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Post by anarkissed on Mar 14, 2024 15:45:14 GMT -5
The battle of the two studio versions of Crackle and Drag discussed here: They don't have my favorite (although I can't blame them) from a 2002 in-store show I attended here: I think the electric version is one of the best things he ever recorded. Love the acoustic version, though...
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Post by anarkissed on Mar 7, 2024 10:51:31 GMT -5
Great read. Loved the story about Bob helping providing cover for two underaged kids who otherwise would have been kicked out of the "21 and over" show...A little disturbed to read how often Bob apparently asked strangers "Got any coke?", but it's not like I haven't done that before. (Here's a tangent: Bob would have been gone even earlier if the street drug scene was like it is now. We smoked, snorted and swallowed all kinds of things just trusting what we were given or bought, and, amazingly, I would guess about 90% of it was really what it was supposed to be. And if you did get a phony, the worst that would happen was nothing, because they gave you a vitamin instead of a Valium, or something. Not like that now...)
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Post by anarkissed on Mar 3, 2024 11:21:14 GMT -5
Elements of the Westerberg/Replacements lifestyle to avoid: - Minimize the alcohol. - Don't smoke. (Tobacco.) - Deliberate self-sabotage. - Being an asshole unnecessarily, for the fun of it. - Questioning your own self-worth.
I tried all of these. Not a good idea.
Elements of the Westerberg/Replacements lifestyle to embrace: - Listening to music you like, even if others might consider it uncool or unworthy. - Mercilessly mocking authority figures. (Behind their back and out of earshot, of course.) - Deliberate laziness. (In moderation. Don't let it become a lifestyle.)
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Post by anarkissed on Jan 10, 2024 9:23:39 GMT -5
I would have to say that the one individual opinion concerning the work of the Replacements or Paul Westerberg that I value the least is Paul's...Heh...This is the guy who said that "Jingle" was the best song he ever wrote and that "Unsatisfied" was crap...
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Post by anarkissed on Sept 5, 2023 11:12:49 GMT -5
I believe that also released his last album on vinyl only...
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Post by anarkissed on Aug 4, 2023 8:16:55 GMT -5
It's over. He's done.
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Post by anarkissed on Jul 4, 2023 7:38:58 GMT -5
Paul hung up the guitar as soon as he walked off the stage of the last reunion show...
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Post by anarkissed on Jun 3, 2023 11:07:37 GMT -5
I expect Bob liked the Firebird because Johnny Winter played one...
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Post by anarkissed on Jun 2, 2023 8:09:08 GMT -5
Well, I think that "pointy guitar" comment was a (perhaps good-natured) jab at Bob Mould, who sometimes used a Flying V...I think the apparent disinclination for "gear talk" was a sort of holdover attitude derived from punk...
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Post by anarkissed on May 31, 2023 7:23:55 GMT -5
Here is the quote: His wiry shadow rarely darkens a club doorway these days, but then again, the guy who dresses up as Mickey Mouse probably doesn't spend his days off at Disneyland. "When the Mats first started I used to go out a ton, but after years of touring it gets to you. I come home and I want the opposite: quiet, peace. I'm not like those guys who need to get onstage after a month to affirm their being," he says. The man doesn't even like to talk about guitars. "It's a hunk of wood with wires -- what could be more boring? It's like, I got a big red loud one, all right?"(source: www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/style/1993/06/13/a-replacement-finds-his-own-place/23e1146d-e4ac-4c78-895e-f638064dee3e/)100%. And he, of all his contemporaries, is the guy who has disproven the gear heads—it’s the song that matters. It’s ineffable and weird, but you know it when you hear it, and Paul had it. Yeah, I think he was leaning into his persona a little on this one, and I think he cares more about his guitars and amps than he let on. This is the guy who had six or seven specific guitars lined up on stage, each numbered, some in alternate tunings, so that he knows: "For these three songs, I'll use #1, then I'll switch to #2 for this song"...That's not a guy who doesn't care what he plays. And he was always very vocal about avoiding "pointy" guitars, which seems to me to just be a personal preference based on cosmetics...
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Post by anarkissed on Feb 1, 2023 13:50:08 GMT -5
It's your favorite time of the year...Nominations for artists to be considered for induction into The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame 2023:
George Michael Kate Bush Willie Nelson Warren Zevon Sheryl Crow Cyndi Lauper Missy Elliott The Spinners Iron Maiden A Tribe Called Quest Joy Division/New Order Rage Against the Machine Soundgarden The White Stripes
I have to say, I think a case can be made for all of these. I'm surprised that Willie Nelson isn't already in there. Warren Zevon is the kind of guy that should be but will probably be overlooked. The dual "Joy Division/New Order" nomination seems a little odd; did they do it that way with Jefferson Airplane/Starship? Kate Bush and Iron Maiden are no brainers to me...I don't know anything about A Tribe Called Quest, but my impression is they were pretty important in hip hop. I don't care for The White Stripes, and I always thought Missy Elliot seemed like someone talked their mom into doing a number from her brief rap career while she was chaperoning the kids' after graduation party, following a few too many wine coolers, but I won't get pissed if they put them in there.
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Post by anarkissed on Nov 3, 2022 8:16:43 GMT -5
Among fans in general, or in press commentary about the band?
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Post by anarkissed on Sept 2, 2022 7:21:44 GMT -5
Very impressive. I never knew Paul did that Mott the Hoople song with the Replacements, I thought that was something he started doing on his solo tours. And I remember once in a thread about "songs you wish Paul or The Mats had covered", I recommended "The Jean Genie", heh...Appreciate all your hard work...
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Post by anarkissed on Jul 2, 2022 12:58:36 GMT -5
A "mandatory" live show? Like, what, court-ordered?
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Post by anarkissed on Jun 23, 2022 14:48:49 GMT -5
So are we speculating that maybe the reason Paul isn't all on board to put out live albums and DVD's from the reunion era is because he just doesn't want to make money that will only pay back Warners?
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Post by anarkissed on Jun 22, 2022 14:31:32 GMT -5
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Post by anarkissed on Jun 21, 2022 14:30:13 GMT -5
Once I had a really lucid dream. I was hanging out somewhere with Paul, like in a really low key, normal, middle class, middle America generic living room. I think he was strumming on an unplugged electric. It seemed like we already knew each other, well enough to just sort of sit there with barely any conversation, and nothing felt awkward. I even asked him at one point" "Is this a dream, or is this real?" He thought for a moment, then said: "It is a dream but that doesn't mean it's not real"...I found a shoebox filled with homemade CD's and cassettes and reel-to-reel tapes. Some of them had handwritten labels. One CD said: "Frank, listen to this and tell me what you think. Paul" I was stoked, because I assumed this was a lot of demos and alternate takes and goofy covers and shit. I asked him: "Can I take one of these CD's home with me?" Again, he paused, then said, apologetically: "We're not really able to do that yet"...
Seemed like it fit here...Heh...
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Post by anarkissed on Jun 21, 2022 14:15:50 GMT -5
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Post by anarkissed on Jun 21, 2022 13:48:23 GMT -5
Well, what about other examples? Is music the only field of endeavor that should be free to all? Films? Fiction? Non-fiction? Broadway? Painting? Shoes? If I spend ten years restoring a classic car in my garage, are you saying once I'm done, anybody should have access to it? I'm just a little to the left of Chairman Mao, but, Jesus, this is some hardcore communal property concept you have going here...It does Marx one better: Not only is a man entitled to the fruits of his labor, he's apparently entitled to the fruits of anyone's labor! After all, it's just labor! I love music. I love food. I don't expect restaurants to just hand me takeout because I love food...I can't see someone's passion for something overruling things like intellectual property and copyright law...
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Post by anarkissed on Jun 21, 2022 12:56:13 GMT -5
I'm very much on the side of once music is made I kind of think it belongs to the world So if you were growing vegetables in your backyard garden, once they ripen, it's o.k. for me to go back there and eat them? After all, once they're grown, they belong to the world.
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