Hey, didn't I just write about The Replacements? Yes. Yes, I did. And there'll be more in the future. This was the first time I saw them.
They were a band I loved, and they were making the rounds as I became "Adult Concert-Going" age. Soon after, they broke up.
I was actually pretty okay with that. They weren't really the band I fell in love with anymore. It happens [see: Sting]. And I didn't really follow any of the members as they pursued new projects. There was something about "The Replacements" as a group that made them all special.
They were a band I loved, and they were making the rounds as I became "Adult Concert-Going" age. Soon after, they broke up.
I was actually pretty okay with that. They weren't really the band I fell in love with anymore. It happens [see: Sting]. And I didn't really follow any of the members as they pursued new projects. There was something about "The Replacements" as a group that made them all special.
That was how they started, and about ten years later, even lead Replacement Paul Westerberg admits that there was something wrong with the album "Don't Tell A Soul".
"Don't Tell A Soul" came out about a month before this concert, so it was still totally fresh and exciting.
I was either still working at a record store, or just started at a pizza place in March 1989. One of my record store co-workers, Sue, was also a Replacements fan. I went with her and her boyfriend to one of the forty bars jammed into 2.08 square miles of Hamtramck, MI for a Replacements record release party. (I couldn't tell you which one it was.)
But it was the same bar we visited for a book release party not long before.
[The book "The Wild One: The True Story of Iggy Pop" by Per Nilsen is going for more than $50 on Amazon. Anyone interested in buying my copy? It's in way better condition that the one in this pic:]
I was either still working at a record store, or just started at a pizza place in March 1989. One of my record store co-workers, Sue, was also a Replacements fan. I went with her and her boyfriend to one of the forty bars jammed into 2.08 square miles of Hamtramck, MI for a Replacements record release party. (I couldn't tell you which one it was.)
But it was the same bar we visited for a book release party not long before.
[The book "The Wild One: The True Story of Iggy Pop" by Per Nilsen is going for more than $50 on Amazon. Anyone interested in buying my copy? It's in way better condition that the one in this pic:]
The night of the book party was fun. I got the author's autograph on my book, as well as a signature from Ron Asheton, bass player for The Stooges.
The second time at the bar, while waiting for the party to begin, the bartender noticed that I was only 18. I wasn't drinking, and wasn't planning on drinking, but I couldn't stay. They didn't check ID at the door, so I just walked in. I wasn't trying to be sneaky.
Gary and Sue had to drive me back to my car at Gary's apartment. They didn't seem totally upset about having but Sue asked why I didn't have a fake ID. I was a Good Kid!
The second time at the bar, while waiting for the party to begin, the bartender noticed that I was only 18. I wasn't drinking, and wasn't planning on drinking, but I couldn't stay. They didn't check ID at the door, so I just walked in. I wasn't trying to be sneaky.
Gary and Sue had to drive me back to my car at Gary's apartment. They didn't seem totally upset about having but Sue asked why I didn't have a fake ID. I was a Good Kid!
Sue got me a souvenir LP cover from that night. (We called them "flats" in the record store business.) Sue was nice.
I believe it was also the three of us who went to the show at the Michigan Theatre. Once again, the set list escapes me. But I remember really enjoying it, and being so happy to see one of may all-time faves for the first time.
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