Sunday's New York Times featured a touching yet characteristically funny eulogy by our guy Paul Westerberg for his "mentor" Alex Chilton. "Posessing more talent than necessary, he tried as a very young man of playing the game," the Replacements frontman wrote. I'd try to summarize the rest of the piece, but it involves a tent and take-out Thai and several gloriously written lines (i.e., "Those who fail to click with the world and society at large find safe haven in music"). So you really just have to read it yourself.
Westberberg photo by Tom Sweeney. Chilton by Tony Nelson.
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