From matt@oasis.novia.net Thu Nov 13 20:13:55 1997 Date: Thu, 13 Nov 1997 20:12:52 -0600 (CST) From: Matthew Tomich To: The Skyway Subject: #54 ______________________________________________________________________________ // // The \\kyway \\ // skyway@novia.net Issue #54 November 13th, 1997 ______________________________________________________________________________ (c) 1997 Bastards of Young (BOY/BetaOmegaYamma) Productions list manager: Matthew Tomich (matt@novia.net) technical consultant and thanks to: Bob Fulkerson of Novia Networking ______________________________________________________________________________ SKYWAY SUBSCRIPTION/LISTSERVER INFORMATION Send all listserver commands in the body of a letter to "majordomo@novia.net" To subscribe to the //Skyway\\: subscribe skyway To unsubscribe from the //Skyway\\: unsubscribe skyway THE //SKYWAY\\ WEB PAGE Check here for back issues, lyrics, discography, and other files. http://www.novia.net/~matt/sky/skyway.html ______________________________________________________________________________ Send submissions to: skyway@novia.net ______________________________________________________________________________ 0. Heyday (m@) I. Just Showed Up 1. David Donohue 2. Kym Jones 3. Jami Taylor 4. Bellicini Giovanni 5. Jim Gross 6. Ray Infussi 7. Maureen "Mo" Conklin 8. Mike II. Reviews 1. Paul "Pee Brain" Sorce III. buy.sell.trade.steal 1. Skywayer "Fan Hits Back" CD (Mark Timmins) 2. Wanted: posters, photos, whatever (Ken Maffeo) 3. Wanted: videos (Brent Slobodin) 4. Wanted: decent Men Without Ties (Marc Garlock) ________________________________________________________________________________ 0. Heyday! Hey, you know, sometimes an issue comes out quicker than once every six weeks! If nothing else, it's a lot easier to sit down and read the whole thing in one sitting when it's not forty pages. (But then nobody sends in those "I almost got canned when I emptied the laser printer's paper cartridge printing out the latest issue of the Skyway at work" letters.) People have been askin' if the Skyway Christmas tape trade thing is going to happen again this year; and the answer is: heck yeah! Details will be out a little before or after Thanksgiving, depending on how fast I can type. Okay, here's my bit of juvenalia for the month: One time while browsing on the web looking for the decypherings of Promise Ring lyrics, I decided to find out what lucky guy scored the web site address "http://www.matt.com" before any of my other zillion namesakes in the world did. And while it wasn't a surprise that the name was already taken, I was amazed to see that the site wasn't the typical scene of personal indulgence, but rather the advertisement for some enterprising speculator looking to make a fast buck on the sale a domain name. Don't you think there's something inherently evil about speculation? I mean, isn't this the same sort of thing that causes land values in high-growth areas to spiral skyward ridiculously, making industrial start-up costs to increase, resulting in inflation and the cost of manufacturing to rise, pressuring a raise in the cost of living, and ultimately the reason that new cars cost twenty grand and every stupid car I've owned breaks down all the time? Well, yeah, that's stretching it a bit, but still it was annoying that the internet wasn't free from the anything-for-a-buck attitude that makes America so great. So, with a bad case of The Fridays and in a fit of employment frustration, pranking impulsiveness, and some latent high school brashness, I sat down to compose an appropriate response to the situation and ended up sending Mr. Matt the following letter: Date: Friday, November 07, 1997 16:57:04 -0600 From: Matthew Tomich To: matt@okdirect.com Subject: Hey Mr. Speculator! A big hearty 'fuck you' to you. It turns out that my new friend just happened to be sitting at his computer, undoubtedly awaiting a note of an offer of the sixty grand he was asking for the ownership of the address of his web site. I quickly received the following response in return: Date: Friday, November 07, 1997 17:19:07 -0600 From: Matthew Walton To: Matthew Tomich Subject: Re: Hey Mr. Speculator! Why? because I got my hands on matt.com before you did? I guess you tell everyone who has something that you don't have "fuck you"..Huh? The dude down the street who owns a 'vette that you don't have...He gets a hearty "fuck you"?? The dude in the $200,000 house? Fuck him too, huh? I guess it's not just not right that someone could possible have something you don't! Matthew Walton BTW..You make yourself look pretty silly when you cuss at someone like that. I'm looking forward to the next piece of mail that you send me that will probably be just like the one below. Go ahead and send it and prove my point that you're just silly and immature. It's good for a laugh! Have a nice day!! (Well, he missed my point. But how could I resist?) Date: Friday, 7 November 1997 17:58:03 -0600 From: Matthew Tomich To: Matthew Walton Subject: Re: Hey Mr. Speculator! On Fri, 7 Nov 1997, Matthew Walton wrote: > Why? because I got my hands on matt.com before you did? I guess you tell > everyone who has something that you don't have "fuck you"..Huh? The dude > down the street who owns a 'vette that you don't have...He gets a hearty > "fuck you"?? The dude in the $200,000 house? Fuck him too, huh? Now that I think of it, yeah. Fuck them too. NYC AREA SKYWAYERS (and anybody else who likes to drive): Alright, hey, if yer near NYC, the band I'm in is coming up from NC and playing a free show at Sarah Lawrence College in Bronxville, NY (15 minutes north of NYC) on Saturday (November 15th). Already more than a couple people from the Skyway are showing up, so if you're not doing anything feel free to come by and spend Saturday night crazily convening with your fellow 'Mats fans and wasting your life listening to that loud rock noise bullshit that your parents warned you about. THE SCARIES / SORRY ABOUT DRESDEN / THE BIG ROCK Free show at the Sarah Lawrence College Campus Coffeehouse (basement of the MacCracken building) - Saturday, November 15th @ 9:30 p.m. - Free parking on campus and off Mead Way. - Need any more details? Feel free to harass Luke Andrews at landrews@mail.slc.edu or 914-323-6602. (He's a nice guy.) Feel free to drop me a line if you think you're going to show! (that's "matt@novia.net". Not "http://www.matt.com".) - M@! P.S. These awesome 'Mats-loving sites are back up! Noise magazine: http://www.noize.com Mike Monello's badass 'Mats rarities and demos site is now entitled "The Replacements Music Vault": http://www.magicnet.net/~mikem ________________________________________________________________________________ I. THE GUT SPILLIN' STARTS HERE Date: Wed, 29 Oct 1997 02:47:45 -0500 From: David Donohue Subject: Hey, I'm introducing myself! Hey there Skyway - It's damned marvelous to discover this page on the net. I'm a confirmed Mats fanatic, but it's always difficult to find like-minded people where I reside in NYC. I discovered the Mats when someone sat me down in college and made me listen to "Androgynous" and "Here Comes A Regular" on a cheapie stereo. The music just had such immediacy, such unvarnished purpose or whatever you call it that it blew me away! I borrowed the guy's copy of Let It Be and the rest, as they say is history. Man, the Mats have helped me through some excruciatingly hard times in my life. I just regret that I never got to see them live. Anyway, I was wondering if there was an address for Paul or Tommy or Slim or Chris fan mail. I'd just really like to say a deeply heartfelt "Thank You" for the influence that their music has had on my life. I'd appreciate it greatly if you guys at Skyway could help me out with this. It would mean a lot to me. Thanks for loving the Mats so much, Dave Donohue P.S. I came across this today. Short but (bitter)sweet: http://www.salonmagazine.com/music/sharps/1997/10/29replacements.html [from /Salon/, Border's music web site] "Not so long ago, before its dissolution into the vacuous terminology of style and fashion, "Generation X" was the perfectly ambiguous description of a microgeneration that could never clearly explain its angst nor define its aspirations. The Replacements didn't simply occupy that murky world, they embodied it. As the liner notes on "All for Nothing" jokingly admit, the two-disc retrospective "isn't a greatest hits disc because, well, there weren't really any hits." It's also true that the new collection is far from comprehensive. For one thing, no songs from the band's first four albums -- "Sorry Ma, Forgot To Take Out The Trash," "The Replacements Stink," "Hootenanny" and "Let It Be" -- are included. The problem, of course, is one of rights and ownership, the first four albums having been released on the Twin Tone label and the latter four on Sire. By drawing only from "Tim," "Pleased to Meet Me," "Don't Tell a Soul" and "All Shook Down," the compilation highlights the group's waning years and omits most of the contributions made by guitarist Bob Stinson. The brilliant yet troubled musician (he died from a heroin overdose in 1995) was kicked out of the band shortly after "Tim" was released and replaced by Slim Dunlap. While admittedly limited in scope, "All for Nothing" does succeed in capturing the band's fundamentally Generation X-like qualities -- its essential lostness, unhappy-go-unlucky sense of humor and gritty desperation. Perhaps no other songwriter from the '80s matched Paul Westerberg's ability to distill and express the dismal expectations of his peers. When, on "Bastards of Young," he sang "God, what a mess/on the ladder of success/where you take one step and miss the whole first rung," he voiced the fears and frustrations of a legion of young fans already pessimistic about the possibilities awaiting them. Like "Bastards of Young," many of the songs included on "All for Nothing's" first disc are wrought with longing and an uprooted sadness. On songs like "Here Comes A Regular," "Skyway" and "Achin' to Be," Westerberg's wounds are raw, and he makes no effort to cover them up. The entire disc is suffused with darkness and an aching loneliness. While the first disc serves as a strong introduction for the uninitiated, it is the much looser second disc -- subtitled "Nothing for All" -- that most of the band's core fans will want to get their hands on. Filled with unreleased songs, B-sides and outtakes, it is an essential addition to any Replacements collection. Songs range from send-ups ("Like a Rolling Pin") to silliness ("All He Wants to Do Is Fish") to drunken blues rockers ("Election Day"). Occasionally brilliant, often sloppy, and sometimes both, the songs remind the listener of some of the band's best moments. "All for Nothing's" only letdown, then, is the omission of songs from the band's earlier period. The Replacements were, after all, one of the '80s' most important and influential bands. Unfortunately, this collection provides only half the reason why. Oct. 29, 1997 Joe Heim is a regular contributor to Salon. Wed, 29 Oct 1997 21:41:55 -0400 From: CVUF11C@prodigy.com (MISS KYM D JONES) Date: Wed, 29 Oct 1997 20:41:55, -0500 Subject: Stumbling into the 'Mats Welp, like all those that came before me, I suppose since I am writing my first letter to The Skyway, it is time for me to share my "how I stumbled upon the 'Mats" story. Well kids, it's not that exciting. About two years ago, I bought "Pleased To Meet Me," when I was 14, having vaguely heard of them and thinking that I'd give the album a shot. Need I say more? I was in love. Something about the raw power of the music, the overwhelming sincerity of Paul's voice and his words...I know you know what I mean. I acquired more... The words of "Sixteen Blue", which hit a little too close to home every day, have "helped me through" prolly more than Paul (funny how I feel like I'm on a first-name basis with them...) ever thought they could when he wrote them. I suppose no amount of words could ever show how much I love this band; words are such easy stumbling blocks at times, and in this effort to describe the 'Mats, it appears I am stumbling quite steadily! Oh well. Perhaps it is the sheer inexplicability of the band that is/was their power...The band had something...I guess that "something" is different to everyone, and that's really where the 'Mats's beauty kicks in - they meant something entirely unique to whomever they touched. Perhaps that sounds a bit generic to describe such a stellar band, but I think it's true. I enjoy Paul's solo work; it has an impact on me in a different way than the 'Mats's work did, but it's strong. "Good Day"'s philosophy has helped me through every day, and...I don't know! There's something so wonderful and beautiful in it...Inexplicable, to be sure. I guess I don't feel a need to share my life experiences, though I confess a liking for reading other people's - it's so great to hear about the various backgrounds of those I feel I have a connection with simply through The Replacements. Doesn't that say something about the power of their music? It's not just any band that unites people in this way, methinks. But I have a fear of boring you, my fellow 'Mats fans, if I haven't already, so I'll stop here. Thanx for letting me babble, and naturally, if anyone wants to e-mail me...You know the routine. Take care, everyone. -Kym Date: Fri, 31 Oct 1997 16:07:52 -0800 From: 2jtaylor <2jtaylor@concentric.net> Subject: JAMI M. TAYLOR: MY STORY i first heard the mats' in the summer of 1991. i had a friend who asked if i had ever heard the song, Here Comes a Regular. of course i had not as i was still in the closet at that time. hoodoo gurus and inxs to be exact, but anyways it lead to him lending me All Shook Down, and from the first riff of Merry Go Round, i was a believer. now for six years straight i love the sound as much as i did that day. i had never been so moved by music. i felt kind of stupid at first being so passionate about a rock and roll band with a rep such as theirs, but paul had feeling and meaning in his voice; it was very inspiring. as a senior in high school i learned what the band was all about. i preached to other kids to listen they would just laugh at me and stick to their nirvana and p.j. i tried to make them understand they just could not. this has continued til' this day. i have only 2 converts to my credit, a old girlfriend, and one of my closest buddies. the only time i really got to talk about the mats' with someone who understood was at all the paul shows i have been to. seen him once in athens,ga (sept96), and 3x in atlanta, one being a in studio live performance for 99x the so-called alternative station in atlanta. anyways at the beginning they told us to be quiet while the band was playing, but you could clap in between songs. oh yeah everyone was sitting as well. anyways you could tell paul did not like this, so finally he yelled at everyone to get up and sing along during the encore. i believe it was Nevermind. Then everyone went nuts. it was all bottled inside of us through the whole show. then we had fun, just what it is all about. well, that is enough for now. i would like to say thanks to the people in charge of this forum. as you can tell i love the mats'. they will be pumped via headphones into my wife's belly, if i ever get married, to raise the kid up right. i enjoy reading everybody's stories, they are very interesting. i feel like i just got a load off my chest! thanks, i am out! JT From: "Bellicini Giovanni" Date: Sun, 2 Nov 1997 16:13:16 +0100 ok, i'm italian and I like the Mats a lot. I think they're my favourite band, and I listen to their music since 1994 (Well, it's not a lot). Now I'm trying to put up a band here, at my hometown (a small town, with about 15,000 souls living there) and I'd like to perform a lot of Mats' songs. I write my own songs, but I'm always too drunk to understand if they're good or not, but I don't care, anyway, what the fuck. First before ending this, I'd like to say that the Mats have always performed the soundtrack of my life, even when I didn't know they existed. Well, what a shitful letter! Fuck off! Date: Sun, 02 Nov 1997 16:16:00 -0800 From: "Gross, Jim" Subject: My Moment of Zen I bought All For Nothing/Nothing For All yesterday and it reminded me why I think The Replacements were/are not just the most under-appreciated, influential rock band of our age, but in fact the greatest rock and roll band I will ever know. Anyway, thought I'd share a story of Paul and me (sort of). After seeing Paul on his 14 Songs tour in Indianapolis, my buddy Chris and I wandered out back to see if we could find our hero of many years. Feigning stomach sickness so as to get out back quicker, I barreled out the doors to see Paul's bus right next to the exit. Sweet, I thought, he'll walk right past here. So Chris and I waited. It soon became evident that Paul was already onboard, but we persevered. Here we were 26 years old or whatever, both of us having respectable, professional jobs at which we had to be hard at work in a few hours, and we're standing outside, drunk at 1:30am on a cold Indiana October night waiting to see a man we've both worshipped since high school. Well, right about the time I was getting ready to pack it in, I notice the drapes in the back of the bus parting. Then Paul looks out, surveying the scene. There's still about a dozen hard-core fans out there, but I seemed to be the only that noticed him looking out. I waved silently. He waved back goofily, and like that he was gone again. A perfect ending to the night. Maybe you can use that for The //Skyway\\. Maybe not. Thanks, Jim Gross Dallas, TX From: "RAY INFUSSI" Date: Tue, 4 Nov 1997 19:00:35 GMT-5 Subject: what else? Wow. . . finally aboard; i feel so---part-of-the-crowd (small as it is). My 'mats story begins in '84, in D.C. New Tower records opens, spring '85; 'Let it Be' is everywhere. i dismiss it, looking for U2 stuff. Next year, transfer to Loyola C. in Charm City, gut across the hall has 'Tim'. Am now hooked. Get the back catalogue, dedicate myself to spending next 2.5 yrs. of college drunk. See 'em live at G.W.U. in '86 (rollicking), opening for the dreaded Petty in '89, & twice on the final tour. They always appealed to me simply because the boys refused to be pigeonholed. Loyola was severely homogeneous, mama's boys & daddy's little girls, & no real place for a smart f***-up like me. Few others got the message & still today i am John the Baptist preaching in the desert. I taught myself guitar (poorly), learning from u2 records. Repeated efforts have transformed my style into pseudo-Paul w/ major limitations. I still play everyday, acoustic, sometimes electric (where can I get a Les Paul Jr. like Paul's?). At one time or another, have learned all (or most) of every song. Forgotten more than I remember now. The best thing about the Replacements is that you can mix a great tape for a party & keep things rolling, & then afterwards you can wind down/console/get drunker with the rest of the songs that most folks wouldn't get anyway. Makes the lonesome/solitary moments bearable. Enough, Ray. Date: Mon, 27 Oct 97 9:09:09 CST From: "Maureen Conklin" I hope this is where I send my "How I met the 'Mats (sort of)" story. :-) My name is Mo Conklin and I'm originally from Pontiac, Michigan, about 15 miles northwest of Detroit. I'm now employed as the assistant director of financial aid at Carthage College in Kenosha, WI (yay), so that's where I now am residing. I was fourteen when _All Shook Down_ was released. I remember hearing "Merry-Go-Round" an awful lot that fall, and just loving it. I hoarded my babysitting earnings and bought the album on cassette, and it rarely left my tape deck after that. The band was in the middle of their last tour, and they were slated to play in Ann Arbor on Valentine's Day (I think), 1991. I was too young to get in, too young to drive, and I couldn't get a fake ID or a ride in time for the show. The concert was broadcast on one of the Detroit-Windsor stations, and I sat in my room listening and crying because I couldn't be there. About this same time, I went through a stage where I hated myself to no end--self-mutilation and all of that (lots of reasons for this that I won't go into here). It sounds terribly silly, but one of the things that made me quit hurting myself that way was "Merry-Go-Round" and the other Replacements songs I eventually discovered seemed to express and elucidate the things I felt but had no words for. But...all the psychological stuff aside, I loved the Replacements' music because it rocked! As Jim Hauser wrote in the last issue, it has balls. So, here I am, twenty-one years old, and I've never seen the 'Mats, Paul, or any of Tommy's projects (although I think I saw Tommy on I-94 up near the Twin Cities last week--you never know). For a long time, it was because I was too young to get in, but last summer I was so sure I would finally get to see Paul in concert (and ask him why he doesn't answer his mail...), but I went to Ireland and missed the concert by four days. Ouch. I'm glad to have to opportunity to get in touch with other 'Mats fans. Drop me a line if you like. Cheers! Mo Date: Fri, 07 Nov 1997 23:52:36 -0800 From: paddington@earthlink.net Subject: My Mats story I subscribed to the SKYWAY a year or two ago and thought I'd drop you all a line finally. My name is Mike & I'm a 30-year old Replacements nut who lives/works in San Francisco. My first Replacements 'moment' was back in 89/90 when they opened for Tom Petty in Costa Mesa, CA. I wasn't a huge Tom Petty fan (in fact I forget where I got the tickets) but thank goodness I got there early enough to catch the opener that night! I remember the Mats hitting the stage and going off like a stick of TNT! The place was practically empty as they played because most of the Petty fans were still drinking beer in the parking lot. They were loud, scrappy yet tight and looked like they were having fun despite the fact no one was paying attention to them. When Paul & Tommy decided to switch guitars mid-song by throwing their axes at each other, I knew this was the band for me! I also remember seeing them around that time on some stupid rock awards TV special and Paul uttered something like "what the hell are we doing here"... So, I went out and bought "Don't Tell a Soul" (I figured I'd start w/their latest). I liked it, but it didn't sound as LOUD as the band I had seen the night before...Over the next few days I bought the rest of their tapes and I'm glad to say I still have all of them (although I re-bought everything on CD as well!) The next Mats show I saw was a couple of years later in San Francisco on the ASD tour. In fact the night they played at the Warfield (1/16/91) was the day the Gulf War started. It was a weird night...People rioting and breaking windows up & down Market street. Paul snapped the neck off of his SG during 'Left of the Dial', Tommy sang a couple of tunes, Slim was being Slim, and Steve Foley just looked 'out of place.' It probably wasn't one of their best shows, but to me they were simply amazing. My favorite song or album? I can't really answer that. Just like everyone reading this, their music and attitude seems to strike a chord in me that no other band even comes close to. The relationship between the Replacements and their fans reminds me of Close Encounters of the Third Kind...we're all just kind of 'drawn to them' and it's hard thing to explain to those who haven't made the connection. I often find myself carving sculptures of Bob in my mashed potatoes:) I went through a divorce a couple of years ago and their music definitely got me through some sad times. I know it sounds real sappy, but it's the truth. Heck, my ex-wife didn't even know who the Replacements were (I should have known it wouldn't last!) Anyways, I still love the band (I'm listening to the new double CD right now) and I always will. I saw Paul in SF last year and it was a great show. I can't believe I got to hear 'Customer' and 'I'm in Trouble' performed by the man himself! I also caught Slim & Perfect last year as well. Check 'em both out if you get the chance. For kicks I play guitar/sing in a raggedy little SF band called the Doormats (http://home.earthlink.net/~peteshoe/index.html). Take a look at our link if you're feeling brave...Don't worry, we all have 'real' jobs and have no aspirations of stardom:) I'd love to hear from other Replacements fans (especially any in the SF area). Take care. -Mike paddington@earthlink.net ________________________________________________________________________________ II. REVIEWS (Isn't it kind of silly reviewing a greatest hits album? Regardless, it's just more promotion for our heroes. Here's the most down-to-earth review I read on ALL FOR NOTHING + NOTHING FOR ALL:) Date: Wed, 12 Nov 1997 20:49:18 -0700 From: psorce@webworldinc.com Subject: Maxim Review Here's a review from Maxim (reprinted w/ the permission of the author's mother's bartender): FOR YOUR DRINKING BUDDY: THE REPLACEMENTS, ALL FOR NOTHING When this drinker's band were good, they were very, very good; when they were bad, they were just a bit more fucked up than usual. And though this anthology excludes the sloppy early indie-label days, the major-label recordings capture the woke-up-in-our-clothes-again hangover heartache they did so well. The "hits" disc of this set, All for Nothing, culls cuts from the four albums The Replacements did for Sire, including reckless rockers like "Bastards Of Young" plus sad, boozy ballads on the order of "Achin' To Be." The second disc, Nothing For All, is nothing but rarities--a must for fans. Formerly liquored front man Paul Westerberg is sober & less interesting now, but in his alky prime he articulated both fired-up joys & sorrows that cannot be drowned, not for lack of trying. _______________________________________________________________________________ III. WANTED Date: Wed, 6 Aug 97 13:35:24 -0500 From: "Mark Timmins" Subject: The "The Fans Hit Back" CD project Many of you are aware that there have been two compilation tapes to date which I have put together of music performed by fellow Skywegians (shameless plug: to order a copy of either tape (at cost) email me at timmins@bdl.bd.com). Well, the idea occurred to me to create a _Fans Hit Back_ CD. This would be a co-op sort of deal, where everyone involved would underwrite the cost of producing the discs. If we got enough people involved, we could keep the costs to well below $100 per band. I was just involved in a project led by Ted James (a fellow Skywegian) and each of the 24 bands on the project paid $75 and got 30 copies of the final product, which is very professional looking. After you give copies to everyone in the band, your mom, your brother-in-law, etc., you have enough left over to sell and recover your costs (or give to other people as presents). Incidentally, since I ran the letter last month, I have conversed with a few people who have led me to believe that we could even do a 'budget' version of this project, which would keep the costs really low! Divide these costs amongst the members of your band and we're talking pocket change! So, if the dinero is the deterrent, desist in your deliberation and decide to do it. :-) All alliteration aside, haven't you always wanted to have a CD with your own music on it!?!? So, what I'm wondering is who would be interested in getting involved in such a project. Because this is a twist on what I've done to date and because we want as many different people as possible to participate, those of you who have appeared on the two tapes are definitely invited to participate. As before, I was thinking that this would be a forum to showcase original songs, but covers are also welcome. This, however, is not intended as a Mats' tribute album, but rather an album of (preferably original) music performed by fans of the Replacements. So, who's interested? -Mark Date: Wed, 29 Oct 1997 20:03:23 -0500 From: ken I read the latest issue of Skyway and enjoyed it very much. I saw that there was a "wanted section". I would like to put out a request that I am looking for picures of Paul/Mats to buy. I have been asking people for three years with no luck. I would buy pictures, posters, tapes, most anything. You can email me at kcdeech@ifu.net. Thank you. Ken Maffeo From: "Megan and Brent Slobodin" Date: Wed, 29 Oct 1997 21:32:41 -0800 I'm having no luck connecting to the newsgroup. What I'm basically after is anyone who would be willing to trade for videos of the band. Any suggestions (or traders) would be appreciated. Brent Date: Tue, 04 Nov 1997 13:32:16 -0800 From: Marc Garlock Subject: MEN WITHOUT TIES PLUS I have a terrible copy of Men Without Ties, and I would like to find a good copy on tape, or one of the CD singles that it appears on. Do you know where I may be able to locate this song? There is a lot of talk on the web about famous 'Mats shows floating around on tape out there. Well, I live in Lexington, KY, and not much floats around down here except John Michael Montgomery and Clint Black. Any suggestions on where I could look for some of these tapes? Any help or direction you could give would be much appreciated. Thanks, Marc Garlock fin. HEY! Do you like these smaller issues? Or do you prefer the epics? Let me know. ________________________________________________________________________________ The //Skyway\\: The Replacements Mailing List (digest only) http://www.novia.net/~matt/sky/skyway.html The //Skyway\\ | c/o Matt Tomich | 311 S. LaSalle #43g | Durham NC 27705 | USA "I want to give a really *bad* party. I mean it. I want to give a party where there's a brawl and seductions and people going home with their feelings hurt and women passed out in the cabinet de toilette. You just wait and see." - F. Scott Fitzgerald, _Tender is the Night_