Chris mars biography

The shit-faced, substance-abusing anti-rock star trials and tribulations of ’80s American indie contrarians The Replacements is the stuff of legend, an epic yarn that has spearheaded a small stack of books.

Veteran music journalist Michael Azerrad devoted a chapter to the slop-rockers in his underground rock history lesson Our Band Could Be Your Life before their Minneapolis pal/writer Jim Walsh documented the lifespan of the Paul Westerberg-fronted basement punks via the oral history tome All Over But the Shouting, followed by its unofficial companion piece, Waxed-Up Hair and Painted Shoes: The Photographic History.

The definitive Replacements tell-all has arrived, flying the gold star others glaringly lacked: “told with the participation of band members.”

Now the definitive ‘Mats—as the hardcore believers nicknamed their sloshed heroes—tell-all has arrived flying the gold star those aforementioned books glaringly lacked: “told with the participation of band members,”