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The new, correct addresses are: ** Skyway listserver: majordomo@novia.net ** Skyway submissions, to write to Matt: skyway@novia.net --==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==-- // The Skyway \\ School Year 1993-4 -- Issue #12 November 13th, 1993 (c) 1993 Bastards of Young (BOY/BetaOmegaYamma) Productions --==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==-- ** Subscriptions, comments, contributions, anything you want to read: ** --> skyway@phoenix.creighton.edu <-- ** Manager: ** i261%nemomus@academic.nemostate.edu (Matthew Tomich) --==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==-- The manager of this list, Matthew Tomich, and the school's facilities that this list is produced from, Creighton University of Omaha, Nebraska, are not responsible for the contents of the following mailing except for that which they themselves have originally contributed. --==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==-- Dammit, we're back! ------------------- * Everybody's got a story to tell: Ranjit Dighe, Elliot Hilton, Chris Koehler, Doug Smith, Van Heins, Tim Blankenbaker [hope I spelled all those right] * Westerberg concert reviews/news: Chris Moore [takes the cake and wins the tearjerking oscar]: Cincinatti Kevin Curry: Seattle cancelled and Ticketmaster sucks Justin Cooper and Frank Labuski: Boston? * Elliot Hilton with the Westerberg video bootleg from First Avenue * Stuff in general from Don Lindbergh * Note on the "Alex Chilton" lyrics by the ubiquitous Elliot Hilton * Big Star/Shit Hits the Fans/Boink questions from Dean Roe * Note from Art Jipson on the chapter on the Replacements in "Road to Nirvana" * "In defense of Walt Mink..." by Derek Brown * "In defense of Taper's Quarterly..." by Tim McGinnis and Teddie James --===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===-- "WHERE THE HELL IS THE SKYWAY?" Hope this answers your question. Between a 14 page Asian literature paper on the life and works of Lu Xun, a genetics test, a World Lit I test, several exciting R.A. experiences (including a torched door, death threats between two residents, and a guy in one of the wings going to jail), and Bob Fulkerson's persistent work on the experimental mailer (go ahead and write and tell him how much we love him: rfulk@phoenix.creighton.edu), it's been a busy week. Or two. Or three. Sorry for the delay. I'm going to keep this intro short so I can get this long-overdue thing out, but two quick things. Number one...thanks to everybody who wrote in and told all those stories about The Replacements and how they first heard them or how they met Paul or how they worked in a record store with a guy from Uncle Tupelo (!!!)...I love that stuff. I don't know about everybody else, but that's why I dig (and spend what little time I can) on this list. So big thanks...and extra big thanks to Chris Moore for spilling his guts. Just another examples of how computers don't really alienate people...people alienate people. The other is that I saw Poi Dog Pondering in Columbia, Missouri (home of the '92 Big Star reunion concert) on Thursday night. Aside from the bomb threat (who the hell would make a bomb threat during a Poi Dog show? "Yeah, let's kill all those damn happy people!"), the show was pretty incredible. This really doesn't have anything to do with the 'Mats...stylistically they're nowhere near them...like a mix between Trip Shakespeare and the Pogues and an African pop band. Anyways, this eight-ten piece band put on a truly incredible show. And in the words of Mike Bischoff, the lead singer, Frank O., is indeed is by far one of the most charismatic people I've seen. I think seeing them in concert would cure somebody of cancer and other amazing feats like that. Honest-to-true positive vibe...no faked hippie-dippy stuff. Anyways, after the bomb threat and everybody came back in and they finished "Wood Guitar", the band talked amongst each other to see what to play next. I saw Frank go, "Yeah! What a great idea!" And they played "Can't Hardly Wait". (They have two horn players and everything. And the guitar lead was done on a violin.) It seemed like a spontaneous decision, so no guarentees that if you catch them they'll do it again. But the show is worth seeing in and of itself. (Anybody gotten a recent mailing from the Musical List of Lists? Is the address for the //Skyway\\ changed on there? And I just lost my access to the account that I read NEWS from...can somebody post the address on alt.music.alternative and/or alt.music.misc?) I just changed my .plan again. (Previously it was the lyrics to Husker Du's "Celebrated Summer".) People have inquired why there haven't been Replacements lyrics in the .plan. There have been in the past (it used to be "Answering Machine", but two months later it became "William Holden Caulfield" by Too Much Joy). Well, I guess I just put there what I was thinking at the time. ('If Only You Were...') So it's not that the 'Mats aren't one of my favorite bands...I just put there whatever applies. (Sorry if this seems selfish.) Hey, enjoy the issue. Thanks for stickin' around. And welcome to the new people that just signed up... -- /\/\@Te. P.S. To whoever sent me the Myers-Brigs personality test and asked me to take it, here's my score. (The address you sent it from bounced my reply.) 75% Extrovert/25% Introvert 80% I(n)tuition/20% Sensory 75% Feeling/25% Thinking 55% Judgement/45% Perceiving So I guess that makes me a ENFJ. --===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===-- Date: Wed, 10 Nov 93 21:20:56 EST From: Ranjit Dighe Matt, Thanks again & again for all the //Skyway\\ mail. I've been a regular on the Replacements bulletin board (actually just one of many subjects on their Modern Rock bb) on Prodigy, & now that that board is dying a quick & unsavory death (p'raps you read about their recent rate hikes?), it's great to find a service like the one you've started here. I really enjoyed the Oct. 26 (hey, that's my b-day!) edition of //The Skyway\\, esp. your novella about seeing Paul in Columbia (did you see Big Star's show in Columbia earlier this year, by any chance?) "Death of a clown" -- or just about any Kinks from 1966- 71 -- is one of my faves, too. Ok, so now I'll bore you to death with my personal Replacements history. Whilst DJing at my college radio station (at Oberlin) in early '84, listened to HOOTENANNY & didn't believe the hype. I did like "Color me impressed" & "Treatment bound," and later "If only you were lonely," tho. That fall the station got the 12" of "I will dare" & I loved it. Bought LET IT BE soon thereafter & it didn't take long to grow on me. Saw the Mats play an incredibly sloppy & inebriated set in Kent, OH that December -- I think Bob Stinson was wearing nothing but a cardboard box around his waist. (Highlights were the first two -- and only coherent -- songs, "Color me impressed" & "Johnny's gonna die," plus Paul's falsetto on Prince's "When you were mine" & their trashing of the Gilligan's Island theme.) Bought HOOTENANNY, SORRY MA, & STINK (in that order) in the spring & summer of '85. Saw them once in DC in the summer of '85. Wrote a full-page review of TIM in Oberlin's newspaper that fall. Alienated the hell out of my roommate & girlfriend by playing the Mats so much that year. On Paul's recommendation (he'd praised them in a zine interview), took a chance on the Jacobites (album: LOST IN A SEA OF SCARVES), the first of many bands that Paul has indirectly turned me onto. Played PLEASED TO MEET ME all the way thru on my radio show on the day it came out in spring 1987. Saw the Mats put on one of the best shows I've ever seen, at the Bayou in DC that summer. Continued to buy their records & see their shows, tho I hafta admit it wasn't at all the same, those last few years. Westerberg's last show in DC (Aug. 2 at the 9:30 Club) was godlike, however. Had enough? Just in case.... Favorite Mats albums: HOOTENANNY, TIM, SORRY MA, LET IT BE, ALL SHOOK DOWN. Favorite non-Mats albums (retro division): Gram Parsons, GRIEVOUS ANGEL; Kinks, VILLAGE GREEN PRESERVATION SOCIETY; Big Star, THIRD; Bob Dylan, HIGHWAY 61 REVISITED; Stones, EXILE ON MAIN ST. Favorite non-Mats albums ("modern" division): Richard & Linda Thompson, SHOOT OUT THE LIGHTS; THE CLASH (U.S. version); Lucinda Williams, SWEET OLD WORLD; PRETENDERS; Pogues, RUM SODOMY AND THE LASH. Favorite Mats songs: If only you were lonely, Answering machine, Favorite thing, Customer, Color me impressed. Replacements Question To Which I've Yet To Hear a Decent Answer: Why the hell did they call their fourth album TIM? (i.e., who is Tim? Paul's stock answer that "it was just a stupid name that no one else had used, so we figured why not?" rings hollow. A friend of mine suggested that maybe Tim's the name of their coke dealer or something. Sounds more plausible.) rsd [Yeah, I remember being 16 and getting "Village Green"...it changed my life. People in my dorm still look at me funny when I crank 'Big Sky'... -M@] --===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===-- Date: Tue, 26 Oct 1993 19:29:19 -0600 (CST) From: EMHILTON@stthomas.edu Subject: new subscriber... hi everyone! my name is elliot hilton, and i am new to this mailing list. i have been trying to find a 'mats list for a month now, and i am so excited that i have finally found this one!!! thanks! i live in st. paul, mn, and go to school at the University of St. Thomas. I have been listing to the replacements since i was in 6th grade (1986). I can honestly say that i cannot believe how long the replacements music has stayed my favorite...i was pretty damn young to be liking this stuff. oh well, as i grow older, everything makes more and more sense to me. surprisingly, the first album i ever got was sorry ma. a friend of my aunt's borrowed it to me because he knew i was heavily into another minneapolis band-the suburbs-, and he thought i would like it. I loved it!!! i still have the copy of sorry ma, and it was printed in 1981...it has pictures on the inner sleeve of tommy, paul, chris, and bob walking around, and recording in blackberry way studios, which are a 5 minute drive from here. i proceeded to buy every 'mats album in order that they were released, until i got "tim", which was the newest one at the time. i loved, and ob- viously still do, every single fucking album! not bad for a 6th grader?! in the years, i matured as the replacements did, though i still prefer the drunk days. i have met chris, and tommy on two different occasions. i saw them live twice, once on the don't tell a soul tour at the roy wilkens auditorium in st. paul...(they were drunk), and another time for all shook down at the orpheum in minneapolis. i frequently go to oarfolkjokeopus (a record store in uptown minneapolis which peter jesperson used to work at, and where the replacements used to practice in the basement). just down the street from there is twin/tone records, and bob stinson lives just around the corner from there... i usually just go to the neighborhood, and soak in all the history. i love living here! i have also seen soul asylum live 3 times, though i will never go again because they are so different now. they used to hold a lot more for me in the earlier days... over the weekend i attended a record convention in st. paul, where i bought two live bootlegs of the 'mats, one recorded in 1989 in reseda, and the other recorded in 1982 in duluth, minnesota, at a roller skating rink (they were opening for the suburbs...) oh well...i am extremely tired. thanks for signing me to the list. i look forward to talking to every one! thanks... elliot hilton "somewhere there's a drink with my name on it..." --westerberg, if only you were lonely Date: Tue, 26 Oct 1993 22:46:39 -0600 (CST) From: EMHILTON@stthomas.edu just wanted to tell a couple short stories... over the summer...on july 4th....i saw Bash and Pop at the 7th street entry in Minneapolis. for people who have never been there, or know nothing about it...the Entry is a club where the Replacements started playing in 1981. it is very small, and an extremely intamate setting. the show was amazing. i met tommy before B & P took the stage and he...get this...introduced me to his girlfriend...and his step mother! wow. it was so cool. i kept waiting for bob to walk in...but he never did. i later found out that bob was busy that night at Float-Rite park in somerset wisc. doing soul asylum's sound for a concert. I had been at Float-Rite earlier in the day, but left to see B & P. i don't know how the rest of you feel about tommy's album, but i really like it. i think it rocks. two weeks ago, i met Chris Mars at an in-store he did at northern lights music in St. Paul. he was the nicest guy! he signed a little cardboard picture of himself for me... i asked him if Golden Smog (a band consisting of members of soul asylum, the jayhawks, and the replacements) were going to be getting together again...and he said it was possible for some local shows. wow! i really enjoy chris mars' albums, and slim dunlap's also. what a talented band they mighty 'mats were! supposedly, when Bash and Pop performed their first concert in Minneapolis, which was last April...Paul got up on stage and played with them. pretty fuckin cool!!!! Paul also showed up and played with slim at a concert he did on some farm in urban minnesota. FYI: Chan Poling, who is credited as playing on the Slim Dunlap record is the keyboard player, and singer for the Suburbs. For those of you who don't know who they are...the Suburbs were very big in the midwest in the early to mid-eightees. they broke up in 1987, but have since re-grouped and are recording a new album. the replacements used to open for them a lot at the beginning of their career. [Poling is also credited in "Let It Be" for piano...on 'Sixteen Blue', I think... - M@] Chan Poling has lived in my homestown of Mahtomedi, Minnesota for the last 8 years. About 2 minutes from my house!.. and Paul Westerberg has been seen there more than once. i once rode my bike by chan's hous in 1987 to see if he was there, and guess who! PW and Chan were sitting in Chan's dining room drinking beer. wow! i have so many stories it's unreal.... anyway, i have a band also called The Wallboards, and if anybody would like to hear a demo...let me know. [Look later in this issue for the letter from Mark Timmins and the //Skyway\\ bands compliation. Can't wait to hear it when it's done... -M@] i am the guitarist, singer, and songwriter for the band, and of course, the REPLACEMENTS are a major influence on me. time to study! take care, elliot hilton p.s. My band has been playing a lot in the twin cities, and we have the absolute best time on stage than any band i have seen since...um....THE REPLACEMENTS! --===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===-- Date: 28 Oct 93 13:09:26 CDT From: Chris P Koehler Subject: When It Began Matt- Whew! I'm glad to hear that Paul is doing better. Your description of what happened at the show threw quite a scare into me. I think I've finally found some time to enter 'the story of the first time I saw the Replacements' into the Skyway; I think this is the kind of stuff you like, but find myself a bit self-conscious about entering it. Hope you dig it! The first time I ever saw the Replacements was in September of 1982. I had come back to college after spending the summer at home in Little Falls, a small town in central Minnesota. School would not start till Monday and I wanted to go out on Saturday night. I had heard about the 'Mats from several sources. The first issue of 'Sweet Potato' (now called 'City Pages'-why they changed the name I'll never know) that I ever saw had a picture of the 'Mats on the cover and a story about this upand coming new band on the inside. This was in October of 1980 and by the time I started college, in September of 1981, Sweet Potato was talking about the 'Mats and the recording of their new album _Sorry Ma, Forgot to Take out the Trash_. I went to Concordia College, a small Christian school in St. Paul, MN, and there were about 6 cool people in the whole place. One of them, Todd, filled me in about the local scene, particularly the 'Mats. "The only one who cares if they're in tune is the 12-year old bass player, who's the brother of the lead guitar player," he told me. "The lead singer doesn't hang out, but sits in the back of the bar drinking his beer by himself." And he played me their music. They were loud, hard, fast and funny. I liked 'Customer', but my first impression was that they were a low-rent version of the Ramones. This impression was not to change for some time, but when it did my life was changed. So, it was a Saturday night and the 'Mats and Curtiss A were on a double bill down at the now-defunct Duffy's. Todd's enthusiasm had been catching and I wanted to see the 'Mats live. Unfortunately, Todd and the 5 other cool people were all busy that night, so I had to go it alone. Since this was the record release party for _Stink_ Todd had been kind enough to play _Stink_ for me, to give me an idea what I'd be hearing. Todd also told me to get down there early and since I'd never been to Duffy's before I hopped on the bus and was down there by 8:00 p.m., just in time to hear the 'Mats soundcheck. I don't remember much about the sound check, except they were LOUD. They didn't goof around much, just played a couple of songs and were done. Then I went into the other half of the bar and watched a video from U2's _October_ album. Much of the night is a blur. The 'Mats played 2 sets with Curtiss A sandwiched in between them, so they essentially opened for themselves. The first set was fast, furious and LOUD. I wasn't familiar enough with their material to pick out the individual songs so it all melded together. Then Curtiss A got up and played and it was kind of a relief from the furious blast of the 'Mats. Curtiss A had broken his right arm and had a cast on his right forearm and wrist, but gamely strummed his guitar. I would assume that Slim Dunlap played in this band, but I don't know for sure. Then Curtiss A was done and they put on some Ramones for in between set music, which I thought was cool. Finally, the 'Mats were backon stage and someone tapped me on the shoulder. It was Bob Stinson desperately trying to push his way through the crowd and get back on stage. I let him through and the 'Mats started up again. I know they did 'Fuck School', 'Goddam Job', 'Johnny's Gonna Die' and 'Hey Good Lookin'. The crowd had grown since the first set and people were slam dancing, but it was pretty casual. Finally, the tedium of spending four hours plus alone in a bar with a very loud band, plus my desire to catch my bus drove me out into the night, weary and tired with my ears ringing loudly. I wouldn't see the 'Mats again till 1985, when I had a much different impression of them. Chris Koehler [I 'dig it' in a big way! Can't wait to hear part II... - M@] --===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===-- Date: Sat, 6 Nov 93 11:37 PST From: Doug Smith Subject: Tommy said so......... Hey, I'm a long-time "Mats fan. In fact, in 1979 I was in a band out of Vancouver BC called the Replacements. We had two brothers on guitar [16] and drums [14] as well as myself [14] on vocals and another kid [13] on bass. We had been in the studio, and also played with other "name" bands: DOA, Subhumans, Bad Brains, Black Flag... Well, we saw "Sorry Ma" in the stores and swiftly broke up. Nuff said. I recently did a one-off gig in a band called Placemats. We played at a friends going away party in a small Vancouver club. We did songs from the first five Replacements lps. It was reviewed in the papers as being "loose and boozy." Quite fitting. It was fun. doug_smith@mindlink.bc.ca [Hey Doug, you have a tape of any of these experiences? If so, see the letter from Mark Timmins... - M@] --===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===-- From vanh@gracehill.org Sat Nov 13 15:11:36 1993 Date: Wed, 27 Oct 93 18:16:30 CDT From: Van Heins A how I got into the Replacements story: I was working in a record store and one of my co-workers (Now a member of Uncle Tupelo) said "Hey you've got to hear this album." (I shouldn't be using quotes that's more of a paraphrase. Actually, he probably said "This is a pretty good album." The previous quote is probably the one I use.) The album was "Tim." I quickly grew to like it. Unfortunately, the record store was doing badly (eventually went out of business) which meant we didn't have a copy for sale and weren't going to get one. I was content to listen to it at the store. I figured eventually I would grab the promo. Business grew worse and we had less and less to listen to. Then one day I got to work thought I'd throw on the Replacements, but it was GONE! I searched again through our records (this was back in the days of vinyl still) but it was gone. Really gone. I was depressed. But alas, this story has a happy ending. A couple days later I was searching through the used records and found the promo copy. Once again I was able to cope with telling customers, "Sorry we don't have that." Anyway, from then on I decided I would never be without Replacements again. I bought everything I could find by them. Which is actually only their major albums. I saw Paul earlier this year in St. Louis, for some reason I missed the last time they were here. It was actually rather weird. I had never met anyone who was into them so I was rather surprised to see everyone singing along. I think with every Replacements album/CD I've gotten, I have ended trying to transcribe some of the songs. Basically, as you might be able to tell from above, I'm starved for anything and everything about the Replacements. Therefore: any(or all) of this would be greatly appreciated. Its great to know there are others...Thanks! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Van N. Heins | vanh@gracehill.org Grace Hill Neighborhood Services | +1 314 539 9552 "Life...go figure." | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- [Which member of Uncle Tupelo was it?!! -M@] --===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===-- Date: Wed, 27 Oct 93 12:03:08 EDT From: Tim Blankenbaker Subject: I'm a new skyway guy To the skyway folk- I'll tell you one of my favorite Paul stories. I saw the 'Mats and Tommy Keene on the Don't Tell A Soul tour in this very tiny place in S. Miami Beach called the Cameo Theater. No one from Miami knew Tommy (me being from DC, I knew Tommy's stuff real well). Let's just say my buddy Jay and I were part of an extremely sparse crowd. To our shock, Paul came out from backstage and sat down to watch the show. I was too awestruck to do anything but go over and thank him profusely for getting me through some rough times in my life. He said thanks and I left him alone to enjoy the rest of Tommy's set. I've got other good stories that I'll share eventually. A good one has one of my buddies taking over for Chris during the Sorry Ma tour. I've got a tape from the Let It Be tour at CBGB's (very drunk, nothing but covers). Anyone got stuff to trade? - Tim P.S. Anyone else into Tommy Keene out there? -- Tim Blankenbaker / Doin' hopscotch with my legs tied National Public Radio / Jumpin' rope in wet cement tblanken@cap.gwu.edu / - D. Pirner --===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===-- Date: Wed, 27 Oct 93 09:27:40 EST From: "I'M ON THE BOTTOM, AND I'M NOT AFRAID" Westerburg Comes Alive! Glad to see that someone else was at Bogarts for my night of exstasy with Paul. My girlfriend and I were breaking up, hadn't seen her or my best friend, or anyone else for weeks so I could study, drink wine, eat pizza and write essays for my english lit classes. She showed up at my apartment the weekend before the concert, trying to act rational and we both pretended that things weren't as bad as either of us were telling our friends. I mentioned that they had a Paul Westerburg block on MTV, and she squirmed for a bit, and produced 4 tickets to see Paul at Bogarts. I was so morose and depressed that I couldn't even figure out if she was actually inviting me or just waving them in front of my face so she could take my best friend Brian instead. I knew we were doomed and I knew I would regret it if I broke up after seeing Paul, so I called her up, muttered something about "feeling like a whore" and basically let her try to comfort me while I tried to keep from breaking down. In her heart of hearts, I was still invited. We picked up Brian and a lady-friend of hers and drove into the night, to Cincinnati (3 hours away from Bloomington, IN). By the time we arrived, Brian (who was just along for the ride and who couldn't name a single Mats song) was plastered and we carried him to the club. I walked in to "Someone I Once Knew" and somehow everything seemed anticlimactic. This is probably the one song, paul or mats, that I will not listen to. I went up to go to the bathroom with Shelley as the band started into some song that I couldn't place...Shelley came dancing out, eyes bugged. "It's 'I'm Turning Japanese'!" Yeah, things were going to be okay. I spent the rest of the night in awe, just smiling dumbly and dancing through the puddles of beer. All those years listening to the albums, looking to Paul when I thought no one else could understand, and now I was able to finally see him in all his glory. After the show I went out back and met the guitarist (who was drunk), and tried to get Shelley and her friend to the car. I grew up on the replacements. I always imagined that I was the "dumb confused kid" that Paul was writing about. Yes, maybe I put too much into it all, but adolescence wasn't easy. Seeing him was like my Bar Mitzvah. I'm REALLY a man now. I knew I grew up a long time ago, but this was the real end to everything that had been holding me down for so long. Now, there is nothing but music... -chris cdmoore@ucs.indiana.edu oh, and the strange, funky cover song was called "Just Give Me Some Kind of Sexy" ...I don't remember the band though... [Chris, was that the first song or how much of the show did you miss? - M@] --===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===-- Date: Wed, 27 Oct 1993 17:19:10 -0700 (PDT) From: Kevin Curry Subject: Westerberg Just got a message from ticketmaster that Westerberg cancelled this Saturday's show here in Seattle. Guess he won't be out of traction after all. Damn. Hope he gets well and they re-schedule the Northwest leg of the tour sometime other than for January (when I'll be forced to be in Europe and N. Africa). Thought you'd like to know. Plus those bastards at Ticketmaster still made $1.55 off me, their "handling" fee. Yeah, handle this buddy. "Take me to the hospital!" Kevin [Yeah, I hate TicketBastard too. -M@] --===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===-- Date: 31 Oct 93 20:14:15 EST From: "Justin S. Cooper" Does anyone have any info on Paul at the Orpheum in Boston on Dec. 1??? Date: Tue, 9 Nov 93 09:36:36 EST From: Frank Labuski Subject: PAUL IN BOSTON Does anyone have any idea who is opening for Paul Westerberg when he heads east (esp. Dec 1 @ the Orpheum in Boston!!)??? I know Juliana Hatfield has been doing some shows with him but I don't know how permanent it is. Any info would be great. (Oh God, please let it be Juliana!!!!) Thanks, Frank Labuski labuskif@pictel.com --===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===-- Date: Tue, 02 Nov 1993 13:07:42 -0600 (CST) From: EMHILTON@stthomas.edu over the weekend i got a hold of a video of paul's sold out show at first avenue in minneapolis on august 20. i was there, but wasn't able to get in. i didn't know it was an i.d. show. anyway, it was cool to see what i missed. during the 3rd song (waitressin the sky), paul gets hit with a plastic cup. he yells "fuck you! i'll kick your fuckin teeth in!" he wasn't too happy. it appeared to be full of beer. the crowd was extremely into all of his 'mats tunes, but didn't really care about any of his newer stuff. during here comes a regular, he sings "aint much to do here anyway in st. paul..." so true paul! later everyone. elliot "goin to the party and we weren't invited..." --===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===-- Date: Tue, 26 Oct 93 20:19:34 EDT From: "Don A.B. Lindbergh" Subject: Skyway stuff > ** A GOPHER SITE **. The //Skyway\\ will have a gopher site where you'll > be able to get all the back issues, best of's, available lyrics, etc. > However, if you're pretty much computer illiterate (or just lazy), I'll > still hand-computer-mail these to you upon request. > Yessss! Goddammit we're high tech now.... > From: bobes@expert.cc.purdue.edu (Roy Beaumont) > Subject: Re: Paul - Indy - Oct. 18 > Date: Tue, 19 Oct 93 16:38:23 EST > > Mat [sic] and Paul diehards; > > I finally got to see the concert of the year last night at the Vogue in Indian- > apolis. The place holds about 800 people and is a renovated theater from the I was there too, great show, good sound. Was bummed to hear about Paul's back trouble in Columbia MO, my home town... --Don --===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===-- Date: Thu, 28 Oct 1993 19:53:53 -0600 (CST) From: EMHILTON@stthomas.edu hi, i don't have time to write much, but i just want to respond to the lyrics to alex chilton... the line "checking his bags by the track..." i don't know exactly what he is singing...but it is something about St. Mark's Place...which is in New York. Paul met Alex Chilton for the first time there. just wanted to throw that at you! what do you think the whole line is? thanks, elliot --===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===-- Date: Wed, 10 Nov 1993 20:10:33 -0600 (CST) From: Dean T Roe-1 Anyone out there know how many copies of 'Boink' and 'The Shit Hits The Fans' were made?? Also, anyone have any opinions/suggestions about Alex Chilton & Big Star? I've never heard them but I'm curious about them and tempted to get a disc of theirs. Thanks, Dean roex0006@gold.tc.umn.edu --===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===-- Date: 8 Nov 1993 21:29:11 U From: Jipson Art Dearest Fellow Skyway Folks; There is a book that just came out called _On the Road to Nirvana: Route 666_ by Gina Arnold. I'd say a good third of the book is on Nirvana and Seattle (Clam Jam and the like) but the rest focuses on punk and post-punk. This book has a wonderful chapter called Unsatisfied which deals with Gina's obsessive love for the Replacements and the Minneapolis "scene" of the early/mid eighties. As she puts it "...the Replacements were so stupid and contagious. The Replacements were true love." There are a couple errors in the chapter but it has a hell of a lot of heart. Be prepared to bawl at some points; I did. -Ann Shea Jipson "When they get older perhaps they'll understand. She's a woman and now he is a man." -Grant Hart _______________________________________________________________________________ [I've skimmed through the chapter at the local bookstore and the chapter does have quite a few tidbit o' info...most of it is written in the first person; it's alot more subjective than the "rock critic" books. The chapter also touches on other Minneapolis bands like Husker Du and Soul Asylum. - M@] --===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===-- Date: Tue, 26 Oct 1993 18:31:57 -0500 (cdt) From: the Walrus Subject: Walt Mink I haven't been to any of the Westerberg/Walt Mink concerts, nor will I be able to make any, but I thought I'd put in a little defense for Walt Mink anyway. While the band may not be playing that great while touring with Westerberg and while their latest album ("Bareback Ride") is not my favorite, I can honestly say that their previous effort ("Miss Happiness") is among my all-time favorite albums. I would highly recommend it to all Replacements fans. In my opinion, the intensity of it surpasses several Replacements albums. Also, everyone knows this, but Walt Mink and the Replacements both hail from the Twin Cities. So... check into "Miss Happiness." """ -(o o)- =----oOO--(_)--OOo-----= = Derek S. Brown = =----------------------= --===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===-- Date: Tue, 26 Oct 93 16:06:57 PDT From: Tim McGinnis Subject: TAPER'S QUARTERLY Taper's Quarterly is a legit boot'zine made in San Francisco. The guy who wrote the Replacements story has more 'mats boots than i care to even *page* through. He make most of us look like tourists. It's overwhelming. I turn to him w/ any 'mats questions. The 'zine has about 100 subscribers, 3 distributors and a total circulation of about 1000. I'm sure that Jeff, the editor, could give you references before you send CA$H. audios, tim tim@vestek.com Date: 27 Oct 1993 09:10:58 -0500 From: Teddie James Subject: Taper's Quarterly Taper's Quarterly Taper's Quarterly is indeed legitimate. I trade tapes with a guy in Austin who writes for TQ. I even have one issue. I'm not affiliated with TQ in any way. I just thought I'd set the record straight. Ted --===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===-- fin. --==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==-- || Matthew Tomich || <<>> || || 1111 S. 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