The Making of "Trouble Boys: The True Story of the Replacements"
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- “Trouble Boys: The True Story of the Replacements” is the definitive biography of one of the last great rock ’n’ roll bands of the twentieth century. Written with the participation of the group’s key members, including reclusive singer-songwriter Paul Westerberg, bassist Tommy Stinson, and the family of late guitarist Bob Stinson, “Trouble Boys” is a deeply intimate and nuanced portrait, exposing the primal factors and forces-addiction, abuse, fear-that would shape one of the most brilliant and notoriously self-destructive groups of all time. Based on a decade of research and reporting, hundreds of interviews (with family, friends, managers, producers, and musical colleagues), as well as full access to the Replacements’ archives at Twin/Tone and Warner Bros. Records, author Bob Mehr has fashioned something far more compelling than a conventional band bio. In this short film - filled with new, vintage and unseen footage -- Mehr discusses the challenges and journey of writing the book, and telling the Replacements’ story in full for the first time.
Editor: Dan Jagunich/Jagged Edge
Production Consultants: Robert Gordon, Rick Fuller
Interview footage: David Leonard
www.replacementsbook.com
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The Making of "Trouble Boys: The True Story of the Replacements"
This might be the best rock band biography ever written. Absolutely awesome read.
Halfway through it. I totally agree. Very well done. Thoughtful and brutal all at the same time.
Ivan Lendl Just got it. Finishing up a book & then I’m starting in. Really looking forward to it!
Ivan Lendl Unquestionably. A brilliant book.
Concur - gives you a real understanding of the backstory to a lot of their songs as well.
It’s a fantastic book. They researched and interviewed the band, the club owners, the girlfriends, the record label, the other bands on the scene, etc. It is comprehensive. But what really makes it great are the insane stories of the band themselves, and how they subvert their own career time and time again. A must read, even if you don’t know the band.
The greatest band of all time and the most underrated band ever
There's none that could describe better than you. True words 👊
Well Said!
I don’t agree that they are necessarily the greatest band of all time, but they are certainly one of the greatest bands of all time and they are my personal favorite band of all time. They are absolutely the most underrated band ever though.
@@t-man5196 So your pretty much agree as i do but you don't want to commit yourself totally! Only band that sounds better to me or as good at moments are Neil Young and Crazy Horse (not considered technically good). The Replacements studio records show their talent which ranks among the Beatles and Stones.
@@oppothumbs1 yeah, I like the Dead Boys a lot too, and Minutemen, but Replacements are my fav
Greatest biography I've ever read. It's one of those books that you constantly think about it when you are not reading it. The story is like a time bomb attached to a rocket blasting off. Can't recommend this book enough.
good to here
I grew up in the Twin Cities with the Replacements as a major part of the sonic landscape and this is a fantastically well written book, very powerful book - you will never forget what you learn in this page-turner. Thank you for writhing this about one of my favorite bands, RIP Bob Stinson.
Greatest band ever. Now we just need a proper documentary..
There is a movie coming out and it will miss the whole first rung. Even if Paul was angry, we don't need to know all of it in spades. We don't hear much dirt on Biden because of the Leftist media. We don't know a lot about a lot so why take an underrated and greatest band in the world ever (not live though, just studio) and bring them down one more time? Make them more loveable and accessible. Only the Replacements deserve this treatment, not Hitler or Biden of course
Check out the podcast “No Dogs in Space”. They just did an excellent series on them.
If the Replacements didn’t exist, there wouldn’t be any alternative rock or modern punk bands in this time! Got to give it to them for influencing future bands and making the best rock music in the 80s
I'd sworn off "Rock Lit" a while ago, but I had to read this one. Boy, am I glad I did, a terrific read that was by turns, hilarious, heart-wrenching, horrifying, despairing and triumphant. So, often while reading this one, I didn't know whether to laugh or cry... I did both.
Prince, Husker Du, and the Replacements... Minneapolis had it going on in the 80s.
jimbo 2346
Don't forget Morris Day and the time and the heaviest metal band Cromlech !!
Still have it going on!
Babes In Toy Land,Mighty,Mighty Mo Fo's,Vanity 6,Bob Dylan,The Jayhawks,Trashmen [Surfin; Bird],Lipps Inc
Vanity 6
I'm a Mats fan but you gotta throw Soul Asylum in the mix as well.
One of my favorite bands. Saw them a couple of times at the Paramount in Seattle in the 80s - pure magic.
Best rock bio I’ve read in a long long time. I even bought the audio book of trouble boys.
I wish more of the old live footage was available, its obviously around somewhere if this trailer is anything to go by.
I was thinking the same thing
Grew up on these guys, there music wasnt typical for my tastes, but they grabbed me by my throat and havent let go thirty years later and three children later.
Reading your book? It all makes sense. We are all Replacements, taking our broken parts, moving forward and feeling like we're faking our way through normal lives.
The book is both Catharsis and celebration for me.
One of the finest books, far beyond simple rock journalism, that I've ever read.
Thank you.
I could have written your comment. Pleased to Meet Me was the soundtrack of a gut-wrenching time for me. 21 years old. Turned 5-0 last week. Three kids and one marriage later...
1987 was a hell of a year for music. I ditched my beloved metal (mostly) in light of all the stellar alternatives. Jane's Addiction would close out the year for me.
Such a damn good book. A much deeper story than most people know.
i just cannot imagine the work, tenacity and cleverness it took for mehr to build trust with these people. i am so glad he let it take its time and did not rush this story out. it really needed and well deserved his care. and lucky for us on top of that mehr is a great writer.
A SUPERB read. When I moved back to Sconnie from Oregon (don't ask me why) In December 2016 tried to get the book...no one had it. Finally this past summer I got the Ebook & read it in one night. Besides sci-fi/cyberpunk - faves of my childhood - Hunter S. Thompson was the ONLY author who could hold my interest this much as an adult. I recommend this book to EVERYONE. Thank you for such a great story!
There's the Mats and then there's every other band. Bob's book is one of the best bios ever written. It was so hard to put down until my six needed a coaster.
I just finished this on the tail end of the Alex Chilton bio "A Man Called Destruction" and this one blew it away. This book is incredible. Now if I can just afford 400 bucks to afford that Badfinger bio...
Awesome story! Rock’N’Roll in it’s truest form. Thank you so much 💥
The book was great and also heart breaking.
I love that Mehr is such a huge Paul/Tommy shipper.
Fingers crossed for an expanded edition someday. I'd love to read all the post-Mats stuff that he had to cut.
I've been reading this at school for the last couple of weeks. Such an amazing book. It's so sad at times but amazingly written.
One of the best books I have read in a long time, not just a rock/music book, but all genres.
This is the kind of Rock Bio pic I would love to see. The book is brilliant and like The Replacements themselves, unafraid to punch you in the face and smile while handing you a beer and inviting you to sit down and have a drink. One of the most influential bands to emerge from the 80's, they helped "cut" the attitude of the era with their sheer ferocity and lack of fear. So many genres owe pretty much everything to The 'Mats, one of those rare bands that evolved music by elevating the standards of so many different genres and a lot of times doing it to prove that they could and forcing everyone else to up their game. Hands down my favorite band and odds are after reading Trouble Boys you will come to find out that their fingers and signature is all over the works of most of your favorite artists to this day. They might not have started it all, but while that coin is flipping heads/tails in the air, they might very well have once you truly see the scope of effect this very rarely talked about band had on the industry and many of it's movements and revolutions. These guys were more earnest and brutal and punk rock with their ballads (which are F'n beautiful) than most hard core bands of the time that were trying to make their bones. It's that honesty and fearlessness in their music and in their day to day that made them so great and it's why they still stand up today, toe to toe vs anything you can throw at them and it is also why I think that they still come up on top at the end of it.
Best Band ever. Best book ever. Now we need someone to release the full Midway Stadium show! ASAP ASAP ASAP!
I think their story would make a very entertaining and enlightening movie, or maybe it would be better for someone to take on a project of making a TV series about not just The Replacements, but the entire Mpls Scene from about 75 to 89 or later? I say 75 because you could start with the Suicide Commandos who started up in 75 and Prince's first band with Andre Cymone, also started up in 75. I mean, now with this book coming out and after the Replacements tried to do a reunion and now the Suburbs are making music again, all on top of Prince passing away, interest in the whole story could be very high.
OMG - this is such an important story. I have some anecdotes from seeing them in the 80's - this story needs to see the light of day
I'm half way thru this book and I don't ever want it to end...
A great book about sickening behavior. I came away feeling that they got every bit of failure they deserved. What waste. And I love their music.
Finishing up the book now. Great read, and very bittersweet - you get the sense these guys could have been as big as U2, and lasted just as long, but that they squandered their talents due to their alcoholism and emotional issues.
I'm about a third of the way through the book. I was in college at UW River Falls during their hey day, so I was away for much of it. Great read about 4 Twin City kids making their way in the world, through many of the trials and tribulations many of us have navigated. Great band. Great story. I highly recommend the book.
I’m about half way through at this point... great book! Really goes in depth and covers a lot of material I’ve wondered about over the 30 years I’ve been a fan. Many thanks!
Bob, this was an amazing book. I just read it. Truly the best book ever written about them.
Mission accomplished. One of the best band bios I've ever read.
Best band ever, simple as that. Didn't know about the book, but that seems a must-read now.
The" myth and the romance" and the "legendary stories " would never be heard and mean nothing without the songs .The stories came later .The records came first .,,, word of mouth on the book seems positive here,thumbs up.
The last truly GREAT classic rock and roll band. I want to see a documentary with that footage in this video.
Great band but the firing or quitting of Bob Stinson (RIP) changed them of course. Very raw in their early days. To me they wrote some of the greatest songs in rock.
Really good book!
(Can you imagine what those people that gave this a thumbs down are like? )
B Neilson
They are sad, sad people......
I'm French and the Replacements are totally unknown in France. I ordered Bob Mehr's book and I took such great pleasure in reading it! One of the finest rock biographies ever written! And a harrowing example of a "might have been" band with many funny anecdotes. See for example the first meeting between the Mats' and Bob Dylan during the recording of All Shook Down in 1990.
Saw them live in Paris in 1991.
Saw them at the Town Pump in Vancouver in the 80's. A legendery drunken, but great performance. Most of the audience, myself included, were pretty lubricated as well and it became a perfect synthesis of band and fans.
Just finished it, Written with Love, don't deny it..I kinda missed The 'mats recently, a lot..The Book told me too much, Yet not enough...Paul's Lyrics do that to, don't they?
The best book i've read in a long time !!!!
one of the best non fiction books i ever done read.
Even with all the rave reviews of this book, I was totally unprepared for how great it is. Bravo.
one of the coolest bands
I got the hard cover version of the book in the post two days before flying to Europe. It was massive and heavy and took up 10% of my small suitcase, but damn it was worth bringing. I was a hardcore Replacements fan in the late 80's and this book conveyed all the sadness and magic that made the band special.
Love this band so much 😊❤️❤️❤️
A brilliant book... hilarious, tragic & moving...about the band that saved the 80's.
I've been interested in this. I was fortunate enough to record with Mike Bosley which led to jamming with Bash and Pop. Tommy decided to use Max. This has been the soundtrack to my life and I got as close as I could. I've heard lots of great stories but never all the 411 about Bob leaving. There was a piece I remember in rolling stone but the actual departure I think was omitted. Great stuff.
I enjoyed the connections, from the Pontiac Brothers to Captain Sensible, treasure read.
Great book. Read it even if you aren't a Replacements fan. It is a real story of humans just trying to find where they belong.
I'm reading it at the moment it's a good book.
Great book.
Been a huge Mats fan since 1989.....Loved the book, but almost felt totally depressed at the end. These guys are my hero's and one of the best rock and roll bands of all time....but can't help but to shake your head and say..."what were you thinking...???" as you're reading it. Raw is not a strong enough word for this bio....
Being such a huge fan of the Replacements I'm certainly biased, but this is a great read. Other books have been written about the band (and I enjoyed those too) however, Bob Mehr somehow was able to finally exposed the underbelly of these guys.
Really is a damn good book,
Not just for replacement fans
I READ IT !!!!!!!!!!!!
Great !
It broke my heart when Bob came by the Harriett Ave house in Mpls in about 1991 -1992 (think Fat Miss Mary days-if if anyone gets that reference I'll fall the hell over) kinda messed up.Dope was a dime a dozen then. What an awesome dude, though! A LOT of talent! I think this was the time that Lung Leg was crashing there and damn, did anyone sleep at that place or the place where everyone crashed with Run Westy Run in Uptown Mpls? (Nod off yes,...sleep, no) Does anyone remember Run Westy Run, Billy Goat, Porno For Pyros and Tripping Daisies ? I think they might have all played with the Replacements at one time or another.What a time in music history in Mpls. So many untold stories!
Cows
Great Book.
this book is fucking perfect.
much better than that oral history one that came out a few years back. It's great, paints a vivid picture, you don't gotta know any previous info about the band to know what the fuck he's talking about.
pick this one up!
A great book!
Great read
Wow looks great
Next...Husker Du...? Preferably a book done with the whole band?
I like, agree and approve, yes!
www.amazon.com/Husker-Du-Noise-Pop-Pioneers-Launched/dp/0760335044
Read Earle's book -- it's fine, but needed a better editor and my understanding is that not all the members participated in interviews (only Grant?) and in fact, most of the book is drawn from previously available materials/interviews. So the definitive Husker Du biography has not been written. I'd actually suggest Husker fans start with Bob Mould's autobiography and then watch the Grant Hart documentary "Every Everything", which was made by the same director and team behind the 'Mats doc "Color Me Obsessed".
That was my exact problem, we need a comprehensive Husker Du, everyone in the book biography. I don't care that they dislike each other...lol Although that still is a valid and good strategy to learn about the band.
Mould's autobio very good
The main thing is Paul could write great heart on your sleeve and alternative rock songs. I don't think Tommy and Paul are that close since they went on a tour of England and the billing was Paul Westerberg and the Replacements and Tommy wanted a little love too?
The mid-west you call the repression ... ? I guess NYC would be the "profligate, hysterical, no police, crime in the streets" excess?
Isn’t there gonna be a movie about them?
read it, it is great
Well, they took it further than Johnny Thunders did.
I would like to read this
cool
2:07 "Print the legend" xDD.... oh, pleeease. Legend is marketing.
Will check out the book, but the author seems to not acknowledge the oral history of the replacements that came out a few years earlier? I get that it doesnt provide a unifying commentary but it does give their own words, so this is all a bit odd really
So is this a book or a movie? I'm confused.
By Neal Scheon
Dear Lord, I hope this film is done correctly...
+uncleswilly I do believe it's a book.
I think it's just a book at this point. I thought it was a movie as well.
The problem with The Replacements is they became a pop band somewhere along the way and at that point you get Oasis fans joining the chat.
The state of Minnesota deserves them, both forgettable
Minnesota and Mats get your gad huh, jesus- You like, arrested at in Minnesota at a Replacments show or something? You sound burned af my dude. Why even bother lmao
@@antihero105 That's because the McPunks and the Minneapolis Uprising are all connected. I grew up in Uptown.
The Replacements are a great band but their story isn't that interesting. If I didn't love this band I wouldn't have finished the book which I bought brand new.
I wish more of the old live footage was available, its obviously around somewhere if this trailer is anything to go by.
Great book.