RaveSalonAuthor Bob Mehr painstakingly tells the entire story of the band, and delves into every relevant detail necessary in order to accomplish this task. It took Mehr over a decade to complete his research, talking to literally hundreds of individuals. The book is not authorized, but rather written 'with the participation of.' That doesn’t just mean that the band members granted interviews, but also that they clearly gave the nod to anyone else in the continuum of their lives and history to speak to Mehr...Trouble Boys is a tremendous piece of research and writing, and absolutely the Replacements biography we’ve been waiting for.