Trouble Boys: The True Story Of The Replacements

Name: Trouble Boys: The True Story Of The Replacements
Author: Bob Mehr
ISBN: 9780306818790

by Bob Mehr

Trouble Boys is the first definitive, no-holds-barred biography of one of the last great bands of the twentieth century: The Replacements. With full participation from reclusive singer and chief songwriter Paul Westerberg, bassist Tommy Stinson, guitarist Slim Dunlap, and the family of late band co-founder Bob Stinson, author Bob Mehr is able to tell the real story of this highly influential group, capturing their chaotic, tragic journey from the basements of Minneapolis to rock legend. Drawing on years of research and access to the band's archives at Twin/Tone Records and Warner Bros. Mehr also discovers previously unrevealed details from those in the group's inner circle, including family, managers, musical friends and collaborators.

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"In a tome the size of a hardcover Bible, Bob Mehr charts the births, deaths and small resurrections of Minneapolitan rock icons The Replacements. It is the sort of music journalism that reminds you why people bother with music journalism in the first place: Mehr gives us tales of granite-jawed, precocious boys getting drunk, commercially successful and self-destructive through voluminous reportage with seemingly everyone who ever crossed their path. For a band that attracts a cultish level of adoration, this is a welcome quality. Mehr fortifies the book against the typical melodrama of the music biography with a willingness to be fully absent from the work. Objectively, thoroughly and tragically, he shows us trouble."

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