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Post by headlightbeams on Jan 23, 2006 2:28:41 GMT -5
DENISE SULLIVAN: THE SHOW GOES ON Cat Heads gather for reunion gig at Rickshaw Posted on Fri, Jan. 20, 2006 www.contracostatimes.com/mld/cctimes/13669726.htmIT WASN'T THAT long ago (well, actually, it was) when Haight Street was where it was all happening. No, I don't mean '60s-era Haight-Ashbury, which was a really, really long time ago, I mean the I-Beam, Nightbreak, Persian Aub Zam Zam and Murio's Trophy Room-era Haight Street; the Cha Cha Cha-before-it-expanded Haight Street, when Chabella was the only burrito place on the strip. ... This was Haight Street nearly 20 years ago, in the Big '80s. ... Haight Street is also where I saw the Cat Heads for the first time. And I would see them many times after that -- even at the Fillmore, when they once opened for the Replacements. ... The Cat Heads were indeed the Bay Area's answer to the shambling, Stones-rooted Minneapolis rock that was all the rage at the time. ... The three guys and a gal who formed the band were kindred spirits at first: hippie children Mark Zanandrea and Mel Clarin (who was barefootin' it at her kit long before Meg); Keith devotee Sam Babbitt and boyish Alan Korn. Together they cut two classic alternative psychedelic punk records: the boldly titled "Hubba," produced by ex-Rain Parader Matt Piucci, and the deeper "Submarine," whereon they were assisted by town elder David Lowery, from Camper Van Beethoven. But the indie label recording and touring scene was notoriously harsh for their dear hearts, and they ultimately split. ... So what happened when the Cat Heads ultimately clawed their scratching posts bare? Zanandrea and Clarin formed It Thing and Alan and Sam became the (ex) Cat Heads (yes, that was the actual name of their band); both will be performing at what's being billed as a Class Reunion. ... Last year, the (ex) Cat Heads album "Our Frisco" was reissued; we can only hope the same for the Cat Heads albums. But until then, ain't nothing like the real thing. The Cat Heads appear with X-tal, It Thing and the (ex) Cat Heads, Saturday at 8 p.m. at the Rickshaw Stop, 155 Fell St. (between Van Ness and Franklin, near Market). Tickets are $10 at www.virtuous.com or at the door; call 415-861-2011 for information. Denise Sullivan's The Show Goes On runs every other week in TimeOut. |
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Post by headlightbeams on Jan 24, 2006 19:09:53 GMT -5
Not exactly a Replacements sighting, but a few days ago in "Doonesbury" the past-his-prime musician character Jimmy Thudpucker and his ilk are taken to task for covering classic songs like "Let's Fall in Love."
What Garry Trudeau was referring to is Cole Porter's "Let's Do It (Let's Fall in Love)," which Joan Jett and PW charmingly covered on the "Tank Girl" soundtrack.
The strip was a repeat from a few year ago (Trudeau was on vacation).
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Post by Monkey on Jan 25, 2006 10:48:28 GMT -5
Channel 9 (I think) news was doing a story on the new skyway-floor advertising posters (some of which are rather freakish and disturbing, by the way) and naturally played "Skyway" to introduce the segment.
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Post by headlightbeams on Jan 25, 2006 10:54:35 GMT -5
Channel 9 (I think) news was doing a story on the new skyway-floor advertising posters (some of which are rather freakish and disturbing, by the way) and naturally played "Skyway" to introduce the segment. "... in my stupid hat and gloves at night I lie awake, haunted by floor ads above the street, wonderin' if they'll reach up and grab my feet I'm scared of the Skyway ..." Skyway floor ad article |
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Post by Monkey on Jan 25, 2006 16:38:04 GMT -5
"... in my stupid hat and gloves at night I lie awake, haunted by floor ads above the street, wonderin' if they'll reach up and grab my feet I'm scared of the Skyway ..." ;D ;D Did you see the ones for the state lottery? Pictures of people with these crazed, wild-eyed looks on their faces staring at you from the floor? Creepy stuff. |
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Post by thetwilitekid on Jan 25, 2006 22:24:56 GMT -5
liner notes from reissue of Mega City Four's 1989 debut Tranzophobia that I got today:
"'Tranzophobia' - A condition caused by sitting cramped up in the back of a Transit van on what seems like an endless journey.
We had to be joking. Of course we were, it was our in-joke we made up one day when we were cruisin' up the M1 for the umpteenth time that week. Acid house was just kicking off big style, we often got stopped accused of being an illegal mobile rave, but we just kept rolling oblivious to it all with our Husker Du and Replacements tapes blaring out of the stereo on heavy rotation."
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Post by headlightbeams on Jan 26, 2006 18:17:44 GMT -5
The radio was just playing The Hold Steady's song "Your Little Hoodrat Friend" and when this line came:
"She said 'I ain't gonna do anything sexual with you'"
it dawned on me that the words "anything sexual" and the way he says them come directly from Sixteen Blue's "You don't understand anything sexual."
Open and shut case.
Craig Finn was 13 the year "16 Blue" was released.
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Post by headlightbeams on Jan 27, 2006 23:45:48 GMT -5
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Post by lifeandlifeonly on Jan 30, 2006 18:01:46 GMT -5
Not exactly "of the day"....
A couple of months ago I was in Singles Going Steady, a record store in downtown Seattle, and one of the guys that works there, Pete (who saw that mat's six or seven times), put on a Replacements bootleg which he said was called "Fuck My School" (hadn't ever heard of that one). It was SO GOOD. Unfortunately, he told me it wa store copy, so I couldnt purchase it. There were also a few different "store only" Mat's bootlegs, as well.
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Post by Nevermind on Jan 30, 2006 22:17:37 GMT -5
I hear quite a lot of the Mats on XM Radio, both the Alt Hits station and the 80's channel (Lucy and Fred or something like that).
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Post by headlightbeams on Feb 2, 2006 12:02:46 GMT -5
The local morning show on Air America radio in MPLS has some cleverly edited bumper music made out of all the instrumental sections of "I Will Dare."
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Post by angela on Feb 3, 2006 0:17:10 GMT -5
So, I'm sitting in Ruby Tuesday's today, dining on a chicken wrap and mashed cauliflower. I'm just about to take a bite of said wrap, and...the opening chords of As Far As I Know meet my ear. Yes, a chain restaurant in a suburban mall in Mid-Michigan played AFAIK. It was fantastic. Once I got over the shock anyway...
Then I went back to work and someone had put in a new promo cd we'd recently received called Love Sucks. And wouldn't you know it, Answering Machine was on it...
Then I come home and I'm flipping through the stations and VH1 classics is showing Dyslexic Heart...
Damn, I should have played the lottery today.
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Post by headlightbeams on Feb 3, 2006 4:44:56 GMT -5
From the MPLS Star Tribune: Slim notice Hanging out at the Turf Club last Friday, wishing I was watching Slim Dunlap instead, I found out that Dunlap's much-loved monthly gigs there have come to an end. Dunlap himself only found out when he didn't see his name in the club's City Pages ad. The most gracious guy ever to be called a Replacement, Dunlap was nonetheless appreciative of the run he had at the venue. A club rep said he still will be asked back often. www.startribune.com/1526/story/222062.html |
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Post by Hide N Lurkin' on Feb 4, 2006 16:22:14 GMT -5
Fuse TV has a show called Influenced. It focuses on a band and then has interviews from other bands who were influence by that band. Today it is showing an episode on Green Day. Green Day (Billie Joe speaking) begins the show by saying they were influenced by "The Clash and The Replacements". It seems to me they could fill a couple of hours interviewing bands influenced by the Mats.
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Post by headlightbeams on Feb 5, 2006 9:47:07 GMT -5
The Westerberg-Winter Olympics connection you've been waiting for: It's full speed ahead for Lindsey Kildow She learned to love skiing on Burnsville's Buck Hill. A move to Colorado set up her career. Amid family turmoil, she is in the hunt for Olympic gold. By Jim Souhan, Star Tribune February 05, 2006 – 6:30 AM Ask Lindsey Kildow about her childhood and skiing at Buck Hill, and she says, "They're kind of one and the same." The daughter of a ski racer, Kildow included schusses among her first steps. At age 2, she first tested the humble slope in Burnsville beside Interstate Hwy. 35 as her father, Alan, began nudging her into a lifelong romance with the sport. Now Kildow, 21, is taking to the world stage as one of America's youngest and best skiers. At the Winter Olympics in Turin, Italy, which begin this week, she is considered a medal contender in multiple events -- and may be on the verge of making the Little Slope on the Prairie famous. "World-class skiers can't believe we started on this little bump in Burnsville," said Kristina Koznick, another Buck Hill alum who will compete in Turin. www.startribune.com/120/story/225842.html |
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Post by FreeRider on Feb 7, 2006 0:15:00 GMT -5
Just heard the main riff to "Dyslexic Heart" used for a comedy bit on Letterman tonite. Comic Andy Kindler was doing some filmed bit at the Superbowl and they used the "nah, nah, nah, nah" part of the song.
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Post by GoddamnJob290 on Feb 7, 2006 11:08:15 GMT -5
Discovered the Bastards of Melody cover of "Within Your Reach" today. Can't say I'm too fond of it.
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Post by timtoast on Feb 7, 2006 20:55:21 GMT -5
Did anyone else think of Paul during the Super Bowl when they had the commercial with the Silver Naked Lady stepping off of her mudflap and getting into a truck with the other famous mudflap character, Yosemite Sam?
The song they played with it wasn't memorable and I did think it would have been a perfect place to hear "Silver Naked Ladies".
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Post by landshark on Feb 7, 2006 21:20:59 GMT -5
Did anyone else think of Paul during the Super Bowl yes |
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Post by kgp on Feb 8, 2006 10:06:42 GMT -5
Two non-sightings:
This morning I heard Trini Lopez's version of 'If I Had a Hammer'; I had a slight Proustian moment and for a second was taken back to Paul's performance at the Columbia show. Paul's version definitely rocks harder than Trini's.
On one of those VH1 I Love the 90's things the usual crew of d-list celebs were waxing poetic about Quantum Leap, and as they cut to a close-up of a bespectacled Scott Bacula (sp?) I thought, 'Paul?!'
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