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Post by FreeRider on Apr 19, 2023 23:25:48 GMT -5
good gawd...I got a political campaign fund raising email from Minn Senator Amy Klobuchar on the behalf of a local US Senator in my area. But he's not even my Senator but I got on somebody's email list. It's Sen. Tim Kaine from Virginia. In it, he writes:
"I’m Tim Kaine. Many of you know me as a U.S. Senator, but my passion for service and fighting for equality started long before I entered the public eye.
In my career, I’ve been a teacher, a missionary, a civil rights lawyer, a Mayor, Governor, Senator, and on the presidential ticket as a Vice Presidential candidate." and blah blah blah, the usual sales pitch. but at the end, he writes:
"Like many of you, I’m a huge music fan -- and I’m not bad on the harmonica. Some of my favorites are The Replacements, Charlie Parker, and the Carter Family."
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Post by FreeRider on Apr 3, 2023 9:09:53 GMT -5
weird, I guess the You Tube algorithms found this for me...Jeff Tweedy and sons doing a Mats cover tune youtu.be/vIeLbYfsKN4
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Post by FreeRider on Apr 3, 2023 9:06:39 GMT -5
Episode 3 of the new HBO show Rain Dogs used Little Mascara over the final scene and end credits. It was a great use of the song. The show is worth checking out. It fit perfectly, and you're right, it's a good show. Obviously someone from the Replacements camp had to approve, right? ha, was flipping thru channels the other day and saw HBO was airing that teen comedy movie "Can't Hardly Wait", so there is another royalty check for the Band
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Post by FreeRider on Mar 19, 2023 17:20:38 GMT -5
The Caps played the Wild today (they got crushed, the Caps are in serious decline although Ovechkin scored 2 goals). And during a break in the action, the arena in St. Paul played "Alex Chilton"
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Post by FreeRider on Mar 19, 2023 17:18:23 GMT -5
it very well could be....mine is A02805
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Post by FreeRider on Mar 4, 2023 19:53:20 GMT -5
interesting....I saw some You Tube video of Tommy the other month, being interviewed, and he mentioned something like there may be a renewed life for some of the Mats stuff in that it's the children of the original fans who are discovering or being introduced to the Mats music....
It'd be cool if there was a renaissance for the band to the point where there is demand for new music by them.
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Post by FreeRider on Mar 2, 2023 23:06:27 GMT -5
I also want to know how the hell Paul can sing like that; it just sounds like he's really straining his voice on this song. I mean, it sounds great, but how the hell did he sing that on tour without blowing out his voice? I don't know if he ever had any vocal training but he's got a helluva lot of vocal distortion and added character. It's great and sounds great---maybe all that smoking and drinking helped give his voice some character and tone?
As for what Kurt wanted and how he wanted success? I don't really know or have any thoughts on it but I'd think any performing artist would want to have some economic success because it enables you to have financial freedom. You get out of the trenches, get out of the van, and financial freedom also affords you some measure of artistic freedom where you're not so beholden to the label.
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Post by FreeRider on Mar 1, 2023 19:19:49 GMT -5
who was playing the drums in the video?? Was that Josh Freese? I don't know why I laughed and found it funny when Paul kicks the cymbals and Josh does that prat fall thing off the kit. At the 2:44 mark youtu.be/RqqDBSV04FcI'm probably reading too much into this as well, but it just occurred to me the video illustrates the phoniness or fake stuff about stardom and celebrity....Paul is seen in the hotel room rockin' out, and then the camera POV pulls back and you see he's on a film set, they break the 4th wall. like it's all an illusion. I like the Gibson he's playing for the video....
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Post by FreeRider on Mar 1, 2023 15:15:26 GMT -5
it's funny because I never, ever, thought to connect the song to Cobain. I mean, things like Paul in the mirror and then extrapolating that the image is lefthanded, so it must be a jab at Cobain? I just didn't take it that far ever to think it was a jab at the guy. And I guess Cobain was super sensitive enough to think it was a pot shot about him....who knows?
If anything, I thought it was more a song about Paul, himself, the pitfalls of fame, stardom, celebrity, etc. Anyway, I looked up the music video to check it out again and I liked the part of him kicking the drum kit's cymbals.
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Post by FreeRider on Feb 27, 2023 13:37:16 GMT -5
awesome, they get some royalty checks coming their way!
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Post by FreeRider on Feb 27, 2023 13:33:35 GMT -5
oh yeah, well, all true---his off the cuff remarks. So yeah, I could see Kurt wasn't real keen on Paul slagging on him. I know post Cobain, he said he wasn't a fan of Nirvana, saying it had "too much plod" in it, IIRC. But I don't know exactly what he said when Cobain was still alive that might have pissed Kurt off.
As for the World Class Fad stuff, yeah, who knows? I never really cared much as to who it was about and trying to decipher what Paul meant. I just liked the guitar parts!
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Post by FreeRider on Feb 25, 2023 20:35:11 GMT -5
hey, thanks for that info and pics....I liked the first two Foo Fighters releases and then my interest kind of trailed off and on a bit. Saw them twice, once when Dave and the band played at the Patriot Center on George Mason University campus in northern VA. It was a fun concert, good stuff.
Weird how Cobain kind of ignored the Replacements or took on a position that he didn't like them. Would still like to run into Grohl one of these days. Many years ago, a friend of mine saw him on the DC Metro subway and it looked like Grohl was coming back from the airport, he was with his girlfriend at the time with some luggage, and my buddy didn't bother him.
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Post by FreeRider on Feb 25, 2023 10:01:27 GMT -5
if you click on the "replies" link, she responded to the guy and said, "He's more than fine."
Which is good news. So it's not like he's got long covid or is in bad health or something. Just hope he'll resurface at some point soon and release some new material
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Post by FreeRider on Feb 24, 2023 9:17:31 GMT -5
yeah, I thought it was pretty insightful as well, coming from a fan/player/friend of the band. I like his perspective on the compromises Paul was faced with on the mixing of DTAS, talking about Goo Goo Dolls, Cobain and Courtney....
What's interesting is that Dave Grohl grew up around my area, he still comes back to the DC/Northern VA area. It would be cool to run into him and ask him out right, "Did you and Kurt ever like the Replacements?"
As far as the doc? It was ok but the folks close to the band, like Minehan, have the best stories and insights as they knew the band at a particular point in time and can recall things lost to fuzzy memories and the mists of time...
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Post by FreeRider on Feb 23, 2023 10:33:35 GMT -5
I've been off the board here for awhile, giving the Mats and Paul stuff a break. Haven't listened much to his stuff for awhile and just slowly started going back to some Paul stuff. And then I stumbled upon this vid, an extended interview from Gorman with Dave, the full interview he did for Color Me Obsessed. Dunno if this has been posted before, but I like how Dave touches upon and defends Don't Tell a Soul, says Paul was the Bob Dylan for our generation, their influences on others, Cobain, Paul's polarizing singing voice, a funny story about running into Joe Strummer and him wanting Dave to pass along a message to Paul....interesting stuff from Dave. youtu.be/mVLuvTnmE9Q
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Post by FreeRider on Feb 23, 2023 10:27:19 GMT -5
Ahhh, back to the HoF discussion again, are we? I like Zevon a lot and if the voting members really want to honor a unique artist, Zevon should get a nod.
As for some "black" music or genres like hip hop stuff, to me, music has no color and it's just a collection of sounds maybe made from a different cultural background or environment than my own. Some of it I dig, some I don't. Now, is it rock and roll? I dunno...but I guess it has some commonality somewhere with what most of us think/believe rock is. Cross pollinaton? Crossover influences? White artists incorporating rap, rap metal? Who knows, the voting members don't always adhere to their own criteria they lay out. But hell, whatever man, I don't really care about the hall's rationales. But yet, here I am commenting on it, lol... 🤪
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Post by FreeRider on Dec 31, 2022 23:42:24 GMT -5
Happy birthday, ya bastard of young.
Please come out of exile and release some stuff.
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Post by FreeRider on Nov 18, 2022 14:39:38 GMT -5
it's at the 45:06 mark and I doubt it as well. That is not Paul's style, that "people have been hearing it under- the-table style". I call bullshit on that. Who are these people and how would they get possession of something like that unless they were Paul's friends? And even then, I doubt he'd give them the entire copy of what he's been working on. And I think they'd keep it in confidence if they had some new tracks of his and not play or leak shit for others without his consent. if anything, he'd leak a tidbit to his Sound Cloud page or have Darren do it and then Darren would probably leak it to some sites to let word slowly get out there. But only as Paul wishes. But then again, who the hell knows? And after such a long silence, is there anyone left to care anymore other than the hardcore who come around here, if he goes ahead and drops something new? It seems like a lot of his fan base didn't even know that he dropped those digital releases! And moreover, that pic posted on that twitter post is an old one, according to an image search. That was first found in 2016 with the I Don't Cares stuff with Juliana. You could get the impression that was like some recent pic of Paul at the mixing board and all, but it isn't. www.spin.com/2016/03/paul-westerberg-i-dont-cares-replacements-interview/
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Post by FreeRider on Nov 17, 2022 21:40:54 GMT -5
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Post by FreeRider on Nov 10, 2022 23:15:45 GMT -5
Ha, dunno how many of you like/know of Pat Finnerty and his Youtube channel "What Makes This Song Stink" But in his latest podcast, he has a Mats reference and talks about the shitty recorded drums on their albums at the 48:39 mark. It's not his funniest vid or podcast---he's got other song analyses where he humorously rips on Kid Rock, Train, Red Hot Chili Peppers, etc youtu.be/90X4D7XFEKc
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