Is Audioslave still together? Haven't heard anything about them for a while
Listened to The Revolvers (Is that what we're calling them, The Revolvers?) Today a couple of times for the first time in a while. Its some good stuff...but then I put in UYI I and the Best of STP and was sad, because I'd rather have two kick ass bands instead of 1
AND, I believe its safe to say Chinese Democracy will be postponed until 2005...Yay
AND...fans of Soul Asylum should check this out...sounds like I would have really dug that, I would have went by myself to see that gig with Westerberg, SA and the Gear Daddies, damn
Any number of Soul Asylum song titles could have described Thursday's Rock for Karl concert at the Quest in Minneapolis, which benefited the band's cancer-survivor bassist, Karl Mueller.
"Sometime to Return" fit the show's reunionlike vibe. "Runaway Train" summed up some of the musical free-for-alls on stage. Best of all, "Never Really Been" fit the unprecedented lineup of Twin Cities rock luminaries.
Performers at the sold-out fundraiser included Paul Westerberg and Bob Mould -- formerly of the Replacements and Hüsker Dü, respectively -- plus the reunited Gear Daddies, a makeshift lineup of the all-star group Golden Smog and the ever-resilient Soul Asylum.
All part of the celebrated local rock scene of the 1980s and early '90s, the musicians all practiced garage-band values such as inspiration over perfection and independence over money. But they rarely practiced them together on stage.
Soul AsylumJeff WheelerStar Tribune"We've all been friends, but for whatever reasons we rarely shared bills together," said Soul Asylum guitarist Dan Murphy, who has played with Mueller since they were teenagers. "It turned into the mother of all benefits, and couldn't have happened for a better guy."
Mueller, 41, hasn't been able to work since April because of a battle with throat cancer (now in remission) that left him and his wife with medical debt.
"It's overwhelming so many of them wanted to help, especially since some of them came into town for it," he said before the show.
Mould flew in from Washington, D.C., where he now lives, and Westerberg had just returned from playing his first London gig in 11 years on Tuesday.
Holding the event at the Quest was a little like having a Red Sox parade in Times Square (the Quest competes with First Avenue nightclub, where all of these acts got their start).
Still, the point was to raise some money, and it did so successfully. The 1,500 or so tickets sold out in a half-hour at $30 to $60 apiece, and pricey memorabilia was auctioned off on top of that, including guitars autographed by Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band and R.E.M.
