Band: The Replacements Band: The Replacements
81zom-zom wrote:I wish I could say that I've seen them do a great show. I'm guessing I had seen them at least a dozen times, opened for them twice that I can recall, and all of those shows were either drunken messes or unmemorable.I got to see them twice. The first time is still on my top-10 list. This was a few months before the release of "Let It Be." It was drunken, but far from a mess. Small venue. Show was shut down by the cops because the employees in the convenience store below thought the ceiling was going to collapse. They waited until the cops left and started right back up again, harder than before. The last song of the evening was a cover of Vanity Fare's "Hitchin' a Ride" which I cherish the memory of to this day.The second time I saw them was about a month after the release of "Tim." Bigger venue. Drunken mess, but minus the sweat, energy, guts, good songs, and fun. They clearly didn't want to be there and we all suffered for it. Certainly one of the most disappointing shows I've been to, considering what they were capable of at one point. Hüsker Dü ended up pretty much the same way, but that's a discussion for the Hüsker Dü, thread I guess.