Video Tuesday — Sweet & Simple ‘Love Untold’ cover
Posted by Jodi | Filed under Seen Your Video
Tags: cover, Love Untold, paul westerberg
In the Blogs: The nobody’s doing any good writing so I’ll tell you about this show edition
Posted by Jodi | Filed under In the Blogs
Someday, I am going to populate this list with nothing but links to The Replacements movie or the The Replacements cartoon or knee replacements. Why? Because that would make me laugh. I should have probably done it this week, because I didn’t find anything of interest to link to. Boo to the hoo.
However, if you’re looking local (Minneapolis/St.Paul) and you’re looking for something to do this Friday, June 6th, and you weren’t invited to my birthday party (because my birthday is June 6th), you should go check out the How Was the Show 6th Anniversary Birthday Bash at the Turf Club.
Why? Because I am sure it will be filled with cool kids, and because one of the bands (the 757s) was described thusly: “First things first: These guys are capital-L Loud. The music, which is a mix of The Replacements ragged thunder and The Who’s jetliner roar, ends up sticking in your grey matter almost immediately.”. So, duh, you should go.
Tags: How Was the Show, the 757s, the replacements
Video Tuesday — I.O.U Cover from San Fran
Posted by Jodi | Filed under Seen Your Video
Tags: calling all monsters, IOU, the replacements
Westerberg Concedes
Posted by pzp | Filed under Westbergesque
ASSOCIATED PRESS - In an unexpected move, Paul Westerberg has announced that he is dropping out of the race for the Democratic Presidential nomination. At least one newspaper will have to issue a retraction after printing that Westerberg had the nomination in hand. The candidate will encourage his delegates to support Tom Zarek. Reached for comment, Westerberg’s spokesman Kenny Rogers said, “You gotta know when to fold ‘em.”
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
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