Playing at Seattle’s Bumbershoot as part of their short reunion tour, the Replacements kick, kick, kicked our doors down. We didn’t realize what great anthems those songs were when only 200 people were in the audience. Somewhere between 5,000 to 10,000 were in attendance Sunday at the main stage at Memorial Stadium, singing along with …
I was never a rabid fan, just a casual one. However, I’d love to see these guys in concert (not at a festival). I can’t believe they dissolved over 20 years ago. Man, I am old! http://www.vita.mn/crawl/210487301.html – Mark Erickson HOW THE REPLACEMENTS SAVED ME FROM THE LEDGE, by Claude Iosso
Here’s an interesting blog piece about the Replacements one and only appearance on Saturday Night Live in January of 1986. (Thanks to Tim Midgett.)
“Hold my life, until I’m ready to use it.Hold my life, because I just might lose it.”— From “Hold My Life” by the Replacements No band has propped up my world the way the Replacements did in the ‘80s. Although I’ve had favorite musicians before and since, those performers’ music was just life’s soundtrack, often …