Garage Sale, Baltimore MD,  put their surf guitar signature all over "Buck Hill"  - very cool track!
 

GARAGE SALE bfink@bcpl.net Dave McDonough - guitar, vocals  Pat Core - guitar, vocals  Big Dave Cawley - bass, vocals  Skizz - drums, vocals

 
Garage Sale is a mostly instro/all mental rockin' combo combining surf, 60's garage, British Invasion and punk into a sound that's almost vaguely their own.

Interview with Skizz.

What's your favorite thing about the Replacements? Paul Westerberg's songwriting (at the time).

Replacements history?  I think it was around 1984/85, I heard "Answering Machine" from Let It Be on WCVT and thought it was really cool, and then I heard "Unsatisfied" and felt like I had found a band capable of tapping into how I was feeling at the time.  There was a rumor going around that they would show up at other people's shows and take over the stage, which I thought was hysterical. I don't know how true that rumor was*, but when I finally started seeing them live (Tim tour, 1986), I was blown away by how unprofessional their show was; they'd come out dressed-down in jeans & flannel with messy hair, and start playing a couple of their songs before kicking into an hour long medley of covers dowsed with intoxicated sloppiness. I was disappointed at later tours when I would go to see them and they would actually play tight versions of their own songs, sober and well dressed... like a regular band at a regular concert.  *(speaking of rumors regarding The Mats: around 1987 or 88 I started a rumor that They Might Be Giants got their start as roadies for the Replacements.   That rumor was repeated by Dave Kendell on MTV's 120 Minutes and quickly appeared in music magazines all over the world. TMBG have said that to this day they still get asked about it.)

Why are you bothering to pay tribute to 'em?  They were great! They were an influence and an inspiration. The history of
rock & roll may forget how groundbreaking The Replacements really were, but I never will (without them, what would The Goo Goo Dolls sound like?). They were one of the few breaths of fresh air when the dominating-MTV was shoving
bad synthpop and hair-metal down our throats, while the whole underground punk thing was starting to get silly. The rest of the music industry was busy concerning itself with fashion, posing, over-production, videos, etc., but The Mats were proving how unnecessary that all was as long you had good songs. On record, they were stripped-down to the basics so that the songs were the only thing that mattered. Live, they were just a bunch of guys having a good time. To this day, the music industry could stand to learn some lessons from The Replacements.