Sloan experience

Last night, me and Derek hit the Sloan.  What a grand ol time it was.  Right from the line up with some drunk Americans behind us, we knew that the night would be awesome.  And it was.  Opening band was really good.  I had never heard of them, the Yoko Cassianos, something like that.  Anyways, they’re from Vancouver and i really liked their tunes.  Derek got one of their cds and got the lead singer girl to sign it, as well as a drummer guy named "Juice."  So now Derek has a cd marked (heart) Juice.  Let me familiarize you with some of the characters we ran into that evening.

1) E girl.  Perhaps youve run into E girl at a similar gathering.  You can recognize her by her non caring attitude at how shes dancing or who shes dancing with.  She was ready to grind with anyone that was near her, including me and Derek.  She got infront of us somehow and started doing some sort of drug induced crazy dance which also involved trying to use us as poles.  She also staggered to the point of falling forcing me to catch her, look into her bloodshot eyes to hear her say "thanks baby".  Haha, you silly E Girl.

2) Fighting drunk guy.  Personally i hate this guy.  He often ruins parties and gatherings with his violent and ignorant tendancies.  Right from the start he entered the masses of people rocking to Sloan dancing crappily while he fingered everyone around him.  Looking to fight, he purposely would bump into people to see their reaction, hoping they would challenge his drunk ass to a spar.  Of course most people shrugged him off knowing that Fighting Drunk guy usually gets others kicked out along with himself.  He also hit a girl i know that was trying to pull him away from some other dudes.  Fighting drunk guy sunk to a new low with that one.  I guess he’ll fight anyone, including women.  What a bastard.

3) Crazy Old Man.  This guy was my favorite of the evening.  Sometimes we will see Old man at a scene like this and laugh a little.  I usually do, but at the same time I find it awesome that an old guy still has some rock spirit left in him and respect him for it.  Crazy Old Man is a different character though.  He takes the oddness of an old man being there and brings a crazy along for the ride.  I first noticed that crazy was tied to him when he started to play a harmonica from his pocket randomly to Sloan tunes.  He wasnt in tune or anything, just trying to rock out with the guys.  During breaks between songs or when Sloan would say things to the crowd, his crazy response was to yell out "I invented that!"  Definite signs of crazy.  He was dual drinking and still managing to play that harmonica.  Derek tried to escort him away so as to prevent barfing which looked imminent, i was worried that Derek would get shanked.  He had a beret, and that crazy look.  Finally some bouncers took care of him.  Where are you now Crazy Old Man?

So Sloan was good, and we made it really close to the front.  They would even switch up instruments for songs, taking turns on different things.  I don’t know a lot of Sloan tunes, but loved the ones i did know, and enjoyed the ones i didnt know.  The bassist from Sloan looks kinda like Napoleon Dynamite, i hadnt thought of that.  I thank you Derek for the ticket.  I also thank those that left me notes on my last entry.  It was appreciated.