who doesn't love the mats ? from the second i heard Bastards of Young on 120 minutes in 86 ? i was hooked, whats amazing is they have so many good songs, there in my top 5 of all tine with Lush, Joy Division, Pixies..
Westerberg achieved his dream--he became the new Big Star. The Replacements are truly one of the most criminally under appreciated bands in rock history.
Gerald Frieberg this comment makes me think of an interview I read years ago, some hair-metal guy was asked some question, wish I could remember what prompted his response lol, but he went off on some tangent about how Pete Townshend couldn’t play “lead guitar”, and that he was probably jealous of hair metal guys like Steve Vai, for one example. Right, I’m sure when Pete Townshend thinks back on his career, he feels inadequate because he’s not as “good” as fucking Eddie Van Halen. And EVH is a GREAT guitarist, love VH, but they weren’t one of those bands who recorded a lot, and left songs in the “vault”. Their album sides are shorter than any contemporaneous band. Album sides NORMALLY clocked in at anywhere from 15-20 minutes per side. Van Halen sides regularly come in at under 14, or even 13, minutes. My point is, as great as Vh is, they struggled to write good songs. Look at all their covers for cryin’ out loud... It’s hard to write good songs. Anyway, Can you imagine that Pete Townshend tortures himself over not being able to “shred” (I’d be willing to bet he could if he wanted). I’ll bet he’d gladly give back ‘Tommy’ if he could be Joe Satriani. Sound logical? The Replacements have a shitload of great songs. Give me that over some dickhead trying to be Yngwie Malmsteen every day and twice on Sunday. 😎
All I needed to appreciate and respect this band for my entire adult life.. Was to see them play in Lincoln Nebraska.. It was during the "Let it be " tour.. I was blown away by the energy but it was the songs that won me over.. Anyone who thinks less of this band for the technical way they played has no taste.. And doesn't know well the songs are crafted.. Absolutely great songs wrapped in deceptively crafty melodic packages.. The world is a better place because these brilliant deviants were in it..
This is the song that did for me. I bought in right away 86/87...Only got to see em once...Opening for Tom Petty in 1989...Wish they'd reunite again, like they did in 2014/15
One of the greatest Rock and Roll bands in the true sense of the phrase. Drunk, childish, and self-destructive. Never played the game to their own detriment. Always a "big fuck you" to the man. They are rock and roll.
I read their biography, scary similar to how my family and neighborhood was in the 80's and 90's a true working class rock band that was more punk than the punks. Bastards of Young was our theme song growing up. These guys just nailed it.
Amen......!!! From their very beginnings they were like, "Nope we're not going down that road...... we can't go down that way". Even in the mid 80's when they started receiving notoriety they knew there was just so far they could go because they were never gonna be what the music industry wanted them to be....... Ultimately selling out to make as much garbage music for the labels as they could. Westerberg was very open and honest about this.....in an interview he said, ".... when I'm alone in a hotel room ripping my heart out cause I sold out to the music labels, they're not gonna be there to hold my hand....." paraphrasing
@@zootsoot2006 Um, yeah Aside from Television, X, Los Lobos, The Blasters, Flaming Groovies, Talking Heads, The Plimsouls, Guadalcanal Diary, Husker Du, the Minutemen.... Yeah - the late 70's - late 80's America that gave rise to the 'Mats was a complete wash out otherwise🙄
@@RHINOSAUR Huh??? GBV weren't even FORMED by the time many of the bands I mentioned - with a few exceptions - had already produced their most legendary work and had broken up - or were teetering on the cliff's edge. ie -Television, Blasters, X, Plimsouls, T. Heads, Minutemen... That is - if we're sticking to the timeline laid out by the OP by his laughably inane mention of Kiss as some kind of yardstick for the era. A piece of batshit idiocy that barely merited a response in the first place.
People just don’t know. It’s not their fault. Not for anything, but the ‘Mats basically went out of their way to hide from success. There’s a reason there’s so little footage from their early days. When they’d allow it, they’d sabotage it. Personally, I kind of like the relative anonymity of the replacements. It’s like a little tribe and I have a secret to to spread to people we trust will get it. I wasn’t there for the early days, but from what I’ve heard and read, this is how the boys wanted it. Go read Trouble Boys, if you haven’t yet.
Your very funny comment takes me back to L.A. 1985, the Replacement's just-released masterpiece, "Tim" cassette constantly blaring through my Ford Escort's well-tortured speakers while stuck in yet another 405 Freeway Clusterf*ck. Anybody know of a Dark Web Warlock who might be willing to sell me back, say, the last 36 years of my life?
Saw placemats in the Cameo Theatre on Miami Beach in 88? 89? I got there early, and went to the bathroom upstairs, and the whole band was in the bathroom, just hanging out. I was dumbfounded and didn't say a word! I did my biz, washed my hands, and took as long as I could while they just talked and joked around. Unbelievable. Needless to say, was a fantastic set. Later saw Paul Westerberg outside of Atlanta in the mid 90s; he did lots of placemat songs as well as his solo work; just unbelievable. Where are guys like Paul nowadays? I miss this music!
Nobody, in the Midwest USA, could nail longing and nastalgia quite like these guys. Deep, flat endless horizon of the same trees..... soft and quiet flyover country.
As a resident of said flyover country, I respectfully and politely (of course) object to your blanket description of our region:). There are quite a few beautiful, exciting, and eclectic places that make up Middle America, especially the upper part, where the Mats hail from. Longing and nostalgia, yes, but also grit, debauchery, and even validation of "something meets boy, and something meets girl" characterize the Midwest. Come visit! If not, maybe we'll be able to find you left of the dial:)
I've seen these guys more times than I can count- back to the early/mid 80's with Bob Stinson and the original lineup. And they never, ever disappoint.
Sorry, but anything from, say, the first four X albums renders that comment REALLY debatable for probably millions of us. Just off the top of my head - no disrespect to the 'Mats intended.
Tow of the top 25 songs ever but I hate to sound so Un-Mats like but I love their studio stuff and missing Bob. Tim is a top 10 record of all time as is Please to Meet Me and Let it Be. Alex Chilton is almost as great as Left/Dial and comes in at no. 26 all time for me. The list of Best Replacements songs is 1. Unsatisfied 1. Left of the Dial 1. Hold My Life 1. Alex Chilton Kiss me on the Bus Johnny's Gonna Die (the Live version on UA-cam) GO (I just heard this for the first time so I will rate it higher) Bastards of Young Can't Hardly Wait Androgynous (written as a love song from Paul to Tommy, surprise) Here Comes a Regular I Will Dare Skyway Nobody Color Me Impressed Achin' to Be Within Your Reach Answering Machine Back to Back Favorite Thing . Little Mascara Sixteen Blue If Only You Were Lonely Swingin' Party Never Mind Talent Show Sadly Beautiful
Actually, the music critics of the era absolutely loved them. For years you couldn't pick up a music rag (Rolling Stone, Spin, etc) without seeing the Replacements name dropped in articles and reviews.
god this is just too good to be true.. they sounded incredible here as always and crowd participation is so amazing!!! i just wish they would reunite again and play some more shows. i'm only 16 so i wasn't fortunate enough to ever have the opportunity to see them live, but to be truthful it's all i really want in life. they're my favourite band ever and always will be, even if this really was the end, i'm just eternally glad to know them and have their music in my life. i wouldn't be alive without them
Thanks, I was torn. I told myself I was just going to enjoy the show but struggled having that spot and not capturing some. Glad you liked it, was a great time!
Thank you for posting this (and filming)! The love and appreciation that PW is showing the crowd is very palpable and, let's be honest, kinda rare. You really captured something unique and special. Thanks again, man.
Wow, I forgot just how good this is. Glad I stumbled back here to get some COVID relief. My last live show before COVID hit was Tommy playing solo in a little bar near my house. Damned if he didn't give me one of my absolute finest live music moments. THAT is what a Replacement can do for you. Hahahhhaha. Fantastic and thanks for letting us see this Dave.
Greatest Rock Concert ......EVER!!.....1989 The Replacements @ the San Francisco Warfield on Market Street. Mind Blown away forever....high as a kite on 'shrooms !!! Still remember to this day stage lights blowing up like psychedelic exploding galaxies. Westerberg & Tommy Stinson totally plastered & waisted, goofing off....rolling around on stage on the speakers while going thru their play list!!!!
Best part of the Mats was seeing them in smaller venues. Saw them probably 15-20 times at different clubs on Landsdown street in Boston in college. Oh the memories (and lack thereof, 😮). Great times
Pretty cool that Da 'Mats combined these two tunes into, uh, one...no doubt because they knew that they're 2 of my most favoritest songs by 'em. Thanx dudes.
Hmmm. Interesting. I'm a big Jam fan (at least, their early stuff). I never really thought about the connection, but the passion that we get from Left of The Dial & Alex Chilton isn't too far off In The City, Sounds From the Streets, or Away From The Numbers. Great call, Stev Jame!
Weller and Westerberg are two of my faves. Almost cut from the same cloth. Working class, ragged, genius and talked about social class a good deal in their work. Good spot
Its because of the replacements that I know about big star and the box tops. It wasn't enough that they created their own magic. They led me to the source...
I saw them do a circuit on the instruments. All band members rotated through drums, bass, lead, rhythm guitar. Musical chairs done flawlessly. Never saw it before or since.
They were beloved by critics and people with taste back then. I remember Paul being named 'Songwriter of the Year' in Rolling Stone critic's poll repeatedly in the mid-80's. And honestly they torpedoed their own career in a lot of ways. As someone who bought all the records from Tim forward and played the shit out of them (it was college for me) I like that they were never 'popular' myself.
Rock truck People. ... These guys, best live show I've seen, at the Commodore in Vancouver--with hats off to John Cale and Steve Earle and The Rangehoods from Seattle--truck time eh? Anyhow, loved this band from the first minute I heard them raw. Maybe a cassette tape in the Cariboo mountains. Truck time. Rock on....
This video is something short of perfect. He's jamming a Resiglass guitar. Nobody payed any attention that shit, besides Keif.. Amen to these guys! PAUL! THANKS BRO!
When they took it seriously, they were an extraordinary, tight band. The times I saw them back in the day it was about 60/40; excellent or falling down drunk. I figure that was a pretty good success rate, lol. Even too drunk to really play or even finish a song, they were hilarious, although not everybody there was amused.
They are probably the funniest rock band in the world when they had their shit together, Redlight Redlight run it and rip it out the dentist song are insanely funny
I had tickets to the show in Columbus, OH. They postponed and soon after Paul pulled the plug. I did get to see them open for X at the Syria Mosque in Pittsburgh in the mid 80's though.
We had tickets to see them in Columbus, OH too but that show was one of the cancelled ones. We got the Milwaukee tix before the cancellation happened but in retrospect we would have missed them this time otherwise.
Saw them at Forest Hills (NYC). It was great - and I'm someone who saw them 5-6 times in the 80's. If they ever tour again, you have to go - it was beautiful to among 10000 people who were drunkenly shouting Replacements lyrics at the tops of their voices. A kind of communal heaven!
Interesting to see this, and thank you for sharing it here. Still, it is hard to work up much enthusiasm for latter-day Replacements. They were one of those bands where you needed every specific member to make the chemistry that made them what they were. I only saw the original band once live, in 1986 in Cincinnati. One of the best shows I saw in my college years. After Bob Stinson got kicked out (I think that happened around early 1987), they just were not the same. They had lost the magic, and it never really returned. Westerberg still wrote good songs, but the hard-to-define quality that captivated people was gone. (But I still come around, hoping for evidence to prove myself wrong.) I wish the survivors well, and hope Tommy and Paul made decent money with their reunion.
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I just wanna meet someone that loves the the replacements like I do. Rare breed.
who doesn't love the mats ? from the second i heard Bastards of Young on 120 minutes in 86 ? i was hooked, whats amazing is they have so many good songs, there in my top 5 of all tine with Lush, Joy Division, Pixies..
Westerberg achieved his dream--he became the new Big Star. The Replacements are truly one of the most criminally under appreciated bands in rock history.
Man I don't even know if they saw it.
"Criminally underappreciated" ? Duh....So it's "criminal" if you think there are many, many bands that can play rings around them ?
Gerald Frieberg no. Actually, there’s not. These guys were absolutely next level.
Gerald Frieberg this comment makes me think of an interview I read years ago, some hair-metal guy was asked some question, wish I could remember what prompted his response lol, but he went off on some tangent about how Pete Townshend couldn’t play “lead guitar”, and that he was probably jealous of hair metal guys like Steve Vai, for one example.
Right, I’m sure when Pete Townshend thinks back on his career, he feels inadequate because he’s not as “good” as fucking Eddie Van Halen. And EVH is a GREAT guitarist, love VH, but they weren’t one of those bands who recorded a lot, and left songs in the “vault”. Their album sides are shorter than any contemporaneous band. Album sides NORMALLY clocked in at anywhere from 15-20 minutes per side. Van Halen sides regularly come in at under 14, or even 13, minutes. My point is, as great as Vh is, they struggled to write good songs. Look at all their covers for cryin’ out loud... It’s hard to write good songs.
Anyway, Can you imagine that Pete Townshend tortures himself over not being able to “shred” (I’d be willing to bet he could if he wanted). I’ll bet he’d gladly give back ‘Tommy’ if he could be Joe Satriani. Sound logical?
The Replacements have a shitload of great songs. Give me that over some dickhead trying to be Yngwie Malmsteen every day and twice on Sunday. 😎
All I needed to appreciate and respect this band for my entire adult life.. Was to see them play in Lincoln Nebraska.. It was during the "Let it be " tour.. I was blown away by the energy but it was the songs that won me over.. Anyone who thinks less of this band for the technical way they played has no taste.. And doesn't know well the songs are crafted.. Absolutely great songs wrapped in deceptively crafty melodic packages..
The world is a better place because these brilliant deviants were in it..
Thirty odd years later, the opening bars of “Alex Chilton” still send a chill up my spine.
No kidding absolutely for real.
" I'm in love , with this song"
This is the song that did for me. I bought in right away 86/87...Only got to see em once...Opening for Tom Petty in 1989...Wish they'd reunite again, like they did in 2014/15
Westerberg and maybe 3 other people in history have the most rock and roll voice ever created
One of the greatest Rock and Roll bands in the true sense of the phrase. Drunk, childish, and self-destructive. Never played the game to their own detriment. Always a "big fuck you" to the man. They are rock and roll.
You nailed it!
I read their biography, scary similar to how my family and neighborhood was in the 80's and 90's a true working class rock band that was more punk than the punks. Bastards of Young was our theme song growing up. These guys just nailed it.
Amen......!!! From their very beginnings they were like, "Nope we're not going down that road...... we can't go down that way". Even in the mid 80's when they started receiving notoriety they knew there was just so far they could go because they were never gonna be what the music industry wanted them to be....... Ultimately selling out to make as much garbage music for the labels as they could. Westerberg was very open and honest about this.....in an interview he said, ".... when I'm alone in a hotel room ripping my heart out cause I sold out to the music labels, they're not gonna be there to hold my hand....." paraphrasing
Definition of teenage angst. Perfect prescription. I ate it. Thanks Paul.
Left of the dial. . Amen. Always tried. No reception.
If I could only listen to one band for the rest of my life and nothing else, it would without hesitation be The Replacements.
Great. Brings tears to my eyes for some reason. Their music was my life.
The Mats are indisputably America’s greatest rock roll band. 👍🏻💪🏻🇺🇸
I keep telling people this : )
It's true, but there's not much competition to be fair. Who are they up against? Kiss? Van Halen? American music sucks balls mostly.
@@zootsoot2006 Um, yeah
Aside from Television, X, Los Lobos, The Blasters, Flaming Groovies, Talking Heads, The Plimsouls, Guadalcanal Diary, Husker Du, the Minutemen....
Yeah - the late 70's - late 80's America that gave rise to the 'Mats was a complete wash out otherwise🙄
@@chriscoughlin9289Don’t forget Guided By Voices
@@RHINOSAUR Huh???
GBV weren't even FORMED by the time many of the bands I mentioned - with a few exceptions - had already produced their most legendary work and had broken up - or were teetering on the cliff's edge.
ie -Television, Blasters, X, Plimsouls,
T. Heads, Minutemen...
That is - if we're sticking to the timeline laid out by the OP by his laughably inane mention
of Kiss as some kind of yardstick for the era.
A piece of batshit idiocy that barely merited a response in the first place.
One of the top 10 American bands of all times. Less than 11,000 views is a sad tribute to the terrible taste of todays listeners.
Hey man, time will catch up, or it won't. Don't matter. Just ask Bob.
People just don’t know. It’s not their fault. Not for anything, but the ‘Mats basically went out of their way to hide from success. There’s a reason there’s so little footage from their early days. When they’d allow it, they’d sabotage it. Personally, I kind of like the relative anonymity of the replacements. It’s like a little tribe and I have a secret to to spread to people we trust will get it. I wasn’t there for the early days, but from what I’ve heard and read, this is how the boys wanted it. Go read Trouble Boys, if you haven’t yet.
Les Paul Jr, as long as you are the man!
It’s all good , some more folks will see this hopefully soon enough
Up to 53,000 now ;0
So the replacement were pre grunge? Maybe coincided? But kinda how the Neanderthal got fazed out?
Every mats reunion video I see is an audience sing-along. We all know all the words.
depending on how drunk the mats got we probably know the songs better than they do lol
It's nice when you can just chill and listen to how you want to hear it. I didn't buy tickets for the drunks around me.
I remember I had to stop listening to them driving cuz of all the speeding tickets. Man I still love them so much! Thank you for this GREAT video.
One of the top comments on youtube.
I got pulled over going 90 driving across country blasting iou. Such a relatable comment
Your very funny comment takes me back to L.A. 1985, the Replacement's just-released masterpiece, "Tim" cassette constantly blaring through my Ford Escort's well-tortured speakers while stuck in yet another 405 Freeway Clusterf*ck. Anybody know of a Dark Web Warlock who might be willing to sell me back, say, the last 36 years of my life?
I love you!
Saw placemats in the Cameo Theatre on Miami Beach in 88? 89? I got there early, and went to the bathroom upstairs, and the whole band was in the bathroom, just hanging out. I was dumbfounded and didn't say a word! I did my biz, washed my hands, and took as long as I could while they just talked and joked around. Unbelievable. Needless to say, was a fantastic set. Later saw Paul Westerberg outside of Atlanta in the mid 90s; he did lots of placemat songs as well as his solo work; just unbelievable. Where are guys like Paul nowadays? I miss this music!
Paul Westerberg got so much passion.
Nobody, in the Midwest USA, could nail longing and nastalgia quite like these guys. Deep, flat endless horizon of the same trees..... soft and quiet flyover country.
fuck you
As a resident of said flyover country, I respectfully and politely (of course) object to your blanket description of our region:). There are quite a few beautiful, exciting, and eclectic places that make up Middle America, especially the upper part, where the Mats hail from. Longing and nostalgia, yes, but also grit, debauchery, and even validation of "something meets boy, and something meets girl" characterize the Midwest. Come visit! If not, maybe we'll be able to find you left of the dial:)
Poet.
@@conortaft2039 Ah man, don't go hatin'. That was a gorgeous piece of writin'. Com on now :)
This Southeast Michiganian (by way of NW Ohio) knows EXACTLY what you mean. Much respect ✊
I would’ve lost my mind if I witnessed this in person. The way they blast right
Into Alex Chilton is awesome.
left of the dial captures a time and a mood.
I've seen these guys more times than I can count- back to the early/mid 80's with Bob Stinson and the original lineup. And they never, ever disappoint.
These guys never fail to bring a big smile to my face. Just effortless.
Mark Brooks ultimately that’s the mark of genius. To make it LOOK effortless.
Hands down the best “rock ‘n roll” (whatever the hell that means) band of the 80s.
Sorry, but anything from, say, the first four X albums renders that comment REALLY debatable for probably millions of us.
Just off the top of my head - no disrespect to the 'Mats intended.
I saw them in Richmond Va in 1980something.Best fucking show ever. they were drunk and played flawlessly.Thank god for collage radio.
I don’t know if college radio exists anymore! Shame!
Left of the dial is such a sophisticated song. So groovy and hooky without pandering to the audience.
THE SOUND OF AMERICA
Westerberg is such a terrific guitar player. Superb touch.
was talking w/Jim Boquist one time and PW came up said paul created own chord structures etc.. Pauls a dick but good as hell
Two of my favorite songs from my favorite band. Long live the Mats! 🤘🏻
Tow of the top 25 songs ever but I hate to sound so Un-Mats like but I love their studio stuff and missing Bob. Tim is a top 10 record of all time as is Please to Meet Me and Let it Be. Alex Chilton is almost as great as Left/Dial and comes in at no. 26 all time for me.
The list of Best Replacements songs is
1. Unsatisfied 1. Left of the Dial 1. Hold My Life 1. Alex Chilton
Kiss me on the Bus
Johnny's Gonna Die (the Live version on UA-cam)
GO (I just heard this for the first time so I will rate it higher)
Bastards of Young
Can't Hardly Wait
Androgynous (written as a love song from Paul to Tommy, surprise)
Here Comes a Regular
I Will Dare
Skyway
Nobody
Color Me Impressed
Achin' to Be
Within Your Reach
Answering Machine
Back to Back
Favorite Thing
. Little Mascara
Sixteen Blue
If Only You Were Lonely
Swingin' Party
Never Mind
Talent Show
Sadly Beautiful
@@oppothumbs1 How can you leave waitress in the sky out of the top 25??
His voice is just amazing and the replacements are so iconic it’s insane 😭😭🤘
Great videography. It's just like being there.
I love them. I truly do. I feel like The Mats and Big Star represent a music lovers taste level. I think I have damn good taste
The Replacements are an icon in my book who never got appreciated for their ingenious work!!!!
Actually, the music critics of the era absolutely loved them. For years you couldn't pick up a music rag (Rolling Stone, Spin, etc) without seeing the Replacements name dropped in articles and reviews.
god this is just too good to be true.. they sounded incredible here as always and crowd participation is so amazing!!!
i just wish they would reunite again and play some more shows. i'm only 16 so i wasn't fortunate enough to ever have the opportunity to see them live, but to be truthful it's all i really want in life.
they're my favourite band ever and always will be, even if this really was the end, i'm just eternally glad to know them and have their music in my life. i wouldn't be alive without them
Same one of my fav bands, im 19 and would kill to have been born in 1980s and see them live back then and even now wish they still did shows
Screaming Blue Messiahs, The Replacements and Soul Asylum should tour !! 🤘
Fuck Yes one that trifecta!
Can we also get Bob Mould, and then can we make Goo Goo Dolls open the show for the rest of them?
Just so good...2 of my favorites back to back...just perfect.
Fine. I'll go listen to the Replacements discography from beginning to end again.
thank you for standing still and filming it
Thanks, I was torn. I told myself I was just going to enjoy the show but struggled having that spot and not capturing some. Glad you liked it, was a great time!
In the end this is some of the better footage I've seen. X__dos is right. You've done the world a favour!
Bloody magnificent! I’m crying watching this…!
Thank you for posting this (and filming)! The love and appreciation that PW is showing the crowd is very palpable and, let's be honest, kinda rare. You really captured something unique and special. Thanks again, man.
It's rare to see him in the absolute moment instead of looking like he's got a million other things goin on in his mind.
I was thinking the same thing... he looks really happy to be playing. Not always the case with him. Nice to see!
This crowd was super supportive, and Paul got emotional about it. Love it
I’m in love. With that song.
Yup. AMEN. THANK YOU PAUL!
This is a bucket list show for me.
So glad i got to see the 2 shows at the Roundhouse in London when they reformed. So so good
brilliant ! seen them in queens on this tour Paul Westerberg one of the greatest songwriters of all time
Wow, I forgot just how good this is. Glad I stumbled back here to get some COVID relief. My last live show before COVID hit was Tommy playing solo in a little bar near my house. Damned if he didn't give me one of my absolute finest live music moments. THAT is what a Replacement can do for you. Hahahhhaha. Fantastic and thanks for letting us see this Dave.
52 in ‘22, still driving around with Left of the Dial on in my truck, feeling old by not giving a fuck. Thanks, you jangle-rock bar room bastards!!!!
Thank you so much for sharing this, what an incredible video!
".....hanging out in Memphis all the while...." Still get chills. Thx for the upload! 2021
Thanks for posting this. One of my favorite Replacements songs.
so good it almost makes me wanna cry
I needed this today.
I love you Britt
gone Sept 6 2023.
Thanks very much for this! Great to see the band playing old classics with such energy. Appreciate the upload, mans!
Big Star brought me here!!
Need another Replacements tour.
Their history is so crazy how it all worked out. Westerberg is great song writer.
Greatest Rock Concert ......EVER!!.....1989 The Replacements @ the San Francisco Warfield on Market Street. Mind Blown away forever....high as a kite on 'shrooms !!! Still remember to this day stage lights blowing up like psychedelic exploding galaxies. Westerberg & Tommy Stinson totally plastered & waisted, goofing off....rolling around on stage on the speakers while going thru their play list!!!!
Brilliant performers.... I'm glad they did as much as they did
Damn. This is beautiful.
Wouldn't it be cool if these guys got out and played a few more gigs?
I'm in.
@@foobert same here!
Hell yeah!
Definitely
hope they make it to manila
Thanks for posting. Sound is insanely good. Enjoying this immensely in 2020.
i am in love with that song
Hell yeah . Made my day . Thanks .
I LOVE Paul Westerberg's Ampeg Dan Armstrong Plexi guitar
god I love you guys...can’t tell how much you mean to me and rock and roll....
Fracking love this band. Never saw them.😢 Have most if not all their stuff.
this is great stuff. Love seeing Paul and Tommy together
great taste dave love these guys. makes me young again
Makes me young too. on and on and on who's side ? This is what rock and roll was suppose to be.
This rocked my face off.
Tommy and his “Cowboys in the Campfire” tour just played a gig in my and my neighbors backyard back in June 2021, they were amazing!
Westerberg is a hell guitar player, love you paul
His solo on Johnny's Gonna Die established that pretty early on.
Best part of the Mats was seeing them in smaller venues. Saw them probably 15-20 times at different clubs on Landsdown street in Boston in college. Oh the memories (and lack thereof, 😮). Great times
Just amazing.
This is heaven!
Definitely an unforgettable band 😊❤️👍🎶🎶🎶🎶
Pretty cool that Da 'Mats combined these two tunes into, uh, one...no doubt because they knew that they're 2 of my most favoritest songs by 'em. Thanx dudes.
They didn't.
Actually they just play one then the other. I'd imagine this was an encore. given how torched Paul's voice is ... sounds like the end of a show.
These guys and The Jam are really great music!
Hmmm. Interesting. I'm a big Jam fan (at least, their early stuff). I never really thought about the connection, but the passion that we get from Left of The Dial & Alex Chilton isn't too far off In The City, Sounds From the Streets, or Away From The Numbers. Great call, Stev Jame!
The Jam were amazing
Weller and Westerberg are two of my faves. Almost cut from the same cloth. Working class, ragged, genius and talked about social class a good deal in their work. Good spot
Its because of the replacements that I know about big star and the box tops. It wasn't enough that they created their own magic. They led me to the source...
phenomenal
Doesn't get any better than this
Legendary band.
I saw them do a circuit on the instruments. All band members rotated through drums, bass, lead, rhythm guitar. Musical chairs done flawlessly. Never saw it before or since.
These guys should have been so much bigger than they were, just a great band.
They were beloved by critics and people with taste back then. I remember Paul being named 'Songwriter of the Year' in Rolling Stone critic's poll repeatedly in the mid-80's. And honestly they torpedoed their own career in a lot of ways. As someone who bought all the records from Tim forward and played the shit out of them (it was college for me) I like that they were never 'popular' myself.
Best American band ever-somehow I see a connection with CCR.
Rock truck People. ... These guys, best live show I've seen, at the Commodore in Vancouver--with hats off to John Cale and Steve Earle and The Rangehoods from Seattle--truck time eh? Anyhow, loved this band from the first minute I heard them raw. Maybe a cassette tape in the Cariboo mountains. Truck time. Rock on....
Fantastic! 👍🏻
Saw 'em in Denver. Being there in Westerberg's presence I saw his spirit...he's what you call "The Real Deal". REAL.
This video is something short of perfect. He's jamming a Resiglass guitar. Nobody payed any attention that shit, besides Keif.. Amen to these guys! PAUL! THANKS BRO!
When they took it seriously, they were an extraordinary, tight band. The times I saw them back in the day it was about 60/40; excellent or falling down drunk. I figure that was a pretty good success rate, lol. Even too drunk to really play or even finish a song, they were hilarious, although not everybody there was amused.
They are probably the funniest rock band in the world when they had their shit together, Redlight Redlight run it and rip it out the dentist song are insanely funny
It's amazing to me now that they were in competition with huskerdu back in the day two different apples
Agreed. Same place. Different story.
Easily the greatest lyricist of his generation. I fucking love this band!
This is fucking great! Mats forever!
what the??? how come they sound so good?
All can say, this shit held up. Paul paved roads.
That was on fire.
Superb
I had tickets to the show in Columbus, OH. They postponed and soon after Paul pulled the plug. I did get to see them open for X at the Syria Mosque in Pittsburgh in the mid 80's though.
I saw the Mats headline in the basement of the Syria Mosque in 1989
No worries ,,, gold is gold.
Why, why, why did I miss them on this tour!?
We had tickets to see them in Columbus, OH too but that show was one of the cancelled ones. We got the Milwaukee tix before the cancellation happened but in retrospect we would have missed them this time otherwise.
Saw them at Forest Hills (NYC). It was great - and I'm someone who saw them 5-6 times in the 80's. If they ever tour again, you have to go - it was beautiful to among 10000 people who were drunkenly shouting Replacements lyrics at the tops of their voices. A kind of communal heaven!
You didn't buy a ticket ;p was a great show
Na moral, se tiver alguma banda mais foda que o Replacements, por favor me apresentem.
Interesting to see this, and thank you for sharing it here. Still, it is hard to work up much enthusiasm for latter-day Replacements. They were one of those bands where you needed every specific member to make the chemistry that made them what they were. I only saw the original band once live, in 1986 in Cincinnati. One of the best shows I saw in my college years. After Bob Stinson got kicked out (I think that happened around early 1987), they just were not the same. They had lost the magic, and it never really returned. Westerberg still wrote good songs, but the hard-to-define quality that captivated people was gone. (But I still come around, hoping for evidence to prove myself wrong.) I wish the survivors well, and hope Tommy and Paul made decent money with their reunion.
Bogarts? I was there too. Seem to recall I was expecting drunk AF Mats, but they were stone sober, great show, remember it like yesterday...
I saw them 5 times in the Bob years and I agree with everything you've written here.
Best band ever
I second that.
God music used to be so fking great...
this is real rock and roll
Yep.