Gettin By Til You Run Outta Time

Bash & Pop L-R: Steve Brantseg, Tommy Stinson, Kevin Foley & Steve Foley

Bash & Pop was Tommy Stinson’s band following the breakup of the Mats and their 1993 album, Friday Night Is Killing Me, is good, if not great. “He Means It,” “Loose Ends,” “First Steps,” and “Tiny Pieces” are perfect little rock ‘n’ roll gems and “Fast And Hard” is Replacements by way of the Faces. I put "He Means It" in the "Happy" slot on my alt.Exile partly because it's Stonesy and partly in homage to the famous Jim Dickinson quote. Dickinson, who produced “Brown Sugar,” “You Gotta Move,” and "Wild Horses" for the Stones and Pleased To Meet Me for the Mats, once said:

"I want to say this about Tommy. Some people say that Keith Richards is the embodiment of rock ‘n roll. Well, I know ‘em both, and I say it’s Tommy Stinson. Keith is a cowboy, he goes back to Gene Autry. Tommy, he goes back to Johnny Thunders. Tommy Stinson is rock ‘n roll.”
—Jim Dickinson on Tommy Stinson

There you go, Tommy. No pressure living up to that.