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Thursday, April 30, 2009

Sloan Facts

April 20, 2009
  • The 2 horn players in the Everything You've Done Wrong video are Dallas Good, of Sadies, and Sloan's engineer @ [the] time, Brenndan McGuire.
  • The actual horn player was Mike Cowie. He also played on Take The Bench.
April 19, 2009
  • The drum roll at the end of The Good In Everyone was a mistake. Left it in becuz AWGS refused to do a 2nd take.
April 15, 2009
  • Andrew trained Matt Dillon to fake playing drums for the movie To Die For. His elbow has a cameo playing bass in a scene.
April 11, 2009
  • Action Pact was partly recorded and mixed in a house next door to Jimmy Kimmel's house in Hollywood. 0 Silverman sightings.
  • Sloan once had to have [the] tour bus pull[ed] over at a payphone, collect call office & have gig info faxed 2 a motel. Pre-cell/internet.
April 2, 2009
  • Andrew recorded most of the drums for OCTA in Halifax, in a few hours, on a 4 trk. He recorded his own songs in TO.
  • The first cymbal hit on If It Feels Good Do It is a gong
  • Both Chris and Patrick use green Tortex .88mm picks by Dunlop. They are not autographed, and not cheap, so stop stealing them.
  • Gregory Macdonald has never seen Star Wars.
  • Sloan once shared a bill with Amanda Marshall, April Wine, and Air Supply.
  • Patrick's flying V was originally in a wrestling video that involved Cyndi Lauper. His Dad was there & rescued it from the shoot.
--each Sloanfact was shared on Twitter via @Sloanmusic on the date above it

Sloan Song Of The Day

Step On It, Jean: http://song.ly/4sjy

--SlnSngOfThDy shared on Twitter via @Sloanmusic

Sunday, April 26, 2009

Monday, April 20, 2009

ET Canada



--shared through Twitter via @Sloanmusic on April 20, 2009.
--episode of ET Canada aired on April 28, 2009.