7/4/91

Of course the historical significance of The Replacements playing Chicago last night is that it's the city they played their final show 22 years ago...matter of fact, would it have actually been better of they'd skipped last month's Toronto show and went for symmetry by making Chicago the first one?

Anyhoo, apparently it rocked anyways:

With curfew approaching—even though he’d earlier destroyed the stage clock—Westerberg abruptly walked off after “Bastards Of Young,” followed by bemused, and perhaps confused, Stinson, who merely shrugged. Roadies came out and strapped on their instruments, and for a brief moment, it looked like Westerberg might be creating an homage to the band’s final show in Chicago’s Grant Park on July 4, 1991, which ended with the Mats basically breaking up as crew members played what was left of “Hootenanny.” It would’ve been a perfect capper, but the band instead returned for “Hold My Life” and a version that “I.O.U.” as fierce as “Takin’ A Ride” an hour and a half earlier. The rain that had deluged the city most of the day, and which let up a couple of hours earlier, began to fall again; trudging through the mud to the exits, more than satisfied with what they’d just witnessed, not a single fan gave a damn.
There’s an infamous line in a New Rolling Stone Record Guide review of Sorry, Ma Forgot To Take Out The Trash, circa 1983—well, infamous to a small group of nerds who know about it—that dismissed the Mats with, “Who knows if we’ll ever hear from them again? Who really cares?” Decades later, the first question can’t be answered. The second one, however, is again a resounding, “We do.”
- See more at: http://www.magnetmagazine.com/2013/09/16/live-review-the-replacements-chicago-sept-15-2013/#sthash.r0In2QkL.dpuf

 With curfew approaching—even though he’d earlier destroyed the stage clock—Westerberg abruptly walked off after “Bastards Of Young,” followed by bemused, and perhaps confused, Stinson, who merely shrugged. Roadies came out and strapped on their instruments, and for a brief moment, it looked like Westerberg might be creating an homage to the band’s final show in Chicago’s Grant Park on July 4, 1991, which ended with the Mats basically breaking up as crew members played what was left of “Hootenanny.” It would’ve been a perfect capper, but the band instead returned for “Hold My Life” and a version that “I.O.U.” as fierce as “Takin’ A Ride” an hour and a half earlier. The rain that had deluged the city most of the day, and which let up a couple of hours earlier, began to fall again; trudging through the mud to the exits, more than satisfied with what they’d just witnessed, not a single fan gave a damn.

There’s an infamous line in a New Rolling Stone Record Guide review of Sorry, Ma Forgot To Take Out The Trash, circa 1983—well, infamous to a small group of nerds who know about it—that dismissed the Mats with, “Who knows if we’ll ever hear from them again? Who really cares?” Decades later, the first question can’t be answered. The second one, however, is again a resounding, “We do.”

With curfew approaching—even though he’d earlier destroyed the stage clock—Westerberg abruptly walked off after “Bastards Of Young,” followed by bemused, and perhaps confused, Stinson, who merely shrugged. Roadies came out and strapped on their instruments, and for a brief moment, it looked like Westerberg might be creating an homage to the band’s final show in Chicago’s Grant Park on July 4, 1991, which ended with the Mats basically breaking up as crew members played what was left of “Hootenanny.” It would’ve been a perfect capper, but the band instead returned for “Hold My Life” and a version that “I.O.U.” as fierce as “Takin’ A Ride” an hour and a half earlier. The rain that had deluged the city most of the day, and which let up a couple of hours earlier, began to fall again; trudging through the mud to the exits, more than satisfied with what they’d just witnessed, not a single fan gave a damn.
There’s an infamous line in a New Rolling Stone Record Guide review of Sorry, Ma Forgot To Take Out The Trash, circa 1983—well, infamous to a small group of nerds who know about it—that dismissed the Mats with, “Who knows if we’ll ever hear from them again? Who really cares?” Decades later, the first question can’t be answered. The second one, however, is again a resounding, “We do.”
- See more at: http://www.magnetmagazine.com/2013/09/16/live-review-the-replacements-chicago-sept-15-2013/#sthash.r0In2QkL.dpuf

With curfew approaching—even though he’d earlier destroyed the stage clock—Westerberg abruptly walked off after “Bastards Of Young,” followed by bemused, and perhaps confused, Stinson, who merely shrugged. Roadies came out and strapped on their instruments, and for a brief moment, it looked like Westerberg might be creating an homage to the band’s final show in Chicago’s Grant Park on July 4, 1991, which ended with the Mats basically breaking up as crew members played what was left of “Hootenanny.” It would’ve been a perfect capper, but the band instead returned for “Hold My Life” and a version that “I.O.U.” as fierce as “Takin’ A Ride” an hour and a half earlier. The rain that had deluged the city most of the day, and which let up a couple of hours earlier, began to fall again; trudging through the mud to the exits, more than satisfied with what they’d just witnessed, not a single fan gave a damn.
There’s an infamous line in a New Rolling Stone Record Guide review of Sorry, Ma Forgot To Take Out The Trash, circa 1983—well, infamous to a small group of nerds who know about it—that dismissed the Mats with, “Who knows if we’ll ever hear from them again? Who really cares?” Decades later, the first question can’t be answered. The second one, however, is again a resounding, “We do.”
- See more at: http://www.magnetmagazine.com/2013/09/16/live-review-the-replacements-chicago-sept-15-2013/#sthash.r0In2QkL.dpuf

With curfew approaching—even though he’d earlier destroyed the stage clock—Westerberg abruptly walked off after “Bastards Of Young,” followed by bemused, and perhaps confused, Stinson, who merely shrugged. Roadies came out and strapped on their instruments, and for a brief moment, it looked like Westerberg might be creating an homage to the band’s final show in Chicago’s Grant Park on July 4, 1991, which ended with the Mats basically breaking up as crew members played what was left of “Hootenanny.” It would’ve been a perfect capper, but the band instead returned for “Hold My Life” and a version that “I.O.U.” as fierce as “Takin’ A Ride” an hour and a half earlier. The rain that had deluged the city most of the day, and which let up a couple of hours earlier, began to fall again; trudging through the mud to the exits, more than satisfied with what they’d just witnessed, not a single fan gave a damn.
There’s an infamous line in a New Rolling Stone Record Guide review of Sorry, Ma Forgot To Take Out The Trash, circa 1983—well, infamous to a small group of nerds who know about it—that dismissed the Mats with, “Who knows if we’ll ever hear from them again? Who really cares?” Decades later, the first question can’t be answered. The second one, however, is again a resounding, “We do.”
- See more at: http://www.magnetmagazine.com/2013/09/16/live-review-the-replacements-chicago-sept-15-2013/#sthash.r0In2QkL.dpuf