Tommy Stinson

Tommy Stinson (2006)

Thomas Eugene "Tommy" Stinson (born October 6, 1966 in Minneapolis , Minnesota ) is an American bassist and guitarist who is best known for his work for the bands The Replacements and Guns n 'Roses .

Career

Tommy Stinson was a founding member of the 1980s alternative rock band The Replacements from Minneapolis together with his half-brother Bob Stinson at the age of twelve . Unlike his brother, who had to leave the band in 1986 due to drug problems (and died in 1995), Tommy Stinson was a member of the band until the temporary end of the band in 1991.

After the replacements were dissolved, he formed the band Bash & Pop , which released the album Friday Night Is Killing Me in 1993 and contributed a song to the soundtrack of the film Clerks - Die Ladenhüter in 1994 . Stinson was active as a guitarist and singer at Bash & Pop . After Bash & Pop broke up , he formed Perfect , which released an EP called When Squirrels Play Chicken in 1996 . In 1997 they recorded an album called Seven Days a Week , which was postponed due to differences with the record company.

In 1998, Stinson recorded the rock remix of Puff Daddy's It's All About The Benjamin as bassist with Dave Grohl from the Foo Fighters and can also be seen in the accompanying music video . At the invitation of Axl Rose , Stinson became bassist in the band Guns N 'Roses in the spring of 1998, of which he was a member until 2016. For the first time he bought their album Appetite For Destruction and learned the bass parts. Stinson was on the canceled North America tour in 2002 and was also involved in the recordings for the album Chinese Democracy , which was only released in 2008 . For a long time, the song Oh my God, which appeared on the soundtrack to the film End of Days in 1999, was the only previously released recording with a contribution by Tommy Stinson.

In 2004 Stinson released his first solo album Village Gorilla Head ; Also in that year his band Perfect released the initially postponed album Seven Days a Week , which was renamed Once Twice Three Times A Maybe . In autumn 2005, after the death of bassist Karl Mueller , Stinson became a member of Soul Asylum for a few tribute concerts . In addition, he also produced the debut album by the punk band Bobot Adrenaline from Los Angeles . In December 2005 he got together with his former bandmates Paul Westerberg and Chris Mars to record two new songs for a replacements compilation.

After Tommy Stinson did not play on all Guns N 'Roses tours in the past and was even replaced by Duff McKagan , the bassist of the classic Guns N' Roses line-up, on a South American tour in 2014 , the band reunion 2016 with McKagan and Slash towards a final end of Stinson in the band.

Discography

(For publications by The Replacements see there)

With bash & pop

• 1993: Friday Night Is Killing Me

With Perfect

• 1996: When Squirrels Play Chicken , EP
• 2004: Once Twice Three Times A Maybe

With Guns N 'Roses

• 1999: Oh my God (on the soundtrack for End of Days )
• 2008: Chinese Democracy

solo

• 2004: Village Gorilla Head
• 2011: One Man Mutiny

Web links

• Tommy Stinson's website (English)
• Tommy Stinson at Allmusic.com (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Guns N 'Roses are back on stage with bassist Duff McKagan . n24.de, Panorama April 2, 2014; Retrieved April 4, 2016.
2. ↑ Tilmann Rolf: Tommy Stinson about saying goodbye to Guns N 'Roses . metal-hammer.de, January 26, 2016; Retrieved April 4, 2016.