I was hanging at Matt (owner of SMASH RECORDS/singer of Crispus Attucks/Blockhead) b-b-q with some nice musician folks (Matt Moffatt x-Worlds Collide/Whips), David Byrd (x-Striking Distance/Set to Explode) & another Chris Moore (Coke Bust) told me how his fiance Sheena Pop (Lemuria) was super excited to play w/ Replacements @ Riot Fest in Canada. That seems like almost the best thing anyone could ask for if you can afford it. This from someone who saw probably the shittiest Replacements tour gig during "Don't tell a Soul". Tommy & Paul together doing really old shit sounds like a dream come true. At least mine.
In the conversation of bands just playing full albums straight through & that's really it: G.I. (like Huskers) were always an album ahead of our audience trying to play a bunch of them (in any ragged form like a practice in front of people) but we always mixed up the set with songs from every album. We were never concerned about pleasing folks but knew it just wasn't cool to just play new album (+ a few *hits*). We sure weren't taking requests. I remember playing to 20 people in Buffalo-'88 when some kid yelled out for "Anarchy is Dead". We hadn't remotely touched that oldie but Dischord goodie since our '86 UK tour because we had to learn everything from Legless Bull-Fun Just ... when they hadn't even received our S/T. And we wanted to play our latest "YOU". So Pete goes "You know it, you play it!". Me, Tom & J. went over the chords & we're ready. The kid got on his kit and played some mess of a beat. We all went "Man, get outta here. You don't know it". Kid was pretty bold and it was amusing that night.
Would anyone here have any problems if G.I. (Lyle/ Hill/ another talented bassist friend/me) doing a bunch of JOYRIDE & other mid-tempo tunes at a gig in Seattle (possibly w/ Poison Idea & The F@rtz) sometime next yr
We're looking into it.
But after enjoying all the crazy glasses flying incident stories - I can honestly say I've never had a pair of mine smashed or knocked off but my x-wife sure did
I had no clue she'd have the balls (insanity
to go in the front of the stage during the Government Re-Issue (Lyle/William/Baker/me) gig years ago. And she went out there in her glasses
End of the night, I helped her find on that dirty floor what looked like some kind of metal, plastic & glass sculpture. The only time I lost a pair was coming back to the dressing room @ Hung Jury Pub, DC-'86 after G.I. show to discover some fan actually stole my great tinted Lennon-like prescription glasses. Man, that sucked to have to pay for another pair when the group wasn't making the kind of $ people thought we were.
GI is a group of grown men who enjoy torturing each other and the crowd.