Creem Profiles
THE REPLACEMENTS
(Pronounced “Boy Howdy!”)
Home: Left Of The Dial.
AGE: Bastards of Young.
PROFESSION: World’s Greatest Rock ’N’ Roll Band 1987.
HOBBIES: Dealing with them “nightclub jitters”; “magic pants” & plaids; Alex Chilton; loving rock ’n’ roll; hating “rock ’n’ roll”; playing rock 'n' roll.
LAST BOOK READ:
Elvis: The Final Years by Jerry Hopkins.
LAST ACCOMPLISHMENT: Making people laugh.
QUOTE: “I don’t know.”
PROFILE: These guys get a bad rap. One day they might be drunk; next day, not so drunk. One day, great onstage; next day, not so, with only moments of greatness. People say they’re “the bad boys of rock.” If they were boffing 12-year-old girls and doing tons of drugs and selling millions of records—instead of going back after a show to call their girlfriends, making about as much as they’d make in a factory but having fun, being mischievous but basically kind-hearted, and not selling many records but actually being as honest in their own way as John Lennon was in his—they’d > be revered. Still, the music's what will matter in the end.
BEER: Boy Howdy!