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When I brought "Tim" home from the record store, my older sister and her husband and my folks had just gotten home from dinner (they probably had a couple of drinks in them). They asked what I bought and I showed them. They said to play it for them, and I did while I waited for them to dismiss it as noise or whatever. They liked it! They mentioned "Springsteen" ("Kiss Me On the Bus"), "Beatles" (solo on "Hold My Life") and "Chuck Berry" ("I'll Buy") as references. When "Dose of Thunder" came on, it was a different story🤣. It's still one of my favorite driving records!

@@angelotro That's so awesome! I had the "Let it Be" record. I soooo wish I'd saved it!! It's so hard to pick a favorite, I love early all the way to the last album. 😊

Also, depending on the night, they could be the best band in the world to see play live -- or the worst. This could hinge on either how drunk the guys were, or how bad of a mood they were in, or how they felt about the audience, or how they felt about each other, or how they felt about that particular venue hosting them for that given gig, or how they felt about their mgmt, or how they felt about touring in-general -- or any combination of those factors.

...and by "they", it was like 45% Paul, 30% Bob, and the other 15% split btw. Tommy and Chris.

@@memye288: I just took a vacation trip to Minneapolis last month to visit family on my birthday week, and one of the things that I did while I was there was went on a pilgrimage to visit some Mats'-related landmarks around the city to take pix of. One of the places that I went to was the "Let It Be" house on Lyndale

As you can see from his solo work, he WAS not The Mats by himself

Me too in December 2002. I got my at Best Buy too in Portland, Or. Johnnys Gonna Die, Something to Dü, Hangin Downtown, Otto.

@@markusantonio4866 they’re classics! Stand up well to anything they wrote in their entire catalogue. Bob Stinson kicked ass on that record too.

Please tell me you've listened to Hüsker Dü, being from Mini Soda

@@MooyakAttackoooooohhh yahhhh. Husker Du rules! Love all their stuff.

@@marcusjones8016 Fuck yeah 🤘🏻

Yeah. When Peter was fired, it sent him into a tailspin. He felt betrayed, and almost died from his alcoholism. Nice to see that it had a happy ending.

I think Paul's been in the living room more, lately... ;-)

@@DfactorPop no judgments either way. He’s made some great demos/albums in that basement. If him not printing them is part of the deal for them to even come out, I get it. Fans would love to hear him talk about this stuff too though. Tommy, Bob Mehr and Jason Jones have done a great job promoting them though.

@@DfactorPop Tell Paul to move his ass out that living room and do some gigs!

I'm seriously hoping they remix that as well.

@@zippymufo9765 The reverb kinda distances them. I like the “in your face” Replacements best. Too much verb always gags me with a spoon. 😂 ‘85 was a good year, except for overblown recording techniques. Mainly the drum sound.

@@jwhines2 True, it's funny how the excessive "80's reverb" sound has aged so poorly that some new mixes are dialing it back or removing it altogether (the new mixes of the Velvet Underground material from "VU" and "Another View", The Misfits "12 Hits From Hell", Blast's "Blood")

@@zippymufo9765 Absolutely 👍 I remember an 80’s radio interview where they started putting reverb on George Harrison’s acoustic & voice. George told them that he hated reverb and to keep it dry. I think he did a Dylan tune. Reverb is cool as long as it’s tasteful on bits of a song. I’m pretty sure the new release of Pink Floyd’s Momentary Lapse has Mason’s re-recorded drums without the big reverb. They wanted it to sound less 80’s & more like the rest of the catalog.

@@zippymufo9765 What about that 80's snare drum?

Paul Kossoff played a similar role in Free, with Andy Frazer playing lead lines on bass or piano.