Mpls Music History

Folk and blues legend Lead Belly’s Minneapolis private party Folk and blues singer Huddie Ledbetter performed a short concert at a friend’s Minneapolis home in 1948. Instead of being lost in music history, someone decided to record it.

MPR interview about Lead Belly’s Minneapolis performance.

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On this date: November 21, 1948. Lead Belly played at a private gathering at a Minneapolis home. The performance was recorded and later released.

The Replacements Let It Be deluxe box set party is at the Depot Tavern Thursday, November 20th from 4-7pm. Buy the box set before its release date!

The Replacements bonus CD Live At City Gardens 1984 is pictured.

Join us at The Depot Tavern by @first-avenue.com today from 4-7pm to hear @thereplacements.bsky.social new Let It Be deluxe CD! Prizes incl. concert tickets & EF gift cards. First 25 to buy the CD or vinyl get a bonus Live At City Gardens 1984 EP. One per customer.
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YouTube video by ScottishTeeVee Iggy Pop Minneapolis 1979

Video includes Longhorn footage.

Iggy Pop Setlist at Jay's Longhorn Bar, Minneapolis Get the Iggy Pop Setlist of the concert at Jay's Longhorn Bar, Minneapolis, MN, USA on November 20, 1979 from the New Values Tour and other Iggy Pop Setlists for free on setlist.fm!

On this date: November 20, 1979. Iggy Pop at Jay’s Longhorn.

State Theater Marquee in Minneapolis with Purple Rain the Musical.

Attending Purple Rain The Musical tonight.

Ep. #1040: The Replacements' 'Let It Be (Deluxe Edition)' with Peter Jesperson, Jason Jones & Elizabeth Nelson - Kreative Kontrol Peter Jesperson, Jason Jones, and Elizabeth Nelson are here to discuss their work on 'Let It Be (Deluxe Edition)' by the Replacements, Peter’s fondness for Elizabeth’s writing and her excellent liner ...

I've already resigned myself to the fact that I will not have it on its release day Friday. Good podcast on it posted yesterday.
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Music calendar, November 1988 at First Avenue & 7th Street Entry. Includes touring shows such as Butthole Surfers, Sonic Youth, and Jane’s Addiction.

November 1988 at First Avenue & 7th Street Entry. From the Minnesota Music Archive.
Note Jane’s Addiction in the 7th Street Entry on the 26th & 27th.

It’s hard to compete with that. 😊

Shortly after they met it was announced that TheRamones would open for Foreigner at the St. Paul Arena on November 18, 1978. Hart and Mould decided to go together and on the way they stopped by to pick up Greg Norton. After introductions and pleasantries, Norton's mom inquired about Mould's Thanksgiving plans. She promptly invited him to dinner after he explained that he didn't have any.

Mould, Hart, and Norton attended the Civic Center show together. I think they enjoyed the opener. Bob had recently moved here to start his first semester of college.
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Ramones had headlined the State Theater in Mpls earlier that year, in January. And they returned to Mpls a year after the Civic Center show with two performances at Uncle Sam’s in Nov. ‘79. I’m counting five trips to the Twin Cities from July ‘77 to May ‘80.

St. Paul audience can't take punk rock band By Michael Anthony Staff Writer Who says the rock audience will take anything they're given, provided it's hyped up properly? The crowd some 17,000 at the St. Paul Civic Center Saturday night didn't like the Ramones - the nation's premiere punk rock group, mind you - and let them know it.

Ramones apparently didn’t get a warm welcome from some who were there exclusively to hear tunes like“Hot Blooded” and “Feels Like the First Time” off the two records Foreigner had released at this point. Headline from the Tribune on 11-20-78:

Newspaper ad: ANNOUNCES FOREIGNER Special Guest Ramones SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 18/8 P.M. St. Paul Arena Tickets: $6.50/$7.50 reserved available at Dayton's (375-2987) and St. Paul Civic Center (224-7403).

On this date: November 18, 1978. Ramones opened for Foreigner at what we usually refer to as the St. Paul Civic Center.

Same. 🤷‍♂️

LEFT OF THE DIAL DISPATCHES FROM THE 80s UNDERGROUND with splatter art of part of animated face.

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Front and back covers of the box set.

Q&A WITH PETER JESPERSON COFOUNDER OF TWIN/TONE RECORDS Does it bum you out that Twin/Tone is known mostly for The Replacements? Not at all. I think that they were unquestionably the crown jewel of what we did; I think it's justified. Yet there were lots of other things that I thought were super-high quality— from The Suburbs to Soul Asylum to The Jayhawks. The label focused mainly on Minneapolis artists .. • We branched out a little bit, especially later on, but it was really a Minneapolis-based label. It was almost like Twin/Tone was forced into existence by the sheer number of great people playing. It was outrageous — every time you turned around there was another fucking incredible band, and my perspective on all of this just couldn't have been better. I ran the local record store [Oar tolkjokeopus), and I also deejayed and helped book the first local underground rock chub, led The Longhorn. So I got to really see g5 percent of what was going on, and it was just overwhelming.... What we felt like we were doing was documenting the scene that happened at The Longhorn.

What's your business philosophy? I think the key from the get-go was "Follow the music and be fair." That's the way I've always tried to abide by things. Did you fold your own sleeves or sell records out of the trunk of your car or anything like that? Never sold records out of the trunk, but we did fold our own sleeves on our initial EPs, due to a mistake.... Fortunately, I don't think we did anything else like that, except for The Replacements' Stink record. I had to hand-stamp a few thousand jackets because I made a deal with my Twin/Tone partners. The Replacements basically weren't due to make another record. We had just put out Sorry Ma, and Westerberg wrote this song called "Kids Don't Follow." I went to my partners and said, "I will do anything I have to do to get this recorded. I'll fucking hand-stamp jackets if I have to." And damn if they didn't take me up on it. Did you ever think the label wasn't going to make it? ri hass I don't know if the label did make it. We didn't take paychecks for most of the years of Twin/Tone. I didn't start drawing a regular paycheck until 1992. I think we did some great stuff that I'm really proud of, but I don't know if, as an enterprise, we were really what you would call successful. What's most misunderstood about The Replacements? That they were really a band, and not Paul Westerberg and some other schmoes. I hate the way history looks back at The Replacements as Paul Westerberg's band, 'cause I know there were as many people who came to isce The Replacements just to see what Bob Stinson was wearing. Or to watch Tommy, 'cause he was a major part of the show. —John Srebalus

Q&A with Peter Jesperson.

V6. I WILL DARE - The Replacements The Replacements' beautifully messy masterpiece, 1984's Let It Be, makes every stop between pure silliness and stark poignancy. Is a Jeckyll-and-Hyde ride that at last finds principal songwriter Paul Westerberg comfortable wedging sensitive songs like "Unsatisfied" and "Sixteen Blue" among such cheeky bashers as "Tommy Gets His Tonsils Our and "Gary's Got A Boner." Uncorking the 1 1-song bender is the single " Wil Dare," a bouncing popabilly number buffed up with dabs of mandolin and o guitar solo by R.E.M.'s Peter Buck. Given his inquiry, "How young on. you?/How old am I?" Westerberg's dare appears to have statutory implications.

VI7 DON'T WANT TO KNOW IF YOU ARE LONELY - Hüsker Dü With 1983's pivotal Metol Te himps Circus EP, Minneapolis trio Hüsker Dü revealed an intro spective side previously obscured by record amounts of speed and distortion. By 1986's Candy Apple Grey, 1|1! their major label debut, they weren't hiding anything. Guitars would slash if neces-sary, but if they wanted a ballad to sound like a ballad, they weren't going to apologize for it. While "Sorry Somehow" and "Hardly Getting Over It" are as nice as Hüsker Dü ever got, this cranked single wouldn't have been out of place on one of their SST albums. Written by drummer Grant Hart, it's a breakup song that's still mad.

Excerpts with a #localangle from the booklet to the 2004 cd box set “Left of the Dial: Dispatches from the 80s Underground.” Such a great compilation.

I like those odds.

ROCK AROLL ALTER! Duffy's 26th & 26th Ave.So., Minneapolis NOVEMBER CONCERTS Saturday, Nov. Ist Virgin Recording Artists Saturday, Nov. 15th Twintone Recording Artists Fingerprintz ten Laaسل The Pistons w/The Replacements w/KYX 6./The Suits Music start at 700 PM Free Admission, 2 in 1 bar drinks 7-530 PM Sunday, Nov. 16th Cover anly $3.00 Charlie Lawson Presents Sunday, Nov. 2nd More Experimental Blues Chrysalis Recording Artists Ultra Vox w/Benday Dots Tuesday, Nov. 4th Dareforce Wednesday, Nov. Sth Virgin Recording Artists • Martha and the Muffins w/ Fine Art Thursday, Nov. 6th Fat City Recording Artists Flamin Oh's w/ КУХ Friday & Saturday, Nov. 76 8 Fat City Recording Artists Flamin Ob's Res ending Artiste Nihai & the Corvette Sunday, Nov. 9th Charlie Lauson presents an Offnite Music Showcase w/Crazy Legs-Milwaukee Slim John Beach - and friends Monday, Nov. 10ch A & M Recording Artists Split Enz ~/The Keplacements Music starts at $.00 PM Tuesday, Nov. 15th Arista Recording Artists The Busboys Thie in a minimum wage concert only $3.10 Wednesday, Nov. 19th Tacoma Recording Artists The Fabulous Thunderbirds w/special gueste Thursday, Nov. 20th KFAI Presents a 3rd World Festival Friday, Nov. 21st A & M Recording Artists The Stranglers w/special guests Saturday, Nov. 22nd RCA Recording Artists Yipes Sunday, Nov, 23 Virgin Recording Artists Captain Beetheart w/special guests Tuesday, Nov. 11th Regency Recording Artists Sussman Lawrence w/The Suits Music starts at 8.00 PM Wednesday, Nov. 12th KFAI Presents Tuesday, Nov. 25th The Trogs, Dully» 2nd annual wild turkey orgy Wednesday, Nov. 26th Fat City Recording Artists The Flamin Oh's Thurs., Fri, Sat.-Nov, 27.28,29 Regency Recording Artists Sussman Lawrence The Original Ft. McCoy Cuban Sunday, Nov. 30th Refugee Salsa Band Charlie Lawson Presents Music atarts at 8.00 More Experimental Blues Al and the Mudsharks. Thursday & Friday, Nov, 13 € 14 Larry Hayes and the Tonearms Shangoya and special guests •No drink specials on…

November 1980 music calendar at Duffy’s.
From “Duffy’s Rock & Roll Alternative - 26th & 26th” FB page.

Review in Brief Devo at Walker If punk was a return to rudimentary rock, then it seems fitting that the most important post-punk band, Devo, takes us one more step backwards as it deals with the "de-evolution" of the human race. Devo's music has one foot in the past (its rock beat and Ventures-like staccato rhythms) and one in the future (its space-age synthesizer and guitar sounds). The band calls its music the "sounds of things falling apart." In its first of two concerts Friday at Walker Art Center, the quintet from Akron, Ohio, recalled the Ramones, America's leading punk band. Like the Ramones, Devo has a consistent artistic vision (which is uncommon for punk bands) and a real sense of humor. However, Devo is more a group of conceptual artists using music as a medium than a band with a message. Not surprisingly then, its performance seemed more choreographed than spontaneous. The and members, dressed in factory coveralls and googles, moved and jumped jerkily like rock-robots on top of a black plastic tarp. Lead singer Mark Mothersbaugh occasionally ventured into the sellout crowd and then somersaulted down the steps to the stage. Reviewed by Jon Bream

And a brief review November 6, 1978.

The Minneapolis Star Friday, November 3, 1978 The post-punk band Devo Rock-robot image of Devo fits its vision

Previewed by JON BREAM Minneapolis Star Stall Writer HERE IS a scene in the horror film "The Island of Dr. Mo-reau" in which a mad scientist programs the legions of half-men, all-beast creatures he has created. He shouts at them and they respond in unison: "We are not meat scene, among other things. inspired some Kent State University students to form Devo, the post-punk band that everybody is talking about. Mick Jagger and David Bowie have saluted Devo. Neil Young is so enamored with the band that he not only featured it in his upcoming film,. "The Human Highway, but he also lined up Devo with his manager. Devo, which will perform to- night at Walker Art Center, has been described as a meeting of Roxy Music (a British art-rock band) and the Rolling Stones at a space station. The Village Voice, the New York magazine for cultur. al taste-makers, called Devo "Kiss for college kids. There certainly is a cartoon aspect to the five musicians from Ak-ron, Ohio, who dress up onstage in factory coveralls and goggles and move jerkily in unison like rock ro-bots. The image definitely fits the band's artistic vision.

Devo is short for the "de-evolu-tion band." The musicians, who are in their 20s believe the human race is falling down the evolution-try ladder. They sing quirky songs about a mongoloid businessman ("Mongoloid"), our fast-food cul ture ("Too Much Paranoias"), girl killed by debris falling from outer space ("Space Junk" and our evolution into pinheads ("Jocko Homo"). Devo's repertoire also includes distinctive renditions of the Rolling Stones' "Satisfac- tion" and Johnny Rivers' "Secret Agent Man.' Devo's music is intense, herky-jerky rock hybridized with bizarre synthesizer sounds. You can dance to it, but it is not easy to digest Devo's debut album, "Q. Are We Not Men? A. We Are Devo," in one sitting. Perhaps the band is most attractive in the live context. Two films of the erforming-"Satis- faction and The Truth about De-Evolution" —will be shown before

the band's two performances, which are sold out. The brief films are absolutely hilarious and even quite poignant. if you bother to think about them. The movies were made by Chuck Statler, who was a classmate of the band members at Kent State and is affiliated with the Minge-apolis College of Art and Design.. Those films and two other Deyo movies will be shown at 8 p.m. Saturday at Walker Art Center auditorium as part of a punk-rock film festival. Other offerings on the program include "Burn.It Down" (1977)-a funny flick fen-turing Minnetonka's Suicide Commandos performing in front their condemned house as it is be ing burned the ment-and fire depart- "Scorpio Rising (1964). Kenneth Anger's prototyp-al punk film that is considered an underground classic. It is the story of the head trips of a motorcycle biker set to mid-1960s rock songs. including the inevitable "Wipe Out."

Preview from the Minneapolis Star, November 3, 1978.

DENO IN CONCERT Friday, Nov. 3 • 8:00 P.M. • Walker Art Center Devo/Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo! Their live shows are spectacular and controversial and their sound is avant-garde progressive music tied to a concept of "devolution." Tunes include "Mongoloid," "Jocko Homo" and "Space Junk. Available at Greater American Music, Third Stone Records, all Wax Museums

A lot of excitement about Devo at the Palace theater in St. Paul tonight. They played the Walker Art Center 47 years and 12 days ago. Ad from the Twin Cities Reader:

Hüsker Dü playing a Minneapolis basement , July 13, 1984. Photo by Brian Garrity.

The book features a couple of Brian Garrity’s shots of Hüsker Dü from what was almost certainly the last basement show they ever played. 1984.

Brian Garrity signature on inside of his book with date 9/8/23, when a book release event was held.

Book cover featuring photo of Kat from Babes in Toyland. Text: PUSHED BEYOND ALL REASONABLE LIMITS THE MUSIC PHOTOGRAPHY OF BRIAN D. GARRITY

Very sorry to hear that Brian Garrity has died. In 2023, Brian published this great book of his (mostly Minneapolis) music photography, “Pushed Beyond All Reasonable Limits.”

Posted a bunch my old First Avenue stubs awhile back on the old site. Found the photos.

A friend reminds me that Lungfish and Chisel (featuring Ted Leo) opened this show.

DISCHORD Dischord Records Since 2011, Fugazi has maintained an online archive of all the band's 1000+ performances that provides data, photos and ephemera from all their shows and makes available close to 900 concert recordings captured by both the band and their audience. A new show was posted today on streaming services and our bandcamp site-Minneapolis, MN 10/15/95 Further recordings will be added monthly through the end of the year. The Fugazi Live Series website will remain online at https://dischord.com/ fugazi_live_series and will continue to host the complete archive.

Ticket SEC ROW SEAT GEN. ADM. Oct 15, 1995 ADMIT ONE THIS DATE ONLY a special EARLY MATINEE Concert featuring FUGAZI with special guests to be announced CIRSTAVENUE 701 FIRST AVE. NO. MINNEAPOLIS, MN HEET ENTRY SUNDAY • OCTOBER 15, 1995 DOORS OPEN 4:00 PM • SHOWTIME 5:00 PM ALL AGE CONCERT. $5.00 ADMISSION - $.58 CITY/STATE ADMISSION TAX $.07 OUT OF STATE ENTERTAINER'S TAX • $5.65 TOTAL NO REFUND PRICE NO EXCHANGE $5. 65 Fugazi Live Series Minneapolis MN 10/15/95 FLS0736

A 1995 Minneapolis performance at First Avenue was just added to the vast number of Fugazi shows available to stream.

Prince in concert at First Avenue (photo courtesy of Joel Bremer)

Prince's childhood home, now a local landmark (2018 photo courtesy of Kristen Zschomler)

Before the world knew Prince, he was just a kid in North Minneapolis learning piano by ear in this modest rambler. Now his childhood home has been recognized by the City as a local landmark. minneapolismn.gov/resident-services/property-housing/preservation/landmarks-districts/landmarks/nelson-house

This Minneapolis-related track on Side 2 of the Ramones' "Rocket to Russia" album, is a twinned companion to "Cretin Hop," the lead track on Side 1, an homage to Cretin Avenue in Saint Paul.
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