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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 #13 January 11th, 1994 (c) 1994 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. --==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==-- January 11th, 1994 ------------------ * "Where the hell have YOU been?" - Visit to Minnesota * 'Come on Down!': New //Skyway\\ers Elaine Pan and Lynne say 'Hi!' and tell us all about it. * Nate Ryan is back from a co-op in California! * =( No more Westerberg shows for '94 according to Diego Navarrete =( * Westerberg makes Northern Exposure (Heather Chakiris) * Buncha miscellaneous stuff from 'Kathy' * The story to beat: Jim Connelly. --===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===-- MI CASA ESTA' EN NINGUN SITIO (Nowhere is my Home) ----------------------------- It's been a while since you've heard from this address. Yeah, it's been almost two months to the day. In the meantime, I've turned 21, finished a semester of education, driven 3,000 miles, froze my butt off, almost died, and learned almost every come on in the Dutch language. I don't know where to start. Well, Thanksgiving Break, the preparations for a band that I'm in to play here at school, finals, and the winter closing of the residence hall where I'm an R.A. all killed any time that I had at the end of the semester last year to put together another issue of the Skyway for the twilight of 1993. (Did I mention the 14 page take home test? Well, that nailed a weekend right there. But it's over so I'd like to forget about it.) Over the break I was hoping to put together an issue from all the stuff that I had received since November 13th, 1993. But a mainframe crash erased it all. Luckily, I had the archives backed up so no back issues or lyrics or anything were lost. It's been a high-karma expenditure winter, as I'll explain later. Anyways, HAPPY BIRTHDAY to the list. I don't have any dates for when the list started other than when I got back from Winter Break last year, when I e-mailed Ric Dube and said, "Can you post on alt.music.alternative that I'm starting a Replacements mailing list?" Back then the address was e149%nemomus@ academic.nemostate.edu and I manually forwarded each letter that I got to everybody. Thanks to Bob (unce agino), I got an account with a much shorter address and the capability to put the stuph in this kind of digest format. But because of the message by message format of the early days, I don't have a record of when I got the first request for membership. Whoever it was, I owe you and Ric dinner. Regardless, the list is about a year old. 141 subscribers. Okay, get this. I went to Minnesota over break and met some of these Skyway people. At this point, I've lost my voice, am terminally broke until my next paycheck, and am damn lucky to be alive, but I had fun anyway. Let me just put it this way: The Weather Channel and the Iowa State Patrol Road Conditions hotline at (515)-288-1047 can both kiss my ass. Neither one saw the 6" of snow that suddenly plopped down upon me, a crazy bastard from my school from Holland named Rickert who was staying over at my joint over Christmas, and his visiting girlfriend from Holland, Hetti. The near death experience occured during a sudden drop in temperature, turning I-80 into a sheet of ice and resulting in our spin across three lanes of rush hour traffic before we could find an exit off the Interstate. (Also, luckily, I had already been in a car that had spun out and knew what to do, otherwise I would be a road pancake right now, courtesy of some big green Dodge Van that we narrowly missed.) Oh yeah, this happened twice in 90 seconds. We finally made it to an exit after witnessing two other cars suffer the same fate. It actually turned out for the best since many did not heed the warning of several cars ending up in ditches, which is where we could see their automobiles farther up I-80 and I-35 the next morning after the roads had been cleared. So, anyways, remember: when going through Des Moines, Iowa in January, don't bother to ask the weather station if it's going to be the worst snowstorm this winter when you decide to hop in the car and go to the Great Frozen North because they sure as hell don't know, or if they do, they won't tell you. We spent four hours at a gas station in Iowa playing cards while we waiting for the plows to clear the highway enough so that we could at least find a hotel to spend the night in. We met some lady who told us her life story. She even prayed for us, right there in the middle of a Conoco, for us to return home safely. We were all a bit touched... Eventually, I made it. In Minneapolis, I saw First Avenue, the CC Club where the 'Mats used to drink (and I guess Uncle Bob can still be seen), Let It Be record store, First Avenue, etc. It was pretty cool and pretty cold. If you decide to visit, bring a scarf and a portable space heater than you can stuff down your coat when you walk outside. And some boots. And a blanket. In fact, covering your body with a thick coat of lard wouldn't be a bad idea either. Nope, didn't see Bob. Or Slim. Or Paul. Or Tommy. (Not that I expected to, but it sure as hell would make a good post.) I did get to meet, however, Sonia Grover, Michelle Hays, and Chris Kohler (and a friend whose name I can't remember!) from the list. None of these people are serial killer psychos and are very approachable and friendly, so if you're going to be in the area, look them up. Chris knows great places to eat as well (Al's Breakfast in Dinkytown is a gastric delight, if not a cardiovascular nightmare.) Thanks to all of them for attempting to lead me around the city. (I only got seriously once lost. Don't ask me where I got lost, because I couldn't even tell you that.) We traversed the downtown area, walked in real Minneapolis skyways, and I didn't even get kicked out of the one over 5th Ave. like I did two years ago. The Dutch Twins (I swear they looked like brother and sister) and I ended our stay in the Frozen North at Carleton in Northfield, MN. I had the pleasure of meeting Shannon Drury, Seth Curley, and Leah Weaver there and it was a great time despite my serious case of voicelessness. (It was the byproduct of being unaccustomed to the dry, Minnesota air and a night in the hotel with two Dutch chain smokers.) I could fill up this whole thing with stories. I'll spare you (as well as those involved), but if you're ever there and you're at a party in a dorm room, act like you're drunk and are about to puke and watch the crowd reaction. Endless entertainment. Oh yeah, I saw the worst band in the world in the Entry at First Ave. Tractor Sex Death. If you happen to see them, bring firearms to protect yourself since the band seems to have an affinity for physically assaulting the crowd. Oh, by the way, this is no joke: I almost died listening to "Answering Machine" on my car stereo during the interstate incident. It wouldn't have been very cool or very fun, but it would've been pretty ironic. But I'm much happier to be here. -- M@ --===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===-- Subject: hello From: Elaine Margaret Pan Date: Sat, 1 Jan 1994 20:01:20 -0700 Let's see.... I was first introduced to The Replacements only 2 years ago...it seems much longer than that. I met this guy once in university who told me that his favorite band was the Replacements. I had heard about the 'Mats through MuchMusic up here in Canada. I think the song that got me really interested in them was "Achin' To Be". That song makes me cry sometimes....I just love it. After that I started to buy all of their albums and I became a total Replacements freak. I think the first 'Mats album I bought was the "Don't Tell a Soul" one. The first time I listened to that album I fell in love with all of the songs. I now have all of the 'Mats albums and I am trying to get collector's items and such. There are many things I want to do before I die and one of them is to meet Paul Westerberg. I'm sort of scared to meet him because I have all of these preconceived ideas of what he's like in person. I have a friend Joe who did meet Paul in Toronto when the 'Mats went touring with Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers. My friend Joe walked into a bar in Toronto and it so happened that Paul was sitting in there having a drink. Joe walked up to Paul and before Joe even said anything Paul stuck out his hand to shake Joe's. The first thing Joe said to Paul was "I think you're God". Paul replied "Well, you're wrong". Joe said Paul is a pretty nice guy...in fact a couple of people have told me that too. If I ever do get meet to Paul I am not sure what I would say to him. I love meeting musicians and whenever I do it's usually a spontaneous thing. I talk about everyday things mostly and ask questions about their music sometimes. I'm really interested in getting to know the person not just the musician. I have met a bunch of Canadian bands like The Grapes Of Wrath (which are no longer together), 54-40, Sarah McLachlan and Mystery Machine....I don't know if you've heard of any of these bands. Just a couple of months ago I met Soul Asylum. It was so weird. I went to their gig and one of Soul Asylum's roadie's tells me that the guitarist wants to meet me. So I got to hang out with the band after the show. It was so cool! They are a really nice bunch of guys. But I digress.... I have never seen The Replacements in concert I'm very sad to say but I did manage to see Paul play twice in Seattle last summer. The first show was a free concert at something called the Bite of Seattle and it was awesome. It was really funny because the power in the amps kept blowing out. It happened twice and Paul got kind of flustered so he decided to do a little acoustic set. He came down into the audience and did one song at each side of the stage. Of course I was right up in front and at one point he came and stood right in front of me. I was in heaven...and this was the first time I had ever seen Paul in person. He started to play Skyway and I started to harmonize with him. Because he wasn't amplified everyone had to be real quiet to hear him so he heard me singing with him and gave me a little smile . Wow! It was great. I was in cloud nine. The next day we went to the actual gig in a bar called Rock Candy. Paul played both old stuff and new. It was one of the best concerts I've been to. I just can't seem to express just how much I love his music but I'm sure you understand. I look forward to seeing Paul in concert again but living in Edmonton, Alberta has it's disadvantages. No one real exciting ever comes to this city. I'll be graduating in a year and a half though and I hope to move somewhere like Seattle where I'll have a greater chance of seeing Paul again. I haven't really followed the careers of the other members of the Replacements. I've talked to other people about Tommy and Chris' solo albums and I've only heard mediocre reviews. In my opinion Paul was The Replacements for the most part. Some of the other bands and artists that I am interested in are Soul Asylum, Concrete Blonde, Crash Vegas, Kate Bush, Lush, Screaming Trees, The Wonderstuff, Hoodoo Gurus, The Cure, The Skydiggers.....the list goes on. I love music and I would basically be screwed without it. I am interested in getting the lyrics to the "Tim" album and actually any/all of the lyrics to other 'Mats albums. I did manage to transcribe the lyrics to the "All Shook Down" album and it is lying in the lyrics archive at the site I mentioned earlier (cs.uwp.edu). but anyways, that's about all I have to say for now... cheers! -Elaine --===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===-- From: lynnemb@aol.com Date: Tue, 28 Dec 93 12:34:51 EST Subject: Hi. This is a previously lost submission. I'll be sending another message about the Westerberg show in Atlanta later. My name is Lynne Barkett. I can't remember when I first heard the 'mats. I lived in Seattle from '79 to '89 and there was a _great_ radio station called KJET. Anyone out there remember KJET? I still mourn for it. It was an a.m. station and the DJs sucked -- they announced about 3 out of 5 songs wrong. But they played local music and indies from all over the world. They played the 'mats a lot. About '85 I started really listening to the 'mats. My best friend lived in Tuscaloosa and told me on the phone to listen to 'mats often. He was right. I saw the 'mats at the Moore Egyptian Theatre in Seattle and they actually made you SIT DOWN or be KICKED OUT in the balcony (like I was going to dive 25 feet from the balcony). The Young Fresh Fellows opened up, so this was no show for sitting. That kind of dampened my enthusiasm for going to any more shows in large venues. I saw Paul in July and I'm going again on December 18 in Atlanta. T-bastard got lots of my dough again. I thought the last Paul show I saw was actually better that the last 'mats ('90 in Atlanta, Center Stage). I can't wait. By the way, I turned 30 yesterday and I'm a MOM, but I'll be in the mosh pit anyway. I got over my mom's eccentricities; I guess my son will survive mine. Keep writing; I love this list. --===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===-- From: nryan@merle.acns.nwu.edu Subject: tommy Date: Fri, 17 Dec 93 14:56:20 CST Hello matt, and everyone, it's been about three months since i've written in to skyway, but i've got a really good reason. see, i've been interning at a newspaper out in southern california (san bernardino) during that time and i haven't had access to my e-mail accout since then. well after returning a few days ago, i couldn't wait to see what was up on my favorite mailing list once again. all my questions were answered except two: did shannon ever find a boyfriend through that personals ad? and what ever happened to the legendary band pope mahone (by the way matt, i still owe you two bucks for that tape you sent. did i tell you that i played it on the northwestern radio station and i did get some positive repsonses? so you can tell all the people in omaha that they love you back in the chicago area!)? anyway, the real reason i'm writing is because i have some (sort of) news on tommy. being under 21, i wasn't able to go to any l.a. bars while i lived out in cali, but i had a good friend at the paper who went almost every night (and was a pretty big 'mats fan as well). in the month before i left, tommy played about three bars in the l.a. area on consecutive weekends. without a fake id, i didn't go to any of them, but my friend did. he said that it was just tommy and an acoustic guitar (no bash and pop band members) and he played new stuff and stuff from friday night is killing me both times. after much pestering from the crowd, i guess he also played "here comes a regular" (kind of a shocker because i thought the only 'mats tune he was doing was "satellite"). anyway, i'm not sure if this has already been discussed on the list, but because i couldn't remember any subscriber (save ric dube in seatlle) living on the west coast, i thought an update would be in order. i also think tommy's living out in l.a. now, too. maybe a solo tour is in the works? or maybe he's just working on stuff for a new album? who knows, but i heard he was in fine form and that the new material sounded just as good. if you live near l.a., you might want to keep your eyes open for future dates. this was the only good news to come out of my internship, in case anyone cares. california really sucks and the westerberg concert in san diego that i was going to see with that friend got cancelled. oh well. at least i got to see him do an acoustic version of "hold my life" at the metro in chicago this past summer. later, nate --===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===-- Date: 5 Jan 94 15:28 EST From: Diego Navarrete Subject: Sorry folks, no more tour in 94 Happy New Year Matt! I hope everyone on the skyway list had a great holiday, but now that the new year has begun it looks as if we won't be seeing paul again for a while. I just spoke a little while ago to his publicist in New York and they said that Paul was indeed done touring and that he was now heading back into the studio. They didn't say much more, and as I was a regular joe shmoe calling they could have easily brushed me off. But they seemed to be helpful enough... so there you have it. I hope that he does tour again soon and will make it up to those folks who missed him in november. In the meantime we'll have skyway to keep us going! diego ------- --===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===-- Date: Wed, 5 Jan 1994 14:16 EST From: "CHAKIRIS.HEATHER" Subject: Paul Hits Prime-Time Happy 1994, Matt! Sorry to hear you lost the last issue. I'll have to try and find a copy of the review I posted of Paul's 12/8 show at the Trocadero in Philadelphia. Until then, though, I was wondering if anyone in Skyway land caught Northern Exposure this week (1/3/94). During the scene that took place in Ed's bedroom between Ed and his soon-to-be-devoured-by-wild-dogs Hollywood agent, they were playing "Dice Behind Your Shades" in the background. Very cool. Heather [Somebody months ago said that they heard Bash n' Pop's "Loose Ends" in the background of a club on Beverly Hills 90210. Next time you know, Bob Stinson will be a guest on The Barney Show! -- M@] --===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===-- From: kathms@aol.com Date: Sun, 26 Dec 93 13:11:57 EST Hi all - I have a few bits of arcane trivia to share but this is the right place for arcane mats stuff isn't it? BTW - yes, I'm new but I don't have the energy to tell my mats history today...too much Xmas I guess. 1. I hear that Alex Chilton is playing in Minnapolis, with Slim Dunlap's band sometime in Feb. Hmmm - do we think Tommy/Paul/Bob(!) will show up?? Being that I'm 1000 miles away, I won't find out first hand but maybe one of you will? - "wouldn't that be cool"? 2. I've read most of the back issues of the //skyway\\ and never saw anything about the origins of the name "replacements". I heard from a guy who used to work at the record store where Paul met his wife - she worked there too - that it was inspired by the Who. You know - substitute=replacement . I thought that was kinda neat. About 25 years before Tommy was on Broadway (and before most of you were born) - the Who were as loud, angry and snotty as the mats circa STINK, so it does make sense!. 3. Over Xmas, I was perusing my Grandma's People magazine (did I make it clear I did not actually buy People myself?). Anyway, they named 14 Songs as one of the best of 93 and it reminded me that they actually did a small interview/article with Paul when 14 Songs first came out. Paul Westerberg in People - the world has become strange indeed. 4. Non-Mats content - The new Counting Crows is great - IMHO. Just had to get that off my chest. 5. New favorite Paul story - Paul coughs in his hand at the end of SNL, then immeditely shakes hands with Charlton Heston, who then immediately wipes his hands on his pants! You can dress him up but...he's still Paul - and that's why we love him! 6. Lyrics - I'll Buy - I always thought the line went "Movies are for retards, like me and Maybelline" - that's what I sing anyway. It sticks in my head becasue I can't think of another mats/Paul song where an actual woman's name is mentioned..... Bye for now, Kathy ==bring your own lampshade, somewhere there's a party== --===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===-- Date: Sat, 01 Jan 1994 22:57:35 -0400 (EDT) From: JIMCONNELLY@delphi.com (This is taken from Jim's survey reponse...) TOMMMMIEEEEEEE!!!!!!!! April 15, 1985. I was a big-shot DJ at our college radio station, and we had scored a coup: the Replacements were coming to a club here in Fresno, CA. LET IT BE had been an indespensible part of my life for several months and, best of all, I was going to interview Paul Westerberg--the man responsible for several songs which seemed to be about me. In fact, no songwriter had spoken as directly to and for me since I discovered Pete Townshend's early stuff as a high schooler in the late 70's. I was going to get to ask him what that mumbled last line in the second verse of "Answering Machine," which was already solidifying itself as my favorite song ever. I took the irony in "Answering Machine"--a technology designed to enhance communication becomes instead a barrier--as a metaphor for the inability for any human to ever really communicate with another. And, at that point in time, there was another human I really wanted to communicate with. Let's call her Pam, because that's her name. In the course of my life, the crush I had on her was a minor minor thing, but it was ferocious at the time. She was the type of girl who, well, a friend summed her up perfectly: "twenty years from now, her doctor husband is going to find her dusty Echo and the Bunnymen and R.E.M. and U2 albums and she going to say 'those were from my punk rock days.'" But she had really pretty eyes and I'm a Big Dumb Rock Guy. 'Nuff said. My shift was Fridays from 3pm-7pm, a perfect time: people were getting ready to party and were in generally good moods. On this particular Friday I was only a little nervous--would he be cool? Or would he be a complete jerk? Would he live up to the mythology already surrounding the band (cf. RJ Smith's VILLAGE VOICE article)? I didn't know. I had a whole list of questions I wanted to ask him--intelligent, thoughtful questions on the the nature of his sensitive songwriting vis a vis the drunken rowdyness of his band, etc. The usual shit that made us love them. (Who hasn't driven somewhere late at night screaming "I'm so I'm so UN-satisfied" at the top of their lungs as tears ran down their cheeks?) Of course I had to wait for him to be driven from the club downtown to our campus. I was oh-so-clever in arranging transportation. I asked Pam and her friend Kathy to go to the club and bring Paul to the radio station. I'd been hanging around with them, hoping to get Pam to see my charms and failing miserably. Nevertheless, I figured it was a cool thing: they'd get to meet the Replacements. What I didn't even think about in my supreme 22- year-old naivete, was that I was delivering a girl I had a crush on into the jaw of Tommy Stinson. It never even crossed my mind that Pam and Kathy would do anything other than drive down to the club, pick up Paul, drive him to the station, wait around while I interviewed Paul, drive back down to the club, drop Paul off, and go home to get ready for the show. It never even crossed my mind that they might want to party with the Replacements. Or even worse--that the Replacements might want to party with them. The interview went well. In the years since, I have lost the tape, so I can't give any specifics. (I think I taped a Camper Van Beethoven interview--the day TELEPHONE FREE LANDSLIDE VICTORY was reviewed in that new magazine SPIN, I let them read it over the air; and David Lowery grabbed my list of questions and said to me "Why do you write so many instrumentals?" and I said "Because we can't write lyrics," cracking up the whole band--over it. Ack.) I do remember asking Paul during a record what that line in "Answering Machine" was and him replying "A hand for a friends--one needs a match, one needs some ices" and him being embarassed as he made it rhyme with "vices." Paul was nice. He was sober and respectful of my questions and gave (what I remember) intelligent and thoughtful answers. He spoke quietly and chain-smoked (even though I was a militant non-smoker and there was no smoking allowed in the studio I didn't even say a word) throughout. I think he knew he was in the prescence of someone who loved his music, and not some MTV VJ wanna-be. Later on, two or three different people told me that he thought the interview was "cool." No higher praise I could have received. That night was an excercise in logistics. For not only were the 'Mats playing, a band consisting of close friends of mine called The Wayne Foundation were playing their first gig ever at another club. So the plan was to catch the Wayne Foundation's opening set and then zoom over to where the 'Mats were playing. And I was pretty sure we weren't gonna get a drunken covers extravaganza: the night before, in Davis, they'd gotten into some serious trouble and were told to be on their best behavior. Or at least keep the self-destructiveness to a minimum. I don't remember what the trouble was, or why it had anything to do with the next night in Fresno, but it did. I guess now I'd speculate it had something to do with their deal with Sire, since TIM was only a few months away. In any event, they played almost all their own songs, and finished every song they started. They were amazing. Their entire stage set-up consisted of a couple amps, a couple of monitors, Chris' drum kit and a single solitary mic for Paul. I'd never seen a stage look so bare. Meanwhile, I guess, Pam and Kathy and the Replacements took a liking to each other. I really don't know what happened: Pam and I never discussed it. Nevertheless, Pam obviously made friends with Tommy. How do I know this? Because the entire time the 'Mats were on stage she kept yelling at him: "Tommmmmmieee!" "Tommmmmieeeeee!" And waving at him. She was obviously very very fucked up. I assumed alcohol, though I heard later maybe coke too. Everybody noticed it. She was making a fool of herself. "Tommmieee." I was standing to Tommy's side of the stage, which was only a couple of feet off the ground and jutted out from the wall, like a rectanglular peninsula. There was no most-pit--it was called thrashing then, and reserved only for the hardest of hardcore bands and punks and certainly not the smug jock assholes who do it now. Though actually I always thought thrashing was one of the stupider forms of social interaction I've ever seen. "Tommmieeee!" It was a sold out show. A 500 capacity club in Fresno CA sold-out for a band that wasn't even on a major label in 1985. That's a testament to the power of College Radio in the mid-80's and even more, how big the 'Mats coulda been had the mainstream not been so fucked-up and plain stupid. In a better part of the multiverse, "I Will Dare" was the beginning of a string of several #1 hit singles. How tough is Fresno? One local legend has Led Zeppelin being booed offstage during their 1969 tour. Bruce Springsteen cancelled a 1977 appearance here due to lack of advance ticket sales. When AC/DC opened here for Aerosmith in '78, I saw them get booed by the same fans who would be riding the Highway to Hell months later. Angus Young replied by mooning the audience. It was an ugly ugly scene. Luckily, I was stoned. But not nearly as fucked-up as Aerosmith, who were terrible. Then they go into "Answering Machine." A completely wonderful full-band version. (From the start, not like what turned up on "Inconcerated.") At that point, while I'm grooving on and singing with my favorite song ever being played with brains and balls and heart and alcohol, while I should be enjoying a Perfect Moment, Pam shoves me aside to wave her arms and scream "Tommmmieee!" at a highly amused bass player. End of crush. For the longest time, Tommmmieeeee!! was a watch-word among my circle of friends, none of whom were Pam. Stories of what transpired between her and Tommy are naturally hearsay and innuendo, but most involved fellatio and cocaine. And while I have nothing against either, I've never been into star-fucking. I didn't even ask Paul for his autograph. Sudden thought: when I wrote earlier that I drove Pam into the jaws of Tommy Stinson it should have been the other way around. There is an epilogue. A very rock 'n' roll one, as a matter of fact. Two years later, the 'Mats came back to Fresno. This time, my friends the Wayne Foundation had mutated into an locally popular band called The Miss Alans. The Miss Alans opened for the Replacements. I guess that they didn't get along too well, because Paul insulted them on stage, which may or may not have had something to do why me and my girlfriend Holly and the Miss Alans's singer and his girlfriend ended up in a Denny's until 3am because the singer was frying on acid. They got revenge, of sorts, because their manager managed to get a advance cassette of 14 SONGS a couple of months before it was released. (That's right, they're still together, and as of this writing, on the verge of being signed to--well, let's see if it happens.) In any event, I was going to get the interview again, and so I whipped up a new batch of questions to ask Paul, since we were now two years and two brilliant albums down the line. I was really looking forward to it. This time, Holly and I both drove down to the club to pick Paul up. Unfortunately, Paul wasn't doing interviews at that time, Tommy was. Now I had no problem with Tommy--indeed, I thought the whole Pam thing was funny even as it was happening. Shit, rockstar/groupie behavior is as part of the tradition as "Hold My Life" or "Alex Chilton." It's just that I wanted to interview Paul again. And Tommy did offer to buy Holly's purse on the spot. Maybe it showed that I wanted to interview Paul, because Tommy was an audible dickhead to me. I had to cobble questions together at the last second, because many of them were specifically (sic?) geared to Paul, but Tommy was sullen and unresponsive. The whole thing was terrible for me, until, in the doorway of the radio station, I spotted Kathy and Pam. They'd been listening to the radio station and came down. So I got the supreme pleasure of introducing Pam to Tommy, who, of course, had no idea who she was. I felt sorry for her. Sort of. In any event, that's easily my favorite Replacements-related thing. The only other thing is discovering and meeting 'Mats fans around the country on this here computer dealy. --===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===-- fin. --==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==-- || Matthew Tomich || <<>> || || 1111 S. 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