Chris Mars

Christopher Edward "Chris" Mars (born April 26, 1961) is an American artist and musician. He was the drummer for the seminal Minneapolis alternative rock band The Replacements and later joined the informal supergroup Golden Smog before beginning a solo career. He is also a painter, and has more or less left music behind to concentrate on showing his artwork. He typically shows little interest in speaking about music.

Biography

The Replacements

Mars detailed the kind of hellraising that he and the other Replacements indulged in when they were together in Rolling Stone's Alt Rock-A-Rama. Among other incidents, he was thrown in jail for playing chicken with an unmarked police car. He also, in conjunction with bandmate Bob Stinson, sabotaged a gig where he knew there would be a lot of record industry personnel in attendance by going to a novelty store and purchasing some bottles of stink juice.

Mars barely appeared on The Replacements' final album, All Shook Down. He left before the subsequent tour, unhappy with Paul Westerberg's control of the band. The Replacements subsequently disbanded.