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Post by FreeRider on Apr 23, 2024 17:30:42 GMT -5
ha, just saw the one with X earlier, you beat me to it. Looks like Paul gets some more royalty checks!
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Post by FreeRider on Apr 13, 2024 14:53:36 GMT -5
Never heard this one before since this interview was uploaded last month
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Post by FreeRider on Dec 31, 2023 19:09:06 GMT -5
happy birthday, Paul...Ghost on the Canvas? No, more like ghost on the vinyl! really wish you'd stop ghosting us and release some new material for us fans! just kidding (not kidding)....Happy New Year everyone.
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Post by FreeRider on Dec 2, 2023 20:10:20 GMT -5
I guess he holds back these songs that are just for himself. I thought he did say that it was like therapy for him, so I'm guessing these tunes he holds back are pretty personal self expressions?
Came across this, dunno if this has been posted before:
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Post by FreeRider on Dec 1, 2023 18:01:30 GMT -5
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Post by FreeRider on Nov 30, 2023 21:58:04 GMT -5
Wondering where those cover albums are. That was a good time. Hello to all my old friends. Hey man, it's nice to see one of the old timers popping up. Hope you're doing well.
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Post by FreeRider on Oct 30, 2023 11:01:05 GMT -5
He also told us that "Folker" was going to be "the bomb". š¤ And some years later admitted he knew it was not going to be a good seller, and then confirmed by Michael Bland. I guess he had to hype up sales or something.
Who knows, maybe he was just fulfilling a CD contractual obligation to the label and he just threw some stuff on there because he had nothing else at the time?
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Post by FreeRider on Oct 27, 2023 21:30:51 GMT -5
oh, of course Paul says contradictory shit! I'm not saying he's right/wrong in how he feels about his work or that you or any other fan is wrong. I mean, once an artist throws his stuff out there, he or she can't control how people respond to it. There's no right or wrong. I mean, Pete Townshend used to wonder why the hell throw away tunes like "Boris the Spider" and "Magic Bus" were fan faves.
That quote though is just a possible explanation for why Paul has disdain for some songs or outtakes. Hell, there are some Throwing Muses studio demo/practice songs, some Pete Townshend demos I like better than the studio version because it was unpolished, loud, and raw! Studio version? Mehhh, it was ok, but I don't care what Kristen Hersh or Townshend thinks about which version was better, lol...
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Post by FreeRider on Oct 27, 2023 14:22:14 GMT -5
well, as I posted last month or so, this excerpt explains how Paul feels: an old SPIN interview with him - Folker (2004): āEvery one of these records makes me think of someone. I thought āJingleā was kinda good. I canāt remember any of the other songs because theyāre s**t. Iāve learned that thereās a reason you donāt remember the ones youāve forgotten.ā www.spin.com/2016/03/paul-westerberg-i-dont-cares-replacements-interview/
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Post by FreeRider on Oct 27, 2023 14:17:05 GMT -5
This is funny (to me anyway). Someone came up with "the Westerberg-Musk evaluation . . . to precisely measure undeserved outcomes" and then applied it to teams in the National Hockey League about a year ago. He describes Paul as "the lead singer and songwriter for the Replacements, a tremendously talented band that blew every opportunity to get popular" and "a dismal failure despite undeniable virtue". I think the second quote is a bit harsh with regards to Paul but the concept is pretty funny overall at least to me anyway. I stumbled across it in just doing a general Google search on Paul in hopes of finding something new. russianmachineneverbreaks.com/2022/10/31/paul-westeberg-elon-musk-nhl-teams/ha! yeah, I may have mentioned that post before. I'm a long suffering Caps fan (even though they won it all in 2018) so I follow that blog and am back to suffering thru another season of going nowhere! Capitals play the Wild tonight, wonder if Paul will watch the game.
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Post by FreeRider on Sept 20, 2023 12:46:35 GMT -5
Here's what he had to say about the lower output pick ups over the hotter humbuckers he likes and he used an Alnico 5 for his signature guitar with First Act americansongwriter.com/4-paul-westerberg-signature-guitar/As Westerberg himself describes his vision for the PW580: āSomething not too heavy, that I could play quietly or full volume. It has a single pickup, and it sort of snarls. Itās lean, clean, and mean, and it doesnāt have that big, overdriven, fuzzy sound. You can get that with an amp, but the guitar itself doesnāt put it out, and thatās what I was looking for. Thereās a definite old-school thingāit belongs in a garage.ā Some info about Alnico 5: www.budgetguitarist.com/alnico-2-and-alnico-5-pickups-explained/But for his Gibsons, I believe they are P90's. Like the Les Paul Junior he has. Sorry, I like talking gear! š
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Post by FreeRider on Sept 20, 2023 12:25:14 GMT -5
anything is possible (unless you're really complex like a Neil Young tone, his gear is ridiculous). It looks like a Gibson ES-339? Or 335? If you get that kind of pick up and run it right into those Marshall amps he favors, you could probably re-create that tone. Which I believe are P-90 pickups. Paul seems to favor those over the humbuckers. He stated as much when doing the endorsement with the First Act signature guitar. He said he likes the amp to do all the work.
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Post by FreeRider on Sept 17, 2023 9:48:08 GMT -5
Cannot wait to hear this puppy in full. Those snippets sound fantastic.... Agree, those little sound bites sounded soooo much more defined and clear! For example, hearing more piano than before, more guitar fills that were buried.
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Post by FreeRider on Sept 15, 2023 21:38:25 GMT -5
....Yea I was just checking this out. Almost no bass that I'm hearing. Otherwise pretty rippin'. Great, raw vocal. Not super surprising that Paul isn't enthusiastic about these releases, I wouldn't be either, but as a fan I think it's pretty awesome. Ha, just ran across an old SPIN interview with him that might explain his lack of enthusiasm. His take on Folker - Folker (2004): āEvery one of these records makes me think of someone. I thought āJingleā was kinda good. I canāt remember any of the other songs because theyāre s**t. Iāve learned that thereās a reason you donāt remember the ones youāve forgotten.ā www.spin.com/2016/03/paul-westerberg-i-dont-cares-replacements-interview/
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Post by FreeRider on Sept 15, 2023 9:55:43 GMT -5
Sound recording of Jumpin' Jack Flash from 1986, Chicago. put up on the Replacements you tube channel yesterday
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Post by FreeRider on Sept 12, 2023 20:33:00 GMT -5
Yeah, I thought Pool and Dive and Message to the Boys sounded fresh and contemporary. I don't know how old those songs were or how long Paul had been sitting on them, but they sound, song wise, just as good if not better than whatever was currently being played on the radio at that time.
And production wise, yes, it wasn't the low fi basement quality, but a step up. So it's a shame, like Hagbard said, that they didn't try to find lightning in a bottle. Any follow up CD to the reunion tour just fell flat maybe because Paul self sabotaged the project to put out new material? Felt the pressure to produce? Who knows, man...
I guess all we are left with are re-issued stuff, outtakes, unreleased stuff. Would love to see the video of the reunion tour or the Grant Park concert stuff.
ETA: I just checked like the top rock songs for 2006, when "Don't YOu Know Who I think I was" came out:
RHCP - Dani California
Three Days grace - Pain
Nickelback - Animals
Three Days Grace - Animal I have Become
RHCP - Snow
My Chemical Romance - Welcome to the Black Parade
Stone Sour - Through Glass
Weezer - Perfect Situation
NIN - Every Day is Exaclty the Same
10 Years - Wastedland
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Post by FreeRider on Sept 12, 2023 20:25:46 GMT -5
Fyi- on message to the boys, chris did not play drums, josh freese did. I believe chris shook a tambourine and added some back up vocals.. correct---I think Paul said he asked Chris to play but he declined. Maybe he was rusty and hadn't picked up his drum sticks in awhile or he knew better than to fall back into the trap of having Paul get on him over the drumming? And so, it was fine for him to sing back up vocals and leave the drumming to Josh
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Post by FreeRider on Sept 9, 2023 12:56:27 GMT -5
Yeah, they both kind of chose their words carefully....
There's no doubt that touring is getting back into the trenches for him. He's already done that, checked that box off, paid the price for having done so. I don't think he'll ever hit the road again and perform, it's over. There's nothing to be gained by it, so it has zero benefit to him other than promoting something. That is the same old trap that bands fall into: release CD, tour endlessly in support of it. Rinse and repeat.
I just hope that whatever he does in the basement, or whatever he's sitting on, might be good enough to put out for a final hurrah, some new material. Like I said a few posts ago, I went back to listen to "Message to the Boys" and I have no idea how old that song was but when he and Tommy and Chris recorded it properly, it sounded fresh to me and could hold its own with anything out there today. At least to my ears. but I rarely listen to the radio or anything so what the hell do I know?
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Post by FreeRider on Sept 8, 2023 9:55:05 GMT -5
I looked for any other mentions of Paul being "retired" and it seems like a few years ago Darren Hill mentioned it. Found this on the Steve Hoffman forums where some others were wondering about where Paul was these days: About the 31 min mark, he talks about the Mats and Paul youtu.be/iQGh__lokic?si=EeD36lV3IBq2cpVuSo it just confirms what we all suspected, I guess. So be thankful we got to see the guy perform one last time because his touring days are over. I'm fine with that; I always figured he was done with that aspect. However, I'd like to think that his recording days aren't over and I still hold out hope he gets the itch to release one last solo thing as the final hurrah before really calling it day to pursue other interests. I still can't believe he hasn't been able to get more financial security in writing songs for others. You'd think Warner Bros would want him to be a songwriter for some of their artists. But I guess other artists/bands want to do their own songs or don't want him to be their Jimmy Webb or something. who knows...
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Post by FreeRider on Sept 4, 2023 13:02:30 GMT -5
thanks for the discussion here...I certainly didn't mean to imply that they would ever get a windfall from Spotify streaming, but rather that based on Mehr's statement, the discovery by the younger generation could maybe net them like a $10k check here or there. If they were lucky. I have no idea what kind of streaming they get, or even what Mehr is basing his statements off of.
And yes, all good points---streaming is the biggest rip off and the reason why I don't listen to streaming stuff that rips off the artists. (Actually, I just don't listen much to anything these days, but that's a different topic!) I recall that Dave Lowry from Cracker tried getting a class action lawsuit against Spotify over mechanical royalty rights for not securing the rights to play bands and also because of their horrible pay out rate for a stream. The end result was that he settled with Spotify, yet I don't think he truly moved the needle for the artists.
And if this is the best pay day for the Mats, then so be it. Unless you're willing to get back into the trenches and tour to generate income, these releases and remastered stuff by the Mats is the best they can do to get some sort of windfall. However, depending on how their debt repayment is structured, I guess Warner Bros will still get a big cut of the remastered releases, any unreleased stuff like videos and concert recordings, and for financing all their videos and studio time with advances etc, the label still has all the power over the artist unless you were savvy from the start, I guess.
I honestly can't see how bands today can make a living, either in a DIY, indie approach, or going for major label success. It's such a gamble and a grind and the labels and radio are gatekeepers, preferring risk aversion to promoting anything unique, original. Same old chord progressions, same old auto tuned crap...
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