The Replacements: Classic or Dud?

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

Wonder what happened. Heard he was friendlier and easier to deal with than, say, Alex Clinton, but...

i still wish they could be called stinson/westerberg overdrive but they were fun at bumbershoot

Yikes, that was awful.

stinson/westerberg overdrive

would pay for this

New drummer is fine, but don't really care for the lead guitarist.

New drummer is a session pro who has played with Devo, NIN, GNR, A Perfect Circle. Weezer.

i assumed Keef was new guitarist

Ha.

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Josh Freese, no?

Josh in Chicago, you aren't Josh Freese, are you?

oh, the guitarist is the guy from the Neighborhoods! Such a new-wave pinup when he was 20.

Wow yeah, David Minehan. I had no idea.

Keith Richards was very affable and enjoyable - and his daughter is vv pretty.

Dave Minehan rules!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5Mia0yvVmw

No Keef tho

Nice, that Neighborhoods video ended up making my night! I didn't realize that the version of "Prettiest Girl" I know is a cover. I have it on the lone 45 from Jimmy Zero's short-lived post-Dead Boys band, Club Wow, given to me by Jimmy himself when I was in high school. A Cleveland college radio station let me have a show during the summer when there weren't a lot of students around to host. Following my show there was an hour-long pre-recorded program, so after getting the tape started I would go into another studio and play records for myself until the next DJ showed up. One afternoon I was listening Night of the Living Dead Boys when I heard the door to the station open and the DJ say "Hey Jimmy, he's playing the Dead Boys!" JZ was super nice and autographed a copy of the Club Wow 7 inch for me.

I wish I could remember the name of the DJ, or her show. She was a super-cool punk college girl so a bit intimidating to me, but really friendly. I started Googling around trying to figure out who she was. I remember Cheetah Chrome being arrested at the same station and think it might've been during her show, but couldn't find any references to the event that mentioned her. But I did find a lot of online reminiscence of '80s Cleveland college radio and the scene in general which made for great reading. Between that and some Club Wow on YouTube it was a very nostalgic evening.

So thanks! And sorry for the hijack . . . back to The Replacements.

scored a ticket to the midway stadium show on saturday should be pretty fun

josh freese is also pvnk he was originally from the Vandals

but anyway he kinda rules, i saw DEVO with him and he really made the older stuff tense and awesome

I saw the Neighborhoods open for Husker Du, Jan '85

Didn't they kick starter a reunion album?

david minehan and josh freese = westerberg's original post-mats band, more or less.

I used to see the Neighborhoods on a regular basis in the mid- to late-'80s in Providence/Newport, RI. That video I posted was actually made a few years before I first saw them, when they had a different bass player. They were simply fantastic live. When I first saw Westerberg solo, Dave Minehan was in his band and they were playing Providence. Some people in the crowd were screaming for “No Place Like Home” or “Prettiest Girl” and Westerberg turned to a mortified Minehan: “Is that one of yours, Dave?”

Man twin cities media is replacements crazy!

It's so bad I am travelling to a remote cabin deep in Wisconsin woods to think about my feelings!

gary's got a bon iver

Well played, sir.

A+!

i'm worried about jim walsh

well?

He's boycotting

Im beginning to think that the "we just wrote this" real time approach of the likes of Hold My Life and Favorite Thing is my uh, favourite thing about this band, more so than anthems, ballads or trainwreck image. I think it takes a particular skill to write songs like that in that way and make them stick in your head at the same time.

I was at the Midway show (travelled from Chicago), and I gotta say the crowd didn't seem that into it (perhaps it was a bad case of 'Minnesota nice'). 'Killed by hype' was overheard, and I thought 'killed by people talking about getting back to their babysitters.' There wasn't even people dancing, even towards the front. I saw 'em at RiotFest in Chicago last year, and it was just such a transcendent experience - energetic crowd, singalongs, screams and fun. Not so much at Midway. Cool setting and great set by the band, though. 'Unsatisfied' was a great closer.

it was a fun show! didn't transport me to another dimension like some ppl are saying but they played really well (shout out to josh freese a pro's pro)....

did some cool things like "if only you were lonely" and "nowhere is my home"..."tommy gets his tonsils out"

The idea that a member of the Replacements can be lauded as "a pro's pro" makes me sad.

I feel like 90% of the people I know in the Twin Cities area were at that show

singalongs at pricey shows = must to avoid

a complete impossibility

Doesn't look super-pricey though.

it only costs you your youth

The idea that a member of the Replacements can be lauded as "a pro's pro" makes me sad.

― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Monday, September 15, 2014 12:52 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

honestly after all these years of being in GnR and other stuff, Tommy is pretty dang pro himself...Westerberg was the only one who was kinda sloppy at times...

on a base level, they sounded great....they played and sang some song that mean a lot to me and it sounded good. i dunno, i don't buy that heavily into the mythos of the 'mats anyway, so yeah it wasn't some rapturous event but it was a fun night, they did good....but whatever it was meant to signify or whatever old magic from the 7th street entry 30 years ago it was supposed to conjur up were likely out of reach in a baseball stadium with 15,000 ppl

having seen them twice, 1. they play drunk 2. they play a lot of old songs and occasionally cover something out of nowhere 3. it's a good time

this doesn't seem to me tremendously distinct from the experience of seeing the mats back in the day except for venue size, but i wasn't there