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Greg - 2006-06-20 12:32:28
Hey, thanks on the photo thingie. I'm going to go see it at lunch this week. Full report to come. Bruce Davidson released a photo book a couple years ago called The Brooklyn Gang, 1959. They're all taken on the south end of Park Slope. Some of the people in the photos are still around, which is strange. Some great stories.
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iwombat - 2006-06-20 14:02:25
A good friend of mine, Ethan Winogrand, is Garry's son, so I've seen a lot of that work, I like it more and more.
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Greg - 2006-06-20 16:19:17
Replacements--I was supposed to see them on the Tim tour but got too drunk to go, which is the Bizarro Replacements world where things happen backwards from Earth. Saw them on the Pleased To Meet Me tour and the highlight was a request hour. They covered Edison Lighthouse, Billy Swan and the Allman Bros... some other stuff too but that's 20 years ago... and I was probably drunk again.
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2fs - 2006-06-20 19:04:48
It's funny - I used to love the Replacements, but a lot of their material now just doesn't work that well for me. The best of it, though, still hits me pretty hard. The article seems occasionally clueless: as with most mainstream media, it seems to imagine that bands like the 'Mats (among those who, in the '80s, essentially created the whole indie touring circuit) wanted or were judged on a traditional showbiz criteria of success. Never made it? Perhaps not to Warner Brothers' accountants - but for the rest of us, the Replacements were as successful as a band of their type (and given their problems...) would ever be. Also surprised that, in talking about interband concerns (heh...), the writer didn't mention the title of Mars' first solo album ("75% Less Fat")...
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Greg - 2006-06-20 23:43:37
I've yet to ever see anything in the NY Times that hints than any of their writers "get" rock and roll. You have to piece together what the artists say about themselves or their music to get anything from it, most of the time. Have to agree that measures of success totally elude the press and the music industry in general. Somehow it all seems to translate into the musicians living like royalty. Or you have the cases where a band is famous for screwing up--and for some odd reason the Replacements were always mentioned in that light (or darkness). It's just plain obnoxious. It's the only profession where it's played like that. But the first 5 Replacements albums work for me as well now as they did 20+ years ago.
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Sharps - 2006-06-21 00:48:17
the writer didn't mention the title of Mars' first solo album ("75% Less Fat")...
That was actually his second. The first was "Horseshoes and Hand Grenades"! Both are classic titles....
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