Chris Mars (born April 26, 1961) is an American painter and musician. He was the drummer for the seminal Minneapolis-based alternative rock band the Replacements from 1979 to 1990; he later joined the informal supergroup Golden Smog before beginning a solo career. Although Mars concentrates mainly on his art career, he still occasionally releases new music. == Biography == === The Replacements === In Rolling Stone's Alt Rock-a-Rama, Mars detailed the kind of hell-raising in which he and the other... [more on Wikipedia]