cford
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Post by cford on Jan 4, 2006 12:42:44 GMT -5
And am I the ONLY fool that bought Botch?  I bought it for the cover artwork - Mars' strength is definitely in his brush. I love the video for "Monkey Sees", a Kinks-slanted-towards-Dave song if there ever was one. I bought it too, but only because I considered myself to be a Replacements completist. not sure if I would get any more of his stuff, if he ever records again. CF |
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Post by timtoast on Jan 4, 2006 21:09:49 GMT -5
C'mon....who are we kidding? As completists we'd STILL buy his next cd, crappy or not. I guess we're Replacement Whores when it comes to this kind of stuff.
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Post by KingArchie on Jan 4, 2006 22:13:36 GMT -5
I wonder how much of Horseshoes and possibly 75% Less Fat was written while he was in the 'mats? Its know that they were writting their own stuff all along... That being said , is that why his first two releases are more listen-friendly to us - years after being out of the band - he is no longer writting to please the rest of the guys and things go off down his own path... I guess now that has led to him not playing music now all together...
Did Chris ever perform live solo? I remember that he at least one occasion that was mentioned after the release of Horseshoes - Is that accurate?
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Post by cford on Jan 5, 2006 13:28:57 GMT -5
Did Chris ever perform live solo? I remember that he at least one occasion that was mentioned after the release of Horseshoes - Is that accurate? I story I remember is that when Horseshoes came out he put together a band to promote it by playing at least one local gig... The joke was - Chris was not a performing member of that band! I'm not 100% sure if that story is true... CF |
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Post by KingArchie on Jan 5, 2006 20:03:21 GMT -5
Did Chris ever perform live solo? I remember that he at least one occasion that was mentioned after the release of Horseshoes - Is that accurate? I story I remember is that when Horseshoes came out he put together a band to promote it by playing at least one local gig... The joke was - Chris was not a performing member of that band! I'm not 100% sure if that story is true... CF Now that is funny. I am surprised that story hasn't been talked about here or in the past that I know of. Hmmm I hope someone will let the truth be told on that one. I guess Chris was quite the jokester in the band from what I have heard - and instigated a lot of the goofing off and antics. |
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Post by earthdog70 on Jan 8, 2006 23:18:27 GMT -5
Tim-I have "Anonymous Botch" too. I guess the only solo Mats stuff I don't have is Bob Stinson's post Mats work. I like most of the Mars stuff though  |
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Post by kgp on Jan 10, 2006 17:54:18 GMT -5
Our Band Could Be Your Life mentions Mars's unpublished memoirs. Has anyone heard anything more about them?
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Post by timtoast on Jan 10, 2006 20:45:10 GMT -5
I guess the only solo Mats stuff I don't have is Bob Stinson's post Mats work. Is Bob's stuff available anywhere? If so, where can you get it and what was the band/project called? And is it any good? |
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Post by TomT on Jan 10, 2006 21:20:26 GMT -5
I guess the only solo Mats stuff I don't have is Bob Stinson's post Mats work. Is Bob's stuff available anywhere? If so, where can you get it and what was the band/project called? And is it any good? The band was called Static Taxi. I know of a bootleg of a show from Chicago floating around. |
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