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Post by kgp on Apr 22, 2007 9:18:03 GMT -5
Any news?
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Post by Kathy on May 2, 2007 22:28:57 GMT -5
Thanks to Martin for letting me know that the book is now listed on Amazon.com (don;t get too excited; you gotta pace yourself cause it's not coming out til Nov). It's hard not to get excited though - check out the cover!  Book DescriptionAt the dawn of “Morning in America”--a period that would nurse the rise of suit-and-tie culture--there emerged a national network of anti-corporate record shops, college radio stations, fanzines, nightclubs, and entrepreneurial record labels. In the watershed year 1981, this “indie” scene fostered several seminal releases. Among recordings by bands such as Sonic Youth, Black Flag, Hüsker Dü, The Minutemen, and R.E.M. was an album called Sorry Ma . . . Forgot to Take Out the Trash, recorded by a scruffy, flannel-clad quartet from Minneapolis called The Replacements. Now, for the first time, all of the hearsay, half-truths, legends, and allegations associated with this maelstrom of a rock & roll band are unraveled in this oral history by longtime Twin Cities music journalist Jim Walsh. Through interviews with family, friends, and fans; former manager Peter Jesperson; Twin/Tone record label cofounder Paul Stark; and musicians around the nation influenced by the band, Walsh lays bare with painful clarity a tale that unfolds like a tragicomedy in three perfect acts. Celebrated by national publications, “the ’Mats” often seemed more hell-bent on sabotaging their status as critical darlings than parlaying it. With their markedly apolitical stance amid their decidedly political peers, their uncool embrace of “classic rock” influences like KISS and The Faces, and their Dionysian appetites (and the resulting tendency to literally fall on their own faces), The Replacements lasted 12 years despite themselves. From the band’s founding to their rise through the local and national club circuits, their major label deal in 1985, and the slow and painful implosion that followed, The Replacements: All Over But the Shouting lays down the gripping oral history behind the little band that could—but didn’t. About the AuthorJim Walsh spent several years playing in Twin Cities bands before turning to rock criticism. In 1990 he became the music editor at City Pages, an alternative weekly in Minneapolis. Three years later he joined the St. Paul Pioneer Press as the pop music columnist and as a feature writer, and in 2002 left Minnesota to study at Stanford University on a Knight Fellowship. Walsh returned to Minneapolis in 2003 and after a stint with City Pages currently performs as his musical alter-ego The Mad Ripple. |
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Post by cford on May 3, 2007 10:15:23 GMT -5
I wonder if Jim Walsh is the notorious critic "Jim M." who savages Zulu's Petals as told in Laurie Lindeen's book? CF |
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Post by rwinder on May 4, 2007 16:58:03 GMT -5
Through interviews with family, friends, and fans; former manager Peter Jesperson; Twin/Tone record label cofounder Paul Stark; and musicians around the nation influenced by the band, However notably he hasn't interviewed the band... though that won't stop me buying it |
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Post by ElegantMule on May 5, 2007 12:36:41 GMT -5
He's interviewed them in enough other capacities over the years that it counts, I'd think...
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Post by jodi, queen of the underground on May 5, 2007 15:26:45 GMT -5
Through interviews with family, friends, and fans; former manager Peter Jesperson; Twin/Tone record label cofounder Paul Stark; and musicians around the nation influenced by the band, However notably he hasn't interviewed the band... though that won't stop me buying it You know he did interview? ME! |
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Post by TomT on May 6, 2007 19:51:14 GMT -5
My day was just made better.  Thanks for the info. |
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Post by scoOter on May 7, 2007 8:53:05 GMT -5
... the bible, romance, pornography...
lots of literary material surrounding our man, paul, lately.
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Post by ElegantMule on May 7, 2007 9:14:07 GMT -5
... the bible, romance, pornography... lots of literary material surrounding our man, paul, lately. Aww, scooter, it's too bad you can't read. |
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Post by scoOter on May 7, 2007 9:26:08 GMT -5
... the bible, romance, pornography... lots of literary material surrounding our man, paul, lately. Aww, scooter, it's too bad you can't read. ain't that the truth! and you know what has been said about movies.... |
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Post by Kathy on May 9, 2007 14:15:40 GMT -5
I wonder if Jim Walsh is the notorious critic "Jim M." who savages Zulu's Petals as told in Laurie Lindeen's book? CF I read that part today, not the same guy, though Jim Walsh is mentioned in that part, so it's a bit confusing. Jim Walsh is the Jim interviewing them who asks them how they feel about the bad review they got in City Pages (from Jim M. ) |
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Post by landshark on May 9, 2007 21:25:52 GMT -5
... the bible, romance, pornography... lots of literary material surrounding our man, paul, lately. D***, I always thought it was "Bible, road maps, pornography ..." but i was in the bacon camp, too. |
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Post by jodi, queen of the underground on May 9, 2007 21:58:30 GMT -5
Land Shark, I always thought it was road maps too, and I'm in the fingernails camp.
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Post by Kathy on May 9, 2007 22:41:52 GMT -5
Maybe it's easier if we do this the other way...does anyone besides Scotter think it's romance? ;D
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Post by thetwilitekid on May 9, 2007 23:52:16 GMT -5
Maybe it's easier if we do this the other way...does anyone besides Scotter think it's romance? ;D I didn't even know Scooter was quoting "Knockin On Mine" |
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Post by irene on May 10, 2007 0:22:32 GMT -5
There's a person named Scooter?
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Post by nowwesayitoutloud on May 10, 2007 8:29:42 GMT -5
There's a person named Scooter? You didn't read Kathy's post carefully. She referred to "Scotter" Looks like the designer of Jim Walsh's book cover got the memo on the preferred typeface for 21st century books about punk rockers:  |
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Post by jodi, queen of the underground on May 10, 2007 9:42:23 GMT -5
There's a person named Scooter? I don't know if I'd call him a 'person' so much as a god among men. |
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