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[Jim Walsh] ✓ The Replacements: All Over But the Shouting: An Oral History ↠ Download Online eBook or Kindle ePUB. The Replacements: All Over But the Shouting: An Oral History While rock then and now is lousy with superficial stars and glossy entertainment, the Replacements were as warts-and-all “real” as it got. In the first book to take on the jumble of facts, fictions, and contradictions behind the Replacements, veteran Minneapolis music journalist Jim Walsh distills hundreds of hours of interviews with band members, their friends, families, fellow musicians, and fans into an absorbing oral history worthy of the scruffy quartet that many have brand
| Title | : | The Replacements: All Over But the Shouting: An Oral History |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.60 (764 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0760334943 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 304 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-06-28 |
| Language | : | English |
Intimate anecdotes and testimonies Fantastic first-person accounts by everyone - the band, management, family, friends. A bit disorganized and chaotic, just like the band.. James A. Klososky said a fun read for a 'mats fan. I don't recommend this for someone who isn't a fan.but if you're reading the review, you probably are.This book is mainly accounts of the rise and fall of one of my favorite bands by people who were close to them. Producers, girlfriends, relatives, other bands & even occasionally a replacement will weigh in.The Bob stuff is sad, Paul's kind of a dick sometimes, but the whole messy bag is why I loved the Replacements. Five Stars bert a. very happy with purchase!
. (Dec.)Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. The band's story is an archetype of the joys and pitfalls of underground success—a rabid and loyal local following leads to a major label contract that, with its attendant pressures and misunderstandings, brings about the band's slow dissolution and demise. Walsh himself proves to be among the band's most eloquent and thorough defenders and explainers in his introductory essay and various excerpts from articles that appear throughout this consistently engaging and poignant work. The great moments in their history are all recounted here in warm detail: lead singer Paul Westerberg breaking copies of his new record Hootenany in the local record store; the drunk Oklahoma City show attended by 30 people that still led to a live album; the triump
While rock then and now is lousy with superficial stars and glossy entertainment, the Replacements were as warts-and-all “real” as it got. In the first book to take on the jumble of facts, fictions, and contradictions behind the Replacements, veteran Minneapolis music journalist Jim Walsh distills hundreds of hours of interviews with band members, their friends, families, fellow musicians, and fans into an absorbing oral history worthy of the scruffy quartet that many have branded the most influential band to emerge from the ’80s. is a loving, appropriately ramshackle tribute to one of the most beloved rock-and-roll bands of the 1980s. Jim Walsh’s loving, engrossing oral history is the book they deserve.”—Nick Hornby, author of High Fidelity . Illustrated with both rarely seen and classic photos, this, finally, is the rollicking story behind the turbulent and celebrated band that came on fast and furious and finally flamed out, chronicled by one eyewitness who was always at the periphery of the storm, and often at its eye. “This consistently engaging and poignant work . Former manager Peter Jesperson, Paul Stark and Dave Ayers of Twin/Tone Records, Bob Mould and Grant Hart of rivals Hüsker Dü, the legendary Curtiss A, Soul Asylum’s Dan Murphy, Lori Bar
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