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