In the Blogs: I can’t believe I am up at 6:30 a.m. edition
Posted by Jodi | Filed under In the Blogs, Uncategorized
- • Feed the Ogre has a disappointing run-in involving ‘Unsatisfied’ and his kids.
- • WOXY counts down the top 500 modern rock songs (Alex Chilton is the highest ranking ‘Mats song, weird)
- • I really liked Linnet’s piece about All for Nothing, mostly because she talks about how when you break up you lose half your record collection
- • Here’s a great piece about Joan Jett, whom we all love, right?
P.S. Stop by the NEW Forum and tell us about the first time you saw the ‘mats or Paul Westerberg or see why PW.net is better than rightsaidfred.com.
Tags: Joan Jett, the replacements, Unsatisfied
Video Tuesday — In the Comments Edition
Posted by Jodi | Filed under Seen Your Video
It seems a lot of videos have been posted in the comments recently, and if you’re a lazy reader like me, I thought I’d bring them to your attention.
Dingus from Italy brought us this John Doe cover of “Here Comes a Regular”
And Jay Taco posted these two gems from 1986.
Tags: color me impressed, Here Comes a Regular, John Doe, the replacements
Top Five Things I love about PW.net
Posted by Jodi | Filed under Westbergesque
1. All the commenters who are way, way more knowledgable than me
2. CMI's forum avatar
3. The e-mails I get from people who think I am Paul Westerberg
4. Jay Taco
5. [Your Name here for a mere $5]
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On weddings, Westerberg weirdos, and forums
Posted by Jodi | Filed under Thx the mgmt
On Friday I attended my friend Scooter’s wedding. To some of you, the name might ring a bell. I first met Scooter on the Man Without Ties Message Board and then I met him in the flesh at Liquor Lyle’s before the first Paul Westerberg Pantages show back in, hrm, 2004?
I wasn’t the only Westernerd to represent at Scooter’s wedding, there was a fistful of weirdos there. Which is kind of what got me to thinking. All those weirdos at that wedding, I first met them on that MWT Board. I loved posting and playing on MWT, it was a lot of fun and I bet I still hold the posting record at something ridiculous like 5,000 posts.
Being at Scooter’s wedding made me all message board nostalgic. And for a bit I contemplated just starting to post at MWT again. But then I got that pit in my stomach and I knew that I couldn’t go back there because to do so would be supporting censorship and other behaviors I don’t agree with.
So, instead, I added a forum right here to this Web site. Hell yes, your eyes do not deceive. Do I expect to recapture the magic of the old MWT days? Nah. I expect to have a message board that’s better and more fun.
Like I said, I am completely opposed to censorship. I believe in the whole marketplace of free ideas. I will not delete posts that I don’t agree with (however, I will freely delete spam with an abandon you have not yet witnessed). We’re grownups here and we should conduct ourselves as such. If you’re acting like a jackass, I will have no problem calling you out on your jackassery. I hope that you feel comfortable enough to do the same to me, or to any of the other weirdos who decide to post in the forum.
The forum will only be as fun, useful, entertaining as you make it. If you’ve never posted in a forum before, give it a try — who knows maybe next summer you’ll get to go to someone’s kickass wedding and get drunk with a bunch of friends while listening to a rockabilly band.
Tags: forum, paul westerberg, weddings
Download Husker Du show from July 1981
Posted by Jodi | Filed under Concert you can download
I Am Fuel You Are Friends has posted a Husker Du show from July 1981 at the Mabuhay Gardens in San Francisco. You can download it, you lucky dog [found via east-lake.net]. Sure this has nothing to do with Paul Westerberg or The Replacements, but it’s like one-degree of separation so it counts, right?
Tags: Husker Du, Live Concert
In the Blogs: Too lame for anything witty edition
Posted by Jodi | Filed under In the Blogs
- In the comments over at Pop Headwound, Peter Jesperson explains why a few songs were left off the reissues.
- Aquarium Drunkard gives a big thumbs up to the reissues.
- Consequence of Sound has an in-depth review of the reissued Let it Be.
- Comic Book geeks talk about the ‘Mats. Yum.
- Overlooked and misunderstood, postpunk gets its due over at Color Me Impressed.
Tags: Peter Jesperson, the replacements
Video Tuesday — ‘Mats in Germany, 1991 - Color Me Impressed
Posted by Jodi | Filed under Seen Your Video
Tags: color me impressed, the replacements
Paul Westerberg, the Pitchfork Interview
Posted by Jodi | Filed under PW News, Uncategorized
Veritable indie-tastemakers Pitchfork interviews our man Paul (which still cracks me up)
Pitchfork: Did you feel at all left behind by your friends who left town?
PW: No, because I didn’t have that many friends at the time, and the ones that I had were all quasi-musicians. Sort of cats, layabouts, whatever. There was the occasional guy we played drums with whose dad wanted him to be an accountant. The line was sort of drawn in the sand, the guys who were going to put their picks and sticks behind them and move on to something else. I knew in my gut that this was what I had to do and what I was going to do.
Tags: paul westerberg, Pitchfork
In the Blogs: Look I remembered edition
Posted by Jodi | Filed under In the Blogs, Uncategorized
City Pages unearths the now-famous ‘Lovelines’ issue.
Paul Westerberg as best friend, a short and sweet piece I think y’all can relate to.
The Washington Post has a nice interview with Laurie Lindeen about Petal Pusher
10 Quotes from SPIN’s Story on the Replacements
A Crash Course in The Replacements, in case you need a refresher.
Crawdaddy republishes a 1987 article about Husker Du and The ‘Mats
Okay, so this is a review of the new Tobias Wolff short story collection, and I link to it for two reasons:
1.) Tobias Wolff is brilliant and you should read him
2.) The review likens remembering the first time you read Tobias Wolff (Vodo’s Beginning Fiction class 2003) to the first time you heard the ‘Mats (The Camaraderie’s jukebox 1994 or 1995)
Tags: Husker Du, Laurie Lindeen, the replacements, Tobias Wolff
Video Tuesday — John Doe covers I Will Dare
Posted by Jodi | Filed under Seen Your Video
This has nothing to do with anything, but I have an awfully hard time writing I Will Dare instead of iwilldare.com. It’s like second-nature at this point. Sad.
Tags: I Will Dare, John Doe, the replacements, x
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