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Re: New Tommy Article
http://thephoenix.com/boston/music/1157 … TOPCONTENT
Bass in hand, Tommy Stinson has been part of two notorious and revered rock-and-roll legacies. Three decades ago, he was a founding member of the Replacements, Minneapolis's great punk hope. He was there for their raw 1981 debut, Sorry Ma, Forgot To Take Out the Trash, plus the boozed-up spectacle that was a 1986 Saturday Night Live performance, spats with leader Paul Westerberg, their early-'90s break-up, and the creation of dozens of stellar songs that defined college radio. Then in 1998, he added another lineage, replacing Duff McKagan in Guns N' Roses. His first contributions to be heard by long-suffering Guns fans were the bass lines to "Oh My God," from the End of Days soundtrack. For the next decade, Stinson rode shotgun beside Axl Rose in the money-sucking saga that was Chinese Democracy. Almost incredibly, he remains GNR's bassist.
Moody frontmen aside, his famous bands have little in common, but Stinson finds some common ground. "Initially, both bands were very much what rock and roll is about," he says over the phone from Philly. "What we did in the Replacements wasn't really all that different, except that they actually wrote together. There was a danger to it. It kind of comes from the drugs and alcohol and the way you see things when you start off. They're both similar in that very regard. Other than that, vastly different."
Re: New Tommy Article
30 years in the game, quite an acheivement 
Really hope he hangs in there with GNR, but at the same time I can understand how frustrating it must be, its been a bit aimless.
I still feel there is good things to come, but beginning to wonder if the new GNR has peaked and it will dwindle away.
Its hard to pick out the peak of this new era, its all been so messy 
Re: New Tommy Article
Its hard to pick out the peak of this new era, its all been so messy
we're in a deep, dark valley..
at the bottom of a gaping chasm..
we've plumbed the depths..
lost in the abyss..
