
Chip from Enuff Z'nuff, "Sweden's Always Been a Beautiful Place to Play"
Legendary manager Doc McGhee discovered Enuff Z'Nuff because he happened to have two of their demo tapes in his car at the same time. Forty years later, Chip Z'Nuff is the last original member standing in the band, and, since 2016, its singer too. In this conversation, we talk about the debut that gave the band two MTV hits, and how the label pulled the plug on a third single from that record to rush the band straight into the next one. That next record was Strength, and it landed right in the middle of the grunge wave, we talk about why the band ended up caught in between. We talk about Cheap Trick's Rick Nielsen, who played guitar on Paraphernalia, and his son Dax, who's played drums on several later Enuff Z'nuff records. Chip talks about taking over lead vocals from Donnie Vie, the Beatles covers album Hard Rock Nite, and the neon-colored bass strings that have become his thing on stage. We also get into the fact that Enuff Z'Nuff has actually played Sweden before, with a few stories the band still won't let him live down. Enuff Z'Nuff plays Encore in Sundbyberg on Friday, September 11th, the day after Chip's own birthday. Note: the intro is in Swedish, the interview itself is in English. First the talk. Then the music.
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