Sloan In Their Own Words: Part 1

Ongoing History of New Music

Curiouscast

Music History, History, Music, Music Interviews, Music Commentary

4.8 • 604 Ratings

🗓️ 26 August 2018

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Over the years, there have been a good number of Canadian bands that have gone on hiatus, broken up, taken time apart....and eventually reunited. Some have made it work....others not so much. Take Sloan for example. Aside from a brief 2 year hiatus between 1994 and 1996...we'll explain...they've been putting out music since 1991 and really, can you imagine a Canadian rock music scene without them? Fortunately for us, we were able to get Chris Murphy and Jay Ferguson in a studio and we thought it best to get them to explain the history of Sloan...in their own words. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey, it's Alan, and I just wanted to let you know that you can now listen to the ongoing
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0:39.0	I once had a conversation with Don Letts, one of the guys who followed the rise and fall of the clash back in the day.
0:45.9	He has a theory.
0:47.4	He says that the average useful lifespan of a band is about seven or eight years.
0:53.8	Their career starts with him rising out of nowhere,
0:56.6	running on nothing more than adrenaline and passion. At some point around year four or five, they
1:01.6	peak. But after that, though, things begin to fall apart. Personalities conflict. Artistic baggage
1:08.3	starts to interfere with the development of new ideas, money problems,
1:12.2	girlfriend problems, drug problems, and this leads to the inevitable breakup. Now the clash certainly
1:18.9	followed that template. So are the Beatles and the Smiths. And Nirvana was right on schedule until
1:24.9	Kurt ended things rather dramatically. But then there are the exceptions. Pearl Jam. They've existed since 1991. Radiohead started in 1989.
1:35.3	U-2 has been around since 1976, same with the cure.
1:39.3	When it comes to Canadian bands, there's Finger Eleven. Their history dates back at least 20 years.
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