Filed under: News Chuck Prophet was just 22 when he first worked with Memphis blues and rock legend Jim Dickinson , who produced two discs by Prophet's old band Green on Red (1987's dark but polished 'The Killer Inside Me' and 1989's demented 'Here Come the Snakes') around the same time that he worked with the Replacements . They were friends and collaborators ever since, performing together on the 1997 live record 'A Thousand Footprints in the Sand . ' Prophet, who is working [...]
As I was finishing yesterday's Replacements post, a blip came over my Twitter feed that Jim Dickinson had passed away. I thought, "no that can't be the same Jim Dickinson that I just wrote about." But unfortunately, it was. Here is the Associated Press article on Dickinson's life via Yahoo news . Memphis producer, musician Jim Dickinson dies By CHRIS TALBOTT, Associated Press Writer [...]
The music world lost another great one. Legendary musician and producer Jim Dickinson died Saturday at age 67. Dickinson worked with Bob Dylan, the Rolling Stones and Aretha Franklin. He also produced Big Star's seminal album "Third" and the Replacements' "Pleased to Meet Me." His sons also made their mark: Luther and Cody are two-thirds of the band North Mississippi Allstars . In the video below, Dickinson talks about working with Alex Chilton . Known for creating the Memphis sound in the '60 and '70s, Dickinson is the [...]
Old Black, Neil Young's trusty Gibson Les Paul Goldtop If Les Paul had only invented the solid-body guitar that bears his name, he'd be rock royalty. As an icon, the Gibson Les Paul has few peers. But, Paul also transformed the reel-to-reel given to him by Bing Crosby into the first functioning multitrack recording machine. That innovation in the mid-'40s spurred the development over the next 10-15 years of two-, three-, four-, and eight-track recorders. Oh, and Les was a pretty fair jazz guitarist. All [...]
No, not the Nirvana album. A lyric from this song by The Replacements is from where Jim Walsh takes the title of his book The Replacements: "All Over But the Shouting," An Oral History (2007) . Pleased to Meet Me was essentially recorded as a trio; lead guitarist Bob Stinson had been kicked out of the band allegedly due to his drug and alcohol abuse. It was also the first time The 'Mats recorded an album outside of their native Minneapolis. They [...]
Filed under: News , R.I.P. Memphis music titan Jim Dickinson, who produced the Replacements ' indie classic 'Pleased to Meet Me' and Big Star's '3rd,' passed away in his sleep Saturday morning at the age of 67, while recovering from triple bypass surgery. The news comes just a week after a concert was held in Memphis, Tennessee, to raise money for Dickinson's mounting medical costs. Performers included John Hiatt, Jimmy Davis, Shannon McNally and North Mississippi Allstars , which includes Dickinson's sons Luther and Cody. Dickinson's medical trouble was [...]
Now we come to my favorite Replacements album, Tim . This album was their first major label release (on Sire Records, a subsidiary of Warner Brothers), and their first recording without Twin/Tone Records co-founder Peter Jesperson. Many fans complain about the production on this album, not to mention the ugly artsy-fartsy album cover, but I still think its their strongest, especially in terms of songwriting. But, a major label can also mean major headaches. Paul Westerberg: "We're making money, but we don't see it because you got like lawyers and accountants and fuckheads." [...]
LastFM You must understand how it pains me to say this, but at long last two of the artists whom I've been waiting to come to Toronto for most of this year - Norwegian firebrand Ida Maria and New Zealand '80s acolyte Ladyhawke - have finally set a date... and I have Perez Hilton to thank. The two are the marquee acts of the first Perez Hilton Presents tour and as much as I hate to think he and I have anything in common besides rudimentary MS Paint skills, in this [...]
There are some really interesting comments in yesterday's Sevens post on the Mats "Can't Hardly Wait." Worth a read if you're a Replacements fan. An AD reader sent us yet another version of the track culled from the Pleased To Meet Me sessions bootleg, which, to my knowledge, has yet to be included on any [...]
(Sevens, a recurring feature on Aquarium Drunkard, pays tribute to the art of the individual song.) Multiple versions of songs are often one of the more exciting things about watching an artist at work. Getting to see a song run through its stages of development, recorded in different ways with different lyrics and different instrumentation [...]
Let It Be (1984, reissued 2008) is The Replacements fourth studio album and is considered a "masterpiece" my many 'Mats fans. It was given a five star rating by All Music . It was also the Replacements breakthrough album in that people outside of the upper Midwest really started to pay attention to the band. I love the cover art (right top), a photograph by Daniel Corrigan , taken on the roof of Bob and Tommy Stinson's family home in South Minneapolis. It reminds me of my summers in [...]
The Replacements producer/manager Peter Jesperson: We cut "Within Your Reach" during that secret solo Paul [Westerberg] session. And Chris [Mars] tried to play drums on it, and it just wasn't working. It didn't fit the song. And for some reason, [Suicide Commandos drummer] Dave Ahl had a drum machine there and we turned that on and [engineer Steve] Fjelstad mic'd it up and that's what we used for the song. (p.111) Buy : The Replacements: All Over But the Shouting, An Oral History (2007) [...]
The Replacements first studio album, Sorry Ma, Forgot to Take Out the Trash (1981), which many consider one of the best American punk albums of all time, barely got any play outside of Minneapolis/St. Paul area. Regardless, they followed-up this release with an EP entitled Stink . The cassette and album covers were hand stamped, giving the release even more of an underground feel. Lori Barbero , a Minneapolis musician and drummer for Babes in Toyland , talks about the opening track in the book [...]
Grant Hart , Mark Olson , Prince Rogers Nelson , and Paul Westerberg were all born within three and a half years of each other in the Minneapolis/St. Paul area. Hart, New York-born Bob Mould and Illinois-born Greg Norton stated the hardcore band Husker Du at about the same time as Westerberg and his Minneapolis-born friends Bobby and Tommy Stinson and Chris Mars formed The Replacements . The two bands even performed together and had somewhat of a healthy competition in the Minneapolis music scene. Although by the time that [...]
STREAM: Big Star - "In the Street" "Children by the million sing for Alex Chilton when he comes 'round" - The Replacements: “Alex Chilton” In the 30+ years since the release of Big Star’s first two albums, #1 Record and Radio City , these discs have grown to a legendary/cult status that its members (Alex Chilton, Chris Bell, Jody Stephens and Andy Hummel) never seemed to recapture. These albums, which were originally issued in [...]
After two days of reading I am now on page 95 of Jim Walsh's The Replacements: All Over But the Shouting, An Oral History. At first I didn't like the book mainly because of the style in which it is written. It literally is an "oral" history in that every paragraph is a quote from someone associated in some way with The Replacements , be it a fan, a musician, a fellow writer, or even a relative. Walsh did tons of research finding hundreds of old interviews from various magazine and newspaper articles [...]
So here’s the second part of the Alt-Rock 101 article I started last week . We’ve had Sonic Youth, Hüsker Dü and The Meat Puppets, now it’s time for these three: The Replacements – I Will Dare Minutemen – History Lesson (Part II) R.E.M. – So. Central Rain (I’m Sorry) The Replacements, like Hüsker Dü before them and The Hold Steady after them, hail from Minneapolis. There’s a reason I mention The Hold Steady. In this great article, Craig Finn talks of how they saved his life. [...]
I just started reading The Replacements: All Over But the Shouting, An Oral History (2007). Written by Jim Walsh who was in the front row as The Replacements plowed through the basements and bars of Minneapolis to semi-national fame in the 1980s-indie underground. Walsh estimates that he saw The 'Mats 150 times over twelve years. I never saw them live, but when I first heard them on college radio 1988, my 15-year-old self was immediately in love. I'm only through the preface, but I can already tell [...]
For many years now Scott McCaughey has been making a living as one of the auxiliary members of R.E.M., and as the leader of his one-time side project The Minus Five. But before either of these endeavors came into the picture, McCaughey was the ringleader of one of Seattle’s best kept secrets, the Young Fresh Fellows. The band has just released I Think This Is , its first record in eight years.
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