’Do It To It: A Field Guide To Rock and Roll Hair Styles
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Tommy Stinson gets a mention in this article from the Gibson Guitar website:
http://www.gibson.com/en-us/Lifestyle/Features/do-it-to-it-a-field-guide-to/
The Rooster ’Do
Nothing says ’70s rock boogie sleaze like this classic, as rocked by Exile-era Keith Richards, and sported to perfection by Ronnie Wood and Rod Stewart in the Faces … and, eh, Ronnie today too … Let ’em know you love the rock like punk never happened—just ask pre-beard Chris Robinson of the Black Crowes, Let It Be-era Tommy Stinson, Hanoi Rocks, and this happy family.
Be very careful with this one though. You need a mop to pull it off and make sure you keep it loosely spiky on top, and shaggy in front. A few snips too many and you’ll be walking out of the Fantastic Sam’s having just dropped six bucks on the infamous Mullet—also known as The Kentucky Waterfall, The Gretzky, Business In Front Party In The Back, and The MacGyver. And by its very nature—and perhaps in the nature of the don’t-give-a-heck fun-lovers who sport it—the Mullet is tenacious. Growing one out takes patience.
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Five reunions we don’t want to see….
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From the Gibson Guitar site, a list of bands that shouldn’t (according to them) get back together:
http://www.gibson.com/en-us/Lifestyle/Features/5-reunions-we-dont-want-to-se/
The Replacements
While Paul Westerberg and current Guns N’ Roses bassist Tommy Stinson have occasionally come back together in the studio since The ‘Mats imploded, they have thankfully resisted the urge to do the full-on reunion thing. That’s good because we really, really want to preserve our memories of the vintage Replacements live experience with the band firing its scrappy riffs at top volume, stumbling over each other, and generally acting like huge goofs. Besides, sobriety, maturity, and gray hairs just don’t go with classics like “Dope Smokin’ Moron” and “G—–n Job”.
Video Tuesday-Because Jodi has psychic abilities and made me do this through thought control
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Makin’ breakfast for Blasty
Kicking Our Own Asses Assembles Zuzu Petals’ Best for a Limited-Edition Collection
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http://tinyurl.com/22phb6
RHINO HANDMADE PLUCKS ZUZU’S PETALS BEST
Category: Music
Kicking Our Own Asses Assembles the Band’s Best for a Limited-Edition Collection
Laurie Lindeen Will Appear as a Panelist at SXSW on March 14;
Her Acclaimed Memoir, Petal Pusher, Will Make Its Paperback Debut This Fall
Available For Pre-order March 13 Exclusively From Rhino Handmade
LOS ANGELES—Formed at the dawn of the ’90s in Minneapolis, Zuzu’s Petals were scrappy rock ‘n’ roll dreamers who laced their melancholy but hopeful pop with a dry, biting wit, crunchy guitars and jagged rhythms. The all-girl trio – Coleen Elwood (bass, vocals), Linda Pitmon (drums) and Laurie Lindeen (guitar, vocals) – took the band’s name from the ultimate life-affirming film It’s A Wonderful Life. The band recorded two albums for Twin/Tone as they struggled with inspiring determination and trademark ZuZu’s humor to make it in a man’s world. Listening to these songs today, it becomes clear that these women were truly ahead of their time. Rhino Handmade gathers their most memorable musical moments for a limited-edition single-disc collection. KICKING OUR OWN ASSES: THE BEST OF ZUZU’S PETALS will be available for pre-order March 13 exclusively from www.rhinohandmade.com for a price of $19.98 and will ship in mid-April. Only 5,000 individually numbered copies of this compilation will be produced.
Recorded between 1990 and 1994 and arranged chronologically, KICKING OUR OWN ASSES opens with “Babblin’ Mules,” a single the trio recorded for Susstones with producer Dave Pirner of Soul Asylum. The track is followed by “Poor Little Rich Girl,” a previously unreleased song recorded in Minneapolis just prior to their breakthrough on the international indie rock scene. Zuzu’s Petals recorded its Twin/Tone debut, When No One’s Looking, to much critical acclaim in 1992 with producer Lou Giordano. The collection offers eight songs from that album, including “God Cries,” “White Trash Love” and “Dork Magnet.”
Before releasing its second album, the band recorded covers of the classic Melanie song “Brand New Key” and a searingly beautiful version of Hüsker Dü’s “Standing By the Sea,” which are included here. The follow-up, The Music Of Your Life, was produced by the legendary Albhy Galuten (The Bee Gees, Barbra Streisand, Cher) and released in 1994. KICKING OUR OWN ASSES presents six songs from that album, including “Love Bullet,” “Chatty Catty” and “Come True.”
Lindeen, the band’s founder, went on to write a memoir about her experience, titled Petal Pusher: A Rock And Roll Cinderella Story. The book is a poignant and funny behind-the-scenes look at music on the front lines that provides an awe-inspiring account of one woman’s fight against a diagnosis of multiple sclerosis and her disillusionment with life in the rock underground. The memoir has received rave reviews from authors, musicians and press alike. Cameron Crowe raved that Lindeen “knows how to put her musical soul on every page of this wonderful book.” This fall, the book will be released in paperback for the first time. Prior to that, on Friday, March 14, Lindeen will appear at SXSW as part of a music panel discussing rock memoirs.
KICKING OUR OWN ASSES: THE BEST OF ZUZU’S PETALS
Track Listing
1. “Babblin’ Mules”
2. “Poor Little Rich Girl” *
3. “Categories”
4. “Cinderella’s Daydream”
5. “God Cries”
6. “White Trash Love”
7. “Psycho Tavern”
8. “Dork Magnet”
9. “Johanne”
10. “Jackals”
11. “Madrid”
12. “Brand New Key”
13. “Standing By The Sea”
14. “Do Not”
15. “Love Bullet”
16. “Remembering Why”
17. “Chatty Catty”
18. “Come True”
19. “Happy”
20. “Star Baby”
* Previously unreleased
Video Tuesday- The Jodi’s slacking off version
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Jodi must be snoozing today, so I’ll take the lead and post one the greatest videos ever!
Tags: Laurie Lindeen, petal pusher, smartass
John Doe does “Here Comes a Regular”
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Here is an awesome version of HCAR, performed by John Doe (of X) from a few nights ago:
For the full show, go to http://www.dimeadozen.org/torrents-details.php?id=171927
Tags: Here Comes a Regular, John Doe, the replacements
Paul Westerberg’s Craft interview, performance available for download
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Thanks to our friends at Colormeimpressed.com, PW’s craft show from last month is available at Dime a Dozen.
A very nice sounding recording.
Cool page of ‘Mats memorabilia
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Posters and various items of Replacements memorabilia from The Minnesota Historical Society website.
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