The AV Club Blog had two really cool features on Minneappolis bands, an interview with Dave Pirner of Soul Asylum (who have recenlty relaesed a new album) and a pilgrimmage to see the house where The Replacement's Let It Be album cover was shot (incidently one fo the best records of the 80s). I learned from the Pirner interview that Tommy Stinson (former Replacements bassist) has replaced the recently passed away bassist Karl Mueller and that he is currently Guns and Roses bassist!? Here's the intro to the Pirner interview, by the way they used to be cool before the got popular and Pirner started dating Wynnona Ryder:
Soul Asylum once named a record Made To Be Broken, and over the past few years, it seemed like the Minneapolis band had lived up to the title. Though the group was a platinum-selling hitmaker in the alt-rock ’90s, those days ended sourly, leading to a rotating set of drummers and a move by singer Dave Pirner to New Orleans to clear his head. Just as the group got back together to record again, bassist Karl Mueller was diagnosed with cancer. Despite Mueller’s death—or rather, inspired by it—Pirner and guitarist Dan Murphy finished a new album, along with new drummer Michael Bland and former Replacement Tommy Stinson filling Mueller’s shoes. The Silver Lining comes out July 11. The A.V. Club spoke with Pirner about Mueller’s legacy, New Orleans, and how George W. Bush can be mistaken for a 300-pound transvestite. A shorter version of this interview originally appeared in The A.V. Club’s Twin Cities print edition.
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