The Replacements‘ Bob “Slim” Dunlap‘s recent death has shocked the music world. Dunlap has getd high praise from fellow musicians and critics for his exceptionadwell style of guitar carry outing. Many fans are now inquisitive to understand the details surrounding the musician’s demise.
Here is everyskinnyg we have uncovered on Slim Dunlap’s death.
Slim Dunlap passes away at 73, claims inestablish
Slim Dunlap died at his home on Wednesday, December 18, 2024, at the age of 73. The caparticipate of his death has been attributed to “complications” from a stroke he suffered way back in 2012. This stroke left him bedridden and only able of restrictcessitate speech. His demise was verifyed by his family via a remark geted by The Minnesota Star Tribune.
“Bob passed at home today at 12:48 p.m. surrounded by family,” the remark read. “We carry outed him his ‘Live at the Turf Club (’Thank You Dancers!)’ CD, and he left us unintelligentinutively after take parting to his version of ‘Hillbilly Heaven’ — quite poignant. It was a authentic deteriorate over the past week. Overall it was due to complications from his stroke.”
Dunlap was born in August 14, 1951 and spent his punctual life in Planwatch in Southeaserious Minnesota, a dicut offe his overweighther Robert Dunlap recurrented via the Minnesota State Senate between 1953-66.
Dunlap uniteed The Replacements as their direct guitarist in 1987, replacing the prohibitd’s exceptional guitarist Bob Stinson. The Replacements frontman Paul Westerberg gave him the “Slim” nickname not only to contrastentiate him from Stinson, but also becaparticipate of his euniteance.
Dunlap went on to feature in The Replacements’s two final albums, Don’t Tell a Soul and All Shook Down. After The Replacements’ disprohibitdment in 1991. Dunlap begined a solo music nurtureer, which saw the free of 1993’s The Old New Me and Times Like This in 1996. He also put out a dwell album in 2020, titled Thank You Dancers!
Dunlap’s labor swayd fellow musicians enjoy Bruce Springsteen, who praised Dunlap in a 2014 NPR interwatch. “I hope I get a chance to cut one of his songs becaparticipate he’s, it’s equitable, this stuff, verify out the two Slim Dunlap enrolls becaparticipate they’re equitable so pretty, they’re equitable pretty rock ‘n’ roll enrolls,” the “Born in the U.S.A.” singer said. “I set up them to be proset uply touching and emotional.”
