Does this one-day reunion augur a new tour or album from the Replacements, one of the best American bands of the Eighties? “It’s possible,” Westerberg says. “After playing with Tommy last week, I was thinking, ‘All right, let’s crank it up and knock out a record like this.’ I’m closer to it now than I was two years ago, let’s say that.”
via Rolling Stone.
So this happened on the same day as a Presidential Debate. If it was possible to die from joy overload, it’d be a ghost typing this shit.
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Great news to hear. Heck, even a Christmas show at First Avenue would be a start for Paul, Tommy, Kevin and whoever else they get!
I had the good fortune to see the Mats ‘ original lineup in the early to mid eighties. Some shows smoked. The band was almost peerless. Occasionally I was inflicted to almost exquisitely painful/sloppy train wrecks. In either instance, the band had spirit. Maybe it’s just me, but when Bob left the group, I think much of that energy disappeared. It’s a worthy cause Paul and Tommy reuniting, but it’s still not the same.
I never got to see The ‘Mats, because I didn’t discover them until after they’d broken up. And, I agree with you Paul & Tommy is not a reunion. MAYBE if Chris joined in you could call it a reunion of the original surviving members. . . but it was Rolling Stone’s link-baiting headline, not mine. I was just too lazy/hurried to change it.
However, if Paul & Tommy decided to put on a show, I’d be there.