The Replacements

Here, finally, is the rollicking story of the notorious and celebrated band, as told by veteran music journalist Jim Walsh, an eyewitness who was always at the periphery of the storm, and often at its eye. "The Replacements were superheroes: They rescued a whole planet from '80s music. Jim Walsh's loving, engrossing oral history is the book they deserve." -Nick Hornby, author of High Fidelity, About a Boy, Fever Pitch, and Songbook "The Replacements were all at once 100-percent right and totally and completely wrong; absolutely inspiring and thoroughly infuriating; gloriously brilliant and utterlystoopid. Any writer who would dare tell their story would have to match those attributes and contradictions, but there was only one up for the task, and Jim Walsh has done a tremendous job of it." -Jim DeRogatis, pop-music critic at the Chicago Sun-Times, co-host of Public Radio's Sound Opinions, and author of Let It Blurt: The Life and Times of Lester Bangs, America's Greatest Rock Critic "The rest of us have only seen the Replacements through 'a crack in the drapes.' Jim Walsh actually took the wheel from time to time and managed to get closer to the band than I ever thought possible. He makes me lonesome for the '80s." -Joe Soucheray, St. Paul Pioneer Presscolumnist and host of KSTP-AM's Garage Logic "The Replacements made a mark on Minneapolis 'serrated and deep, like a battle scar,' as one person remembers in this book. Can the life of a band be captured in mere words? Jim Walsh uses oral history as the way to know if any of it mattered, or if it even happened." -Diane Middlebrook, author of Suits Me, the biography of the cross-dressing jazz musician Billy Tipton and Her Husband, about the marriage of poets Ted Hughes and Sylvia PlathWalsh, Jim is the author of 'The Replacements', published 2007 under ISBN 9780760330623 and ISBN 076033062X.