{"id":22456,"date":"2015-06-09T14:33:25","date_gmt":"2015-06-09T18:33:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/?p=22456"},"modified":"2015-06-09T14:33:51","modified_gmt":"2015-06-09T18:33:51","slug":"breaking-up-is-oh-so-easy-to-do-paul-westerberg-can-bite-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/breaking-up-is-oh-so-easy-to-do-paul-westerberg-can-bite-me\/","title":{"rendered":"Breaking Up Is Oh So Easy to Do: Paul Westerberg Can Bite Me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Vr6WLIHXux0\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><br \/>\nWhat nerve of <strong>Paul Westerberg<\/strong> to announce that <a title=\"Breaking Up Is Oh So Easy to Do\" href=\"http:\/\/consequenceofsound.net\/2015\/06\/r-i-p-the-replacements-paul-westerberg-says-the-band-is-breaking-up-again\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Replacements are breaking up again<\/a>! Really? That money grab of a &#8220;reunion&#8221; tour with 2 actual members of the band&#8217;s once-active recording career was fine for what it was. I hope they made some money. They added something to &#8217;80s rock culture that &#8217;80s rock consumers didn&#8217;t give back to them. I hope fans of the band enjoyed hearing those songs performed live again. I hope a bit of their youth was rekindled as they watched\u00a0Paul and <strong>Tommy Stinson<\/strong> shamble about like they were a little too cool to care. However,\u00a0ceasing to carry on as a greatest hits act is not the same as breaking up. Is it?<!--nextpage--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Westerberg\u00a0told the audience that the band stayed at their hotel instead of attending soundcheck. \u201cLazy bastards to the end,\u201d he reportedly declared before smashing his guitar on stage.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>You know when you tune into PBS to catch a few minutes of an oldies act from the &#8217;60s performing their 2 big hits? Maybe it&#8217;s &#8220;The Troggs,&#8221; with 2 original members and a backline of relative &#8220;kids,&#8221; veteran garage rockers in their mid-40s. (Maybe it&#8217;s a doo-wop group with only a single member old enough to have lived during the time when doo-wop was even remotely\u00a0relevant.) The day &#8220;The Troggs&#8221; had enough of playing to a room of gray hairs for public television fundraising wasn&#8217;t really a &#8220;breakup,&#8221; was it? They retired. Paul Westerberg should retire. He hasn&#8217;t done anything of worth since whatever you felt was the last half-decent Replacements album, right? Were you actually into <em>Sentimental Hygiene<\/em> or <em>Existential Hairline<\/em> or <em>Youth Floss<\/em> or whatever that first ignored solo album was called? When&#8217;s the last time you listened to the actually half-decent CD of 49 minutes of nonstop lo-fi throwaway recordings? Westerberg doesn&#8217;t care; why do you? Has he even cared enough to make a lame &#8220;roots&#8221; album or a covers album or something NPR worthy like that?<\/p>\n<p>Paul Westerberg can bite me. I&#8217;ll go on believing that The Replacements produced a half dozen good songs. Most of you can go on telling me to suck on it, that I didn&#8217;t know a great thing when it really existed. At least we give a shit. Good riddance, &#8220;Replacements.&#8221;<\/p>\n<nav class=\"page-links\"><strong>Pages:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/breaking-up-is-oh-so-easy-to-do-paul-westerberg-can-bite-me\/\" class=\"post-page-numbers\"><span class=\"page-num\">1<\/span><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/breaking-up-is-oh-so-easy-to-do-paul-westerberg-can-bite-me\/2\/\" class=\"post-page-numbers\"><span class=\"page-num\">2<\/span><\/a><\/nav>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What nerve of Paul Westerberg to announce that The Replacements are breaking up again! Really? That money grab of a &#8220;reunion&#8221; tour with 2 actual members of the band&#8217;s once-active recording career was fine for what it was. I hope they made some money. They added something to &#8217;80s rock culture that &#8217;80s rock consumers <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/breaking-up-is-oh-so-easy-to-do-paul-westerberg-can-bite-me\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[329],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22456"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22456\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}