Tommy Stinson tells us about the Replacements' 'Dead Man's Pop' box set, jamming with Tom Waits and outdrinking Metallica
There was definitely a pressure for it for sure. But again, how much pressure can you put on four fuckin’ alcoholics that really don’t give a fuck? That’s kind of the reality of that. The pressure was there. You get sober and think about it and you get drunk and fuckin’ say, “Fuck it.” That was kind of the reality of it. Obviously, we wanted to be successful with everything we did. But we also were the first ones to fuck it up half the time. … Most of the time in fact.
It’s funny that you scared Metallica of all bands because they used to joke around that time that they were “Alcoholica.”]. I think we had ’em beat on that run just a bit. I’ve heard James tell the story several times over the past 30 years. I remember when I was still in Guns N’ Roses, when we ran into those guys in Germany, and he’s like, “This guy. This guy, Tommy. These guys are out of their fucking minds.” And he told it in such a kind of loving way [We did calm down once we got to L.A.
There’s a live album in the box set from a gig you played at the University of Wisconsin. Does anything stand out to you about that gig other than the fact it got recorded?. I had thought that we had used the best bits for that thing, but it turned out the whole thing was a great show. I don’t remember it being a good show. And I don’t remember us going, “Wow, that’s a really great show. I’m glad we had Warner Bros.’ fuckin’ bring out a fuckin’ mobile unit so we could record it.
But again, what we thought was good about our shows or even other people’s music, we were an island. We overthought things. A lot of what happened onwas a lot of overthinking. We started it one way, we wanted to finish it another way. There was some heat for us to get onto MTV for a little bit and get songs on the radio, so there was some pressure behind that record. There wasn’t the same pressure withbecause I think we knew it was the last record.
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