{"id":589,"date":"2007-05-25T21:43:53","date_gmt":"2007-05-26T01:43:53","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-11-19T08:24:41","modified_gmt":"2010-11-19T12:24:41","slug":"stinson-or-no-stinson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/stinson-or-no-stinson\/","title":{"rendered":"Deal Breaker: Bob Stinson"},"content":{"rendered":"<iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/u6RE3?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><p>Among the dozen Replacements songs that I enjoy hearing (probably 8 of which follow the same heroic-yet-self-deprecating template) is <strong>&#8220;Can&#8217;t Hardly Wait&#8221;<\/strong>, from one of two of their albums that I like the most, <em>Pleased to Meet Me<\/em> (wanna take a stab at what the other one is?). It&#8217;s got that Booker T &amp; the MGs riff, which I&#8217;m always a sucker for, and I like the melody and sentiments of the lyrics. Goes down easy.<\/p>\n<p>A couple of days ago I heard an alternate version that I never knew existed. <strong>Bob Stinson<\/strong> played on it, driving the song with his customary music store test-run bravado. Just like that a different version of the same song that I&#8217;d liked by The Replacements moved to the Crap bin. And I was reminded that Bob Stinson was the <strong>deal breaker<\/strong> for me regarding The Replacements. There were enough other beefs I had with them that they wouldn&#8217;t have made it beyond third-rate status with me, but I might have enjoyed them more had they made more records without Stinson &#8211; and without that <strong>Slim Dunlap<\/strong> guy as well. I don&#8217;t think Westerberg was very creative or effective in the &#8220;giving direction&#8221; department. On either side of <em>Pleased to Meet Me<\/em>, he let his guitar store clerk guitarists just do their thing, and their thing belonged in the guitar aisle.<\/p>\n<p><em>So this is a roundabout way of asking whether you&#8217;ve ever identified a deal breaker among a band that you otherwise might have liked well enough.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Among the dozen Replacements songs that I enjoy hearing (probably 8 of which follow the same heroic-yet-self-deprecating template) is &#8220;Can&#8217;t Hardly Wait&#8221;, from one of two of their albums that I like the most, Pleased to Meet Me (wanna take a stab at what the other one is?). It&#8217;s got that Booker T &amp; the <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/stinson-or-no-stinson\/' 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":[43],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589"}],"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=589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}