23. april 2016 arkiv

Paul Westerberg – The Replacements – om sin byfælle Prince

23. april 2016

My first recollection of seeing him was a dress rehearsal for one of his early tours. I was next to another musician, a couple other guys that were up-and-comers and that thought they were hot shit, and we were watching Prince. The guy turned to me and said, “I’m fucking embarrassed to be alive.” And that’s how I felt. He was so good. It was like, “What are we doing? This guy is, like, on a different planet than we are.” It was showmanship, it was rock & roll, it was fun, it was great. I think it helped everyone around. It made us all think that Minneapolis wasn’t the dour town that we tried to pretend it was. He was like a ray of light in a very cautious place. He was a star. He made no bones about it. He was glitz to a place that wasn’t used to it. I remember a little scuffle broke out in front of the stage one night and Prince said, “Stop fighting, you’ll mess up your clothes.” (Paul Westerberg husker Prince i Rolling Stone)

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50 års-jubilar: The Troggs – Wild Thing

23. april 2016

Ja, på denne tid for 50 år siden udkom The Trogss “Wild Thing”, der kort tid efter nåede førstepladsen på Billboards toneangivende hitliste Hot 100. Sangen var først blevet indspillet af The Wild Ones året før, men det var Troggs version, der hittede. Og selv efter, at Jimi Hendrix fortolkede sangen på Monterey Pop Festivalen i 1967, var det først og fremmest Troggs’ version, der var selvskreven til rockens store blå bog. En garagerockklassiker og forløber for punken.

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