The Replacements: Pleased to Meet Me – Deluxe Edition

“The Replacements are self-destructing right in front of me.”

That’s what I was thinking to myself as I watched these four Minneapolis-bred indie-rock stalwarts attempt to play through their rag-tag set while opening for Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers on August 19, 1989, at the Brendan Byrne Arena in East Rutherford, New Jersey.