Official 930 Club Replacements Echostage May 8 Show

[challenged]

Is today the most anticipated day in board history?

It should be pretty sweet. BBQ tempeh tacos, German chocolate cake, vanilla ice cream, and a bottle of 2014 Parabola. Then watch Selma on dvd.

Space, I misread your post yesterday as well. A belated Happy Birthday to you.

German Chocolate cake is my dessert choice on my birthday as well.

Thanks.

Tad bit of regret for not getting a ticket, but bottom line for me is the money was better spent elsewhere.

if anyone else is concerned about the cost, or it being sold out: Seems to be tix for less than face on the StubHub.

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saw this great quote and wanted to share

?According to veteran producer Jim Dickinson (Ry Cooder, Big Star, as well as the Replacements? Pleased to Meet Me), ?Westerberg is the brains of the band, but Tommy is the balls. The fire, the energy I keyed on was Tommy. He and Chris are a great rhythm section, just fabulous. Tommy?s this great existential hero, which is a rare breed nowadays. Every morning or afternoon, Tommy wakes up and decides wherer or not he wants to be Tommy. His brother Bob used to force him to play the bass when he was a little kid. If he didn?t he?d get backhanded, so Tommy hates the bass, but he loves it too. It?s that fight beteen the positive and the negative that creates the tension that makes great music. The Stones had it [Dickinson played keyboards on Sticky Fingers] and so do the Replacements.? When I ask Westerberg if he agrees that Tommy is the balls of the group, he remarks, ?Tommy?s the balls and the dick.??

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also, here is another track just came across You're Getting Married (Solo Home Demo)
apparently it was on the 2008 rerelease of stink (bootlegs were out too)
f'n awesome



this little write up is great too

The Replacements - ?You?re Getting Married? (Solo Home Demo)

Unsurprisingly, Paul Westerberg?s hardest critics were the other guys in the band. He wrote all of the songs and had to deal with three different personalities and tastes: Tommy Stinson wanted something modern, Bob Stinson wanted something that rocked, and Chris Mars wanted something poppy. (Fuck anything heartfelt, it went without saying.) The first response after Westerberg played the band an early version of ?You?re Getting Married? in 1982 was a terse Bob Stinson one-liner: ?Save it for your solo album; that ain?t The Replacements.?
 
It?s a diss that would prove laughably hindsighted: on pretty much every album after their debut, The Replacements effortlessly (as in they didn?t seem to care) switched identities. They?d sing about abused drag queens and nightmarish trips to the dentist, cover KISS for the hell of it, mix up country and jazz and piano balladry with no obvious sense of cohesion. To wit: two of the most heartfelt songs on their 1984 breakthrough Let It Be, ?Sixteen Blue? and ?Answering Machine,? are preceded by the comically shitty ?Gary?s Got A Boner,? a song as stupid as its title and seemingly thrown in to remind listeners, "Hey, we?re still idiots.? But at the beginning, they were easier to pigeonhole: a latter-day Lester Bangs article on the second generation of punk bands (in which he labeled the Circle Jerks as the best) lumped The Replacements as just another hardcore band. So punks expecting to hear the next ?I Hate Music? might?ve been shocked by the tenderness of ?You?re Getting Married,? which floated around as a bootleg for years before popping up on 2008?s reissue of the Stink EP.

Criticize Westerberg?s lyrics in this one?I?m not going to defend ?You?re like a bird in a cage? as a metaphor for being trapped?but don?t harsh on his passion, that nebulous quality music critics spend thousands of words trying to quantify while fans get it right off the bat. The pain of a punk brat moaning one line over and over, accompanied only by the pangs of an electric guitar less played than smacked: ?If you get married, please don?t get married, don?t you get married,? over and over again. Stinson was right to be doubtful at first; who would believe this coming from the guy who?d written a song called ?Fuck School?? Could you believe him?

It?s too bad that it was never officially released, as Replacements fans would quickly acclimate to Westerberg?s sensitive side following their sophomore record, 1983's Hootenanny. It contained ?Within Your Reach,? the band?s sweetest song to date and one so sensitive that Westerberg didn?t even tell his bandmates he was recording it?Mars accidentally found out about the session and had to force his way on. From there on, The Replacements would mature rapidly with each record, and a complaint like Stinson?s??That ain?t The Replacements??would be met with, ?Well, what is?? But naturally, ?Within Your Reach? is followed by ?Buck Hill,? a hokey, cornfed rhythm punctuated every few moments with the nonsensical cry, ?BUCK HILL!? Maturity is a process. - Jeremy Gordon

[Kubacheck]

^^^ I saw them earlier this tour, went in with kinda high expectations, and they did not disappoint (other than perhaps the fact that they played about 45 minutes less than the Palladium's website said they'd play).....

I don't know how you can blame the band on that one
they don't tell the venue...were going to play a 2 hour set and they post it
typically they just say when they are going to start and the venue says you need to be done by x time

but then...what do I know

not blaming the band at all, just noting the discrepancy between the posted set times and the actual set time, that's all.... as I said, they did not disappoint, I'll take 80 minutes of the excellent show I got over a 2 hour shitty show, anyday..... besides, old man that I am, in the end, I'm always pleasantly surprised when I get out of a show earlier than I thought I would.... 

[StoneTheCrow]

Would love for this to be the last "reunion" show i ever go to.  Not sure who else I'd want to see as much as these guys. 

[JohnnyBaconbitz]

I have an extra for tonight for below face - PM if interested

[i am gay and i like cats]

http://diffuser.fm/dinosaur-jr-the-replacements-boston-concert-review-2015/

[killsaly]

And this place goes dark. 

[Space Freely]

If there was ever a show I'm glad I only paid half the face price for, that one was it. Though I'm sure to be humming that song about protein shakes at Whole Foods for days.

I'll give Paul Westerbird some credit though, he's got more hair and is less pear than most of his fans.

I honestly couldn't figure out if (I'm not going to call a 50 year old man "Tommy") Tom Stintin Guns and Roses was the guy in the red shirt or the guy in the official LPGA tour visor.

Oh, and the German chocolate cake/vanilla ice cream/ Parabola pairing was totally fucking sweet.

[bearman🐻]

I enjoyed the performance, but the audience was unbearable. It was uncomfortably crowded.

[StoneTheCrow]

Agree it was a bit crowded. Didn't think the sound was great, either.

Enjoyed the show nonetheless.

[TheREALHunter]

I had a great time, a little hectic getting there because I snagged my tickets after 7 this evening in the "last hour on stubhub seller price panic stage" haha so I was able to grab a pair for $48 (had I held out a few minutes longer someone dropped the price on a pair to 27.50 (not each...for the fucking PAIR...oh well haha) but then had to head straight to Echostage.  I wouldn't have been satisfied for $80 given my cramped spot in the back but for $24 no problem.

[nkotb]

More like EcNOStage. It was like a shittier Nation.

[challenged]

I was up front. Met some really nice people from DC, Richmond, and Florida. One of my new "friends," a girl from Richmond who was there with her dad, had just turned 21, and so another of these folks, went to the bar, and brought back shots for all 6 of us to celebrate.

JRoddy seemed like a good performance, but the vocals were a muddy mess.

The Replacements sounded great and are having such a good time, and that happiness is contagious.

AND

There was a young guy, mid-20s, who was quiet and still for the 2 hours until the Replacements came on and then he was crazy dancing guy, with a faux hawk of some sort, and he twice poured a water bottle on his head and then shook his mane like a dog drying itself...all over everyone. He never said a word the entire night.

That was fucked up, but his dancing and doglike behavior seemed to come from a place of joy, and not anger or booze, so okay...tolerable.

Then there were the aggressively drunk asshole 55  year old (or so) dudes who were so drunk that they had lost verbal skills: all they could seem to utter was "our in the seeet for a leeevin" (the opening phrase to Kiss' Black Diamond, covered by the Mats on Let it Be in 1984). Were they pushing and shoving, or had they lost control of motor skills? Probably a combination of both.

One such asshole was such a fuckmonster that security eventually (way too late) shined a light into his face and compelled him to come to the barrier where he then was lifted over and out, much to everyone's relief.

Then, within about 30 seconds, he was back with us, moshing/falling into everyone. The crowd gestured to security, and he again surrendered to them and was lifted over the barrier and we did not see him again. This was a grey-haired, Tommy Bahama-esque shirt wearing, needs to go into detox lawyer/banker looking guy. What the fuck.

I don't remember anything like this happening at the other Mats 3.0 shows I have attended.  

Parking. Easy to get to, Clusterfuck to leave.

Overall, a memorable, if bruising, night of lunacy.

Gonna drive up to Philly a little later.

[nkotb]

So despite how awful I thought Echostage was (it's probably fine...if you only go to like two shows a year or something), I'm super glad I went.  It was great to hear a lot of those songs, but I also thought it was kind of a nice way to dispel the "myth" of the Replacements some.

I'm too young (that doesn't mean young, FYI) to have been into them in their original run or to have seen them.  And for years listening to Hootenanny and Let It Be, you get used to what seems like throwaway tracks in some way.  I mean, they couldn't have spent more than ten minutes writing and recording Treatment Bound, right?  Then, on a reunion tour some twenty years after the split, out of all the songs they could pick, they bring that one out?  That's great...and it kind of makes you get that for all of their "we don't' give a shit" attitude that they really did.

Then of course, then they rip into something like Color Me Impressed or Alex Chilton (definitely two songs in my top XX Songs of all Time List), and you're kind of floored at what a great songwriter Westerberg is.

And while we have this vision of the Replacements in the same way we think of bands like Husker Du, nothing sobers you up to realize they're just a rock n roll band than seeing what kind of dudes are into them.  I mean, the crowd I was surrounded by would've fit in just fine on the golf course or at a DMB show.  I might have seen my dad in the crowd.

I know I sound cynical, but that wasn't my takeaway.  I left that show with a huge smile on my face, not just from the band, but also how happy the crowd was.  yeah, it was too packed and not really my normal type of crowd, but they really had a blast.  Band seemed to be having a ball too.