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Post by brianlux on Nov 1, 2011 0:01:23 GMT -5
What great discussion here! I'm excited reading these posts- well thought out and insiteful and even the succinct ones make good points. There's not much to add but to say thank you, the tried and true P.W. fans for being here. Who know what or when we'll here from Paul again- it's worth it to think of never giving up hope that we'll here from Paul again and in the meantime enjoy what he's given. And meanwhile, how cool that Tommy's still hard at work!
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Post by wecantgetanybetter on Nov 1, 2011 10:10:53 GMT -5
Maybe he needs to take a page out of the Joe Strummer handbook and get on with it. According to the first post in this thread from a Clash fan board, Paul and Joe did have the same handbook. But then further commenter pretty much trash that theory. www.clashcity.com/boards/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=6566 |
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Post by thepogo on Nov 1, 2011 21:56:18 GMT -5
Now I know why the Replacements and The Clash were two of my favorite bands, and Westerberg and Strummer as my two favorite songwriters and frontmen.
That is a pretty cool and funny forum.
Thanks for the link.
Now Westerberg get to work!!
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Post by daveb on Nov 2, 2011 17:58:16 GMT -5
Ok, my "I think"...if you look back at Paul's time with The Replacements you come away with two distinct experiences. There are the earlier years where he was mostly trashed and the band was all youthful energy and attitude, and then the later years where the band was crumbling around him and Paul seemed bored with being constrained by a brand name (as well as feeling trapped by the music industry).
Where he is with his life right now, I can't think he'd be terribly excited about revisiting either of those periods, and I don't think he's ever found a way where he's felt comfortable blending the "mythic" stature of his Replacement songs into the more modest place he creates music from now . Post breakup, he tried to incorporate elements of The Replacements in first creating a touring rock band that played some of their songs, and then also working some of the 'Mats songs into his solo gigs. But at some point I think he realized that a lot of people came to see him to hear the old stuff (think Rick Nelson's "Garden Party") and that he felt trapped by his past. The only way to give himself some much needed separation was to do things that didn't put him in direct comparison with his Replacements self (in other words, eschew putting out traditional albums and doing traditional touring).
"I think" this is what Tommy might have been referring to when he talked about Paul and his baggage.
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