Tommy Stinson is a rock & roll lifer, a musician who began playing when he was barely in his teens and would eventually graduate from dive bars to arenas, then work his way back to nightclubs. He started his journey in the Replacements, the Minneapolis rock & roll group formed by his brother Bob and swiftly commandeered by Paul Westerberg. The Replacements became one of the defining bands of the American rock underground of the 1980s, but commercial success eluded them. That wasn't the case with Stinson's next long-running gig as a bassist: in 1998, he became Axl Rose's righthand man in Guns N Roses, sticking with the band through 2014. In between these gigs, Stinson led the bands Bash & Pop and Perfect, alternating solo albums with such ventures as Tommy Stinson's Cowboys in the Campfire, a duo he formed with Chip Roberts, who released Wronger in 2023.