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| From | Dan Taylor <editor@hungovergourmet.com> |
| Subject | Mats Book Coming in November |
| Date | Wed, 23 May 2007 11:55:48 -0400 |
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All Over But the Shouting: An Oral History of The Replacements will
be published on November 15th...
From Amazon.com:
At the dawn of “Morning in America” – a period that would nurse the
rise of suit-and-tie culture – there emerged a national network of
anti-corporate record shops, college radio stations, fanzines,
nightclubs, and entrepreneurial record labels. In the watershed year
1981, this “indie” scene fostered several seminal releases. Among
recordings by bands such as Sonic Youth, Black Flag, Hüsker Dü, The
Minutemen, and R.E.M. was an album called Sorry Ma . . . Forgot to
Take Out the Trash, recorded by a scruffy, flannel-clad quartet from
Minneapolis called The Replacements.
Now, for the first time, all of the hearsay, half-truths, legends,
and allegations associated with this maelstrom of a rock & roll band
are unraveled in this oral history by longtime Twin Cities music
journalist Jim Walsh. Through interviews with family, friends, and
fans; former manager Peter Jesperson; Twin/Tone record label
cofounder Paul Stark; and musicians around the nation influenced by
the band, Walsh lays bare with painful clarity a tale that unfolds
like a tragicomedy in three perfect acts. Celebrated by national
publications, “the ’Mats” often seemed more hell-bent on sabotaging
their status as critical darlings than parlaying it. With their
markedly apolitical stance amid their decidedly political peers,
their uncool embrace of “classic rock” influences like KISS and The
Faces, and their Dionysian appetites (and the resulting tendency to
literally fall on their own faces), The Replacements lasted 12 years
despite themselves. From the band’s founding to their rise through
the local and national club circuits, their major label deal in 1985,
and the slow and painful implosion that followed, The Replacements:
All Over But the Shouting lays down the gripping oral history behind
the little band that could – but didn’t.
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Dan Taylor / editor@hungovergourmet.com
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