20 questions I've always wanted to ask a slug 1. What's your favourite colour of toque? 2. What was your first gig as Doug and the Slugs? 3. What's your favourite hockey team? 4. If it one day rained beer ... would you care what brand?
5. Do you feel the upcoming surtax on rewriteable cd's is
fair, considering 6. What were your musical influences growing up? 7. What similarities and differences are there between the
obstacles faced by 8. Kirk or Picard? 9. What colour are your socks? That's right, the ones you're
wearing right now. 10. Tim wants to know ... Who really DOES know how to make
love stay?... help 11. How's Tomcat Records doing? (now's a good time to get in
some shameless 12. What were the names of the Friendly Giant's two animal
puppet friends? 13. Betty or Veronica? 14. Would you like to fill in this space with a good story
from the road? 15. Any chance of a live album ? 16. Do you think the Canadian media give established bands
(Trooper, Loverboy, 17. What's your favourite movie? 18. Where were you in '72 when Paul Henderson scored the
winning goal? 19. What should be done to the person who invented the
glowing hockey puck? 20. If it was up to you, what changes would you make to
ensure proper
Here's the complete interview Dan Brisebois posed to the head
slug
A whole lot of
fun can be had when one of Canada's most electrifying entertainers
jumps into
the lion's den unarmed by letting me drill him with 20 questions ...
Join me
now as I engage Doug and The Slugs' Doug Bennett
with his most hard-hitting
interview to date ...
... just don't tell him I would've settled for 10
....
Red and green, about two feet long.
A halloween bash at a communal house in the Kitsalano area of
Vancouver.
I went as a wino's nose and almost won a prize for being a giant
hemorroid.
I'm
tempted to say the Leafs because I grew up in Toronto and remember the
glory
days of the mid sixties.(editor's note: a time when they only had 6
teams
and the Leafs STILL struggled to make the playoffs. Leafs and glory
days are
a contradiction in terms ... ) However, the greatest hockey team
I've ever
seen is a group of blind kids who did a 10 minute exhibition
game at UBC.
The puck beeped one note while the goal posts beeped in two
alternating
notes. Talk about exciting!
Kokaneeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!!!!!!!
it's also the choice of format for most computer
programmers?
I think all forms of duplication should be taxed
and the monies used
to support the creators who use CDs as transport.
Duplication in any form takes
money from the artists who are the ones who
can least afford it. Just look
at the example of MP3 who's basic position is
that music should be free to
the people while at the same time raising
$11,000,000 US in investment to
grow their company. Do you think one dime of
that $11 mil went to the
artist who created the music that MP3 gives away on
their website? MTV
does the same thing, selling advertising at national
rates for their
'video programs' and refusing to pay the artists for their
performances.
Hank Williams, Johnny Cash, Simon and Garfunkel, any Motown.
today's new artists and when you broke onto the
scene?
The similarities are the difficulties in getting heard
on the radio. The
differences are that in my time, a band worked at getting
their live chops
down and building an audience in hopes that you would end
up with a
recording contract. The down side was that it took longer to
break. The
upside was that once the band's radio days were over ( 95% of
bands have a
radio life of less than 3 years - The Righteous Brothers had 18
months)
you still had legs.
It's sad to say but with the technology so
accessible today, most bands focus
on recording to the detriment of playing
live. This means that audience
loyalty is limited to what they hear on the
radio and not what they have
experienced live. Radio affects the ears but
live affects the heart. The
only audiences that are still artist loyal are
Metal and Country
Jack Daniels or Johnny
Walker Black?
Grey.
him before it gets away. actually he and my sister are
doing great
... thanx for asking.
No one KNOWS how to
make love stay. If they say they do...they're liars. But
tell them I say hi
and wish them the best.
plugs for some of the great acts under your guidance and mind
control)
Tomcat is actually at the vet right now. We signed a
slew of artists over the
last few years who did not want to tour. A hard
lesson learned. Too many
young acts think having a CD is the end of their
contribution. In reality,
it's only the beginning.
You got me there. I hope this doesn't affect
my Canadiana status.
(editor's note: Rusty the Rooster and Jerome the
Giraffe)
Marry Veronica for
the money but keep Betty as a mistress. Then plot
Veronica's murder, get
caught, be convicted and end up as a movie of the week.
No. The good road stories are only to be told
on long bus rides down moonlit
shoulderless highways that are slowly turning
into gravel roads with
roadsigns that have names that are not on your map.
All our
albums are live.
you for example), the respect they deserve, when
compared to the push
American artists such as Aerosmith or Kiss get during
their 'comebacks'?
No. Canadian radio is well known for it's
lack of faith. Why else would they
have to forced by law to stop playing all
their Canadian content during
the 2:00AM TO 4:00 AM and spread it out during
the daylight hours so that
the music could compete fairly with its American
counterparts. The lack of
faith is not only centered on Classic Rock acts.
Look at the abandonment
of Crash Test Dummies and Bare Naked Ladies by
Canadian radio until
American radio success forced Canadian radio to tuck
their tail between
their legs and start playing the songs that they should
have been playing
in the first place.
The
Godfather and Casablanca.
In a bar screaming my head off.
He should be hounded by ravenous dogs
until he apologizes. Then hung.
government support for nurturing the homegrown arts
community?
I think revenue should be raised via entertainment
taxes (like Ontario's
existing 10% entertainment tax) BUT it should be put
directly into an Arts
Pool as oppossed to going into general revenues where
it's lost in the mud
and mire. Get the money back to the artists and their
support systems.