the replacements-pleased to meet me promo interview

[@TheLongCut1]

God I love this man. I lost my brother. He was a monster replacements, fan. Thanks for your words, Paul.

[@jillybeans7377]

These guys really bring people together. I’m so sorry for your loss ❤

[@TheLeftyGrove]

The coolest band there ever was, and ever will be.

[@stevebb2915]

Certainly the coolest American band for sure, but here in the uk it's like shooting fish in a barrel

[@andrewptob]

Steve BB Yeah, you guys got the original coolest band ever, the Stones

[@mobergeron4898]

@@stevebb2915 ooool CC

[@jeffkiefer6972]

That ain't a Canada accent, It's the "Minnesota nice" accent. Everyone I've ever met from there talks like this. Love this interview. Captures their tender side, something that so few punk or rock bands were ever very comfortable with. Can't wait for the reunion show this weekend!.

[@paulutionz]

You betcha, don't ya know.

[@ryanzumsen5294]

@@paulutionz Uff da

[@joshuabrookfield2806]

Did Paul lose this accent or what? 😂🤔

[@ryanzumsen5294]

Just when I thought I couldn't love this band any more... I realize they've been doing it for me and all the other quiet, introspective fans. They want to give me a hug! Introverts, unite! I mean... not right now... maybe in a few weeks or so. Or whenever you feel comfortable.

[@sgtimages]

I'm so glad I got to see them a couple of times live. The first time though we shot pool with them all afternoon before the show in Mobile Alabama and I don't remember the concert at all but I remember hanging out with the guys before we got toasted. Next time in Atlanta Georgia and it was one of the best shows I've ever seen and I remember most of it. What a great evening and what a great band.

[@carter358]

The Ledge is a work of genius. Saved my life. One of the greatest guitar solos ever. Pure emotion.

[@dillimeinbilli]

Paul has this really chilled out soft quality to his voice when he's talking conversationally like this, he totally sounds like someone you'd want to hug. Tommy makes 80s hair look good. Thanks for the upload.

[@overdrive6687]

I absolutely adore this band! They're one of the coolest bands to ever exist. I love watching their interviews, and Paul has to be one of my favourite singers and songwriters too, as he has written some of my favourite songs of all time, and has a beautiful singing voice. :) When I first heard songs like 'I Will Dare', 'Alex Chilton', 'Bastards of Young', 'Johnny's Gonna Die' (among others) I just fell in love with them! :D

[@mattman237]

I recently heard someone say Paul's voice was perfectly imperfect. I think that's a nice summation.

[@SpruntForever]

I heard IOU in a record store and that was all I needed. Best album hands down.

[@scottvska]

Just four regular guys writing music from the heart.

[@ellierose6]

Paul gives a good interview, too. Overall underrated way with words.

[@family_jules]

Let's focus on the important thing here - Chris Mars's trousers. I'd love a pair like that.

[@sydbarrett5]

Partridge Family pants

[@DP-hn6rl]

So awesome, they're playing cards on a chair in the middle of an interview

[@youthofyesterdayrecords]

Bob Stinson and Chris Bell have made an excellent side project in heaven.

[@JayyVee41]

I think you have to repent and believe in Jesus Christ in order to go to Heaven. I don’t think playing guitar well or singing well does the trick

[@Itsa6stringthang]

@@JayyVee41 where did you get this information?

[@JayyVee41]

@@Itsa6stringthang the Bible Johnny. The Bible

[@ginalynn4493]

I loved seeing these guys at 7th entry as a teenager .. prince would play there too, but got upgraded to 1st Ave stage .. this is one of the greatest bands ever

[@seekandcrush]

Great band and good bunch of guys.

[@shasta0919]

I saw them many times in 80s. It's true. They definitely would interact and loved to talk to those who wanted to hear Skyway.

[@adamatomic41]

"The people that don't understand it are the people that are secure with their lives and can't feel for that." Truer words were never spoken. By the way, does anyone know if Paul was talking about a specific incident when he referred to the kids in New Jersey killing themselves? I was a kid when this came out and have no idea.

[@cookmoore3736]

The message that matters whether from indie to metal! Humanity

[@hello-sv9rx]

yes 4 teenagers inNJ in 87 got plastered coke and booze and drove around eventually left the car running in a garage and died of poisoning and and it got a lot of publicity. there was a few copycat incidents and some national coverage about it and some journalists asked if there was a teen suicide epidemic. if you google that basic info you'll find the original 4 teens from nj

[@terrytrefry705]

Love this band, so many people misunderstood these guys. I'm glad I always got it.

[@WilliamMorgan-rc5ud]

this is so interesting, theyre not just playing nice, theyre participating. wow

[@aejlindvall]

Loved Westerbergs answer to The Ledge question - it's so strange, still today, as soon as band/artists mention something "controversiall"/ a taboo subjets it naturally means they do so from a positive perspective. It's such lazy/tabloid type of journalism. What would rock n´ roll be if it didn't cover all of they messed up, fucked up, destructive parts of live?

[@kdsquire99]

LOVE It. Tommy looks as high as a kite there shaking his knees.

[@greatbigconvoy]

Serious biceps on these guys!

[@Riffmaster227]

It’s from lifting all those beers

[@hailmaryrecordings8255]

The GOAT

[@InsomniacOkami247]

Thanks so much for uploading this interview!

[@cookmoore3736]

They are cool. Paul's deep voice is very soothing and reassuring :) I agree with him so much 'he doesn't want it but dammit, he must be known, he's a great song writer!' Lovely relationship. 'He scares me sometimes...' That's what I always got too :D 'He's real! He's weird...real weird!' Great! The kind of person to meet :) Souls like that.

[@louiso.4325]

“We write aboot what we want to write aboot”

[@JayyVee41]

😂😂😂

[@krisscanlon4051]

From 1987 but you'd think this is from today due to their look and attitude

[@ustheserfs]

Head and shoulders one of the intellectuals of Westerberg's ilk.

[@mrjapan1]

The band that made white Undershirts cool

[@JayyVee41]

😂😂😂

[@CVGuitar]

My favorite band of all time

[@walterbison]

I know it's not widescreen but it's fitting that Chris is cut out of the shot for most of the video.

[@aisle_of_view]

Minnesota meets Matt Dylan's character in Drugstore Cowboy

[@Tom-TomAlmighty]

Best band ever ! PW best songwriter of the 80s

[@jayham____fromgeorgia]

I love when they talk about alex chilton.. funny that Alex produced the cramps ' songs the lord taught us '.. Memphis y Great Music

[@dougtull4594]

They were so thin. I'll never forget noticing that when I met them. They drank their breakfast, lunch, and dinner. They rarely ate real food.

[@willrobinson7578]

This reminds me of that episode of WKRP: "We don't like audiences." 🤣

[@giornogiovanna8530]

I love them

[@andrewferguson8032]

Chris Mars looked like an Adam Sandler character

[@rowhill59]

Hometown heroes. Big fan 😎

[@sonofren]

Very rarely do you get a dead serious Westerberg when it comes to interviews around this time. If ever.

[@jm-rf7kl]

Alt rock not too hard on the biceps back then ; ) Paul's comment about the fans hanging in the back being the ones they most wanted to meet--pretty cool.

[@tfed518]

an actual punk band

[@rocknred123]

Really good interview

[@kristoscan]

sounds really midwestern then.

[@davidramos3363]

when i think about the replacements its awesome that i saw 80s-90s bands like the pixies, sonic youth & nirvana from the start. nowadays i put on my dr. dre beats when some jerk plays jerk music in his jerk car. jerk haha

[@ohtheglamourmusic]

bobstinsonghost I was truly sad the day I heard that Bob Stinson died.

[@oppothumbs1]

Paul doesn't glorify suicide in "The Ledge" but it's easy to see why some might want to pin that label on it. Doesn't sound like he is promoting it but if he really wanted to help Paul could have taken it in a different direction.

[@Richard_John_Dick_Grayson]

9-29-20 Paul Westerberg and Thomas Jane, look like doubles of each other...

[@Brickhouseacademy]

Being that real - I guess that explains things more --

[@kristoscan]

very good man.

[@markkickmark]

As a person I find Chris by far the most interesting guy in the group, got very little attention.

[@matthewstetson1840]

Agreed, love Horseshoes and Hand Grenades. I'm a Westerberg fan sure but I'm glad Chris took his shots at him. I feel for Slim and I hate to think of what he goes through. i've heard it said a couple times by the band, sometimes they're not really into it and don't feel like playin' and that's the only thing I don't buy. They weren't playin' the Minneapolis bar scene any longer, they were out playing to fans who bought their records. So when people talk about professionalism and joke about it, there's alot to be said about it. Otherwise, he's an appealing enough fckup at heart.

[@vonbondi7471]

He is such a brilliant artist. I hope to own some of his artwork one day.

[@timtompkins6752]

"He (Chilton) is r e a l l y weird!" Ya think? : )

[@tonym994]

PW in PJ's I love the raucous stuff AND the introspective stuff. PW had/has a great attitude .he was doing the job he was meant to do. this kind of reminds me of IGGY when he was a STOOGE.he said, "we are a band. and we can't be bought".but, of course, he was all about the show. BTW, FUCK my SCHOOL.

[@highwaymaintainer]

What exactly is a Slim Dunlap? Doesn’t matter I guess, rock is finished

[@jixxxxer17]

I think Tommy had to take a piss right there, lol , Love Paul !

[@Sammyzuko]

3:28 real weird hahahahahaa

[@jacobjenn1]

Hearing Paul say that ALEX was wierd…man I’d love to have seen some footage of them while they were making the album.

[@LeoBoykov]

I love the Replacements! Check out my cover of “I’m in Trouble”

[@1ColdFuture]

-------------------------------0:28 Put on a Show 1:31 3:50*******

[@spm_hcmc]

Paul has a MN accent here

[@brianwilliams9462]

One big irony about the Replacements is that would have probably been huge in either the 70s or the 90s. No classic Replacements song ever would have sounded out of place between the Stones and Nirvana But their ragged, emotionally raw aesthetic was so wonderfully out of touch with the glossy, superficial 80s ethos that they never really came close. Well that and all the self sabotage.

[@ryanjacobson2508]

A lot of popular 70's music was elevator music. Just look at the charts.

[@mineralt]

Where’s Benalto?

[@iggypopisgod9]

Probably last truly great Mats lp, PTMM, as they had a great run. The overproduced and slightly stiff/slick follow up DTASoul was a major disappointment at the time, although Achin to be is a flat out great tune. The follow up ASDown wasnt much better, and the band called it quits soon after. Neither lp ranks with their best, and seemed like a last ditch effort (I assume by WB) to formulate some FM radio play/sales ala REM. Shame, because just around the corner was the Nirvana craze, and who knows what would have happened, but the door was wide open at that point. That being said, top 5 80s band imho.

[@ericjensen9091]

It's all good. Paul grew up. Get over it.

[@notanotherjamesmurphy5574]

1:08

[@bobstinsonsghost]

Don't try it again!!!!

[@KellyGreen5555]

Half-gooned on pills, booze and filthy jokes, yet the Mats could still outplay any band. Musician magazine christened them "The Last, Best Band of the 80's" and who is gonna argue the point? Why, that big punching bag of dumb, Jon Bon Jovi. If JBJ doesn't know your name, then yer doing something right, my brothers. The Replacements could bottle the same lightning as The Rolling Stones, minus the English accents, heavy bank accounts and fanfare. If only they had held it together.

[@gibsondrummer]

KellyGreen5555 i never saw the mats take any pills and my band spent some time with them

[@neaituppi7306]

None of them look like Bob Stinson.

[@cocoygranada9403]

101

[@bobwalton4630]

Its crazy to me that after the success of their reunion and the great "Trouble Boys" book that came out last year that Westerberg still refuses to keep it going. Jesus man suck it up, count the money and get out there and play for an hour and a half a night. It's not that hard!!

[@machbaby]

+ Bob Walton Paul & Tommy tried to keep it going by attempting to write some new songs. It just didn't go anywhere. They have an odd relationship. They love each other, but at the same time, when they are together, a lot of old baggage rears its ugly head. And lets face it, Paul Westerberg can be difficult to be around- to put it mildly. Chris Mars certainly was offered a lucrative payday, but still wanted nothing to do with the reunion- I think that speaks volumes.

[@thatguy5942]

to me that is the most rock and roll thing in the history of rock and roll. if it aint fun, f it. everyone else goes for the $$$ grab. rock integrity to the nth.

[@johnsimon9455]

I know it isn't my place, but the way Tommy and Paul treated Bobby... I will never stop hating em

[@butuh1324]

Really good band that had vastly more than their share of chances to be huge and pissed away all of them. They generally used the opportunities they got from people who believed in them to shit on those same people. Classic alcoholic bullshit. Made some good records, but by 1990-91 Soul Asylum were a better live band then the Replacements were ever capable of being. At that time there were loads of great bands in the upper Midwest who wanted it more than these louts. Their artistic abilities never matched the extent to which people made excuses for them being assholes and demonstrating a never ending contempt for anyone who gave a shit about them, including their audience. They didn't reinvent the wheel, they were a good band who took an embarrassing amount of time to self destruct. In hindsight they are a blip on the radar.

[@spacedoginnebraska]

+butuh13 I agree with a lot of what you say, but I would also say listen to this interview again. I don't think they ever aspired to fortune and fame. They just played because they liked it, bottom line. Works for me.

[@butuh1324]

+spacedoginnebraska Yeah, but in that case they should have stayed in Minneapolis. They really did a whole lot to hurt people who believed in them...and each other. I just don't understand why this particular band got so many breaks and such a push by people they shit on. Their art just didn't match the effort made by others. It all seems dissonant to me.

[@Shoethiefking]

Kinda showed how great they were when they all found success after getting on the wagon.

[@iggypopisgod9]

the mats were never going to be huge and they knew it. they were too quirky and real to penetrate mainstream 80s charts. That being said, they did attempt to expand their sound on their last 3 lps with better production, etc. but the window of opportunity passed them by. Still, they could have a carved out a Smithereens level of success(gold lps, not multi platinum)with limited effort. They were never a great live act which was also a liability.

[@Shoethiefking]

+iggypopisgod9 No way, they had the opportunity, but Paul (just Paul really) chose to rebel. Tanking interviews, bombing shows because he could, chasing off producers who could've got them hits. They wouldn't have been the same band, but the potential was there.