Savage Distortion

MINNEAPOLIS

I've never been, but I wish I was there last night for this gig - Bob Mould, Paul Westerberg, and Golden Smog among others. I've been thinking about Minneapolis alot lately, unfortunately not the Twins. I watched Purple Rain two days ago, for the first time in what seems like fifteen years. Still holds up, bad acting, decent story, but man those concert sequences. I get chills when he does that "Do you want him, or do you want me, cuz I want you..." thing in 'The Beautiful Ones'. What an exceptional performer. Guys like him are thin on the ground. Motzart, Zappa, Prince.... Eddie Van Halen could have ranked among them, but that whole hollywood coke and booze thing screwed him up but good, now he's a lost cause. Back to Minneapolis though. I bought a CD copy of "Please To Meet Me" after my brother blogged 'Alex Chilton'. I figured I needed to have it at my disposal. I was always a 'Skyway'/'Can't Hardly Wait' guy, but I rediscovered 'Nevermind', which is currently blowing my mind. It's sort of the logical extension of 'Unsatisfied', so I'm happy about that. Anyway, I'm overdue for a trip to that particular musical mecca. Keep me posted Hue, next time Bob M. and Paul W. share a stage, we need to be there.