ih8music Posted March 3, 2016 Share Posted March 3, 2016 Indeed, and there's a great interview with Mehr about the book on the most recent The Ledge podcast http://theledge.realpunkradio.com. Definitely worth checking out. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
chuckrh Posted March 3, 2016 Share Posted March 3, 2016 I was lucky to see the first night of the last tour & they were outstanding. I saw the band plenty back in the day & they were hit/miss. Always interesting though. When they opened for Tom Petty, the first half of the set was beyond brilliant. A guy yelled out for "Black Diamond" & Paul said "give me $10 & we'll play it". So the guy did & it rocked totally. Then the drugs wore off. They just sort of stopped playing midsong & wandered off stage. I think they had too good a connection for something that wasn't good for them in Seattle. I loved how they ended the reunion tour with the tshirts & stuff. So punk rock. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
John Smith Posted September 21, 2016 Share Posted September 21, 2016 Well, it looks like Tommy Stinson is reforming Bash and Pop. Well, not exactly...apart from Tommy no one else from the original B&P will be in the band, but this project will fall under the B&P moniker. They are currently rehearsing and recording. An album is expected and shows beginning in Jsnuary 2017. They will be on Fat Possum. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
uncool2pillow Posted September 21, 2016 Share Posted September 21, 2016 Well, it looks like Tommy Stinson is reforming Bash and Pop. Well, not exactly...apart from Tommy no one else from the original B&P will be in the band, but this project will fall under the B&P moniker. They are currently rehearsing and recording. An album is expected and shows beginning in Jsnuary 2017. They will be on Fat Possum. He's also producing the new Yawpers album. I saw something on FB that they were allowed to raid the loft for gear. This excites me greatly! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Quote Link to post Share on other sites
nalafej Posted September 21, 2016 Share Posted September 21, 2016 Tommy Stinson is reforming Bash and Pop. Well, not exactly...apart from Tommy no one else from the original B&P will be in the band Why would he do that? I guess putting out a third record under his own name doesn't generate as much interest? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
tinnitus photography Posted September 21, 2016 Share Posted September 21, 2016 Why would he do that? I guess putting out a third record under his own name doesn't generate as much interest? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
uncool2pillow Posted September 22, 2016 Share Posted September 22, 2016 Or... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
tinnitus photography Posted September 22, 2016 Share Posted September 22, 2016 hairdont. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
The Inside of Outside Posted September 22, 2016 Share Posted September 22, 2016 I loved the first (and only) Bash and Pop record. Way, way underrated. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
parisisstale Posted September 22, 2016 Share Posted September 22, 2016 Why would he do that? I guess putting out a third record under his own name doesn't generate as much interest?He put a lot into this record & it felt like a real collaborative effort so he went with a band name, and Bash & Pop is definitely cooler than Perfect. Heard the finished record (I've become buddies with Tommy's manager) & I really dig it. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
parisisstale Posted September 22, 2016 Share Posted September 22, 2016 Message from Tommy (via PledgeMusic, where you can pre-order). ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Howdy my peeps! You’re hearing it here first: A new Bash & Pop record is coming! Yep, that’s right! No shit! Since recording my last two solo records in a rather piecemeal way, I found myself longing to make a record in the same way that we made the early Replacements records: live, in the studio, as a band. The last record I really did that on was called Friday Night Is Killing Me. What’s the difference you say? Allow me to explain. Whether I’m wearing my artist or producer hat, I will forever lust after the capture of lightning in a bottle, no matter how incomprehensible or daunting it may seem. Since early 2015 I’ve been recording new songs with new and old friends, cutting all of them as live as possible without losing too much fidelity nor over-thinking the songs. Recording live with a band is the only way I know this to be done. As the life of this project developed, the elements of what make a band a BAND started to appear: The spontaneity, the solidarity, the piss, the vinegar, the good times and the angst. These are all of the things that I think make for a great rock n’ roll record; like a car careening helplessly off the road, only to be spared catastrophe at the very last second. A majority of the people i played these tracks for said it reminded them of the Bash & Pop record. Alas, there you have it. A new Bash & Pop record coming soon! Here’s a list of my friends that I have to thank for helping to shape the new album: Chip Roberts (one-400’s)Steve “Sleeve” Selvidge (The Hold Steady, Big Ass Truck)Luther Dickinson (North Mississippi All-Stars, The Word)Frank Ferrer (Guns N’ Roses)Joe “The Kid” Sirois (The Mighty Mighty BossToneS, Roll The Tanks)Cat Popper (Jack White, Ryan Adams & The Cardinals, Jesse Malin, Winning Instagram)Justin “Carl” Perkins (Screeching Weasel, Obsoletes)Tony “Tone Tone” Kieraldo (Played at The White House twice!)Ryder Cooley I’m happy to announce my partnerships with Fat Possum Records and PledgeMusic to help bring new Bash & Pop music to you! By pre-ordering the record via PledgeMusic, you’ll become a part of the process of making of this record. Not only will you have the opportunity to buy the new record in whichever format is best suited for your listening pleasure, but you can also purchase one-of-a-kind items, merchandise and experiences only available here for a limited time! You’ll be able to purchase everything from high quality vinyl, cassettes, CD’s and MP3’s to instruments, lyric sheets, posters, framed photographs, and so much more. You can see our first show as Bash & Pop at the historic 7th Street Entry in Minneapolis, and I could even crash your wedding and flaunt my ordained status to officiate it! As an added bonus, a portion of the proceeds of this campaign will benefit the Timkatec trade schools in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. As you may know, there is still a dire need for us to help these great young people learn how to rebuild their fractured nation. They desperately need any help that any of us can give, no matter the monetary amount. I chose this school after visiting their graduation in 2011 and seeing for myself what a big part of the long-term solution it is for the people and infrastructure of Haiti. With that I leave you with a little taste of what’s to come. Sign up!Play along!Be a part of the fun!And stay tuned for upcoming tour dates in a city near you! Cheers,t Quote Link to post Share on other sites
PopTodd Posted February 11, 2017 Share Posted February 11, 2017 Lookie what I just found in the library Sale bin!Brand new... spine hadn't even been cracked! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
LouieB Posted February 12, 2017 Share Posted February 12, 2017 Lookie what I just found in the library Sale bin!Brand new... spine hadn't even been cracked!Well that is absolutely ridiculous. That should be IN the library for people to take out and read. LouieB Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Winston Legthigh Posted February 12, 2017 Share Posted February 12, 2017 Well that is absolutely ridiculous. That should be IN the library for people to take out and read. LouieBIt is. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
PopTodd Posted February 12, 2017 Share Posted February 12, 2017 I agree. But that isn't gonna stop me from taking advantage of the situation. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
LouieB Posted February 13, 2017 Share Posted February 13, 2017 I totally would have picked it up as well. Nice. LouieB Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Oil Can Boyd Posted July 19, 2019 Share Posted July 19, 2019 Lots of mystery of Replacements social media pages but it looks like a box set of ‘Don’t Tell a Soul’ alternate mixes & outtakes is coming out. Not sure I need the whole thing but "If Only You Were Lonely (feat. Tom Waits)" could be great. http://www.brooklynvegan.com/the-replacements-appear-to-be-releasing-a-box-set-of-dont-tell-a-soul-alternate-mixes-outtakes/?fbclid=IwAR3MYP9zTxXaGXLVyHWl303C-JzvqRq4fWzSP79zr0GfCFreGtde2-y7U7Q Quote Link to post Share on other sites
DiamondClaw Posted July 19, 2019 Share Posted July 19, 2019 Lots of mystery of Replacements social media pages but it looks like a box set of ‘Don’t Tell a Soul’ alternate mixes & outtakes is coming out. Not sure I need the whole thing but "If Only You Were Lonely (feat. Tom Waits)" could be great. http://www.brooklynvegan.com/the-replacements-appear-to-be-releasing-a-box-set-of-dont-tell-a-soul-alternate-mixes-outtakes/?fbclid=IwAR3MYP9zTxXaGXLVyHWl303C-JzvqRq4fWzSP79zr0GfCFreGtde2-y7U7QThis is a great news! I like DTAS, but it's no secret the super glossy production on that album didn't suit the band. Looking forward to hearing those tracks in a new light. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Analogman Posted July 19, 2019 Author Share Posted July 19, 2019 I once recall reading an interview with Paul somewhere where he talked about wanting to re-release most of the albums. And it was due to his desire to strip off the sheen. I'm no Replacements expert - but I seem to recall him also saying they had a lot of tapes with Tom Waits. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
ih8music Posted July 19, 2019 Share Posted July 19, 2019 This is great news! Here's what Bob Mehr posted about this on Facebook: A bit of “personal news” as they say. This morning The Replacements and Rhino announced the release DEAD MAN’S POP, the first ever ‘Mats box set. I was lucky enough to have produced the project (along with the estimable and ever diligent Jason Jones of Rhino) and wrote the liner notes. There’s a funny bit of backstory as to how this set came about…which, like the band, started in a basement in South Minneapolis. In late 2014, Slim Dunlap’s wonderful wife Chrissie Dunlap was cleaning out the basement of the couple's house when she came upon a stash of Ampex reels hidden in a cupboard. She realized, based on the songs and dates, that these were Replacements tapes from the “Don’t Tell A Soul” era. After sessions at Cherokee and Capitol in Los Angeles with producer Matt Wallace, the band had finished tracking the record at Prince’s Paisley Park studios in the fall of 1988 – at which time they absconded with a handful of reels, reels that included Wallace’s unreleased "quick mix" of record, and a session the ‘Mats had earlier cut with Tom Waits while in California. Upon this discovery, Chrissie asked Slim if they should call and alert someone to the fact that they had these tapes, to which Slim replied, “No!” Asked why, he said “I don’t want to go to jail!” (as you can see, Slim still has his sense of humor very much intact). Credit really has to go to Slim for saving these tapes rather than, say, tossing them in a large body of water. But he’s always had great foresight -- “Slim’s a smart son of a country lawyer” as Paul Westerberg once told me. Likely because I have earned my PhD in Replacements studies, I was dispatched by the band’s management to retrieve the tapes in early 2015. I brought them back to Memphis where we had them transferred (fittingly enough) at Ardent Studios. Listening back to Matt’s original (if admittedly hurried, somewhat incomplete) Paisley Park mix it was clear that a far different version of “Don’t Tell a Soul” actually existed than the one that had been mixed by Chris-Lord Alge and released in 1989. It’s worth noting here that the released version, the Lord-Alge mix, is a fine LP – and was, quite frankly, the more commercial and radio-geared record that needed to be released in 1989 to keep the band afloat. But, the truth is, it didn’t *sound* much like the album the Replacements had recorded. Over time, I think that fact became clear and the record’s reputation suffered somewhat. In the end, “Don’t Tell A Soul” would become The Replacements’ best-selling album, and also their most divisive. A perfect encomium for a band built on such contradictions. It also became clear that a new package, built around a version of DTAS the way the band and Matt had wanted it to sound, would be a good idea (this was a desire that Westerberg had expressed many times over the years). But, of course, there was more, including other much discussed but little heard recordings from the era, like the band’s first attempt at making DTAS in Bearsville with Tony Berg, and the Waits session. On top of that there was the Inconcerated live show, from Milwaukee in 1989, of which only five songs had ever been heard previously. After many fits and starts and lot of legwork, we finally got the okay to push ahead with the box set this year from the band and from the good folks at Rhino Records.This past May, Matt Wallace finished the job he’d started 31 years earlier, finally completing the mix of the record, which is called, “Don’t Tell a Soul Redux.” As I wrote in the liners, while it’s impossible to unhear a record that’s been around for three decades, this version is the album the band made and intended to release. In addition to Wallace’s mix, "Redux" also restores several crucial elements from the sessions, including original drum tracks, vocal takes and tempos that were altered in post-production and the band’s original sequence of the album. Matt’s new mix finally brings out all the sounds that were committed to tape – along with the Replacements' singular spirit, humor and passion. The man, the myth, Brian Kehew -- who mixed "Live at Maxwell’s 1986" for us -- was brought back onto the team to help mix the bulk of the material that appears on the disc of rarities, “We Know The Night: Rare & Unreleased.” Brian also did a masterful job mixing “The Complete Inconcerated Live” show – and actually did some heroic salvage work on several tracks that had technical issues. Happily, this is now a sparkling and remarkable sounding set, that’s every bit as important a document of the band’s Slim-era lineup as Maxwell’s was to the original foursome. The whole package was brought together sonically by Justin Perkins of Mystery Room Mastering. Justin had a truly epic task pulling these various audio sources together and making it all sound right. He did amazing (often tedious cleanup work) so that the listening experience on this box would be perfect. And it truly is.Chris Bellman at Bernie Grundman cut a beautiful vinyl master of "Redux" for us under the supervision of Matt Wallace (when you get your copies of the box, be sure to check the run-out groove on the LP). The whole package is presented in a 12 x 12 hardcover book – loaded with dozens of rarely seen photos -- and features a detailed history of the "Don’t Tell A Soul" era written by yours truly. Like all things Replacements, this project was a labor of love (and sometimes hard labor). At the risk of being embarrassingly personal, I was given the opportunity to work on this at a pretty terrible time in my life, following a personal tragedy. Having a creative purpose like this probably saved me. For that, among many other things, I’m eternally grateful to the band and its management (especially Darren Hilll), all the folks at Rhino including my co-conspirator Jason Jones, as well as the Dunlaps, the Jespersons, Michael Hill and all who helped with this project in ways big and small. Anyway, that’s some of the how and why this came about. I’m sure I’ll share more as things go along and we get closer to release. In the meantime….DEAD MAN’s POP is available for pre-order here (if you get it now you also get a little bonus gift with the box) https://www.rhino.com/…/dead-mans-pop-4cd1lp-deluxe-cassett… Paul released about 10mins of the Waits stuff on the "3oclockreep" download. If the rest of the session was as entertaining as that part, it'll be a sure treat! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
The Inside of Outside Posted July 19, 2019 Share Posted July 19, 2019 ^^^ Well, that's awesome news. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Jimbo Jones Posted July 23, 2019 Share Posted July 23, 2019 Here’s the remixed version of Talent Show https://rhino.lnk.to/TalentShowMW Quote Link to post Share on other sites
DiamondClaw Posted July 23, 2019 Share Posted July 23, 2019 Here’s the remixed version of Talent Show https://rhino.lnk.to/TalentShowMWListened this afternoon. It sounds great! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
The Inside of Outside Posted July 24, 2019 Share Posted July 24, 2019 Waaaay better than the version on Don't Tell a Soul, and I am a fan of that record. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
chuckrh Posted July 25, 2019 Share Posted July 25, 2019 i wish paul would put out some new music. such a great songwriter Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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