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bojendyk
30 Mar 2006, 03:11 PM
From Billboard (http://billboard.com/bbcom/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1002274305):

As tipped yesterday (March 28) on Billboard's Jaded Insider blog, Replacements members Paul Westerberg, Tommy Stinson and Chris Mars have reunited to record two new songs for an upcoming retrospective, "Don't You Know Who I Think I Was?: The Best of the Replacements." Due June 13 via Rhino, the set will feature "Message to the Boys" and "Pool & Dive," the band's first new recordings in 16 years.

Session drummer Josh Freese was behind the kit for the new recordings, while Mars, who in recent years has foregone music for an art career, contributed backing vocals. The songs were written by Westerberg and were recorded at producer Ed Ackerson's Flowers studio in Minneapolis. At deadline, it is unclear if any further activity is brewing within the Replacements' camp.

No word on a tour or any live dates. First the Pixies, now the 'Mats.
bmurphyfl
30 Mar 2006, 03:33 PM
God damn it, does this mean that I'm going to have to endure yet another round of articles in The Atlantic Monthly and Salon about how The Replacements changed the writer's life?

Touche' ;)
bojendyk
30 Mar 2006, 03:54 PM
God damn it, does this mean that I'm going to have to endure yet another round of articles in The Atlantic Monthly and Salon about how The Replacements changed the writer's life?

Touche' ;)

That depends on whether Bob Dylan concurrently releases outtakes of himself tuning his guitar and coughing. ;)
Footix
31 Mar 2006, 01:23 AM
Don't hold your breath waiting for a tour, especially if GnR starts getting active, since Tommy is at this point one of Axl's longest lasting employees.
obie
31 Mar 2006, 09:14 AM
So for 'Mats fans, is this apocryphal to do something under the name Replacements without Bob?

(That's Bob as in Stinson, not Dylan...)
YanksFC
31 Mar 2006, 11:49 AM
So for 'Mats fans, is this apocryphal to do something under the name Replacements without Bob?

(That's Bob as in Stinson, not Dylan...)

They did it for several albums after Bob left, so I'm not sure that there'd be much of a protest.
bojendyk
31 Mar 2006, 11:59 AM
They did it for several albums after Bob left, so I'm not sure that there'd be much of a protest.

Yep--and some of those albums are among their best!

Furthermore, Bob was so restrained on Tim that he hardly sounds like Bob.