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The Dead Thread 2024

Replacement guitarist for Bob Stinson in The Replacements, local Minneapolis music legend Slim Dunlap, at the age of 73. Slim suffered a serious stroke 10-12 years ago which left him in pretty poor health ever since.

Had the chance to chat with him briefly almost 40 years ago. When he first joined the band, Paul Westerberg had said the hardest thing would be to get Slim playing Les Pauls instead of his usual Stratocasters, so I asked him about that. He said it was no problem, they "were just wires and wood"

The Replacements have been my favorite band for forty years now. RIP Slim. Here's a clip of him wearing a pretty dapper pair of bright red pants.

 
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Replacement guitarist for Bob Stinson in The Replacements, local Minneapolis music legend Slim Dunlap, at the age of 73. Slim suffered a serious stroke 10-12 years ago which left him in pretty poor health ever since.

Had the chance to chat with him briefly almost 40 years ago. When he first joined the band, Paul Westerberg had said the hardest thing would be to get Slim playing Les Pauls instead of his usual Stratocasters, so I asked him about that. He said it was no problem, they "were just wires and wood"

The Replacements have been my favorite band for forty years now. RIP Slim. Here's a clip of him wearing a pretty dapper pair of bright red pants.

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Was coming to post about his passing. I've had at least one chat with all the Mats except Mars and Slim. They were very often accessible in their early days at after parties when they'd play at places like Liquor Lyles, the CC Club, the Cabooze, Uptown Bar, etc. Paul's a dick btw, but I have seen him play solo a handful of times regardless.

Here is Ep 1 of a 3-part podcast about the band:

https://open.spotify.com/episode/04m...c19ef0ee924e9a

Also an article about the band with some quotes from Bob and Chris:

https://www.spin.com/2013/06/hold-my...iew-june-1993/

I like this excerpt:

Expectations for the Replacements raged after 1984’s Let It Be — a perfectly torn flannel shirt of ’60s garage-pop, ’70s blues-metal, and ’80s hardcore. As did doubts about Bob. Westerberg told Musician in February 1989:”[Bob] believed the image we played with onstage. Bob thought that was the Replacements. He didn’t understand, ‘Oh, we gotta play some music, too. We gotta do something.'” Here was the readily embraced mythology: Bob was a balls-to-the-wall slob holding back the band’s aesthetic development. But what Bob embodied, and what Westerberg would not admit (except in his songs), was a specifically postpunk burden of truth. Like it or not, the Replacements’ brilliance became noosed up with their pathos. They rocked because they felt pathetic. But then they still felt pathetic, so Westerberg’s aching ballads about stunted hopes were even more poignant. After Bob was gone, that dynamic was lost.

“It was never the same after he left,” says Mars. “I remember in Detroit, somebody got together like 1,000 cardboard cut-outs of Bob’s face for the show and passed them around for everybody to put on, including Slim. It’s like they were protesting, they wanted Bob back. That was a great night I missed him.”

“Yeah, we had our image, and then when I left, the Replacements were like a body without a face,” says Bob with his usual bluntness.
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Funny what you say about Paul being a dick. Every time I ever had a chance to talk with him, maybe four or five times, he was nothing but polite and generous with his time. I know I couldn't deal with that level of fan interaction half as well as he did, I'd be swearing at people to leave me the eff alone.

There's a very moving scene in the movie? Documentary? Come Feel Me Tremble where he's sitting on the steps of the bus after a show, as people line up for autographs and a quick chat. I was one of those people after a solo show in Somerville, must have been around 2000.
 
I should clarify - I didn't mean Paul is a dick in a general sense, but I feel like he could have been there more for Bob. I have met him twice and both times he was quite pleasant.
 
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