Later Years
After The Replacements disbanded, Foley joined Stinson in Bash & Pop and in 1994 both Steve and brother Kevin Foley toured for and may not have played on their 1993 album Friday Night Is Killing Me on Sire / Reprise. In 1997 Foley recorded Something Wonderful with Lack in the band 69 later known as Wheelo.
More recently Foley sold Nissan cars. He married in 2007 and lived in south Minneapolis across the street from Mars, both of whom owned BMW motorcycles. Wheelo reassembled in late 2007 at least for practice throughout 2008, and according to a bandmate, "Steve's last cymbal crash came down during a raucous, frenzied, and ridiculously silly jam in the key of 'b'." He had been sober for fifteen years but he had been medicated for depression and anxiety. Foley died at age 49 from an accidental overdose of prescription medicine; though some papers reported it as a drug overdose. He is buried in Lakewood Cemetery in Minneapolis.
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