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Post by dee on Apr 14, 2018 5:57:28 GMT -5
Just a heads up. There is a new Replacements book out written by their former roadie Bill Sullivan. Here is a link to order the book and get the 30% off promo code. www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/collections/cultural_studies_2018#c5=all&b_start=0From Chris Mars... Bill Sullivan captures the spirit and chaos of the earliest and best years of the band accurately due to the fact that he lived it right alongside us. A true kindred spirit, a fifth member if you will, who from the git-go, got what we were about to the point where it would not have been the same journey without him. Billy had our backs and represented much-needed comic relief on many occasions. Lemon Jail should come with a warning: ‘Don't Try This At Home.’ It's a quick read and, in my opinion, the most successful book to capture the essence of our destructive, drunken outcast brigade in all its successes and foibles. Bill’s ever-present comic sense, woven throughout the book, paints authentically the circus world that it was. I laughed aloud many times!
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Post by oldmatsfan on Apr 14, 2018 8:34:42 GMT -5
Thanks, just ordered my copy off of Amazon, arrives on 4/20/18.
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Post by con on Apr 18, 2018 11:13:44 GMT -5
Fantastic! Can't wait to read this and see these photos. Never seen this one, for example... Monsieur Paul! haha
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Post by Jer on Apr 22, 2018 8:08:35 GMT -5
I'm surprised there's not more buzz about this book. It's pretty great. Basically a string of stories about some of the crazy shit that happened when The Replacements were on tour, from the perspective of a long-time roadie who was as big a part of the band as a roadie could possibly be.
The band comes across as more innocently-mischievous and less psychologically damaged and immature than they do in the Mehr book, though there's plenty of crossover both ways. It kinda works as a companion to the Mehr book, filling in some gaps with great detail and great specificity about events we know about (the TV appearances, the Petty tour) and many that we don't.
It's an easy read, the countless photos are blurry and poorly framed, but amazing in their own way, and the stories are well worth the $18. Highly recommended.
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Post by oldmatsfan on Apr 22, 2018 8:30:07 GMT -5
I started reading mine last night and I had a tough time putting it down to go to sleep. Kind of more behind the scenes stuff you didn't know about after reading Trouble Boys.
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Post by FreeRider on Apr 22, 2018 10:37:16 GMT -5
strange how there wasn't much publicity around this book....
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Post by dee on Apr 23, 2018 0:03:13 GMT -5
Nice to hear that people are enjoying the book.Still waiting for my copy to arrive.
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Post by Jer on Apr 23, 2018 11:34:46 GMT -5
strange how there wasn't much publicity around this book.... I get the sense that it's a lot more indie than a couple of the others. There's probably a much smaller promotional budget. The press around Trouble Boys was massive - speaking engagements, a signing tour, etc.
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Post by FreeRider on Apr 23, 2018 13:24:37 GMT -5
yeah, that makes sense given that it's the University of Minnesota Press and not some big publishing company to promote it.
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Post by TomT on Apr 23, 2018 20:29:38 GMT -5
I've been looking forward to this for a long time. Should arrive any day now.
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Post by con on Apr 25, 2018 0:25:01 GMT -5
Loving this book so far! Trouble Boys was great but this feels a lot more intimate. Laugh-out-loud funny and lots of hilarious scenes to savor. Sullivan is an awful photographer but an excellent storyteller haha. The pictures do capture that fly-on-the-wall spirit of the book, tho, however blurry and grainy.
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Post by Jer on Apr 25, 2018 13:32:21 GMT -5
Loving this book so far! Trouble Boys was great but this feels a lot more intimate. Laugh-out-loud funny and lots of hilarious scenes to savor. Sullivan is an awful photographer but an excellent storyteller haha. The pictures do capture that fly-on-the-wall spirit of the book, tho, however blurry and grainy. Trouble Boys is certainly a lot more comprehensive and thorough. This isn't really a bio or linear history of the band, and short of one of the members writing their own book, I think it's safe to say that Trouble Boys is the definitive account. However, I agree that this book is more intimate and funnier. I think it's a great (unofficial) companion piece, along with the photo book and the Walsh book.
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Post by ClamsCasino on Apr 25, 2018 14:48:04 GMT -5
...and short of one of the members writing their own book... Chris has an unpublished memoir. It's used as a reference in Michael Azerrad's Our Band Could Be Your Life. See page 199.
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Post by con on May 1, 2018 21:10:51 GMT -5
love the story of Sullivan buying actual garbage cans and putting them onstage in hopes that the band would use them as guitar stands since they refused to otherwise and more often than not destroyed their instruments by curtain call lol
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Post by TomT on May 7, 2018 6:00:12 GMT -5
I'm half way through and loving this book. Some great stories of life on the road. Getting handcuffed to a radiator, running out of gas, truck stops around red necks.... It's all fantastic. It brings back a lot of memories of going to shows in the 80's for me. Has me itching to take a road trip.
"Take it Spilly!"
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Post by Freddy on May 9, 2018 5:58:45 GMT -5
...and short of one of the members writing their own book... Chris has an unpublished memoir. It's used as a reference in Michael Azerrad's Our Band Could Be Your Life. See page 199. I finally ordered it yesterday and with all the positives here I'm really looking forward to it. Loved Trouble Boys, btw!
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Post by BronxTeacher on May 9, 2018 9:31:45 GMT -5
I finished reading Lemon Jail last night and was struck by the description of the band's 1983 show at Fitzgerald's in Texas. Bill writes that the band played so loud that the fish tank in the bar shattered and water and fish spilled all over the floor. Somewhere I have a bootleg of this show--it's fantastic--but don't recall any mention or any indication of the fish tank cracking during the band's sets (In fact, at one point Paul complains that they normally play much louder, but bar management told them to turn it down.).
Just wondering if anyone out there has heard the recording and knows when and in what song the fish tank shatters.
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Post by raccoon on May 9, 2018 9:38:10 GMT -5
I finished reading Lemon Jail last night and was struck by the description of the band's 1983 show at Fitzgerald's in Texas. Bill writes that the band played so loud that the fish tank in the bar shattered and water and fish spilled all over the floor. Somewhere I have a bootleg of this show--it's fantastic--but don't recall any mention or any indication of the fish tank cracking during the band's sets (In fact, at one point Paul complains that they normally play much louder, but bar management told them to turn it down.). Just wondering if anyone out there has heard the recording and knows when and in what song the fish tank shatters. That has always been one of my favorite shows but I don't think at any point you can tell that the fish tank shatters on the recording. Not that the band (or the taper) would necessarily pick it up from the stage/audience.
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Post by TomT on May 10, 2018 6:34:52 GMT -5
I thought he mentioned that things got rowdy that night. I assumed they were wrestling and that broke the tank. I gotta think it happened after the show.
I love Bill quoting Marco Polo - "I did not write half of what I saw, for I knew I would not be believed."
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Post by raccoon on May 10, 2018 12:47:50 GMT -5
The whole story sounds 'fishy'
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