Chris
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Post by Chris on Sept 19, 2014 23:00:38 GMT -5
It was All Shook Down
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Post by jess on Sept 19, 2014 23:03:12 GMT -5
I stand corrected!
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pj
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Post by pj on Sept 19, 2014 23:03:53 GMT -5
They didn't play Sadly Beautiful, they did Merry Go Round and then Paul did All Shook Down on his knees.
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The Muggler
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Post by The Muggler on Sept 19, 2014 23:05:22 GMT -5
It was All Shook Down on his knees, not Sadly Beautiful. ASD and White & Lazy were the only two songs played tonight that they didn't do at Midway.
This was another fantastic show, the audience was great. The 10pm curfew was a major let down for sure.
<edit> jinx!
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pj
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Post by pj on Sept 19, 2014 23:06:53 GMT -5
I haven't seen any of the other shows since they reunited, but White and Lazy was a nice surprise. Paul seemed to be appreciative of the audience (I'm guessing this is their first non-festival gig in a while), particularly after Bastards of Young. (Now I've just looked at some of the other postings on this board and see they just did a MPLS show, so forget that first non-festival gig thing, but he did seem pretty happy.)
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Post by matsrule on Sept 20, 2014 0:00:30 GMT -5
Man those vids by Perfect Sound Forever are amazing
Valentine is like you are standing right there
Hd all the way
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Chris
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Post by Chris on Sept 20, 2014 0:03:44 GMT -5
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Post by jess on Sept 20, 2014 0:09:51 GMT -5
Man those vids by Perfect Sound Forever are amazing Valentine is like you are standing right there Hd all the way Pavement fans (or so I'm guessing by the name?) know what's up! That person is a hero!
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Post by h on Sept 20, 2014 0:34:38 GMT -5
Here's the set list:The Replacements 9/19/14 Forest Hills Stadium
Favorite Thing Takin’ a Ride I’m in Trouble Don’t Ask Why I’ll BeYou Valentine Waitress in the Sky Tommy Gets His Tonsils Out Take Me Down To The Hospital iI Want You Back Color Me Impressed Nowhere is My Home If Only You Were Lonely Achin’ To Be Kiss Me O The Bus Androgenous I Will Dare Love You Til Friday/Maybellene Merry Go Round All Shook Down Swingin’ Party Love You in the Fall Can’t Hardly Wait Bastards of Young White and Lazy Left of the Dial Alex Chilton Unsatisfied
It was awesome. They sounded great, I couldn't have asked for a better set.
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Post by Kathy on Sept 20, 2014 0:43:01 GMT -5
I am out of words for this show. It just couldn't have been better. It was joyful and I mean that sincerely.
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Post by matsrule on Sept 20, 2014 1:42:40 GMT -5
From the videos the sound was awesome
And the crowd looked totally into it
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Post by TomT on Sept 20, 2014 6:54:05 GMT -5
This is from Eric Ambel's Facebook. He's a producer now but was Joan Jett and the Blackhearts guitarist, is in The Del Lords, and has put out solo albums.
"I've seen the Replacements 5 times before. Opened for them at Folk City ('83) and also on a New Years Eve at CBGB's. Loved their songs and records, never saw them play a good gig till tonight. What a wonderful gig. It's true I don't get out too much. I've been out a lot so yeah, I don't get out too much. Thanks to the Surreal McCoys for the door to door concert action and thanks to Chief for the hospitality. You have to experience playing rock and roll when somebody like Chief has your back. There's nothing like it. Nothing like it. Thanks everybody."
He also said the band bought road cases from him. Take from that what you will.
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Post by oreo137 on Sept 20, 2014 7:18:03 GMT -5
He also said the band bought road cases from him. Take from that what you will. Great news!
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Post by FreeRider on Sept 20, 2014 7:24:02 GMT -5
Hmmm, interesting detail about the road cases!
From the NY Times review:
"Better late than never, in a way. More than 20 years after the Replacements initially broke up, leaving behind a fervent cult following but disappointing album sales, the reconstituted band had a stadium singing along on Friday night. Yes, Forest Hills Stadium is a fairly small stadium. But the crowd’s voices were loud through both verses and choruses, song after song.
It’s the kind of vindication the Replacements have been earning, and receiving, since Paul Westerberg, their singer, songwriter and guitarist, began touring with Tommy Stinson on bass decades ago. Those two original members are now backed by musicians Mr. Westerberg has worked with during his solo career since 1991, Dave Minehan on lead guitar and Josh Freese on drums. Mr. Westerberg dedicated “All Shook Down” to Slim Dunlap, the band’s lead guitarist from 1987-91, now bedridden by a stroke. * The Replacements’ first lead guitarist, Bob Stinson, died in 1995, and their original drummer, Chris Mars, has not rejoined the band.
*(That's nice that they're still thinking of their buddy back home. I really hope Slim gets well enough so that he can attend a show and be a part of the backstage festivities with the guys)
Mr. Westerberg, 54, still has the slender build, flashy wardrobe and insouciant intensity of a rocker. Mr. Stinson, who has also been touring in Guns N’ Roses, was his comic relief, regaling the audience with a tale of falling on his face the morning of the concert. The band kicked up a solid ruckus, just reckless enough as it worked from punk rock back through echoes of the Rolling Stones and the Beatles, while Mr. Westerberg delivered more than two dozen Replacements songs with the same ragged conviction they held in the 1980s.
From 1979 to 1991, Mr. Westerberg’s songs gave the Replacements, from Minneapolis, the spirit of a certain kind of indie-rock antihero: one who was scruffy but honest, sometimes plastered but often romantic, and innately unprofessional — ”a mess on the ladder of success,” as Mr. Westerberg, and the stadium, sang Friday night in “Bastards of Young.” The Replacements arrived in 1979 as punk rockers, but once they gave their songs some breathing room, Mr. Westerberg’s gifts emerged: unexpected melodies carrying lyrics that were smart, heartfelt and telegraphic, and a voice with the grain to make them convincing.
Through commercial near-misses and punky self-sabotage — the Replacements grew equally renowned for playing thrilling concerts and drunken throwaways — the band’s songs became self-fulfilling prophecies. That made the Replacements, as lovable losers, even more precious to many listeners who had discovered them; a 1997 anthology was titled “All for Nothing/Nothing for All.” Meanwhile, those who could professionalize the band’s sound — notably the Goo Goo Dolls — got hits.
The new Replacements got started in 2013, but it has taken them a year to reach New York on tour. The Forest Hills show was simultaneously a resurgence and a tribute, with two opening acts that have learned mightily from the headliners. Deer Tick, an indie-rock band that leans toward country, puts its own twist on Mr. Westerberg’s unlucky but obstinate characters; its most recent album is titled “Negativity.” The Hold Steady places surging guitars behind Craig Finn’s detailed, talk-sung lyrics about fringe characters; Mr. Finn took time, during “Your Little Hoodrat Friend,” to name the Replacements as his favorite band and to connect them to the Ramones, who were from Forest Hills.
But it was the Replacements who played to a suddenly full stadium, with their songs tumbling out: the bratty sarcasm of “Color Me Impressed,” the shyness of “Swingin’ Party,” the underdog persistence and Merseybeat swing of “I Will Dare,” the yearning of “Can’t Hardly Wait” and the pop-fan solidarity of “Alex Chilton,” about the Memphis songwriter who was a cult hero to the Replacements; it imagines that “Children by the million sing for Alex Chilton.” The encore was “Unsatisfied,” which insists the singer is exactly that. Still, seeing that so many people have taken the Replacements’ non-hit oldies to heart, after all these years, must have been just a little satisfying.
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Post by BronxTeacher on Sept 20, 2014 8:04:46 GMT -5
Echoing everyone else's sentiments--they were great. I went with three friends, one a casual fan, the other two unfamiliar with the Mats except for a handful of songs they had heard over the years, and they agreed. Pure RnR (NOT rock, as I always say, but rock and ROLL).
I thought the show really took off when they played Maybelline. BOY was transcendent. ASD was another highlight.
Great night!
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Post by KingArchie on Sept 20, 2014 8:25:33 GMT -5
RE: NY Times review - What's the deal with the "Mr. Westerberg" sh*t through the whole article??? Sorry - drove me nuts reading it. Glad everyone have a great time! I was 4 hours away, chomping at the bit, wishing I was there. Glad to hear that more shows are likely to come too.
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Post by Kathy on Sept 20, 2014 8:32:22 GMT -5
youtu.be/nrbENiCqT_oLink above is to merry go,round and ASD, sound is iffy for Merry, but just fine for ASD about 2 minutes in.
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Post by Cold Fingaz on Sept 20, 2014 9:27:48 GMT -5
My gosh, what a night.
This was my vantage for White & Lazy.
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Post by matsrule on Sept 20, 2014 9:47:57 GMT -5
New York Times always uses Mr.
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Chris
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Post by Chris on Sept 20, 2014 10:04:11 GMT -5
From the NY Daily News:
They're known as one of rock's greatest misses. Since their hey-day in the '80s, The Replacements have become mythologized as much for their status as overlooked geniuses as for that genius itself. Such a perverse dynamic has given fans an especially emotional connection to the band - a bond the Replacements tacitly acknowledged with their choice of intro music to their super-rare reunion show at Forest Hills Tennis Stadium Friday.
Before the band took the stage, speakers swelled with the sounds of "When You're A Jet," from "West Side Story." The song expresses the unending loyalty of the outsider, that crazy sense of mission that drives the misunderstood and the marginalized.
The music that followed not only fulfilled a dream of the band's longtime loyalists, it far exceeded it. In their main active years - 1979 to '91 - The Replacements were known as classic screw-ups, fumbling their way through too-many concerts with drunken abandon. Here, they sounded tight, attuned and fully ready to give their legacy the ten-gun-salute it deserves.
The group has had some time to hone their comeback-attack. They first performed under The Replacements banner for a few dates in 2012, followed by just a smattering of shows since. The Forest Hills performance represented the band's first in the New York area in 23 years. It featured just two original members - leader Paul Westerberg, and bassist Tommy Stinton. The latter has, for years, been cashing a pay-check with Guns n Roses. Filling out the ranks Friday were guitarist Dave Minehan and drummer Josh Freese.
A faithful Replacements reunion isn't possible, given the death of guitarist Bob Stinton back in 1995. Easing the absence is the fact that Westerberg wrote the great majority of the band's material and always represented their intellectual lynchpin. Westerberg, now 54, has recorded increasingly deep solo albums since the band's break-up in the early '90s - ending right before they had the chance to enjoy the fruits of the alterna-rock revolution they helped inspire. Regardless, the material displayed at Forest Hills proved The Replacements could never be contained by any particular movement or genre.
At Forest Hills, the group emphasized their hardest and most brisk material, those songs that most closely connected them to '70s punk. At the same time, they reveled in elements of rockabilly, glam-rock, power-pop, and even country. Rarely did they speed-break the pace, breaking things down only with songs like "All Shook Down" or "Swinging Party." More commonly they slammed through blistering rockers like the opening songs "Favorite Thing" and "Takin' A Ride." Along the way they threw in some interesting covers, like a punky slam on The Jackson 5's "I Want You Back," or a triple-timed plow through Chuck Berry's "Maybellene." Throughout, Minehan's guitar solos spun tight rings around Westerberg's riffs, elaborating them while adding witty asides. Yet, they never risked the slick. For all the fresh discipline of the music, it retained its ramshackle charm.
In contrast to the music's bluster, their lyrics show great breadth. They veered from flip and snooty blurts to earnest disclosures and pleas. It all built to the inevitable peak of classics like "Can't Hardly Wait" and "Bastards of Young," two of the most urgent, and hilarious, expressions of rock-fueled youth ever written. Yet, it was the penultimate song - "Alex Chilton" - which nailed the peculiar passion that connects this band to their fans. It's an ode from one overlooked star (Westerberg) to another (the late leader of Big Star), somehow imagining the latter as a seer to millions.
A significantly smaller group turned out at Forest Hills - roughly 11,000 of the 15,000 capacity. Yet, given the depth of the music, and the identification of the audience, it felt like everyone in the world that mattered was there.
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