Bob “Slim” Dunlap – 2 radio interviews broadcast on
“Cities 97” 8th August 1993 and WCBR Chicago 14th
November 1996.
Set-list:
Disc One: (57:11)
1. Intro
2. Opening Band – Bob plays solo (live)
3. Chat
4. Take it on the chin – Bob plays solo (live)
5. Chat (about the album, Paul, 4 solo ex-Mats albums,
the recording process and stuff)
6. Isn’t it (off the album)
7. Chat
8. Times like this (off the album)
9. x – Bob plays solo
(live)
10. Chat
11. Nowhere’s near – Bob plays solo (live)
12. Chat
13. Chrome lipstick
14. Girlfriend
15. Chat
16. Cooler than
Notes:
Complete
show: Yes, 2 of them. Tracks 1 to 7 on “Cities 97”, the rest
on WCBR.
Musicians:
Bob “Slim” Dunlap: Guitar, Harmonica, Vocals.
CD
quality: Good stuff
Sound
quality: Not too clever for a broadcast but listenable despite being several
generations old. The WCBR show sounds better.
Remarks:
Long-time
“sideman” “Slim” Dunlap succeeded Bob Stinson as the guitarist for The Replacements
sometime during 1986. A thankless task not so much in terms of their respective
technical abilities but the perceived personalities involved. Thing is, Stinson
was, and still is, seen as the emodiment of the good old drunkenly failing
Mats. Long time fans swear by him. Dunlap, in turn, arrived when the band was
already in the process of evolving into a proper rock band, an inevitability once the forces of major-label expectations
sank in.
Whatever else, the songs that Slim played on these
shows are good, plain and
simple.
The “Cities 97” show promoted
“The Old new me”, while the WCBR was for the “Times like this” album. Way back
when, in 1993, the major labels were fighting the sale of used CDs in stores.
Sounds familiar? Yup, now they are fighting against downloads…