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Re: Tommy's band Bash and Pop (recent review of that 1993 record)
Bash and Pop -- Friday Night Is Killing Me
I bought this album in 1993, when it was released. I must have played it, but I don't recall much about the music at all. My loss. This is Tommy Stinson's band, and Tommy had just left The Replacements because that old blowhard Paul Westerberg wouldn't let anybody sing or play anything but Paul Westerberg songs. So Tommy split the 'Mats, switched from bass to lead guitar, and then unleashed a batch of songs that sound rowdier and looser than anything The Replacements had recorded since the mid-'80s.
Tommy's a more than capable frontman, and his scratchy tenor recalls Rod Stewart when he could still sing rock 'n roll. And Rod really is the touchstone here because Tommy and his bandmates clearly love that early '70s ramshackle boogie when Ronnie Wood was still trading off gigs betwen The Faces and The Rolling Stones. It's an uneven effort. The ballads don't work, but there aren't that many ballads, and at least none of them are entitled "Tonight's the Night." The rockers and mid-tempo tunes are fabulous, though, and this album is well worth tracking down.
http://www.pastemagazine.com/blogs/whit … ttice.html
this album does have some great tunes on it and you could probably find it cheap as dirt.:haha:
http://www.amazon.com/Friday-Night-Kill … B000006L4T
Re: Tommy's band Bash and Pop (recent review of that 1993 record)
Tommy and Bash & POP on Letterman in the early 90's. Kinda punk for Kathy Lee Gifford!
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video for the song Loose Ends...great Stones/Faces sounding song. Notice Tommy as a transvestite....:haha:
