First-ever 'Best Of' Collection with Unreleased Material Coming Soon!


Sometime To Return: The Best Of Soul Asylum is a first-ever, career-spanning compilation from the electrifying Minneapolis rock band. Packed with 19 songs from their Columbia, A&M and Twin Tone years, Sometime To Return will contain all the hits and features previously unreleased tracks and alternate versions of some of Soul Asylum's most important songs! This new collection will include liner notes by Lenny Kaye, producer of the 1988 album, Hangtime. Scheduled for a September 2000 release. Subject to change. 

Clinton's visit targets young souls                     

President will share stage with hometown rockers Soul Asylum - TOM WEBB WASHINGTON BUREAU 

 

           President Clinton and Soul Asylum, the rock group from Minnesota,  have agreed to share the stage at a Democratic fund-raising event in     Minneapolis next month, a party official said Thursday.         Hoping to stir enthusiasm among younger voters, the president and the alternative rock band will appear at the private event on the afternoon    of June 10. That's the same day Clinton will be deliver the    commencement speech at Carleton College in Northfield.   Karen Louise Boothe, spokeswoman for the Minnesota   Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party, said the private fund-raising event   will be targeted to people in their 20s and 30s, with tickets priced at   $100 apiece -- modest by presidential fund-raising standards.   ``This is geared at the modest giver, and tickets will be affordable,''     Boothe said. ``And we're going to make sure students can get access  too,'' by offering some type of student discount.     Some details of the event have not yet been nailed down, including its  exact location in Minneapolis. Democrats are considering both indoor  and outdoor sites that can accommodate 1,000 people, Boothe said.   Money from the concert will be split between the Minnesota DFL Party  and the Democratic National Committee.    For wealthier Democratic donors, there will also be a small private  reception with the president immediately before the concert, with  tickets around $1,000 a person, she said.  Soul Asylum is a Grammywinning group from Minneapolis that has    performed on the White House lawn during the Clinton presidency. The  group is best known for its hit ``Runaway Train.''      Clinton will speak at the fund-raising event, but Boothe couldn't say  whether he'll also play the saxophone. ``I don't know if Soul Asylum    has sax on any of their songs,'' Boothe said. ``Maybe he could shift to  another instrument, like the drums.''     Clinton's Carleton-and-concert trip will be his third trip to Minnesota in    six weeks. On Friday the president visited a Shakopee farm to promote   greater trade with China. The week before that, he visited St. Paul to highlight the charter school movement.   Tom Webb can be reached at twebb@krwashington.com or (202) 383-6049.

                 Minnesota rock group Soul Asylum and President Clinton will share the stage at a Democratic fund-raising
                 event in Minneapolis next month, a party official said.
                 The president and the alternative rock band will appear at the private event on the afternoon of June 10, the
                 same day Clinton will be deliver the commencement speech at Carleton College in Northfield.
                 The private fund-raising event will be targeted to people in their 20s and 30s, with tickets priced at $100 apiece
                 - modest by presidential fund-raising standards.
                 ``This is geared at the modest giver, and tickets will be affordable,'' said Karen Louise Boothe, spokeswoman
                 for the Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party. ``And we're going to make sure students can get access
                 too,'' by offering some type of student discount.
                 The location of the event has not been decided. Democrats are considering both indoor and outdoor sites that
                 can accommodate 1,000 people, Boothe said. Money from the concert will be split between the Minnesota
                 DFL Party and the Democratic National Committee.
                 A small, private reception with the president will be held immediately before the concert, with tickets around
                 $1,000 a person.
                 Soul Asylum is a Grammy-winning group from Minneapolis that has performed on the White House lawn
                 during the Clinton presidency.
                 Clinton will speak at the fund-raising event, but Boothe couldn't say whether he'll also play the saxophone.
                 It will be Clinton's third trip to Minnesota in six weeks.
 
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President Clinton, Soul Asylum to share stage in
                 Minneapolis
                 Associated Press
                 Friday, May 19, 2000

                 Minnesota rock group Soul Asylum and President Clinton will share the stage at a Democratic fund-raising
                 event in Minneapolis next month, a party official said.
                 The president and the alternative rock band will appear at the private event on the afternoon of June 10, the
                 same day Clinton will be deliver the commencement speech at Carleton College in Northfield.
                 The private fund-raising event will be targeted to people in their 20s and 30s, with tickets priced at $100 apiece
                 - modest by presidential fund-raising standards.
                 ``This is geared at the modest giver, and tickets will be affordable,'' said Karen Louise Boothe, spokeswoman
                 for the Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party. ``And we're going to make sure students can get access
                 too,'' by offering some type of student discount.
                 The location of the event has not been decided. Democrats are considering both indoor and outdoor sites that
                 can accommodate 1,000 people, Boothe said. Money from the concert will be split between the Minnesota
                 DFL Party and the Democratic National Committee.
                 A small, private reception with the president will be held immediately before the concert, with tickets around
                 $1,000 a person.
                 Soul Asylum is a Grammy-winning group from Minneapolis that has performed on the White House lawn
                 during the Clinton presidency.
                 Clinton will speak at the fund-raising event, but Boothe couldn't say whether he'll also play the saxophone.
                 It will be Clinton's third trip to Minnesota in six weeks.
 
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March 2000

 

Dave Pirner's version of "Pretty Boy Floyd" will be heard on a Woody Guthrie  tribute album, "Til We Outnumber 'Em." The songs were recorded at a concert in  Cleveland three years ago; Bruce Springsteen, Ani DiFranco, Indigo Girls, Billy Bragg and
                            Arlo Guthrie also contribute. Meanwhile, Pirner's trumpet can be heard on Matthew  Ryan's new album, "East Autumn Grin."-- Jon Bream- Quick spins

January 23, 2K

Dan joined Bill Deville for Minnesota Music/Cities 97  between 8p and 10pm..and debuted a new song!

"Never Felt Before"

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Sterling Campbell was Recently spotted drumming at the PETA Benefit Concert In L.A. for the B-52's.  Catch VH1 for repeats of this appearance featuring Paul McCartney.

 

Soul Asylum says farewell to Columbia

Date: 19 Nov 1999 10:48:58 -0700

"Blood on Our Slacks." 

 

 

After seven years on Columbia Records, Soul Asylum is
seeking greener pastures. "We've signed off on our   
end of the paperwork saying that we want to be off   
the label," said guitarist/vocalist Dan Murphy. "They
[Columbia execs] haven't signed off yet. You could   
say at this point we're at a Mexican standoff."      
                                                     
He and guitarist/vocalist Dave Pirner recorded       
several songs for a new Soul Asylum album, but no one
at the label liked the music, Murphy said.           
                                                     
The hometown heroes will reunite Thursday for their  
annual Thanksgiving concert. And they plan to record
a couple of new tracks in January for a Soul Asylum  
compilation, tentatively titled "Blood on Our        
Slacks."                                             

"We're doing this recording as an experiment," Murphy
said. "If it's still fun and we can be a viable rock
band, then we'll continue to do it. But to be a      
viable rock band is kind of a novelty in this day and
age."                                                
                                                     
It's the typical major label-vs.-rock band scenario.
After selling more than 3 million copies of 1992's   
"Grave Dancers Union," the band was unable to match  
those sales figures with the followups "Let Your Dim
Light Shine" and "Candy From a Stranger." While the  
industry's focus on one-hit wonders hampers the      
long-term rockability of bands like Soul Asylum,     
Murphy is taking it in stride.                       
                                                     
Setting up a basement studio -- called Loser Friendly
-- he's already worked with L.A. singer-songwriter   
Jilliane O'Neill and locals Jessy Greene and
Likehell. He has the side project Dim Sum (featuring
Greene, Kraig Johnson and Jim Boquist) and hopes to  
perform again with the Three Amigos (Murphy, Johnson
and Boquist).                                        
                                                     
There's also Golden Smog, the supergroup of sorts    
featuring Murphy, Boquist, Johnson, the Jayhawks'    
Gary Louris and Wilco's Jeff Tweedy that Murphy said
he hopes will record next year. The band's manager,  
Maggie MacPherson, is negotiating a deal to market   
the album via the Internet and avoid the hassles the
group ran into on its last go-round.                 
                                                     
"I thought it was a good record and the way Ryko [the
label] handled it, it didn't have a snowball's chance
in hell," Murphy said.                               
                                                     
"If you own your own business, you create the art,   
you market it, you sell it. In the record business
you create the art and then you have nothing else to
do with it. It's absolutely no fun for me to sit     
around and have guys hovering over my shoulder,      
telling me and everyone else in the band to wear     
jumpsuits or leather vests. It's like some kind of   
Gap ad, and I want nothing to do with that."         
                                                     
Murphy has managed to keep his eye -- and his heart  
-- focused on the music, as was apparent in his      
Halloween-night performance with the Alice Cooper    
tribute band Spider Bite. Murphy was smoking onstage
that night. And it was refreshing to see him with a  
local crew, playing the songs that inspired him to do
it in the first place.                               
                                                     
As Murphy stays busy with his antiquing business     
(he's found a lot of success with eBay), he wonders  
how things might have been different, yet he seems   
satisfied with the way things have sifted out.

"It's weird because when you're doing it, it's all
you do. I remember going to Japan and Australia for
eight weeks, and we didn't do anything but work. I
look back on it and I wish we would have enjoyed it
more. We just always wanted to be good; we didn't  
want to suck. We've never had any meetings in our  
life. We just wanted to show up and have good amps,
guitars and rock. If it can't be that way anymore,
then so be it."                                 
                                                                                                  
                                                   
            Vickie Gilmer Casey Star Tribune                     
Friday, November 19, 1999                 
© Copyright 1999 Star Tribune. All rights reserved.

 

New Memorabilia Photos

 

Insomniac's Dream Picture  Disc CD (disc itself)

Get Your Tape Decks Up CD (Front)

Get Your Tape Decks Up (CD itself)

Train Kept A Rolling (CD Front cover)

Train Kept A Rolling (CD itself)

Train Kept A Rolling (CD Back)

And the Horse they Rode In On (Promo Pic CD)

And the Horse promo (back cover)

European  Black Gold CD EP (disc itself)

Karl Mueller at Philadelphia Spectrum Aug 98

An Autographed Drumhead

Contest Flyer (duck)

Contest Poster (emek)

Concert Poster, Lemonheads/Soul Asylum

Caldor Promo CD with "Laughing" (Caldor)

Tour jacket (SA Jacket)

Backstage Pass 1992 (crew)

Tour Shirt (cagedrat rat-trap)

1999 Press Photo

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Set list from the St. Thomas gig 9/16/99

 

I Will Still Be Laughing

See You Later

Somebody to Shove

Black Gold

Summer of Drugs

String of Pearls

We 3

Bittersweetheart

Cartoon

String of Pearls (full band)

Misery

No Time For Waiting

Close

Runaway Train

Closer to the Stars

School's Out

Candy From a Stranger

Just Like Anyone

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Gone Til November

Ramblin' Rose

 

From The Stranger, Sept 9-15, 1999, a few weekly newspaper in Seattle:

 

From Dave and Lee 

========================================
 -- "Fans of Marlboro smokes were treated to an intimate performance by Soul Asylum last week at the Ballard Firehouse. The where-are-they-now band was paid an incredible 50 grand to play for an audience of 40 or so puffers who had saved up 200 Marlboro Miles. Despite the tiny audience, Soul Asylum put on a great  show, as did front man Dave Pirner -who dressed for the occasion by wearing an ancient pair of tighty-whiteys that were so ratty I thought it was a jock at first glance. Perhaps they were his "show" underpants, because he had changed
into boxers by the time he arrived at the R.E.M. after-show party at the Crocodile later that night. (Yes, I checked.) That party was rock star central, with Eddie Vedder and his wife Beth, along with members of Rocket from the Crypt, Fastbacks, Hovercraft, Murder City Devils, Presidents of the United States of America, and of course Soul Asylum and R.E.M. all crowding the bar at last call. As usual, Michael Stipe looked like an expensively-dressed bag of bones, despite his festive glitter eye shadow. "

 

 

from YM magazine

"Soul Asylum Gets Silly"

Soul Asylum's Dave Pirner is a deep dude known for his folk rock music, philosophizing, and extremely generous philanthropy. You've heard his thought-provoking music ("Runaway Train"), but you may not know his less serious side. We got him to gab for our goofy (but insightful) quiz.

Crank up the band's new album, "Candy From a Stranger", and check out his hilarious answers.

1. Which topic are you most tired of?

a) Your hair

b) Your ex, Winona Ryder

c) Whether your band's success is considered selling out

DP: "Can I choose all of the above? Those are the top three things that I'm sick of."

 

2. If you weren't in a band, you'd be:

a) A frequent guest on Jerry Springer

b) An MTV VJ

c) A pro wrestler

 

DP: "A pro wrestler -- enough said."

3. Your favorite thing about being in a band is getting:

a) Chicks

b) Free stuff

c) Awards

DP: "Free stuff! A Converse shoes rep. asked if I needed any new sneakers. I was like, right on. Free shoes rule!"

 

4. Fill in the blank: If ____ covered a Soul Asylum song, I'd really cringe.

a) Puff Daddy

b) Celine Dion

c) Hanson

DP: "God, I'd love for any of them to do a cover. Hanson would probably be the least interesting, just because they'd probably do the truest interpretation. But it would be fun to see just how high Celine Dion's voice would go. And Puff Daddy would do something totally screwed up, which would be rad."

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