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FLAGPOLE MAGAZINE
April 26, 1989
Story for the Flagpole: By Superstar John D. Thomas
Thank you, Good night:
The replacements, rock's great white hopes
on dope, were back in town, the big town, last
week, playing a show for Emory at the Roxy
Theater. The supposed all-student crowd was in
filtrated by a legion local rock geeks and h ippy
creeps. Tommy Keene opened, but I missed that,
because I was having a chocolate banana shake
over at Zestos.
But anyway, the lights go down and then bad
ass boy Tommy Stinson walks out and fake farts
in the mike and says that Westerberg is taking a
crap. Westerberg comes out a minute later and
they bust it up with Bastards of Young. After the
song Stinson says, "Thank you, good night," and
then starts to walk off stage. That would have
been hot, but he copped out when he got the
death look from Westerberg.
So, they got this new guitar player, Slim
Dunlop, who looks like a mental patient with the
receding hair line and the bowling pin face from
"One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest." His guitar
kept fading in and out, and he looked like he
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belonged in a dead head band— he kept his eyes closed most
of the time and moved his mouth like he was singing "Wreck
of the Edmund Fitzgerald, " or something like that.
But anyway, I gotta say it— this band has the worst drummer
on the planet, real deliberate with these weird fills. I don't
know, it's great stuff, but you wouldn't want to tell anyone that
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