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Run Westy Run
12+ albums
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Run Westy Run was one of the great Twin Cities bands of the 80s, but decades later, in retrospect, they tend to get lost in the glare of an effervescent Minnesota music scene at the time that had no shortage of bright lights: The Replacements, Husker Du, Soul Asylum, The Jayhawks, Prince, Flyte Tyme, plus countless other sparkling contenders, many now lost to the sands of time. They were formed in 1984 by 3 brothers from St. Louis Park - Kirk, Kyle and Kraig Johnson - along with Terry Fisher and Bob Joslyn, and were named, apparently, after a 1966 children's book of the same name. RWR was formed during a period in Minnesota music history when new bands were coming and going at a dizzying rate. Indeed, various RWR members had served time in the early 80s in long forgotten outfits like The Young Cherrys and The Tusslers. Kyle was gone by 1994 and the rhythm section underwent several changes but the band soldiered on until 1998. Their recorded output, however, was quite scarce: 3 LPs (2 on SST; 1 on Restless-Twin/Tone), 1 mini-album, 1 EP and 2 singles. Their last full length album was released in 1990, so the final several years of the band's tenure were poorly served by official releases; indeed, dozens of original songs that were performed live during that time fell through the cracks. They started out as an intensely chaotic, Stooge-y hard rock band, later evolving into a hard-to-define amalgam of indie, rock, roots, punk and funk, driven by a ferocious, lusty energy that i
