I just want to say that I love and miss you all and also I'm going tonight.
Official 930 Club Replacements Echostage May 8 Show
Space wrote:Yada wrote:
Is today the most anticipated day in board history?
It should be pretty sweet. BBQ tempeh tacos, German chocolate cake, vanilla ice cream, and a bottle of 2014 Parabola. Then watch Selma on dvd.
Space, I misread your post yesterday as well. A belated Happy Birthday to you.
German Chocolate cake is my dessert choice on my birthday as well.
Yada wrote:
Is today the most anticipated day in board history?
;D ;D ;D
challenged wrote:Yada wrote:
Is today the most anticipated day in board history?
;D ;D ;D
It is for me…
I've seen just about every band that I've been a fan of if it's possible
but besides maybe the Clash (did catch joe strummer and he did do a bunch of clash tunes), the Dead Kennedy's and Rollins Black Flag (I'm sure there are a few others)….the Mats have always been on my list of regrets of bands I never got to see live. Plus always hearing about their legendary and infamous live show always made it that much worse
Let it be, Tim and Pleased to Meet Me are such a good trifecta of albums
soo many good songs and memories listening to them on my Walkman or watching the label spinning on my turntable
The replacements were always on of those bands that just spoke to me
I'm so pleased they decided to do this tour
Sounds like these shows are much better than any show I would have caught in the early 90s anyway
shame won't get to see Bob or Chris or Slim
but honestly Paul and Tommy are enough
I think Josh Freese and Dave Minehan will be great and I'm fine with that
^^^ I saw them earlier this tour, went in with kinda high expectations, and they did not disappoint (other than perhaps the fact that they played about 45 minutes less than the Palladium's website said they'd play)…..
Yada wrote:Space wrote:Yada wrote:
Is today the most anticipated day in board history?
It should be pretty sweet. BBQ tempeh tacos, German chocolate cake, vanilla ice cream, and a bottle of 2014 Parabola. Then watch Selma on dvd.
Space, I misread your post yesterday as well. A belated Happy Birthday to you.
German Chocolate cake is my dessert choice on my birthday as well.
Thanks. :)
Tad bit of regret for not getting a ticket, but bottom line for me is the money was better spent elsewhere.
set times posted:
8:00 - J. Roddy Walston and the Business
9:15 - Replacements
8:00 - J. Roddy Walston and the Business
9:15 - Replacements
Kubacheck wrote:
^^^ I saw them earlier this tour, went in with kinda high expectations, and they did not disappoint (other than perhaps the fact that they played about 45 minutes less than the Palladium's website said they'd play)…..
I don't know how you can blame the band on that one
they don't tell the venue…were going to play a 2 hour set and they post it
typically they just say when they are going to start and the venue says you need to be done by x time
but then…what do I know
Space wrote:Yada wrote:Space wrote:Yada wrote:
Is today the most anticipated day in board history?
It should be pretty sweet. BBQ tempeh tacos, German chocolate cake, vanilla ice cream, and a bottle of 2014 Parabola. Then watch Selma on dvd.
Space, I misread your post yesterday as well. A belated Happy Birthday to you.
German Chocolate cake is my dessert choice on my birthday as well.
Thanks. :)
Tad bit of regret for not getting a ticket, but bottom line for me is the money was better spent elsewhere.
if anyone else is concerned about the cost, or it being sold out: Seems to be tix for less than face on the StubHub.
saw this great quote and wanted to share
?According to veteran producer Jim Dickinson (Ry Cooder, Big Star, as well as the Replacements? Pleased to Meet Me), ?Westerberg is the brains of the band, but Tommy is the balls. The fire, the energy I keyed on was Tommy. He and Chris are a great rhythm section, just fabulous. Tommy?s this great existential hero, which is a rare breed nowadays. Every morning or afternoon, Tommy wakes up and decides wherer or not he wants to be Tommy. His brother Bob used to force him to play the bass when he was a little kid. If he didn?t he?d get backhanded, so Tommy hates the bass, but he loves it too. It?s that fight beteen the positive and the negative that creates the tension that makes great music. The Stones had it [Dickinson played keyboards on Sticky Fingers] and so do the Replacements.? When I ask Westerberg if he agrees that Tommy is the balls of the group, he remarks, ?Tommy?s the balls and the dick.??
?According to veteran producer Jim Dickinson (Ry Cooder, Big Star, as well as the Replacements? Pleased to Meet Me), ?Westerberg is the brains of the band, but Tommy is the balls. The fire, the energy I keyed on was Tommy. He and Chris are a great rhythm section, just fabulous. Tommy?s this great existential hero, which is a rare breed nowadays. Every morning or afternoon, Tommy wakes up and decides wherer or not he wants to be Tommy. His brother Bob used to force him to play the bass when he was a little kid. If he didn?t he?d get backhanded, so Tommy hates the bass, but he loves it too. It?s that fight beteen the positive and the negative that creates the tension that makes great music. The Stones had it [Dickinson played keyboards on Sticky Fingers] and so do the Replacements.? When I ask Westerberg if he agrees that Tommy is the balls of the group, he remarks, ?Tommy?s the balls and the dick.??
also, here is another track just came across You're Getting Married (Solo Home Demo)
apparently it was on the 2008 rerelease of stink (bootlegs were out too)
f'n awesome
this little write up is great too
The Replacements - ?You?re Getting Married? (Solo Home Demo)
Unsurprisingly, Paul Westerberg?s hardest critics were the other guys in the band. He wrote all of the songs and had to deal with three different personalities and tastes: Tommy Stinson wanted something modern, Bob Stinson wanted something that rocked, and Chris Mars wanted something poppy. (Fuck anything heartfelt, it went without saying.) The first response after Westerberg played the band an early version of ?You?re Getting Married? in 1982 was a terse Bob Stinson one-liner: ?Save it for your solo album; that ain?t The Replacements.?
It?s a diss that would prove laughably hindsighted: on pretty much every album after their debut, The Replacements effortlessly (as in they didn?t seem to care) switched identities. They?d sing about abused drag queens and nightmarish trips to the dentist, cover KISS for the hell of it, mix up country and jazz and piano balladry with no obvious sense of cohesion. To wit: two of the most heartfelt songs on their 1984 breakthrough Let It Be, ?Sixteen Blue? and ?Answering Machine,? are preceded by the comically shitty ?Gary?s Got A Boner,? a song as stupid as its title and seemingly thrown in to remind listeners, "Hey, we?re still idiots.? But at the beginning, they were easier to pigeonhole: a latter-day Lester Bangs article on the second generation of punk bands (in which he labeled the Circle Jerks as the best) lumped The Replacements as just another hardcore band. So punks expecting to hear the next ?I Hate Music? might?ve been shocked by the tenderness of ?You?re Getting Married,? which floated around as a bootleg for years before popping up on 2008?s reissue of the Stink EP.
Criticize Westerberg?s lyrics in this one?I?m not going to defend ?You?re like a bird in a cage? as a metaphor for being trapped?but don?t harsh on his passion, that nebulous quality music critics spend thousands of words trying to quantify while fans get it right off the bat. The pain of a punk brat moaning one line over and over, accompanied only by the pangs of an electric guitar less played than smacked: ?If you get married, please don?t get married, don?t you get married,? over and over again. Stinson was right to be doubtful at first; who would believe this coming from the guy who?d written a song called ?Fuck School?? Could you believe him?
It?s too bad that it was never officially released, as Replacements fans would quickly acclimate to Westerberg?s sensitive side following their sophomore record, 1983's Hootenanny. It contained ?Within Your Reach,? the band?s sweetest song to date and one so sensitive that Westerberg didn?t even tell his bandmates he was recording it?Mars accidentally found out about the session and had to force his way on. From there on, The Replacements would mature rapidly with each record, and a complaint like Stinson?s??That ain?t The Replacements??would be met with, ?Well, what is?? But naturally, ?Within Your Reach? is followed by ?Buck Hill,? a hokey, cornfed rhythm punctuated every few moments with the nonsensical cry, ?BUCK HILL!? Maturity is a process. - Jeremy Gordon
apparently it was on the 2008 rerelease of stink (bootlegs were out too)
f'n awesome
this little write up is great too
The Replacements - ?You?re Getting Married? (Solo Home Demo)
Unsurprisingly, Paul Westerberg?s hardest critics were the other guys in the band. He wrote all of the songs and had to deal with three different personalities and tastes: Tommy Stinson wanted something modern, Bob Stinson wanted something that rocked, and Chris Mars wanted something poppy. (Fuck anything heartfelt, it went without saying.) The first response after Westerberg played the band an early version of ?You?re Getting Married? in 1982 was a terse Bob Stinson one-liner: ?Save it for your solo album; that ain?t The Replacements.?
It?s a diss that would prove laughably hindsighted: on pretty much every album after their debut, The Replacements effortlessly (as in they didn?t seem to care) switched identities. They?d sing about abused drag queens and nightmarish trips to the dentist, cover KISS for the hell of it, mix up country and jazz and piano balladry with no obvious sense of cohesion. To wit: two of the most heartfelt songs on their 1984 breakthrough Let It Be, ?Sixteen Blue? and ?Answering Machine,? are preceded by the comically shitty ?Gary?s Got A Boner,? a song as stupid as its title and seemingly thrown in to remind listeners, "Hey, we?re still idiots.? But at the beginning, they were easier to pigeonhole: a latter-day Lester Bangs article on the second generation of punk bands (in which he labeled the Circle Jerks as the best) lumped The Replacements as just another hardcore band. So punks expecting to hear the next ?I Hate Music? might?ve been shocked by the tenderness of ?You?re Getting Married,? which floated around as a bootleg for years before popping up on 2008?s reissue of the Stink EP.
Criticize Westerberg?s lyrics in this one?I?m not going to defend ?You?re like a bird in a cage? as a metaphor for being trapped?but don?t harsh on his passion, that nebulous quality music critics spend thousands of words trying to quantify while fans get it right off the bat. The pain of a punk brat moaning one line over and over, accompanied only by the pangs of an electric guitar less played than smacked: ?If you get married, please don?t get married, don?t you get married,? over and over again. Stinson was right to be doubtful at first; who would believe this coming from the guy who?d written a song called ?Fuck School?? Could you believe him?
It?s too bad that it was never officially released, as Replacements fans would quickly acclimate to Westerberg?s sensitive side following their sophomore record, 1983's Hootenanny. It contained ?Within Your Reach,? the band?s sweetest song to date and one so sensitive that Westerberg didn?t even tell his bandmates he was recording it?Mars accidentally found out about the session and had to force his way on. From there on, The Replacements would mature rapidly with each record, and a complaint like Stinson?s??That ain?t The Replacements??would be met with, ?Well, what is?? But naturally, ?Within Your Reach? is followed by ?Buck Hill,? a hokey, cornfed rhythm punctuated every few moments with the nonsensical cry, ?BUCK HILL!? Maturity is a process. - Jeremy Gordon
Sidehatch wrote:Kubacheck wrote:
^^^ I saw them earlier this tour, went in with kinda high expectations, and they did not disappoint (other than perhaps the fact that they played about 45 minutes less than the Palladium's website said they'd play)…..
I don't know how you can blame the band on that one
they don't tell the venue…were going to play a 2 hour set and they post it
typically they just say when they are going to start and the venue says you need to be done by x time
but then…what do I know
not blaming the band at all, just noting the discrepancy between the posted set times and the actual set time, that's all…. as I said, they did not disappoint, I'll take 80 minutes of the excellent show I got over a 2 hour shitty show, anyday….. besides, old man that I am, in the end, I'm always pleasantly surprised when I get out of a show earlier than I thought I would…. :)
Would love for this to be the last "reunion" show i ever go to. Not sure who else I'd want to see as much as these guys.
I have an extra for tonight for below face - PM if interested
And this place goes dark. 8)
If there was ever a show I'm glad I only paid half the face price for, that one was it. Though I'm sure to be humming that song about protein shakes at Whole Foods for days.
I'll give Paul Westerbird some credit though, he's got more hair and is less pear than most of his fans.
I honestly couldn't figure out if (I'm not going to call a 50 year old man "Tommy") Tom Stintin Guns and Roses was the guy in the red shirt or the guy in the official LPGA tour visor.
Oh, and the German chocolate cake/vanilla ice cream/ Parabola pairing was totally fucking sweet.
I'll give Paul Westerbird some credit though, he's got more hair and is less pear than most of his fans.
I honestly couldn't figure out if (I'm not going to call a 50 year old man "Tommy") Tom Stintin Guns and Roses was the guy in the red shirt or the guy in the official LPGA tour visor.
Oh, and the German chocolate cake/vanilla ice cream/ Parabola pairing was totally fucking sweet.
I enjoyed the performance, but the audience was unbearable. It was uncomfortably crowded.