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April 30, 2005
old rockers live :: wedding present, westerberg
Last week, I saw two old dogs play rock.
The good: The Wedding Present. Maybe they have lost a half step since the glory days, but fuck. David Gedge has clearly relished the opportunity to turn his distortion pedal back up to 11; this harked directly back to the impossibly loud shows of the late 80s/early 90s, and it was more than fine and completely full of energy. My thought? "The English Hüsker Dü". I never had that thought back in the day, but it sure sounded loud fast Smiths to me this time around.
So, go to Bradley's Almanac, the excellent Boston blog, and listen a half-decent recording of the show. I'm not much for incidental live recordings, but many of you might appreciate the link.
The bad? Paul Westerberg. A few friends and I headed out for this one, and we were all kinds of excited. Rumor had it that PW was back on the sauce, recapturing the reckless energy of the best Replacements years. Not so much. It seemed like he thought he was fronting the old careening Replacements who would buffet his whims with barely tethered riffage. But because his band was a bunch of adult pros configured to play the solo material as well as the old stuff, he sounded pathetic, off-key, and pleading, meandering through terrible covers and minor tracks to get to the occasional non-butchered chestnut. It was difficult to watch him do his best to destroy his legacy - which, to be fair, isn't quite as major as most of the fans in the room would make it out to be.
Posted by borrowed_tunes at April 30, 2005 01:52 AM
Comments
Westerberg: Yikes. Indeed, he's just a minor 80s figure who never really earned the right to butcher his insignificant contributions.
"English Hüsker Dü" -- no comment.
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