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Bob ‘Slim’ Dunlap, guitarist in the Replacements, dies at 73

The well-loved ‘replacement Replacement’ joined the band after being a janitor at a local music venue where they played early shows

“Bob passed at home today at 12:48pm surrounded by family,” they said in a statement published in the Minneapolis Star Tribune on Wednesday. Photograph: Lynn Goldsmith/Corbis/VCG/Getty ImagesDunlap was born in 1951 in Plainview, Minnesota, to Jane and Robert Dunlap, the latter a state senator, and became a fan of rock’n’roll. In the wake of his death, his daughter Emily Boigenzahn told the Star Tribune that the covers album had “really kept him going and provided moral support”.

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