[ATTENDED: October 15, 2016] Sloan
Back in the early 1990s, I heard Sloan’s “Underwhelmed,” and I loved it. Such a great song that is still rocking and clever over 20 years later. Sloan has a tumultuous few years after that, appearing to break up but not, getting signed and then dropped and then settling down and putting out some amazing music over the next 20 or so years which few people outside of Canada heard.
They have released eleven albums and I think that each one gets better and better. Sloan is touring the 20th Anniversary of One Chord to Another. There are some great songs on it, although it’s wasn’t my favorite album. But the point is I have never seen Sloan. In all the years I’ve been a fan, we’ve never been in the same place at the same time. So even though I had been to a show the night before and this would make six concerts in twelve days (!), I bought tickets to see one of my favorite underground bands.
Since I knew they were playing all of OCTA, I listened to it a lot before hand and now, after seeing it live, I do like it even more than before. (But seriously if they do a 20th anniversary tour of Between the Bridges in three years…. you couldn’t keep me from that stage).
I’d never been to Underground Arts before. It is indeed underground. And it is indeed quite small (about 500 people max).
I arrived pretty early (start time was supposed to be 9:15, but they didn’t go on until 9:30–divas!). But that meant that I was able to score a spot right behind the guy leaning on the stage. As they say in Fast Times at Ridgemont High: so close I could scare the band. (more…)
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The very first CD I ever bought was by X (More Fun in the New World). My college friend Anita was a big fan (I’d never heard of them). When I got my first CD player, rather than buying music I already had on vinyl (why would anyone do that?), I bought this band that I really liked. That was in 1987.
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