![]() ![]() What makes The Replacements heartbreaking is they had the potential to become bigger. ![]() There are many bands who never hit it big but were loved and influenced many other musicians and bands who came after them. It was a pattern repeated throughout their career and chronicled in the book. A show with few folks? Oh, that one they’d do amazing at. In Trouble Boys: The True Story of the Replacements, Mehr chronicles how Paul Westerberg, leader singer and main songwriter, time after time would have the band up to hijinks ranging from switching instruments to playing covers instead of their own songs, during concerts that could help make their career and lives easier.Ī big show with influential people who can help promote the album? They’d do a terrible job at that concert, driving everyone away. They seemed at times to revel in disappointing fans at their shows. Made the band’s story hard to tell, and the reason the book is a dense 435 pages, is what made the band hard to love at times. ![]() Bob Mehr has pulled off quite an accomplishment, writing a biography of one of my favorite bands, The Replacements. ![]()
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