  It is shown that (two-variable generalizations of) more than half of Slater's
list of 130 Rogers-Ramanujan identities (L. J. Slater, Further identities of
the Rogers-Ramanujan type, \emph{Proc. London Math Soc. (2)} \textbf{54}
(1952), 147--167) can be easily derived using just three multiparameter Bailey
pairs and their associated $q$-difference equations. As a bonus, new
Rogers-Ramanujan type identities are found along with natural combinatorial
interpretations for many of these identities.
