Winners: Ticket Giveaway - First Ave Mats Tribute

[Kathy]

Congrats to:
Chris Steller
Todd Iverson

Enjoy the show!


I have 2 pairs of tickets to give away to the 11/23 Mats tribute at First Ave -- send me an email if you want in and I'll post the winners on Tuesday 11/ 20.

Replacements tribute turning into a Slim Dunlap rally
www.startribune.com/entertainment/blogs/179322441.html

9.3 The Current and City Pages "Picked 2 Click" present A Tribute to The Replacements
7th Street Entry, 18+
Date: Friday, November 23, 2012
TICKETS ON SALE NOW
A Tribute To The Replacements
in the First Avenue Mainroom and 7th St. Entry
featuring THE MELISMATICS, PINK MINK, LUCY MICHELLE & THE VELVET LAPELLES, BELFAST COWBOYS, BLOODNSTUFF, STORY OF THE SEA with DAVID CAMPBELL, ELEGANZA, RED DAUGHTERS, THE FATTENIN’ FROGS, BLUE RUIN, THE MAD RIPPLE HOOTENANNY FOR SLIM, CURTISS A, GABE DOUGLAS (THE4ONTHE FLOOR), DALE T. NELSON, ERIC POLLARD (ACTUAL WOLF), NICK LEET (HIGH ON STRESS), ORION TREON (PHANTOM TAILS), JOHN SWARDSON and more

Plus a performance of Pleased To Meet Me with special guest vocalists

A Benefit for Slim Dunlap

We are auctioning off VIP tables with all proceeds benefiting Slim Dunlap. Bid on table one, table two, table three.

[timx1386]

This sounds AWESOME.

..... special guest vocalist......

[wecantgetanybetter]

Nov 14, 2012 19:44:19 GMT -5 timx1386 said:

This sounds AWESOME.

..... special guest vocalist......

I haven't actually been to one of these, but I think what that means is, for one part of the show there's a house band that plays the PTMM album tracks, and they bring up a different vocalist for each track.

[paulinetrouble]

Dang, that would be fun!!!!!

[FreeRider]

one of these days I'll make my pilgrimage out to Minne and visit the sacred grounds where the Mats once played. And maybe if I listen real hard, in the silence, I might still hear a faint echo of their days gone by....

[wecantgetanybetter]

Local music: Pleased to meet 'em
An inside look at how First Avenue's annual Replacements tribute falls together.
Article by: CHRIS RIEMENSCHNEIDER, Star Tribune, November 22, 2012

[wecantgetanybetter]

Craig Finn from the Hold Steady came out for Skyway, which someone put up on YouTube right away ..

[wecantgetanybetter]

And a sampler from the PTMM part of the program, barely hanging on to my phone ...

[wecantgetanybetter]

This was on the 7th St Entry side ... Belfast Cowboys doing a Hold My Life version


and Left of the Dial with Story of the Sea



Fattenin' Frogs take on I Will Dare in the Entry



Greg Norton from Husker Du came out for a double-drum set jam on Gimme Noise with Pink Mink

[Kathy]

Thanks for posting all this!

[TomT]

Nice!

[DuluthToMadison]

It was a great show. The Melismatics really brought energy and intensity. Wonderful choice as the house band for the ptmm set. I was half expecting Craig Finn to show up but was very surprised by the Greg Norton appearance. I'm already looking forward to next year's show.

[FreeRider]

good stuff....thanks for the clips and reviews

[ClamsCasino]

I love The Hold Steady, but Craig Finn doesn't understand how the lyrical twist at the end of Skyway is supposed to work.

[wecantgetanybetter]

Nov 25, 2012 23:01:34 GMT -5 ClamsCasino said:

I love The Hold Steady, but Craig Finn doesn't understand how the lyrical twist at the end of Skyway is supposed to work.

Heh, you're right. He looks right at the lyrics on the music stand before that last line and still says "Wasn't a damn thing I could do or say, beneath the skyway." I blame the PBR.

[ih8music]

I wish there was more of Norton on drums...

[JimP]

Curtiss A singing can't hardly wait.