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[Kathy]

entertainment.time.com/2013/03/28/alt-rock-legend-tommy-stinson-talks-about-guns-n-roses-puff-daddy-and-a-replacements-reunion/

Alt-Rock Legend Tommy Stinson Talks About Guns N’ Roses, Puff Daddy, and a Replacements Reunion

Every time you or Paul mentions in an interview that you might get the Replacements back together, your fans go nuts. Do you really think it will happen?

I think if we think we’re having fun and it made sense and the music we were making was fun, we would do it. If it became too much of a nightmare, we wouldn’t. We want to enjoy ourselves, make some people happy, do our bit — not make a nightmare. Paul has more at stake, as he has more real feelings about it. He’s more reticent. He’s a singer. He doesn’t want to go out and compete with his 25-year old self. He’s 50. But if he could go out and have fun without the pressures and personal demons of competing with himself, I think he would.

Do you think getting back together with Paul was inevitable — or was it only Slim that could have brought you back together?

Paul and I have always played together. We’ve played together for years post-Replacements. I’ve played on his records; he’s played with me. I throw songs at him, he’s thrown them at me. We’re always going to play together when the planets align. We love each other. We have chemistry together and you don’t just get that with just anyone.

[davpel1]

Great interview. That part about Tommy ad Paul loving each other . . . just get's me. I think I like that even more than Tommy talking about getting back into the studio with Paul.

[Rene']

While Tommy's finishing up the tour maybe PW's finishing up that little piano record =)

[aprilfool]

Trying to imagine the look in their faces in that cab in reverse for 3 miles, crazy shit indeed! About the fear of being compared to their 25 year old selves, personally there's a whole lot of the more recent songs that I love just as much as the older ones, and I've never seen them live, so I'm just really curious to hear them now, I'm sure I'm not the only one... To avoid any misunderstanding they could call themselves The Matures, it would still be the Mats ;D

[aprilfool]

Just found another recent Tommy interview:

ecentral.my/news/story.asp?file=%2F2013%2F3%2F31%2Fmusic%2F12905956&sec=music#

“If you think, historically, Guns n’ Roses were never a critic’s darling band ... critics always had it out for the whole thing, it was no big deal there. I was in The Replacements; we were the critic’s darlings from day one, to day end. You know, that did not help us sell f***in’ squat. You know, it gave us at least something, but selling records? No.”

As the conversation moved on to The Replacements, which was one of the notorious bands from the alternative US music scene in the 1980s, Stinson’s eyes light up.

Even with two solo albums to his name and a stable career with Guns n’ Roses, this father of two daughters (aged five and 23) cannot get enough of his original band.

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“Paul and me, you ask? We’ll probably do it again, get into the studio in the next couple of months to write original material ... it’s just like getting back on a bike. I don’t know if we’ll call it The Replacements, but we had a blast recording the Slim EP. So long as it’s enjoyable, we’ll do it.

“As I’ve always said, The Replacements never really broke up, we just walked away,” he said smirking, before taking his leave.