Tommy Stinson, bassist for the Replacements, talks about the CC Club

Thu, 02 May 2013 18:59:28 GMT

Source: blogs.citypages.com --- Thursday, May 02, 2013
Tommy Stinson learned to play bass at age 11, and just a year later started strumming with the musicians, including his brother Bob, who would make up the Replacements. For this week's cover... ...

in this week’s Time there’s an interview with Tommy Stinson

Fri, 29 Mar 2013 07:20:03 GMT

Source: busblog.tonypierce.com --- Friday, March 29, 2013
Here are a few segments from the interview conducted by Jim Walsh, of Minnesota’s City Pages Time: I understand you’re in the Middle East? Tommy Stinson: Yeah, Abu Dhabi. What are you doing there? I have no f—ing clue. We have a show here. It’s hard to imagine Guns N’ Roses in Abu Dhabi. How are you received there? Surprisingly well, actually. We played here five years ago and we did good. We played in front of something like 35,000 people. It was part of the F1 series that was going. We do good. It’s weird. Every time I think we’re going to the weirdest place possible, we end up going somewhere even weirder. We’re going to Beirut. There’s a civil war happening, I think. Our gig is already hotly protested. I’m looking forward to it not really at all. - – - Every time you or Paul mentions in an interview that you might get the Replacements back together, your fans go nuts. Do you really think it will happen? I think if we think we’re having fun and it made sense and the music we were making was fun, we would do it. If it became too much of a nightmare, we wouldn’t. We want to enjoy ourselves, make some people happy, do our bit — not make a nightmare. Paul has more at stake, as he has more real feelings about it. He’s more reticent. He’s a singer. He doesn’t want to go out and compete with his 25-year old self. He’s 50. But if he could go out and have fun without the pressures and personal demons of competing with himself, I think ...