'Beer for Breakfast'? Remembering the young, wild Replacements

Replacements shows have snagged consistently good reviews since the band reunited last year. But the polished performances these days are a lot different than the 1980s.

Back then, Replacements concerts were wild and unpredictable — a great show one night, a drunken disaster the next.

As excitement builds for Saturday's concert at St. Paul's Midway Stadium — the Replacements' first home town performance in 22 years — it's worth remembering one of their more infamous shows, a fast, beer-soaked wreck on the campus of Grinnell College in rural Iowa in 1984.

I was there. Click on the audio link above to hear the story.