Doug Bennett

In 1977, lead singer and English Columbia-native Doug Bennett started his 1st truly effective band, Doug & the Slugs. Additional members had been drummer Wally Watson, bassist Steve Bosley, and guitarists Rick Baker and John Burton. The unusual name, the Slugs, should never have defer many people, because the group performed to decent-sized crowds around Bennett’s house ground actually before reducing an record. The music that Doug & the Slugs provided fans was an assortment of pop/rock and roll and bar music group, much like that of performers just like the Stray Felines, Hall & Oates, Huey Lewis & the news headlines, and Phil Collins. It had been a method that offered the group well and grew in reputation within the ’80s. Bennett and his music group released almost two dozen singles and fifty percent as much albums between 1980 and 1993, many over the main RCA and A&M record brands. By 1983, the music group broke from the humble Canadian marketplace and released its wares on america. While he place lots of time and work into Doug & the Slugs, Bennett also examined out the constriction of the single profession in 1986. He finished one album by himself, Animato!, and two singles that kept the monitors “IT OFFERS to Be Mon,” “Like A LATER DATE,” “One Two Three,” and “A Mil Ways.” Section of Bennett’s single action branched out into performing when he recognized a part within a musical stage play entitled Rock & Move. Along with a great many other music projects over time, including his very own documenting label, Ritdong, Doug Bennett was still executing occasionally using the Slugs also into the brand-new millennium. Bennett have been sick for sometime and was accepted to some Calgary medical center on Oct 9, 2004. He slipped right into a coma soon after and passed on Oct 16, 2004.