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After the various band members discovered first-generation English punk bands like The Clash, The Jam, The Damned, and The Buzzcocks, Dogbreath changed their name to The Impediments and played a drunken performance without Tommy Stinson at a church hall gig in June 1980.

After being banned from the venue for disorderly behaviour, they changed their name to the Replacements.

In an unpublished memoir, Mars later explained the band's choice of name: " Like maybe the main act doesn't show, and instead the crowd has to settle for an earful of us dirtbags.

[...] It seemed to sit just right with us, accurately describing our collective ' secondary ' social esteem ".