Paul Westerberg (The Replacements) Back In Action
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Paul Westerberg is back in action, but only in Minneapolis. The former lead singer and songwriter of The Replacements, Westerberg has been reported to be primarily recording his music at home in his basement in the Minneapolis suburbs. Commonly, the 47 year old has been dubbed a recluse. Apparently, not anymore.The Minneapolis rock icon took to the stage Sunday at the city's legendary First Avenue night club for an installment of "The Craft," a Rock and Roll Hall of Fame chat-and-sing series a la VH1's "Songwriters."
Warren Zanes, currently of the Hall of Fame and formerly of the Del Fuegos, interviewed Westerberg for 90 minutes. The following are some gems from the interview.Producer Jim Dickinson added overdubs, including strings, on "Pleased To Meet Me" that Westerberg didn't discover until he heard the album.Each of the three Replacements was in separate rooms for the recording; Westerberg was in the studio hallway. "I had ZZ Top in the next room," he said. "It never leaked on to the tape but I could hear 'Sharp Dressed Man' in the next room."After John Cale came by to record violin on "Sadly Beautiful" on "All Shook Down," the Replacements had to hide his instruments because Lou Reed, Cale's ex-colleague in Velvet Underground, was coming down to the studio that night.Zanes asked about Westerberg mythology, calling him the J.D. Salinger of rock for going underground. Quipped the artist, "I'm the Catcher in the Slump."Zanes didn't ask about Westerberg's fretting hand, which he injured in December while trying to clean some candle wax with a screwdriver. In an interview with the Minneapolis Star Tribune in June, the guitarist said, "I'm one-third of the way to being possibly 80 percent all better." In other words, the doctor told him it would take 18 months to recover from the injury, damaged nerves in the webbed area between the ring and pinkie finger, and he would regain only 80 percent use of his hand."MORE HERE":CH[CH]http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070924/music_nm/westerberg_dc
Warren Zanes, currently of the Hall of Fame and formerly of the Del Fuegos, interviewed Westerberg for 90 minutes. The following are some gems from the interview.Producer Jim Dickinson added overdubs, including strings, on "Pleased To Meet Me" that Westerberg didn't discover until he heard the album.Each of the three Replacements was in separate rooms for the recording; Westerberg was in the studio hallway. "I had ZZ Top in the next room," he said. "It never leaked on to the tape but I could hear 'Sharp Dressed Man' in the next room."After John Cale came by to record violin on "Sadly Beautiful" on "All Shook Down," the Replacements had to hide his instruments because Lou Reed, Cale's ex-colleague in Velvet Underground, was coming down to the studio that night.Zanes asked about Westerberg mythology, calling him the J.D. Salinger of rock for going underground. Quipped the artist, "I'm the Catcher in the Slump."Zanes didn't ask about Westerberg's fretting hand, which he injured in December while trying to clean some candle wax with a screwdriver. In an interview with the Minneapolis Star Tribune in June, the guitarist said, "I'm one-third of the way to being possibly 80 percent all better." In other words, the doctor told him it would take 18 months to recover from the injury, damaged nerves in the webbed area between the ring and pinkie finger, and he would regain only 80 percent use of his hand."MORE HERE":CH[CH]http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070924/music_nm/westerberg_dc
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