Chords for Replacements - Interview NYC 1989

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_ _ _ We were really loud and we didn't know how to play and a lot of people misconstrued that for being a punk band _ _
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_ _ [Bm] We were gonna take the lazy man's route we said we'd get a good producer it's gonna make this a great record
We're gonna sit back and watch it happen _ _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ [Ab] You kind of tried that and thought damn it we're gonna have to go in and work
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Slowly but surely we could probably maybe _ probably maybe
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_ [Ab] _ _ [B] _ _ _ Met [Bm] Paul Westerberg and Tommy [Gb] Stinson of the replacements in New York City
They were there to promote their [B] latest album for sire records called don't tell a soul
Musician magazine had just heralded them as the [E] last best band of the 80s [Bm] and the music supports that claim
It's powerful original rock and roll and that together with the press attention
The records receiving should mean that it's been worth the wait for the replacements
_ 1981 we formed in Paris
We _ had three saxophone players, which we immediately fired because they drank too much
_ And then we moved to Minneapolis and gigged around there for about two years and signed with twin tone
_ Small label that hasn't paid us yet
_ And picked up with Warner Brothers and her sire and I don't know 85 and made five
[Gb] Tim pleased to meet me
You guys have a reputation for
Pretty wild shows in the early days of the band.
What were the ingredients of a replacement show the ingredients as in how many proof?
Yeah, see it gets [N] it's been blown out of proportion through the years
I mean we really will we were like we were wild and we did drugs and drank a whole lot
When we first started touring, but that's because I mean we didn't have enough money to really sit down and eat
We didn't want to go and often that bathing for a week or sit in some restaurant
We did wild shit, but it's been it still travels with us now because people see us _
flop at one gig and blame it right down on like booze and stuff and
We could be stone-cold sober and just not feel like playing and people just just don't get it
They just think we're drunk all the time.
Now.
You were pretty young when the band started a tour, right?
Like what 13 [Gb] years of age literally?
Yeah, I skipped out on the on the education through
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[Ab] Yeah, I just quit quit school and
Got the rock band and went well as Tom Tom waits put it went down the road of life the whiskey
I _ used to have to sit in the kitchen and you know
I have someone watching over to me make make sure I wasn't watching the strippers or drinking booze
Ever we took we took care of him.
Yeah, it wasn't like me and Bob [N] watched over