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Bob Stinson
Robert Neil Stinson (December 17, 1959 – February 18, 1995) was an American musician best known as a founding member and lead guitarist of the rock band the Replacements.
Bob Stinson was born on December 17, 1959, in Waconia, Minnesota, to Neil and Anita Stinson. A year later, Anita gave birth to Lonnie. Neil was a disinterested father, and the couple soon divorced when Bob was two years old. Anita moved to California where she met a man who fathered two more children: Tommy and Lisa.
Tommy's father relentlessly abused Stinson, verbally, physically, and sexually. Stinson's resultant behavior became unruly enough by the spring of 1975 that he was given a psychiatric evaluation. Residential treatment was recommended, and he entered the St. Cloud Children's Home. Stinson broke out often and committed petty crimes. By the summer, he was remanded into juvenile custody and sent to the State Training School at Red Wing.
Stinson was paroled from Red Wing in May 1976 and transitioned to another facility designed to help him finish high school. He met future bandmate Robert Flemal at the halfway house. In the fall, Stinson got a job as a dishwasher at Mama Rosa's, an Italian restaurant in Dinkytown.
Bob Stinson's guitar idols were Johnny Winter and Steve Howe. In 1978, Stinson and drummer Chris Mars formed Dog's Breath in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The name, also styled as Dogbreath, was designed to evoke disgust. Bob dragged his 11-year old brother Tommy into a rehearsal one day to play bass. He used Yes' "Roundabout" and Peter Frampton's "Show Me The Way" to teach Tommy to play the instrument.
Dog's Breath mostly played covers and pastiches at keg parties for Stinson's co-workers at Mama Rosa's. They sometimes set up on the roof of the Stinson's house and blasted the neighborhood until the police arrived. The lineup included Robert Flemal on rhythm guitar and occasional vocals by Stuart Cummins. It was a fast and screeching version of "Roundabout" that caught Paul Westerberg's ear a half mile away from the house where Dog's Breath were rehearsing in the fall of 1979. Westerberg quickly maneuvered Flemal and Cummins out of the band and rechristened it The Impediments. Eventually, they adopted The Replacements. The band initially disliked Westerberg's original songs, dismissing them as "punk rock".
The Replacements never outgrew their juvenile garage band origins. Stinson described the unit as "four idiots on stage trying to one-up each other". When Peter Jesperson went to see the band after hearing their demo, he was struck by their buffoonery and raw talent, "Bob in particular could be positively clownish, all the while doing these searing leads that seemed to come from a different universe than any guitar player I’d heard before." He quickly moved to get them into a proper studio in order to release an album on his label, Twin/Tone Records. Stinson won acclaim for his lead guitar on the band's first four albums. Spin raved, "Nobody could fuck up a guitar solo more beatifically than Bob Stinson".
On Tim, the Replacement's first album for Sire Records, Stinson recorded his parts in one day. Producer Tommy Ramone had to figure out how to piece them together. In 1985, the power struggle between Stinson and Westerberg reached a breaking point. Due to Stinson's substance abuse, he was forced out of the band in the summer of 1986. Stinson's last stint in the band was on the demos for the album Pleased to Meet Me.
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Bob Stinson
Robert Neil Stinson (December 17, 1959 – February 18, 1995) was an American musician best known as a founding member and lead guitarist of the rock band the Replacements.
Bob Stinson was born on December 17, 1959, in Waconia, Minnesota, to Neil and Anita Stinson. A year later, Anita gave birth to Lonnie. Neil was a disinterested father, and the couple soon divorced when Bob was two years old. Anita moved to California where she met a man who fathered two more children: Tommy and Lisa.
Tommy's father relentlessly abused Stinson, verbally, physically, and sexually. Stinson's resultant behavior became unruly enough by the spring of 1975 that he was given a psychiatric evaluation. Residential treatment was recommended, and he entered the St. Cloud Children's Home. Stinson broke out often and committed petty crimes. By the summer, he was remanded into juvenile custody and sent to the State Training School at Red Wing.
Stinson was paroled from Red Wing in May 1976 and transitioned to another facility designed to help him finish high school. He met future bandmate Robert Flemal at the halfway house. In the fall, Stinson got a job as a dishwasher at Mama Rosa's, an Italian restaurant in Dinkytown.
Bob Stinson's guitar idols were Johnny Winter and Steve Howe. In 1978, Stinson and drummer Chris Mars formed Dog's Breath in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The name, also styled as Dogbreath, was designed to evoke disgust. Bob dragged his 11-year old brother Tommy into a rehearsal one day to play bass. He used Yes' "Roundabout" and Peter Frampton's "Show Me The Way" to teach Tommy to play the instrument.
Dog's Breath mostly played covers and pastiches at keg parties for Stinson's co-workers at Mama Rosa's. They sometimes set up on the roof of the Stinson's house and blasted the neighborhood until the police arrived. The lineup included Robert Flemal on rhythm guitar and occasional vocals by Stuart Cummins. It was a fast and screeching version of "Roundabout" that caught Paul Westerberg's ear a half mile away from the house where Dog's Breath were rehearsing in the fall of 1979. Westerberg quickly maneuvered Flemal and Cummins out of the band and rechristened it The Impediments. Eventually, they adopted The Replacements. The band initially disliked Westerberg's original songs, dismissing them as "punk rock".
The Replacements never outgrew their juvenile garage band origins. Stinson described the unit as "four idiots on stage trying to one-up each other". When Peter Jesperson went to see the band after hearing their demo, he was struck by their buffoonery and raw talent, "Bob in particular could be positively clownish, all the while doing these searing leads that seemed to come from a different universe than any guitar player I’d heard before." He quickly moved to get them into a proper studio in order to release an album on his label, Twin/Tone Records. Stinson won acclaim for his lead guitar on the band's first four albums. Spin raved, "Nobody could fuck up a guitar solo more beatifically than Bob Stinson".
On Tim, the Replacement's first album for Sire Records, Stinson recorded his parts in one day. Producer Tommy Ramone had to figure out how to piece them together. In 1985, the power struggle between Stinson and Westerberg reached a breaking point. Due to Stinson's substance abuse, he was forced out of the band in the summer of 1986. Stinson's last stint in the band was on the demos for the album Pleased to Meet Me.