Color Me Obsessed

[janradder]

My friend, Gorman, has inherited the reins to a documentary about the Replacements as seen through the eyes of their fans, called Color Me Obsessed. I mention this because right now there's only enough footage for a short film and he'd like to expand it to feature length so he's coming out to Minneapolis this May to film and interview. If anyone in Minneapolis (or elsewhere) is at all interested, here's an ad he placed on craigslist along with how to contact him:

http://minneapolis.craigslist.org/com/998117361.html

Basically, he's looking for "people to sit down in front of the camera with me for thirty minutes, an hour, however long it’ll take, and tell me their Replacements stories. Especially people who knew the band, saw the band, played on the same bill as the band, drank with the band, lived next door, anything and everything…WITH the band members. You get the picture. (You can love them…be indifferent…even hate them.)"

Comments

[joelarnold.livejournal.com]

What a cool project! Wish I could've seen them play live.

Joel

[janradder.livejournal.com]

It sounds like it could be kind of neat. The first director had wanted to just do a straight doc about the Replacements but they were completely uncooperative in terms of granting use of songs or even talking to her so, when my friend got a hold of it, he thought why not just tell their story through their fans eyes and not have any footage of them or any of the music (since it was unavailable anyway). I hope it turns out well.

I got to see them twice but it was late in their career, first after Don't Tell a Soul and then after Chris Mars quit. I have to say, they were kind of disappointing. From what I've heard they were always hit or miss. I definitely wish I could have seen them back when Bob Stinson was with them.