Paul Harold Westerberg (born December 31, 1959) is an American musician, best known as the lead singer, guitarist and songwriter in The Replacements, one of the seminal alternative rock bands of the 1980s. He launched a solo career after the dissolution of that band. In recent years, he has cultivated a more independent-minded approach, primarily recording his music at home in his basement.
The Replacements
In the late 1970s Westerberg was working as a janitor for U.S. Senator David Durenberger, and one day while walking home from work, he happened to hear a band practicing Yes's "Roundabout" in a basement. He talked his way into the band by convincing the singer that the other band members – Bob Stinson, Chris Mars and Tommy Stinson – were going to fire him. The singer quit and Westerberg joined the group. The band was originally called "The Impediments," and played their first gig in the basement of a church, playing to members of a nearby halfway house who did not appreciate their drunken shenanigans, but they soon changed their name to "The Replacements" after several venues declined to advertise the band under their original name.
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"A rock'n'roll band needs to be able to get under people's skin. You should be able to clear the room at the drop of a hat."
"Reading music is like listening to flowers. I don't understand the concept."
"The truth is overrated."
"I'm not dissatisfied with my place in it rock 'n' roll."
"I think of the Replacements only when they're brought up to me. For two years, I'm at home, they don't really cross my mind. I still hear them on the radio. I'm not ashamed of anything we did."
"Stick with your heart and you'll be fine."
"It's like, it's up to the people to fall in love with the song. The record company can only do so much."
"I have my own language and it's high time I put a little of it out there."
"You know, he likes me because I'm his son. I have to go long and far to find someone who knows me just as me, rather than me the songwriter or whatever."
"Then again, I think about high school every day and I think about being a little kid every day too."
"I'm hard-pressed to think of a lot of great rock movies."
"I sat through Ladies and Gentlemen, the Rolling Stones like three times at the Skyway when it came out."
"I read The Bell Jar, and then I read her memoir and her diaries, and a third book, an outside opinion. Just the way she made the pillows so neat on the oven door. It just seems to be the opposite of, if you're going to take your life, in a horrible rage it happens."
"It's fun, but the fun is where it always was. I mean, it's still fun to strap on my Les Paul in the basement and turn up the Marshall amp. I'm still 15. I still enjoy that as much as I ever did."
"I don't think there's anything that will make me stop doing it. There may be a time when it's not available to anyone. You may have to come listen at my basement window... but I can't stop."
"Oddly, when I started to make the record, I wasn't aware I was making a record. I just was sort of disgusted with the whole thing and sequestered myself in the basement and started playing the piano just for something to do."
"Any musician who can stop may be a musician, but they're no artist. If it's in your blood, it can't stop flowing."
"Actually, I've done it the other way so many times where you rehearse the band and you do the whole thing with lights, the show and the crew - everything. Then you see what happens and you're already committed to dates. I'm just sort of putting out feelers this way."
Paul Westerberg
ALBUMS
- 14 Songs released: 2014
- 49:00... Of Your Time/Life released: 2008
- Open Season released: 2006
- The Resterberg released: 2005
- Besterberg: The Best of Paul Westerberg released: 2005
- Folker released: 2004
- Come Feel Me Tremble released: 2003
- Stereo released: 2002
- History Sampler released: 1999
- Suicaine Gratifaction released: 1999
- Eventually released: 1996
- Gravel Pit released: 1994
Besterberg: The Best of Paul Westerberg
Released 2005- Dyslexic Heart
- Knockin on Mine
- World Class Fad
- Runaway Wind
- Things
- Seein' Her
- Man Without Ties
- A Star is Bored
- Stain Yer Blood
- Love Untold
- Once Around the Weekend (alternate mix)
- Angels Walk
- It's a Wonderful Lie
- Lookin' Out Forever
- Nowhere Man
- High Time (Grandpa Boy)
- Let the Bad Times Roll
- What a Day (For a Night)
- All That I Had
- C'mon, C'mon, C'mon
Gravel Pit
Released 1994- Waiting for Somebody
- Mannequin Shop
- Achin’ to Be
- Waitress in the Sky
- Dice Behind Your Shades
- Merry Go Round
- Seein’ Her
- I Will Dare
- Whole Wide World
- Knockin’ on Mine
- Skyway
- Dyslexic Heart
- Daydream Believer
- Smokey
- I’ll Be You
- Can’t Hardly Wait
- Here Comes a Regular
- World Class Fad
- Alex Chilton
- Left of the Dial
- The Ledge
- Silver Naked Ladies
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Love Untold
by: Paul WesterbergThey were gonna meet, on a rocky mountain street
Two bashful hearts beat in advance
Their hands were gonna sweat, it was all set
She ain't showed up yet, still a good chance
It's a love untold
It's a love untold
Checking on her face, checks his sleeve for his ace
And both just in case wear clean underwear
Games would be played, excuses would be made
The stupid things they said in their prayers
Oh, about a love untold
It's a love untold
Soft hands slowly move across the blank white page
Thinking of words for my silent lips and fingers to obey
It's a love untold
It's a love untold
They were gonna meet on a crummy little street
It never came to be, I'm told
Does anyone recall the saddest love of all
The one that lets you fall, nothing to hold
It's the love untold
It's the love untold
Once upon a love untold
Once upon a love untold
Once upon a love untold
Just another love untold
They were gonna meet on a crummy little street
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The Replacements’ Rock Legend Passes Away Due to Stroke Complications Dunlap Slim was 73 years old
Frontman Paul Westerberg nicknamed him Slim, partly to distinguish him from Stinson and because of his thin build ... “I’m extremely grateful to Paul, Tommy (Stinson), and Chris (Mars) for giving me this opportunity,” he stated.
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Iconic 80s rock guitarist dead at 73 | Daily Mail Online
It was lead singer Paul Westerberg's idea to officially bill the new member as Slim, to prevent confusion with the group's original Bob ... Paul Westerberg, Chris Mars, and Slim Dunlap (fore) in 1989.
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The Replacements’ Slim Dunlap has died, aged 73
During his stint with Spooks, Dunlap caught the attention of The Replacements’ Paul Westerberg ... After news of the ailment broke, The Replacements’ Paul Westerberg and Tommy Stinson reunited ...
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Slim Dunlap of the Replacements dies at 73
Nicknamed Slim by Replacements frontman Paul Westerberg to avoid confusion with the guy he was replacing, the tall and gangly Dunlap played guitar on the Replacements’ final two studio albums, 1989’s “Don’t Tell a Soul,” which spawned a No.
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The Replacements guitarist Slim Dunlap dead at 73
Dulap, with fellow bandmates Paul Westerberg, Tommy Stinson and Chris Mars, was featured on the group’s last two albums 1989’s “Don’t Tell a Soul” and 1990’s ‘All Shook Down.” 7.
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Bob ‘Slim’ Dunlap, guitarist in the Replacements, dies at 73
When Dunlap joined, frontman Paul Westerberg asked for him to go by Slim, rather than Bob, to avoid any confusion ... When the Replacements toured in 2014, Westerberg said Dunlap had given his blessing for them to continue.
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Minnesota music legend and Replacements guitarist Slim Dunlap dies aged 73
In 1987, while working with Curt Almsted in Spooks, Dunlap caught the attention of Paul Westerberg, the frontman of The Replacements.
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The Replacements guitarist Slim Dunlap dies age 73
The group caught the eye of Replacements' Paul Westerberg, who was looking for a replacement for founding guitarist Bob Stinson. Dunlap declined the offer initially, but he was tempted by his own admiration for Westerberg as a songwriter ... .
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What Happened to Slim Dunlap? Replacements Guitarist Passes Away
Photo Credit. Jim Steinfeldt/Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images ... The Replacements frontman Paul Westerberg gave him the “Slim” nickname not only to differentiate him from Stinson, but also because of his appearance ... .
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Asheville artist earns No. 3 spot on Rolling Stone's 100 best albums of 2024: See why
'Rolling Stone' names the best songs of 2024 so far ... Cover Media ... Which album made it into the top 3? ... "Lenderman takes the vaunted sad-sack rock tradition of greats like Neil Young and Paul Westerberg and spins it into something of his own.".
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The San Diego Union-Tribune
15 Nov 2024
Award-winning San Diego singer-songwriter Paul Kamanski dies at 68
“I’ve always been an admirer of Neil Young, Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen and Paul Westerberg, and I think Paul Kamanski was cut from the same mold as them,” Poltz said. “I learned a lot from Paul by watching and observing what he did.
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Rolling Stone declares ‘Purple Rain’ the greatest soundtrack album of all time
47, “Batman” at No. 86 and “Purple Rain” at No. 1 ... Rolling Stone points out that in August 1984 Prince had the No ... 13 and “The Big Lebowski” at 37. Minneapolis singer/songwriter Paul Westerberg is heard on the soundtrack to “Singles,” which rated No. 30 ... .
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San Diego Union-Tribune
15 Sep 2024
The Rolling Stones, Gregg Allman and Etta James are among the legends who performed at ...
... Curtis Mayfield, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Carl Perkins, Leon Russell, Elvis Costello, Billy Preston, Laura Nyro, Todd Rundgren, Paul Butterfield, Sheryl Crow, Cheap Trick, Booker T ... Paul Westerberg.
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