It is obligatory to describe the Replacements as one of rock music’s great what-ifs. Encoded in the Minneapolis band’s bio is the general sense that they should have been something
My friend Mark returned to Helena in the summer of 1987 after a stint in the Navy and brought with him a cassette case filled with tapes of albums by bands I d never heard of. One of them was "Tim," by a four-piece from Minneapolis called The Replacements. Mark was insistent that I listen.