Some of (but not all of) Westerberg’s finest solo moments have come when the stakes were low.
And when the first song off the record was a seeming throw away track called “1/2 2P” – a song about finding an irresistible urge to urinate come over you whenever a certain someone was around – well, my expectations went even lower. That reunion came on the heels of what had been one of the most fertile and interesting periods of Westerberg’s solo career to date starting with 2008’s 49:00.īut soon after the ‘Mats said they were going away again, Instagram photos of Westerberg and Juliana Hatfield started popping up, and soon it was official – there would be a record called Wild Stab under the banner of the I Don’t Cares – the band with a name designed to literally lower expectations. Stinson, Minehan and Freese for that astounding run was a man reliving his past and having fun with it, not someone stretching his creative spirit. But the Westerberg who appeared alongside Messrs. That’s a funny sentiment considering the non-stop Replacements-fest that went on from 2012 through last year’s final run of tour dates. It’s been a minute since we’ve heard from Paul Westerberg.
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