From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V15 #73 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Sunday, April 2 2006 Volume 15 : Number 073 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Replacements Reunion (of sorts) ["m swedene" ] Re: Replacements Reunion (of sorts) ["Spotted Eagle Ray" ] The Connels! ["Hurricane Jesus" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2006 18:01:52 -0500 From: "m swedene" Subject: Replacements Reunion (of sorts) Put out a welcome mat for the 'Mats. More than 15 years since splitting, the surviving members of seminal '80s alt-rock outfit the Replacements--singer-guitarist Paul Westerberg, bassist Tommy Stinson and drummer Chris Mars--have reunited to record two new tracks. a d v e r t i s e m e n t [image: Watch The Vine @ E! Online] The songs, "Message to the Boys" and "Pool & Dive," were written by Westerberg and will be included on *Don't You Know Who I Think I Was?: The Best of the Replacements* compilation due out June 13 on Rhino Records. Talk of a Replacements reunion has periodically surfaced since the group split in 1991. But acrimony between band members coupled with various solo pursuits conspired against that happening--until now. Westerberg invited Stinson to play bass on the soundtrack to the movie *Animated Season*, which Westerberg scored. Then, in December, in the band's hometown of Minneapolis, Westerberg, Stinson and Mars entered the studio to record the new tracks. Mars contributed backing vocals, while session drummer Josh Freese, who has worked on Westerberg's solo projects, filled in for Mars behind the toms. The fourth founding member, guitarist Bob Stinson, Tommy's brother, died of a drug overdose in 1995. His replacement, Slim Dunlap, was not invited to participate in the sessions--though based on what told the Minneapolis * Star-Tribune* he didn't seem to mind. "It's really neat they put aside their little squabbles and did it," Dunlap said. As for the upcoming album, it will include 'Mats cuts from the band's seven albums and its 1982 EP, *Stink*. The 20-track compilation includes "Here Comes a Regular," "Kiss Me on a Bus," "Bastards of Young," "Alex Chilton," "Shiftless When Idle," "I Will Dare," "Answering Machine," "Unsatisfied," "Can't Hardly Wait," "Left of the Dial" and "I'll Be You." Formed in 1979 as a post-punk band called the Impediments, the foursome took the name the Replacements after their hard-partying ways got them barred from a local Minneapolis club. *Stink* garnered them a cult following, but the band never managed to make like another Minneapolis outfit, Soul Asylum, and cross over into the mainstream--perhaps because of the 'Mats refusal to make videos for the MTV crowd. Infighting led to Mars' departure in 1990 and the Replacements broke up a year later. Westerberg launched a modestly successful solo career, highlighted by his contributions to 1992's hit *Singles* soundtrack. Stinson formed two new bands, Bash & Pop and Perfect, and has also performed with Axl Rose's revamped Guns N' Rosesfor the past eight years. No word whether the Replacements' newfound congeniality will extend to a tour or full studio album. However, Rhino is said to be working on a box set for future release. http://www.eonline.com/News/Items/0,1,18697,00.html ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2006 15:17:07 -0800 From: "Spotted Eagle Ray" Subject: Re: Replacements Reunion (of sorts) On 3/31/06, m swedene wrote: > > Put out a welcome mat for the 'Mats. > > More than 15 years since splitting, the surviving members of seminal '80s > alt-rock outfit the Replacements--singer-guitarist Paul > Westerberg, > bassist Tommy Stinson and drummer Chris Mars--have reunited to record two > new tracks. Hmmm. Well, that could be cool. But I sure wouldn't've even considered dropping money on a 'Mats best-of otherwise, nor would most other longtime fans, so... hmmmm. One cool thing about the Replacements is how pleasant it is to rediscover them every once in a while. I always think, well, that was probably good at the time, but... but it always holds up, for me at least. - -Rx ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2006 15:40:10 -0800 From: "Hurricane Jesus" Subject: Re: My name is "Eb": I don't push the envelope - I lick it the small town in which my step-father grew up used to have a lumberjacking competition -- including log-rolling -- as part of its small-town summer extravaganza. but they got rid of it before i became cognizant of monty python. <"Logrolling" is an old political term for trading influence to get one's pet project passed. Basically, "I'll work for your bill if you work for mine." It's implied that if it wasn't for this trade, you would NOT want to support the other guy's bill.> i was not aware of that! thanks for edifying. okay, but this doesn't make much sense (blaming the author, not you), because there's only one log being rolled (so to speak). i mean, would i, for example, endeavour to "roll" eb's "log" only "in the hopes" that he would roll mine in return? probably so! but would, say, mark gloster do so? probably not! hmmm...maybe there were multiple celebrities sharing the same commentary and rolling each others' logs together in "real time"? at least in a situation like that, if the favour weren't returned in kind, you'd only have rolled the one, introductory, log. but while this explanation makes more sense, it also means that the celebrities secretly despised working with each other. (unless the author of the review is mistaking mutual appreciation for log-rolling...or isn't aware of the darker undertones that the term connotes.) all right, then: i've only to hit send, and i'll have the most-interesting-post-of-the-year award all wrapped up, eh? KEN "The aboundance of sea-fish is scarcely to be believed" THE KENSTER ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2006 16:28:03 -0800 From: Eb Subject: Re: My name is "Eb": no scones for me, mater, I'm off to play the grand pee-ahno Hurricane Jesus wrote: > i mean, would i, > for example, endeavour to "roll" eb's "log" only "in the hopes" > that he > would roll mine in return? Sure, why not? Join the club. Me, I'm still trying to figure out what "heartburn" is. Eb, a bit glum over missing this week's Glenn Branca show ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2006 22:03:12 -0500 From: "Larry Tucker" Subject: March 30 - Minus 5 on DIME If interested here's last night's show in Raleigh which I recorded. http://www.dimeadozen.org/torrents-details.php?id=89426 Don't recall if it's come up here yet, but talking with Scott after the show he told me that the Minus 5 and Robyn were working on an album together and to look for it in the near future. Guess it's not a huge surprise. It was bound to happen eventually. Larry ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 02 Apr 2006 19:00:56 -0700 From: "Hurricane Jesus" Subject: The Connels! ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V15 #73 *******************************