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The Replacements - It Ain’t Over ‘Til the Fat Roadie Plays!

August 22nd, 2007 · 7 Comments

The Replacements
On July 4th, 1991, The Replacements took the stage at the Taste of Chicago, and jammed out 19 songs to an enthusiastic crowd. By the time that 19th song was finished, history had been made. And not in a good way. In what has since been labeled the “It Ain’t Over ‘Til the Fat Roadie Plays” concert, each member of The Replacements walked off stage and was replaced by their roadie. When Paul Westerberg walked off after that 19th song, The Replacements were no more. A great chapter in American the punk/indie scene was finished.

Here is that amazing concert in all it’s glory. If your a Replacements fan, I’m sure it’s a bittersweet thing to actually hear the breakup of the band. But it is one hell of a recording, and shouldn’t be missed for anything.

Oh, and if you look hard enough, you might find the booze soaked performance by The Replacements on Saturday Night Live. The guys decided to get drunk, rip the green room to shreds, switch clothes in between songs, and get impermanently banned from NBC. Not a bad nights work. Too bad it over shadowed great performances of Bastards of Young and Kiss Me On The Bus.







  1. The Replacements - I Will Dare
  2. The Replacements - Bent Out Of Shape
  3. The Replacements - Achin’ To Be
  4. The Replacements - Merry Go Round
  5. The Replacements - Happy Town
  6. The Replacements - Swingin’ Party
  7. The Replacements - One Wink At A Time
  8. The Replacements - Waitress In The Sky
  9. The Replacements - When It Began
  10. The Replacements - Someone Take The Wheel
  11. The Replacements - Talant Show Send In The Clowns
  12. The Replacements - Nobody
  13. The Replacements - Another Girl, Another Planet
  14. The Replacements - Hey Good Lookin’
  15. The Replacements - I’ll Be You
  16. The Replacements - I Don’t Know
  17. The Replacements - Within’ Your Reach
  18. The Replacements - Can’t Hardly Wait
  19. The Replacements - Hootenanny
  20. The Replacements - Meet Me On The Bus

Tags: Punk · Indie Rock

7 responses so far ↓

  • 1 TWDM // Aug 22, 2007 at 8:13 am

    thanks for the replacements! Where can one find the SNL performances….youtube?

    TWDM

  • 2 Infonistacrat // Aug 22, 2007 at 8:21 am

    They used to be on Youtube, but I think they got taken down. Let me see if I can find them, and I will post the links in a comment here when I do.

  • 3 Infonistacrat // Aug 22, 2007 at 8:56 am

    http://homepage.mac.com/jdmajaris/QTmovies/iMovieTheater100.html

    The only one I can find out there. SNL must have been forcing their removal lately.

    Not a bad performance of Bastards of Young, considering how drunk they were!

  • 4 It ain’t over until the Fat Roadie plays at Paul Westerberg.net // Aug 22, 2007 at 4:42 pm

    […] has the very last Replacements’ concert from the Taste of Chicago in 1991 available for you to […]

  • 5 ROCKNROLLPIMP // Aug 23, 2007 at 7:03 pm

    where r the last 2 songs?

  • 6 G // Aug 28, 2007 at 12:02 am

    Hi - great to see the mp3’s on the site, I will dare isn’t there…thanks!

  • 7 BHTLNXI4 // Sep 28, 2007 at 1:31 am

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