PHOTOS: DAVE HAUSE AT ASBURY LANES 4/28/11

These are a little overdue but here's some pics from Dave Hause's recent performance at The Asbury Lanes with Mikey Erg and Ian Graham from the band Cheap Girls.

I hadn't heard about Ian Graham or Cheap Girls before but wow Graham's performance was great and Cheap Girl's albums are even better. Check out two songs from them at the end of the post and go buy both their albums My Roaring 20's and Find Me A Drink Home now. Asbury favorite Mikey Erg followed with a collection of Ergs songs delivered via solo electric guitar and true to character repeatedly asked "What am I doing? Billy Bragg already did this and much better."

Despite the miserable weather, a full crowd made it down to the Lanes for Dave Hause. Rounded out by Pete Steinkopf on guitar, his sister on piano, and his best friend on drums, Hause delivered a great performance with a set drawing heavily from his solo record. The solo material easily worked in the live setting and the full band arrangements refreshed older songs "Come On Kid" and "Melanin" while newer tunes "Time Will Tell" and "Years From Now" had everyone singing along.

Hause voiced frustration with record label Paper & Plastick's long and continuing delay on delivering his new record to customers despite the fact it was "released" in February. Full disclosure, I ordered the record from Paper & Plastick back in February and have yet to receive it. When I contacted the label in March about the delay I received a response which curtly reminded me of the definition of a pre-order which now apparently includes when the pressing plant messes up, multiple times.

Anyway, it was good to know that Hause was aware of the situation and shared many of his fans feelings on the situation. In response, Hause has been selling vinyl copies of his new album with limited edition hand screened sleeves. If you're going to buy the album, I suggest grabbing one of these very cool records at the shows.

"Meet Me At The Lanes" was played in honor of its namesake and made for a memorable moment. Spotting a teenage fan in the crowd rocking a Replacements t-shirt Hause quipped "Wow if I was a girl you're age I would totally give you sex for wearing that shirt" and launched into a fantastic cover of "Can't Hardly Wait" featuring some help from Ian Graham and Mikey Erg. I'm not sure there could have been a better way to close the show.

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"Hey Hey I'm Worn Out" from the album My Roaring 20's by Cheap Girls

"Stop Now" from the album Find Me A Drink Home by Cheap Girls

 

"Can't Hardly Wait" by Mike McLaughlin.

LISTEN: The Replacements Live

As part of an apparent continued attempt to reveal the vast depths of my music nerdery, presented here for your listening pleasure are two shows from The Replacements.

The Replacements live shows were notoriously known to be hit or miss. Some shows could be life changing while others sent even the hardest of hardcore fans headed for the exit. I would imagine that these two shows would fall somewhere closer to the former.

The first captures a blistering live set from '86 recorded at Maxwells in Hoboken, NJ. A few months later Bob Stinson would be kicked out of the band and the Replacements would slip into yet another of their many sonic incarnations. This set focuses on material up to and including their major label release "Tim."

The second set features Slim Dunlop and compiles recordings from The Replacements ill fated tour with Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers in 1989. Slotted as the opening act, in true Replacements style the band used every opportunity they could to heckle both Petty and his fans. But it was one night's antics in particular that broke the camels back so to speak. The Replacements dressed up in drag with clothes stolen from Petty's wife and played about five songs including a nine minute version of "Walk On The Wide Side." They ended the set with Westerberg yelling something along the lines of "Last night, Tom Petty said that if we fucked up again, he would fucking fire us. Well, Fuck You, Tom Petty! And Fuck You, Nashville!"

Both sets capture the Replacements in all their ramshackle glory and seem to be sourced from either the soundboard or FM Broadcast.

DOWNLOAD: The Replacement. Maxwells - Hoboken, NJ. 2/4/86 Full Show Download.

Sample: Can't Hardly Wait
 

Sample: Left Of The Dial
 

DOWNLOAD: The Replacements. "Shit, Shower, Shave." Tom Petty Tour '89 Full Download.

Sample: Talent Show
 

Sample: Alex Chilton
 

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