Can’t Hardly Wait, A Retrospective: Covered
Posted by Wolfdog | Filed under Can't Hardly Wait, In Love With That Song, Seen Your Video
It’s time to wrap up my little nerdy journey through the history of one song. This week’s videos show that there are a lot of bands who are also fans of this song. The only one I have witnessed knocking out a Can’t Hardly Wait is Dash Rip Rock from New Orleans, but judging from what I found plenty have found inspiration to play it themselves.
But first, one more Paul Westerberg solo version. This is from the 2002 solo tour (the one I thought didn’t contain any CHW’s, thanks for the corrections).
…I’ll be home when I’m sleeping….
Here’s Marah
And more from bars across the nation. You have to respect the love in all of them.
Maybe Pete
Johnny Heidt News Experience
Fairmont
Buzz Bomb
The Kickz
Nine Fifty
Porchsleeper
Shock And Awe
In the Blogs: A eulogy for Bob Stinson, Some more Craft reviews and I think that’s it
Posted by Jodi | Filed under In the Blogs
While looking for something totally unrelated, I stumbled upon this: Jim Walsh’s eulogy for Bob Stinson
On the ProSound.com forums, someone asks a ZZ Top sound engineer to clarify Westerberg’s crack about hearing ‘Sharp Dressed Man’ while recording “Pleased to Meet Me.”
Twisted Ear’s got a write up of The Craft Show. (See the list of earlier reviews)
[snarky editorial aside: it amazes me how many people have totally copied and pasted the Bream Billboard piece without any kind of attribution at all (not even that they might have picked it up from Reuters). Man, that sucks. I hope Billboard paid him a bajillion dollars for the piece, because it's everywhere and he ain't getting that many props for it]
Video Tuesday — Let the Bad Times Roll from Sunday’s The Craft with Paul Westerberg
Posted by Jodi | Filed under Seen Your Video
Mad props to JimP for posting the video on YouTube. Also for those playing along at home, here’s a list of the show’s write-ups from around the Internet:
Jon Bream for Billboard
Rob van Alstyne for Reveille with kickass pics by Steve Cohen
John Behm for Spin
Chris Riemenschneider for the Strib
Ross Raihala for the PiPress
How Was the Show Forums
Also, you can check out a few MP3s of the show here.
They’re waiting in the darkness….
Posted by Wolfdog | Filed under Concert Review
Things I have never seen at First Avenue until last night:
1. A crowd rapt with attention, hanging on every word someone is speaking.
2. Chairs on the floor. And no one felt the urge to toss them around.
3. Someone learning to play the Jackson 5 - I Want You Back on stage.
I loved nearly every minute of Paul Westerberg’s edition of ‘The Craft’. You can complain all you want about the ever-present corporate sponsorship, the lack of more songs, the lack of choice of beers, and the body odor of the person beside you… but really, I think we got something unique that night. Something you don’t get from a regular ’show’. You get to see how much passion Paul has for his baseball team. (note to Carl Pohlad, resign Torii Hunter. I think he’s serious about the brick throwing). How he has written songs in different tunings and never known what key they were in until your bass player tells you much later. You get to hear what brought about writing a new song called Everyone’s Stupid. You get to hear Lush & Green.
I was paying close attention, not only because the PA was on the quiet side for the interview, along with the 500 or so others there. I looked around at one point and was awed by how everyone was glued to it. It is a very eclectic and amazing bunch (fistful) of weirdos. The conversations had and overheard before and after the show are something you don’t get in a lot of places. But at First Ave on a night with a show like this, people are on the same page (or at least the same section of the library) and you are likely to bump into a kindred spirit around every corner.
And I’m thankful I bumped into a lot of kindred spirits. I met a lot of great people, hung out a bunch, and generally had a huge smile on my face all night. I may have accidently hugged Scooter as well. But that may have had more to do with multiple Black & Tans.
If I didn’t get a chance to run into you, sorry I missed you, but say hey here and let us know what you thought of the whole shindig. And maybe I will see some of you at Jim Walsh’s book release party in November…..
Paul is to Iggy as Warren is to Opie
Posted by honkywithahaton | Filed under Westbergesque
The St. Paul Pioneer Press opined that Paul Westerberg’s speaking voice is reminiscent of Iggy Pop’s. That may be … but for sure every molecule of Warren Zanes’ being is reminiscent of Opie.
I think Wolfdogg is sleeping it off, so here’s some sounds from last night’s The Craft show
Posted by Jodi | Filed under Concert you can download, Media
Okay, I am impatient. And if he doesn’t like that I am stealing his thunder, he can suck it.
Here’s some questionable quality, but still totally cool mp3’s from last night’s Paul Westerberg The Craft show:
What A Day (For A Night)
Make The Best Of Me
Wonderful Lie
Paul Westerberg The Craft live at First Ave. in Minneapolis
Posted by Jodi | Filed under Concert Review
Where to begin?
What struck me the most was when Warren Zanes (the dude from the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame) talked about how he always considered “Let it Be” to be the first step Westerberg made toward a solo career. Westerberg didn’t disagree.
They spent a lot of time talking about how “If Only You Were Lonely” and “Within Your Reach” off of “Hootenanny” was really the first break in the band, where Westerberg wanted to go one direction and the rest of the ‘Mats wanted to go in another direction.
Zanes asked him how he appeased the other guys.
“Gary’s got a boner,” Paul said.
Paul also talked about how the difference between a good song and a great song is all in the bridge and that he personally followed the same sort of bridge “rules” that Paul McCartney and Elvis Costello follow.
Oh! The set list went a little something like this:
Let the Bad Times Roll
It’s a Wonderful Lie
Everybody’s Stupid — a new song!
Lush and Green
Make the Best of Me — a new song!
What a Day for a Night
World Class Fad
Dyslexic Heart
Can’t Hardly Wait
Skyway
Paul even talked a little about “Bookmark” (one of my all-time faves) and said that he played, “Bookmark for a year solid before I decided what the words were gonna be.”
At that point he threw out some mad props to Ben Folds, “he writes beautiful and clever melodies.”
Really it was a pretty kickass night. I will write more in the morning when I am a little more coherent (it’s late 1:11 here and I gots to work in a few hours).
Also, check out the Strib’s review of the show and the PiPress’ Ross Raihala has also posted about the show.
Happy Paul Westerberg The Craft Day!
Posted by Jodi | Filed under Westbergesque
So today’s the day. A few of the very, very lucky are going to venture forth to First Avenue here in Minneapolis to listen to Paul Westerberg talk about his Craft.
While I am really very excited to get to see Paul and hang with a bunch of Westernerds, it’s tempered by a little bit of bummer that everyone who wants to go can’t be there. I wish I could put you all in my pocket and take you with. Since I can’t I am going to do my best to twitter the whole event. I make no promises, because I am really bad at twittering. But I will do my best. You can follow along here on Paul Westerberg.net:
Also, I hope to see any of y’all who are lucky enough to attend over at the pre-show meetup at O’Donovan’s.
P.S. I hope any of you attend The Craft lecture/performance/thing come back to Paul Westerberg and post your thoughts.
‘Mats virtual tour
Posted by Jodi | Filed under asides
For those visiting our fine Twin Cities this weekend, The Replacements’ Tour
Win an autographed copy of Petal Pusher and support a great cause
Posted by zook | Filed under Uncategorized
Though this is not PW specific, I figured it was relevant enough for this place.
The second annual Carlapalooza will be a two day event on October 6th and 7th. Carlapalooza is a yearly punk rock benefit for Multiple Sclerosis with all proceeds going to The National MS Society (Carla is a fixture in the pop punk scene and like Laurie is a spunky and fun chick who happens to have MS.) There is also a raffle, or rather series of raffles, with several pretty cool prizes and the proceeds also going to MS. One of these prizes is an autographed copy of Petal Pusher that Laurie Lindeen herself donated. The only catch is that you have to be present for this raffle so if you are going to be near Secaucus, NJ on October 6th head on over and give til it hurts.
For information go to http://www.myspace.com/carlapalooza
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