Ukulele Advocate: Bright Little Field Ukes The Replacements

A few months ago I was invited to play a solo ukulele number at a local New Haven tribute to the great Minnesota cult-rock glorified bar band of the 1980s, The Replacements. The main event was a screening of Connecticut filmmaker Gorman Bechard’s documentary Color Me Obsessed, which features interviews with dozens of people who knew, worked with or obsessively followed The Replacements, but pointedly does not include any interviews with the band’s members, any footage of the band playing, and any recorded versions of their songs. The subtext of the film is how legends sometimes surpass reality.

By Christopher Arnott

January 21, 2013