The Replacements, Not Ready for Prime Time, 2024 on Sire/Rhino

Full title is “Not Ready for Prime Time: Live at the Cabaret Metro, 1986.” This was previously available as part of the Tim (Let It Bleed Edition) CD set that came out in 2023, but was reissued on vinyl as a limited edition for Record Store Day 2024.

Recorded live at the Cabaret Metro (now just called Metro) in Chicago on January 11th, 1986. That’s just a week before they appeared on SNL—a performance that got them the lifetime ban.

Great live set going back to classics like “Tommy Gets His Tonsils Out” but also Tim songs like “Kiss Me On The Bus.” Liner notes by Bob Mehr, the author of Trouble Boys: The True Story of the Replacements.

My copy via Down In The Valley in Golden Valley MN, pressed at GZ Media.

Gish came to my attention while working at Sound Warehouse and it became my favorite record instantly. This show was the second night of a couple sold out shows for the hometown up-and-comers. Siamese Dream was still 368 days away and I was a couple months from 21 years old.

Set list in the comments.

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