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Post by nowwesayitoutloud on Jul 19, 2007 10:02:11 GMT -5
in the random mats thread ... ... there was some consternation about Yanni. The Downtown Journal, a MPLS neighborhood paper, has a story about the book: Bob Dylan’s there, cupping a harmonica. Next to him are The Replacements, with Paul Westerberg bemusedly looking up at a man playing a one-handed keyboard solo. “The publisher insisted on putting Yanni on the cover,” says Martin Keller about one of the three photos on his new book, “Music Legends: A Rewind on the Minnesota Music Scene.”Anyone read this book for Mats content yet? |
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Post by MikeR on Jul 19, 2007 11:49:48 GMT -5
Yanni instead of Prince?
That publisher must have been smoking some super-size wacky tobacky...
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Post by SnowCover on Jul 19, 2007 12:49:01 GMT -5
I have this book. I don't really like it, it reads pretty touristy.
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Post by scoOter on Jul 19, 2007 15:28:07 GMT -5
not having prince on the cover is a horrible, horrible oversight, and negates any authority the book might seek to maintain. yanni isn't even homegrown.
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Post by nowwesayitoutloud on Jul 19, 2007 15:30:47 GMT -5
As for Prince, there's a "Music Legends 2" edition coming out that will include him. Holiday gas station/convenience stores sell the book at the counter along with other local interest books in the series, like "Storms!" Since I started this thread, I felt obliged to shell out for it when I saw it while buying gas today. I have this book. I don't really like it, it reads pretty touristy. You're right, for a guy who helped launch City Pages 30 years ago (he was music editor there in 1982 when the Mats read the Lovelines lyrics out of City Pages' classifieds), Martin Keller must have been sleepwalking when he wrote some of this stuff. Notable Mats content: The Mats early rehearsal space downtown called Metro Studios was a "dungeon of dreams." "Of all the rock music the Minnesota pumped out of the lake state, the Mats ... might be the most legendary. And perhaps the most influential ..."
"Paul Westerberg ... After Dylan, the most influential rock songwriter from Minnesota."
"Westerberg was a huge Faces fan [as opposed to a Small Faces fan?] who also dug Roger Miller and Ricky Nelson"
"Westerberg ... has gone on to a prolific and high-profile solo career, cranking out CDs and occasionally touring like a man in a hurry to get it all said and done." Secondary source material: - Quote from Sire A&R guy lifted from July-August 2005 issue of Magnet - Entire paragraph on Mats chart success quoted from Wikipedia - Chris Mars shared a Catholic school boy bond with PW, according to Jim Walsh, also in Magnet - Unidentified: "One wag compared [PW's] post-Replacements output to that of Prince" Jim Walsh's upcoming book is plugged, as is Azerrad's book, the new 1-2-3-Go! tribute CD, colormeimpressed.com ("one of the many fan websites"), and the Mats re-releases and box set ("Can a Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame induction be far behind?")- |
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