[kj] (OT) Derf Scratch (Fear) RIP

[GREG SLAWSON]

It's still pretty amazing. Kind of like getting a free blow job and seeing the Grand Canyon the same day--2 different but great experiences. 
PS I interviewed Tommy Stinson, the Replacements bass player, on my college radio show around 1984 (the rest of the band was supposed to show but didn't).
The main thing he wanted to do was steal a Slade album, b/c people say the Replacements sound like them--I didn't let him...
 


From: LONESTYLE at aol.com
Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2010 21:16:58 -0400
To: gathering at misera.net
Subject: Re: [kj] (OT) Derf Scratch (Fear) RIP



Well look at the scene back then it was small so go figure, especially in Mpls. ;)
 
~ LB
 

In a message dated 7/30/2010 1:34:45 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time, vassifer at earthlink.net writes:

Wow. I'm having an incredibly hard time imagining the Replacements opening for Killing Joke -- but I'm sure it was memorable.

Alex in NYC



-----Original Message----- 
From: Rheinhold Squeegee 
Sent: Jul 30, 2010 3:44 PM 
To: vassifer at earthlink.net, Gathering Gathering 
Subject: RE: [kj] (OT) Derf Scratch (Fear) RIP 



FEAR was a favorite growing up. They were erratic, incomprehensible, unpredictable, shambolic, frequently idiotic and even more frequently a powerful expression of everything I loved about music at the time.
 
Kind of like...KJ?
 
I loved how they were always teetering just on the edge of falling apart. Growing up I would hear stories of the Replacements at Duffy's in Mpls (and opening for KJ) or Kirby's in Moorhead, MN (next to Fargo, ND). The consensus was always the same: either you saw the greatest rock'n'roll show ever, or you saw a bunch of drunk fools play KISS covers for 20 minutes before falling off the stage.
 

 


Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2010 14:21:25 -0400
From: vassifer at earthlink.net
To: gathering at misera.net; gathering at misera.net
Subject: Re: [kj] (OT) Derf Scratch (Fear) RIP




I loved FEAR's first two albums. Awesome live band as well. 

Alex in NYC



-----Original Message----- 
From: folk devil 
Sent: Jul 30, 2010 2:03 PM 
To: gathering at misera.net 
Subject: Re: [kj] (OT) Derf Scratch (Fear) RIP 



Can I ask what appealed to you about them?
Worse than the Expoited, to me.
 


To: gathering at misera.net
From: countessghoulita at aol.com
Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2010 13:40:00 -0400
Subject: [kj] (OT) Derf Scratch (Fear) RIP

http://longgoneloser.wordpress.com/2010/07/30/derf-scratch-r-i-p/ 



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