Trouble Boys

I can't recommend this book enough (my review is HERE). Vulture lists five highlights from the book, including this one:

The Mischief Continues

For those who might have thought the Replacements eventually outgrew their antics as they began experiencing tastes of mainstream success, Trouble Boys highlights the shocking degree to which the group simply doubled down on their debauched behavior as their career progressed. One of the bleakest, most out-of-control periods of the band’s career, according to Mehr, was during their recording sessions in upstate New York for their penultimate record, Don’t Tell a Soul.

Within a week the Replacements had come down with cabin fever, à la "The Shining". “In each of our cottages there was a little kitchenette with knives,” said Stinson. “Every night we’d go to one of the cottages and start playing ‘Dodge Knife.’ That’s like dodgeball but with knives. It got very ... troubling.”

One night Dunlap drunkenly spread cream cheese all over the raw pine walls of his cottage. According to Berg, “They had car accidents. They trashed the studio. They trashed the living quarters. They were on medication that you would normally prescribe for horses and bears. They were just a mess.”                         

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