

One of these days, I'm going to see a billboard for Cracker at the local Goldstrike Casino and wonder, "Hmmm, will they start the set off with 'Low' or end it with 'Low'?"

At the end. And sadly, they'll have Camper Van Beethoven open.

ok i'm eating crow after watching that "takin' a ride" clip

that killed it

Can't remember if people rate Tommy as a bass player but I think he's pretty awesome-he plays a lot of repeated eighth notes that he breaks up by letting some notes ring out longer and putting in other little fills, always with great feel and dynamics.

I wouldn't have gone either to the big festival. If they show up at the Beacon or something at not too crazy a price might try to go.

just having done a shitload of GnR tours and stuff as a sideman i'd imagine Tommy's way better now as a bass player than he was then just in terms of being tight etc

would lol if Paul demanded that Tommy give him some reggae mid-set

Indeed

FWIW, I paid $70 for a single-day (Sunday) ticket here. That's not bad for the bands I mentioned.

I'm not surprised the Replacements sounded pretty good. Josh Freese is a pretty fantastic rock drummer. I saw one of his first solo tours way back when Freese was the drummer and they were pretty awesome. Freese is a machine and when the drummer is usually kicking ass, it's really not too hard for the rest of the band to sound like a well oiled machine.

would lol if Paul demanded that Tommy give him some reggae mid-set

Or something like around 1:10 here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ughVE2JKQ5o

Close enough?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QmrXI3rXd_Q

David Minehan in the band! nice.

p4rn33's piece on them for mauramag is killer: http://www.mauramagazine.com/article/5220bc50c873d929805a3724/within_their_reach

Does that mean it's time to subscribe?

One friend went to the Toronto show, another was thinking about it. $140--I'm sure it was great, but the idea of paying that much to see anyone pretty much stops and starts at Bob Dylan or the Velvet Underground in 1966 for me.

Hmm, friends I know only paid $80 - guess 140 was the two-day price? And I was prepared to pay 80 but got in for $0 thanks to a friend winning a NOW magazine contest. (Said friend and myself spun "I Bought A Headache" and "If Only You Were Lonely" and so many others on CJAM-FM back in '87-88 Tuesdays from 1-6am)

Anyway, it occurs to me now - typing "replacements" in google and seeing "riot fest Toronto" come up, seeing the many youtubes posted - that this was the closest thing to a genuwine historical concert I've ever attended, and one of the most enjoyable (Stooges great too of course; Rocket/Crypt were OK). So I guess I finally have a "Losing My Edge" moment for real. And was thoroughly rocked as well. Hurray!

(Too bad you missed it, LL) :(

Was there maybe a VIP area? (Whatever that means--lap dances from Paul Westerberg, I'm guessing no.) I think I heard "VIP" mentioned when my friend was across the table talking about how he came by a ticket.

No idea, sorry. I was in the VUP area myself.

I did earn a $5 Tim Horton's card for participating in an on-the-spot 2-question cigarette survey, though!

Mystery solved:

"Day 1 tickets for August 24 will run you $35.98 to $49.98 (plus service charges) and can be bought here. Day 2 tickets for August 25 will cost $49.98 to $69.98 and can be purchased here. And an entire weekend pass will set you back $69.98 to $99.98, and you can buy that here. There are also VIP packages available."

If you want someone to whisper in your ear that you're important, you gotta pay for it. ("VUP"--excellent.)

So they're playing Coachella. Makes me at least a little hopeful they might wind up at Bonnaroo too.

Has this been posted here yet? If not, enjoy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KmcjFu0yXmY

Never forget

Oh wait it was released on some comp a while back. Never mind.

thanks anyway

I was gonna say it was on Shit Shower & Shave, but that wasn't even a real comp.

RIP weird bootlegs that you'd have to sniff out when you'd visit record stores in major North American cities.

First NBC performance since getting banned:

http://www.nbc.com/the-tonight-show/segments/11506

"I'm in love ... with daffodil."

It's...good. It's fine. But I still think of this "Replacements" as being Westerberg solo with Tommy on bass.

If Axl had shown up, it could just as well been a GNR reunion.

ha

"I'm in love ... with daffodil."

One of the most endearing things about Paul to me is that he writes good lyrics and then seems unwilling/unable to spit out half of them, and does stuff like this. I miss the other guys too, but this had just enough slop to conjure up the old days for me.

Yesterday saw poster for upcoming show in Brooklyn.

Sorry, I was in Brooklyn, show is in Queens.

the fact that i'm missing the show with the hold steady hurts my heart a little bit

i should find out if my friend's son (b 1997), a huge fan, is going

his old man, a CBGB punk, pretty much has always hated live shows that are "crowded."

http://oi61.tinypic.com/2u9mr9g.jpg

I have a picture somewhere of me with Paul Westerberg, and it just reminds me how disappointing the experience was. Better to cherish my memories and leave it at that.

https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7169/6718436027_a8c0ffb9ee_n.jpg

^ cutecelsior