Post by GoddamnJob290 on Apr 3, 2006 23:00:03 GMT -5
I've been thinking about this for a time...
#1 Record/Twin-Tone era Mats-The first Big Star record is a product of the Bell/Chilton song-writing relationship. Bob Stinson had as much to do with the sound of the early Replacements as Paul did.
Radio City/The Holy Trinity- Though Bell had some involvement with the songs on the second record (I hear "Back of a Car" is pretty much solely his), he didn't stick around for the actual recording of the album and Chilton pretty much captained the boat throughout. Arguably, this is the peak of Chilton's career. From Let It Be and on, Bob Stinson's influence lessened and this is the period cited as Paul's peak. By some accounts, Stinson was barely involved with much of Tim and, as we know, he was out of the band by PtMM.
Third Album/All Shook Down-Two very sad, tired sounding records that were mainly a product Chilton and Westerberg respectively, with minimal imput from whatever band members were still left at the time.
Reunion-After a decidedly frustrating (but extremely interesting) solo career, Chilton reforms Big Star (for initially a one-off gig) with the only original member that stuck with him until the band's final demise after the third album, that being Jody Stephens. After an arguably frustrating solo career (that was, again, perhaps more interesting than what he did with his band), Westerberg reforms the Replacements (for what looks to be a one-off day in the studio) and, though Chris Mars contributed, Tommy was the only one who played. Like Stephens, Stinson was the only original band member besides Paul to have played at the last Replacements show as of this date.
So, assuming I'm not crazy, the Replacements/Big Star chart looks like this:
Paul Westerberg/Alex Chilton
Tommy Stinson/Jody Stephens
Chris Mars/Andy Hummel (the mostly disinterested members of each group)
Bob Stinson/Chris Bell
I'm crazy, am I not?
#1 Record/Twin-Tone era Mats-The first Big Star record is a product of the Bell/Chilton song-writing relationship. Bob Stinson had as much to do with the sound of the early Replacements as Paul did.
Radio City/The Holy Trinity- Though Bell had some involvement with the songs on the second record (I hear "Back of a Car" is pretty much solely his), he didn't stick around for the actual recording of the album and Chilton pretty much captained the boat throughout. Arguably, this is the peak of Chilton's career. From Let It Be and on, Bob Stinson's influence lessened and this is the period cited as Paul's peak. By some accounts, Stinson was barely involved with much of Tim and, as we know, he was out of the band by PtMM.
Third Album/All Shook Down-Two very sad, tired sounding records that were mainly a product Chilton and Westerberg respectively, with minimal imput from whatever band members were still left at the time.
Reunion-After a decidedly frustrating (but extremely interesting) solo career, Chilton reforms Big Star (for initially a one-off gig) with the only original member that stuck with him until the band's final demise after the third album, that being Jody Stephens. After an arguably frustrating solo career (that was, again, perhaps more interesting than what he did with his band), Westerberg reforms the Replacements (for what looks to be a one-off day in the studio) and, though Chris Mars contributed, Tommy was the only one who played. Like Stephens, Stinson was the only original band member besides Paul to have played at the last Replacements show as of this date.
So, assuming I'm not crazy, the Replacements/Big Star chart looks like this:
Paul Westerberg/Alex Chilton
Tommy Stinson/Jody Stephens
Chris Mars/Andy Hummel (the mostly disinterested members of each group)
Bob Stinson/Chris Bell
I'm crazy, am I not?
