Former Replacements guitarist Bob “Slim” Dunlap has died on the age of 73, 12 years after struggling a stroke that left him largely bedridden. The information was confirmed in an announcement launched by his household.
“Bob handed at dwelling at present at 12:48 p.m. surrounded by household,” learn the assertion. “We performed him his Stay At The Turf Membership, (Thank You Dancers!) CD, and he left us shortly after listening to his model of Hillbilly Heaven – fairly poignant. It was a pure decline over the previous week. General it was as a consequence of problems from his stroke.”
Dunlap was invited to hitch The Replacements in 1987 by frontman Paul Westerberg. He took over from founding guitarist Bob Stinson, who’d left the band after failing to return to phrases together with his drug and alcohol issues, and went on to look on the band’s ultimate albums, 1989’s Do not Inform a Soul and the next 12 months’s All Shook Down.
After the band cut up up in 1991, Dunlap launched two solo albums, the primary on Twin/Tone, the Minneapolis label accountable for the early Replacements albums. Thank You Dancers!, the stay album recorded in 2002 on the 350-capacity Turf Membership in St. Paul, MN, was lastly launched in 2020.
Within the wake of his stroke, The Replacements recorded a four-track EP that includes Dunlap’s Busted Up alongside All the pieces’s Coming Up Roses from the Broadway musical Gypsy, Gordon Lightfoot’s I am Not Sayin’ and Hank Willliams’ Misplaced Freeway. The ten” vinyl launch was restricted to simply 250 copies, which have been auctioned to lift funds for Dunlap’s medical remedy.
“He is in tough form,” stated Paul Westerberg on the time. “He is type of paralysed, he can transfer his leg somewhat bit. Once I talked about this, it appeared like one thing he actually wished to occur. ‘You guys get collectively,’ he stated in a whisper. ‘Go play a track.'”