Tommy Womack/Mats Song....
DLew022
pretty cool sounding song about The Replacements. Here are the lyrics. if you
like em, buy the guys album!
don
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The Replacements - Tommy Womack
The Replacements played rock and roll, they were the last of a dying breed
Damn the torpedoes! types, they could really let it bleed
They weren't afraid of anything or anybody, like skinny little dogs in a
cage
They'd get drunker than you've gotten in your entire life
Have another drink on top of that one and walk right out onto the stage
I first went to see 'em 'cause Jeff Sweeney said I should
It was Cantrell's in January and they weren't any good
The lead guitarist was naked, they'd all had too much beer
They had Marshalls turned up to 10 which ordinarily wouldn't be such a bad
thing
But they were trying to tune up by ear
So I gave 'em another chance, at the shed opening for Petty, what could go
wrong
Well this time they were wearing dresses drinking whiskey and never finished
a song
So now I'm angry 'cause money don't grow on trees, standing out there in the
parking lot
With tickets for the next night already in my hands thinking to myself, Jeez
What am I gonna do with these?
So I went, largely to say I was there
Drove home white-knuckle, straitjacket, dumbass blind
They were the greatest rock and roll band I ever did hear!
Had to look twice to make sure it was the same guys! An astonishing
transformation
From pupa to butterfly, Saul to Paul, Cougar to Mellencamp
Like crawling inside of Exile on Main St. and pulling Never Mind the
Bullocks
Up to your chin like a sonic quilt
They were nice guys and they were dicks, you wouldn't know what they'd do
One show might run 31 songs and alter your perspective
And the next might fall apart before it got to #2
But folks came out to see 'em, if only to say they saw 'em before they were
dead
And others to see if they could be anywhere near as good or as bad as
everybody else said
They snorted lines and lost their minds and notched their guns all over the
sphere
Got to where they couldn't tell you what day it was, what month it was
They couldn't even zone in on a year
They puked in their hands and tossed it on the ceilings of dressing rooms on
tour
And rock and roll journalists wrote it all down, truth? lies? they weren't
sure
They burned every bridge they didn't blow sky high, then started pissing off
each other too
It was brother against brother then, and not enough drugs to do
It all came crashing down 'cause it couldn't do much else
That way of life is a flaming star that grows real big and red and giant
Then falls in on top of itself
Chris, he's a painter now, solo artist, he's cool
Slim Dunlop is proof of the evidence of God, a guitar genius, a role-model
A credit to the gene pool!
Tommy moved to California to work for Axl Rose
I think he should team up with Slash and form Slash and Pop, they'd rock the
house
They'd sell tickets, it'd be the most
Paul is in the basement, writing ballads, drinking O-Doul's
Bob is up in Heaven shooting speed and smoking Kools
The Replacements played rock and roll they were the last of a dying breed
Pernicious damn the torpedoes types, they could make you sweat, make you
holler
They knew Only Women Bleed!
They were Charles Bukowski with watts and vomit, you paid and you took your
chance
'Cause when they were good, God got up to dance!
You ever seen God dance? He'll show you a step or two, Michael Flatley!
David Sharpe
was the guitarist (I think). I'd love to find some shows or even copies of
their long out of print albums.
Tommy new album, "Circus Town," is very good, by the way.
in article 20020502135720...@mb-mq.aol.com, DLew022 at
dle...@aol.com wrote on 5/2/02 1:57 PM:
Sinew Wave
Jeff
DLew022
don
David Sharpe
David
in article 20020502161643...@mb-mq.aol.com, DLew022 at
dle...@aol.com wrote on 5/2/02 4:16 PM:
Charles Ford
"DLew022" <dle...@aol.com> wrote in message
news:20020502135720...@mb-mq.aol.com...
> Dunno if this has been mentioned, but Nashville artist Tommy Womack has a
> pretty cool sounding song about The Replacements. Here are the lyrics. if
you
> like em, buy the guys album!
Interesting... you can sample it over on cdnow.com... Sounds oddly
reminiscent of "Treatment Bound".
Charles
AJDelB
From: sine...@aol.com (Sinew Wave)
Date: Thu, May 2, 2002 11:42 AM
Message-id: <20020502144227...@mb-mq.aol.com>
that was awful....really bad!
Jeff
>>
Ha! You may have thought it was bad, but at least we can thank the guy for
taking the trouble to post the lyrics. Thanks, DLew.
DLew022
Holly typed em though. BUT...I did cut n paste.
AND...Will Kimbrough is a bad-mo-fo. his solo album ("This") is really
terrrific. Not Mats'-y at all...good grooving rock.
don
Diggity Dawg
for a copy of his 2nd album about a year ago. I highly recommend his
book "Cheese Chronicles" if you can get your hands on a copy.
I have the live Cheese album "Three Chords, No Waiting" on vinyl. I got
my copy from www.midnightrecords.com - you might wanna check there. Most
of the Cheese stuff is practically impossible to get.
Scott in KC
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David Sharpe
David
in article 27021-3CD...@storefull-2337.public.lawson.webtv.net,
Diggity Dawg at kcsc...@webtv.net wrote on 5/4/02 12:13 PM: