FOR SALE: LIVE AT MAXWELLS'S 1986 | THE REPLACEMENTS

12.9.17 The energy from this newly issued record of an often bootlegged live recording from Hoboken NJ, 1986 could power a cargo ship from China. It is here where he can hear how strong their influences we’re to them with punk-sloppy covers of Kiss, T-Rex, The Beatles and Sweet. What is more important to me is to hear, through this recording, the influence The Replacements were to become to others. 

Stuart Berman at Pitchfork writes: Even as they found themselves headlining clubs and crashing network soundstages, the Replacements approached live performance with a determined lack of ceremony. Traditional set-list rules—like making a grand introduction, establishing a natural flow, saving the best for last, etc.—got tossed out the window. . .