Tommy Stinson

Scottie · #1 01-02-2006, 11:22 AM

Anyone here a fan of Tommy Stinson from the Replacements? I think his 80s stuff with the "Mats" was awesome. But can you believe he went from the Replacements to Guns N Roses.... yep, he plays with the "new" GNR now.

PhR · #2 01-02-2006, 11:28 AM

I like his playing especially on "Let It Be". Great Rickenbacker sound on that one too. The Replacements were one of the best bands ever.

Freaky Fender · #3 01-02-2006, 12:06 PM

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Originally Posted by PhR

The Replacements were one of the best bands ever.

And one of the worst at the same time!

loendmaestro · #4 01-11-2006, 08:21 PM

Ever hear the Bash & Pop record with Tommy as a frontman (& playing guitar no less). It was the greatest Replacementas album they never made!

P. Aaron · #5 01-11-2006, 08:33 PM

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Originally Posted by PhR

I like his playing especially on "Let It Be". Great Rickenbacker sound on that one too. The Replacements were one of the best bands ever.

Yup! Rock at its finest.

matrok · #6 05-01-2007, 06:48 AM

I have to check out his work with the Replacements, but I like what he did on the new Soul Asylum disc. Any particular cuts you can recommend?

Nobody · #7 03-07-2009, 04:51 PM

Tommy is on the April Bass Player cover! I never thought I would see that. It took him joining GnR a decade ago for it to happen. If only as many people knew who Paul Westerberg is as know who Axl Rose is I think the world would be a better place.

The Replacements rule!(imho)

Sorry to resurrect such an old thread but at least I did a search first before I started a new thread. Right?

The Golden Boy · #8 03-07-2009, 05:06 PM

I saw Bash n' Pop in a small club in the early 90s. Then I saw Perfect in an even smaller club in the mid-late 90s.

All that Replacements stuff sounds like a T-Bird to me.

I've heard I had a chance to buy Tommy's old T-Bird. I didn't particularly like it- it had been refinished mint green. Back then I wasn't much of a 'Mats fan, and the bass held no attraction for me.

Nobody · #9 03-07-2009, 06:14 PM

I remember seeing that T-Bird on Ebay about ten years ago and wanted to buy it so bad because I'm such a Replacements geek but I had no money(like always). They said it had lead put into holes in the body to help the neck dive. I thought that was stupid but whatever. According to the article he didn't use the T-Bird with the Mats but does use a newer one now with GnR occasionally. He says the early Mats stuff is a Rick and then a Pbass with EMGs. I did not know that.

The Golden Boy · #10 03-09-2009, 02:39 PM

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Originally Posted by Nobody

I remember seeing that T-Bird on Ebay about ten years ago and wanted to buy it so bad because I'm such a Replacements geek but I had no money(like always). They said it had lead put into holes in the body to help the neck dive. I thought that was stupid but whatever. According to the article he didn't use the T-Bird with the Mats but does use a newer one now with GnR occasionally. He says the early Mats stuff is a Rick and then a Pbass with EMGs. I did not know that.

That's the bass-

I played it right after it had been refinished- and being told it was Tommy's Replacements bass was an afterthought. I want to say it was prior to 1994.

It's possible the T-Bird made it on to Pleased To Meet Me

http://www.gibson.com/en-us/Lifestyl...the-story-of-/

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“For the whole record, Paul was playing a black Les Paul with P-90s. Then, one day, they got their artist advance from Warner Bros. Across the street from Ardent was this place called Pyramid Guitars, owned by my friend Rick Rayburn, who was a collector. He sold some really sweet pieces—he had some killer vintage stuff, and Paul went over there and got a clear plexiglas Dan Armstrong with the replaceable pickups, so he came back over with one of those. So the guitar was mostly Les Paul on the tracks, but he picked up the See-Through a few times for coloration. But Tommy went over too, and he got a Thunderbird bass that he loved, so much that he decided he wanted to redo the bass on all the songs! Redo all the bass on all the songs now that he has a Thunderbird? You’re kiddin’ me!

“And I was just beginning to understand about cutting tracks and the importance of keeping that original feel over overdubbing. A three-piece band and you’re gonna take a third of it and redo it? No, you just don’t do that. See, they were all … ah … [stage whispers] drunk! Pretty much all the time. Most of the time it was red wine, though Paul did have a hankerin’ for the Heineken. But mostly it was just jugs and jugs of the red Gallo wine. So Tommy insisted on rerecording all his bass parts, and Jim was like, ‘Whatever you do, don’t lose the bass we’ve got.’
You gotta get this picture,” Hampton continues. “We really needed rearview mirrors, ’cause we had just redone the control room. The console was facing the speakers and the glass was to your left. But Tommy was standing in the room, with an amp, and he was literally eight or ten feet behind us. And we didn’t have mirrors, so we just hit record and let him start playing. So Jim and I were sitting there, and Tommy was playing the song behind us with this Thunderbird bass. And man is that a boomy bass. Man can those things boom! And then all of a sudden we heard this hell of a noise! Just this huge crash, and man, I just lunged for the monitor knobs to turn it down. And I look and Tommy is on the ground, his Thunderbird bass—brand new—is also on the ground and it has snapped at the headstock. We don’t know what happened. Maybe he was dancing.”