Tommy Performs

Not Tommy Gorman, Tommy Stinton!  The quick Tommy Gorman news is that he will be getting some super duper concentrated radiation this coming week. I cannot recall the exact name of this treatment at the moment, but tomorrow when he is receiving it, I will  post some specific details.

I believe I posted this book cover a while back in a book review. I've been trying to find books that Tom and I can both enjoy and discuss. We read Trouble Boys a couple months ago and have been listening to Replacements CDs since then.  When we saw in the Mercury that Tommy Stinton was going to perform at Bunk Bar last Saturday night, we decided to be adventurous and go. Remembering that rock performers in small venues usually start playing late, we rested up for a night of something, we really didn't know what.  Tommy was playing with Chip Roberts and billed as "Cowboys in the Campfire".  

The guy in the front of the book cover photo is Tommy. HIs brother Bob ( in the back) used to punch him and make him learn how to play bass when he was twelve, so Bob could start a band. Bob is now gone but Tommy is still writing, playing, recording and touring.  

In the 1980"s

 Now, I might be a Replacements fan, but I somehow missed that after the band broke up, Tommy spent seventeen years as the bass player for Guns and Roses. Yup, not a Guns and Roses fan.  We really had no idea what we would hear from "Cowboys in the Campfire".  Well, our idea was something country sounding.

The opening duo started at 9:00 and sang mostly country ballads.  By 10:30 Tommy came on by himself and performed a few solo songs, playing acoustic guitar. I would classify his songs as rock and rollish with a Bob Dylan edge. His voice sounded alot like Dylan to me.  Maybe he'll get a pulitzer!

He was then joined by Chip Roberts his ex wife's uncle and a talented guitar player.

"Thomas Eugene "Tommy" Stinson is an American rock musician. He came to prominence in the 1980s as the bass guitarist for The Replacements, one of the definitive American alternative rock groups. Wikipedia"


Note:  I tryed to copy and paste a current photo of Tommy at age 50, but something went wrong.  If you are interested, just google Tommy Stinton. This page was so messed up that I had to redo it, so it was actually posted before the one on SRBT.  Just so ya know.

Inside Bunk Bar. Tom and I snagged a
comfy booth to hang out in. We also had one of their
famous roast beef sandwiches, frys, and spicy cucumber salad.

Tom showing me a picture he drew long ago. It was
in a book that he brought along.

Tommy setting up.

Reflection in a mirror.

We were pleasantly surprised with his music.  And our ability to go downtown to a show and stay awake until we got home!