Sloan Biography
THE BAND
The Band's name derived from a
nickname of a friend called Jason Larson who is on the cover of
the "Peppermint EP". The first Sloan recording was for
the song "Underwhelmed" during December 1991. In the
summer of '92, the "Peppermint EP" was out, which was
later a winner at the 1992 East Coast Music Awards. DGC records
offered the band a record contract as soon as possible, since
they thought that Sloan would be follow Nirvana's footsteps and
become the "next best thing". The fact that the company
wanted to keep up with the garage trend going on at the time
would probably be the best reason why. (You will notice this if
you listen to Sloan's "Take it In".) When the album
"One Chord to Another" came out in stores most realized
that the record label had changed to MurderRecords, Sloan's own
independant Halifax-based company. The reason for that was
because DGC records showed absolutely no interest with their new
material because it sounded nothing like the grunge-type of music
they had in mind. They figured the album would not be popular and
their "new Nirvana-type band" dreams were over. As was
Sloan's contract with the company. Did you know that during the
making of the album "Independance", all four members of
the band never met in the same studio? Anyways, it went Gold in
less than six months! They won a Juno Award in 1996! This was a
great moment for the band of course, including their name since
it was being heard in the media more than ever! The fourth album
was Navy Blues, one of my most favourite. When the group was
deciding on making this record, they distributed the work evenly
so that everything was fair. Everyone contributed a song, making
this record very unique as well.
Here's another bit of infomation I
thought was quite interesting. Sloan's Live album - Four Nights
at the Palais Royale was actually recorded in a studio. (There
were synthetic crowd noises in the background.)