event Soul Asylum
Also Playing: The Tomatoes
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Fri Dec 4
7:30 pm
Soul Asylum and The Tomatoes at First Avenue
Soul Asylum was huge in the ’90s, thanks to the triple-platinum 1992 disc Grave Dancers Union and hits like “Runaway Train,” not to mention singer Dave Pirner’s well-known relationship with Winona Ryder. The band fell far from the limelight in subsequent years, though founding bassist Karl Mueller, who died of lung cancer in 2005, inspired a comeback with the following year’s The Silver Lining. The album features Mueller’s last work and does justice to Soul Asylum’s, and Mueller’s, legacy. Though vocalist Dave Pirner still spends most of the year living in New Orleans, the Minneapolis-based band has kept going, with Pirner and guitarist Dan Murphy joined by former Prince drummer Michael Bland and Replacements/GNR bassist Tommy Stinson.
First Avenue 701 1st Ave. N., Twin Cities, MN
Soul Asylum was huge in the ’90s, thanks to the triple-platinum 1992 disc Grave Dancers Union and hits like “Runaway Train,” not to mention singer Dave Pirner’s well-known relationship with Winona Ryder. The band fell far from the limelight in subsequent years, though founding bassist Karl Mueller, who died of lung cancer in 2005, inspired a comeback with the following year’s The Silver Lining. The album features Mueller’s last work and does justice to Soul Asylum’s, and Mueller’s, legacy. Though vocalist Dave Pirner still spends most of the year living in New Orleans, the Minneapolis-based band has kept going, with Pirner and guitarist Dan Murphy joined by former Prince drummer Michael Bland and Replacements/GNR bassist Tommy Stinson.
Updated 12/06/2010
