The Replacements

The Replacements is a group of alternative Rock American of the Années 1980.

Formed by Paul Westerberg and the Stinson half-brothers in 1980 has Mineapolis and signed on the local independent label Twintone, Replacements cultivates a difficult reputation of group. According to the quantity of alcohol absorptive before the concerts, they could be of the best opinion of the critics or the worst group of the world.

Paul Westerberg, the principal type-setter, writing of the songs to the often accrocheuses melodies on bottom of guitars to its garage. Replacements assimilated well the lesson of the movement Punk but are not therefore the copieurs.
Their sound polished with the wire of the albums without anything to lose aggressiveness of the first days. The album Let it the Be (1984), considered as their best, includes/understands pieces hardware core and ballade. The following year, they sign at Lord records which, although not being a large label, allows them to reach a larger audience.
After the exit of the album Tim , the group is reduced has a trio following the problem of alcohol and drug of Bob Stinson. At the time of the round of the following album Please to meet Me , Slim Dunlap joined the group like second guitarist.
The last album, All Shook Down left in 1990, is already in the fact an album solo of Paul Westerberg whereas the group is in full dissolution. Chris Mars leaves the group after the exit of the disc. It is replaced by Steve Foley for one short period and the group gives its last concert on July 4th, 1991 has Chicago.

Members of the group

  • Paul Westerberg, Song guitar
  • Tommy Stinson, Low
  • Bob Stinson, guitar of 1980 has 1985
  • Chris Mars, battery of 1980 has 1991
  • Slim Dunlap, guitar of 1985 has 1991
  • Steve Foley, battery in 1991

Discography

  • Sorry My, Forgot To Take Out The Trash, (1981, Twintone)
  • Stink, (1982, Twintone)
  • Hootenanny, (1983, Twintone)
  • Let it Be, (1984, TwinTone, New Pink in France)
  • Tim, (1985, Lord)
  • Please to Meet Me, (1987, Lord)
  • Don' T Such has Drunk, (1989, Lord)
  • All Shook Down, (1990, Lord)

After Replacements

  • Paul Westerberg continues a career solo
  • Tom Stinson alternates implication in different groups of which Perfect (1996) and Pink Guns' and discs in solo (Village Gorilla Head, 2004).

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