On 2009-07-03 22:04, dewey-surf wrote:
Quite possibly the most influential band in my life, The Replacements
Hey Dewey-Surf, looks like we have some similar musical likes. :)
I have a couple more Buffalo Tom things I found to post tomorrow. I don't have that album you mentioned.
Replacements are pretty high on my list too. Maybe top 5, definitely top 10 of all time.
Here's a short thread on the Replacementsfrom a while back
I put my photos from that thread of my Replacements stuff here:
A couple WB radio promos, advance WB promo cassette of Please To Meet Me, Import double 12" of Please to meet me bsides..., and stamped promo vinyl of Don't Tell a Soul
Pre Sire Vinyl: Sorry Ma... and 12" of I Will Dare, import of Boink!, and two bootlegs
CD's, early twin tone 7", a couple Warner era singles, and Bob magazine 7" flexi disc
Somewhere have the original magazine too. here's the label close up:
And here's a promo poster of Don't tell a Soul:
I didn't like the Replacements much after Bob left the band. Too much Westerberg for my liking. I barely listened to anything after Pleased to Meet Me. I played the heck out of everything before that, though.
One more for Bullet:
Funny thing about those cal expo shows was that I never made it in to see the band. I just partied in the parking lot for the three days each time. A lot of my friends at that time were Deadheads and I just followed the party.
I remember when this album came out I was like WTF? I totally hated it. This one guy I worked with loved it though, and he used to play it all the time. We had a rotation thing worked out for in store stuff where each person got to play anything he/she wanted for one album's worth of time. He kept playing that album for his choice everytime, a few times a day for a couple months. He would always interrupt someone elses turn when a customer asked him if it was a good album. He'd say, "Here, let me play it for you!" and crank it. I would just cringe from the opening riffs because that album sucked and i'd hear it all the time.
I went to three Rod Stewart shows and only saw him twice. At the first one at Southwestern College, the ratio of women to men was about 90 to one. Half of those guys that were there dressed up and did their hair to look like 70's Rod. I saw one guy hanging out next to a limo before the show by will call and he looked more like Rod Stewart than the real Rod did at the time. I know that guy had to have gotten laid that night. I was sober and I thought he was the real deal. Some toasted chick must have fallen for it. the guitar player for that tour was a local guy named Steve Salas. He was in a local band a few years earlier called This Kids that played at my eighth grade graduation dance. They had to stop playing to Romantics What I like About You because we kept "slamming" to it. I went to Rod shows because I got free tickets to them without even asking. The label would call the day of the show and ask if anyone wanted to go. Turned out three times on three tours I had nothing to do the night of a Rod show. The last show I went to was at the Sports Arena and I never went to our seats. My friend and I just walked the walkway around the outer edge of the arena and looked at skanky women all night. That was the tour he was sponsored by Miller genuine Draft and wore a gold suit and had a big ensemble with him. First and second show I stayed for some of the songs. Left after maggie may first time I saw him.
I'll end this post with one of the worst posters ever:
Talk about the Who selling out! Look at that horrible outfit Roger Daltry is wearing . Urban English Cowboy. Someone on the set of that photo shoot should have walked up to him and punched him in the nuts when he was posing and said "What the hell are you doing? Look at yourself! You can't be the guy that was on Who's Next!" I liked Keith Moon Who, but never anything after him. they really bugged me when they were doing the alternating Reunion tour/ farewell tour every couple of years.
TikiShaker: I purged a lot of stuff over the years and after a couple of moves. Surprised I have as much as I do still.
Unga Bunga: I've barely scratched the surface so far. All those I posted so far were in one big roll, and I have several more rolls to go.
Anyone else have anything to add, please do!
Buzzy Out!
