The Strib: Westerberg & Stinson together again
By Jodi | Filed under In the News | Comments (16)
Chris Rimenschnieder has an itty bitty piece on the Strib’s site about talking to Tommy Stinson on the phone about the recent reissues. He says that Tommy’s been noodling around with Our Man Paul and Michael Bland! Yowza.
Tags: paul westerberg, Strib, tommy stinson
Paul Westerberg talks about death
By Jodi | Filed under Books, PW News | Comments (0)
Late last night I got an e-mail from Graeme Thomson author of I Shot a Man in Reno: A History of Death by Murder, Suicide, Fire, Flood, Drugs, Disease, and General Misadventure, As Related in Popular Song. He told me about about an interview he did with Our Man Paul. Thompson has a short excerpt from the interview on his site. It’s hard resisting the urge to clip out the best lines and paste them here for you. But I am not gonna do that. You can click the link and go read it for yourself.
It is really, quite fascinating. Paul talks a bit about death and discussing it with his son Johnny. It’s only a few short paragraphs, but might just be one of my favorite interviews of recent note. Why? Because it’s not about reunions and legends and blah, blah, blah, but something different.
Want more? You should take a look at Thomson’s Largehearted Boy Book Notes essay.
Tags: Books, Graeme Thomson, Interviews, paul westerberg
Thought about postpoing this until the economic situation was fixed but then changed my mind
By Jodi | Filed under In the Blogs, Westbergesque | Comments (2)
The Village Voice’s Sound of the City blog has a new Q&A with Laurie Lindeen and includes this gem:
Was there anything you included that upon reflection you’d have preferred to leave out?
When I got the final edits, I got a long letter from my editor saying something like either you develop the characters of your father and Paul or leave them out—of course, those are my two most complex, confusing relationships. I’m so naïve sometimes…some people focused on the 10 out of 321 pages Paul appears and decided the book was about bagging a rock god. I thought I left plenty of red flags in there? I do regret the things that my very private mom found difficult to see in print, but I’d still leave them in.
Ted Barron the photographer who took the picture of Our Man Paul and Alex Chilton featured in the liner notes for the re-issued Pleased to Meet Me talks about the night the picture was taken.
Tags: Alex Chilton, Laurie Lindeen, paul westerberg, Please to Meet me
In the Blogs: The one with only one link to an actual blog
By Jodi | Filed under In the Blogs | Comments (10)
The Memphis Flyer has an interview with Jim Dickinson, producer of Pleased to Meet Me.
Flyer: How did you get the assignment to work on Pleased To Meet Me?
Dickinson: Through their management. I don’t think the Replacements knew who I was. What bass player Tommy Stinson told me later — they’d just fired lead guitarist Bob Stinson [Tommy's brother] — was that they’d come to Memphis to break up. They’d had it planned that they were going to kind of theatrically combust. But we got to cutting demos, and it started working. They had never played as a trio, but it seemed to work, and so we started the project.
And the Louisville Courier-Journal provides a guide for rediscovering The Replacements.
New York magazines recommends the re-issues.
Okay, this piece from a blog called Lakes and Trees about visiting Minneapolis and playing “Where’s Westerberg?” made me laugh.
Tags: Jim Dickinson, paul westerberg, The Replacements reissues
Some things to get you pumped about tomorrow’s reissues
By Jodi | Filed under In the News | Comments (0)
First of all, the Newsday story that features this gem:
So will the college-rock standbys reunite, perhaps?
“I think we still exist in some sort of fragmented form,” Westerberg says. “It’s just a question of whether he and I can ever get together again … that’s how close we are, I can’t even mention his — name.”
Typical Westerberg. He’s talking about his longtime bassist and foil, Tommy Stinson. “One day Tommy wants to sue me, the next he wants to jam. I think he’s in the jamming mood this week, but by the time he gets here we might just meet and fight.”
And then there are Bill Holdship’s liner notes for the reissued Pleased to Meet Me, which got the ax because they wanted different writers for each CD’s notes and they were gonna use Holdship for Don’t Tell a Soul.
Tags: All Shook Down, Don't Tell a Soul, paul westerberg, Pleased to Meet Me, The Replacements reissues, Tim, tommy stinson
Things I am way more bored of than edukation
By Jodi | Filed under Westbergesque | Comments (8)
First of all, if you haven’t heard there’s a new song available on Amazon.com for 99 cents. It’s called Bored of Edukation. Go get it while the gettin’s good. Because if Mercury suddenly goes retrograde and it gets pulled I don’t want a buncha crybabies e-mailing me about how they missed it and ohnowhatamIgonnadoIjustmightdie. Just kidding, you crybabies can e-mail me anytime you want. I love you.
1. Wall Street doom and gloom
2. Sarah Palin
3. Job hunting
4. The song “Bored of Edukation”
5. All 9,069 songs on my iPod
6. September
7. These pants
8. Your pants
9. Turkey burgers and salads
10. Free Credit Report dot com commercials
11. Chain Factor
12. Daytime TV
13. My eyebrows
14. Having to go back and purposely misspell education every time I type it
Things I am not bored with at all:
1. You
2. Paul Westerberg.net, a Bad Idea Whose Time Has Come
3. Not being Paul Westerberg
4. Home Sweet Home by Motley Crue
Tags: bored of edukation, lists, misc nonsense, paul westerberg
NEW song “Bored of Edukation” available for download
By Jodi | Filed under In the News, Media | Comments (15)
Well, well, well. . . we knew it was only a matter of time. Download Bored of Edukation on Amazon now! It’s a single 4:46 song for 99 cents. I’ll pass on the Tunecore link for those not in the US as soon as I can.
Dudes, did you know Bob Mould was writing his autobiography? How come nobody tells me this stuff!
This is an awful lot of news for a damn Friday. What the hell people?
Tags: Bob Mould, bored of education, downloads, paul westerberg
In the Blogs: Slim Pickin’s and questions of punctuation
By Jodi | Filed under In the Blogs | Comments (15)
In case you missed it, Pitchfork has a great write up of the upcoming reissues of Tim, PtMM, Don’t Tell a Soul, and All Shook Down [September 23] and includes demos of Kiss Me on The Bus, Photo, and Talent Show.
I am quickly becoming a huge fan of 23/6. Here the offer an hilarious post-RNC roundup of things to pack, things they saw, and how the RNC compares to the Minnesota State Fair (pay special attention to that packing list).
(editor’s aside: is it bad that I am letting my nephews age 3 and 4 listen to Kings of Leon’s “Sex on Fire?” I mean just the mere mention of the word sex will not cause their ears to melt off or anything, right?)
The Beat Patrol does a nice write up for Our Man Paul’s 1996 release, Eventually and he likes it way, way more than I ever did. Eventually remains my least favorite of all of Westerberg’s albums.
It’s slim pickins (how does one punctuate that word) in blogland. I am sure things will pick up once the reissues come out, or if Westerberg decides to release some sort of magnum opus consisting of nothing but 66 minutes of him reading the Yellow Pages while will get a 9.8 from Pitchfork and land him at the top of Pazz and Jop poll.
Tags: All Shook Down, Don't Tell a Soul, Eventually, paul westerberg, Pleased to Meet Me, Tim
In the Blogs: The I will try not to talk politics just for you Edition
By Jodi | Filed under In the Blogs | Comments (17)
Oh, first of all, I heard (Tell Me) Who You Gonna Marry on 89.3 The Current today (yesterday when you’re reading this). I nearly fell out of Ruby (my truck) for two reasons. 1.) Barb Abney called it “Tell Me Who You Gonna Marry. (take that you Terri lovers) and 2.) I just hadn’t heard anything off of 49:00 on the radio.
Filter magazine revisits the Replacements.
WNYC’s Sound Check blog weighs in on Minnesota’s musical muscle.
Aquarium Drunkard reviews 3oclockreep.
Here’s a random (apolitical) aside. Why is everyone so unsure/surprised that Tom Waits appears on 3oclockreep. Has the Internet collectively forgotten about “Date to the Church?”
Hoboken Rock City reminisces about the Replacements after learning of Steve Foley’s death.
DFactors’ got a bit about the latest release. His post makes me laugh, but then I am generally a fan of his writing.
Also, for the record, my dander is not up. I am just questioning. I am inquisitive and rancorous by nature. I just find all these garage cleaning sort of releases odd. I mean, it’s weird, isn’t it? I had something else I was going to say and now I forgot it. I blame DFactor and the dander.
I really like the enthusiasm behind this post on Art Voice about the release of 3oclockreep.
Box of Clams has a great post questioning the “what does it all mean”ess of Westerberg’s digital download releases.
Look I made it all the way through and didn’t make you sit through one political rant. Consider yourself lucky.
Tags: 3oclockreep, 49:00, paul westerberg, Steve Foley, the replacements
a letter from paul
By sidemouse | Filed under 'Mats Memories | Comments (6)
this might interest some… it’s a letter from Paul I received in 1985.
it makes no sense…. what did you expect? See it here.
Tags: fan mail, paul westerberg
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