Doug & the Slugs

Led by guitarist/vocalist Doug Bennett, the Vancouver-based Doug & the Slugs had been in the forefront of indie Canadian rock and roll for greater than a quarter of a hundred years. While their debut record, 1980’s Cognac and Bologna, continues to be the peak of the career (it marketed a lot more than 100,000 copies), the music group long continued to create their lighthearted R&B and hook-laden pop to enthusiastic crowds throughout THE UNITED STATES. Their songs have already been noticed in such movies as Iron Eagles II, Meatballs II, Challenging Appreciate, and Neon Rider. Produced in 1977, Doug & the Slugs possess withstood numerous workers changes. The initial music group, offering guitarist John Burton, bassist Dennis Henderson, keyboardist Drew Neville, and drummers John “Wally” Watson and Ted Laturnus, was just together for a couple a few months. By 1978, just Bennett, Burton, and Watson continued to be, with guitarist Richard Baker, bassist Steve Bosley, and key pad participant Richard Kendall changing Henderson, Neville, and Laturnus. Although this lineup continued to be intact for ten years, the group continuing to evolve. With the springtime of 1998, the group highlighted Bennett, keyboardist/vocalist Marc Gladstone, drummer/vocalist Chris Murray Drivers, guitarist/vocalist Elio Martelli, and bassist/vocalist Jay Wittur. Agreed upon by RCA after launching a self-produced one, “Too Poor,” in June 1980, Doug & the Slugs continued to record many impressive albums within the 1980s and early ’90s. Their second record, Cover It!, released in November 1981, highlighted the vocal harmonies of Toronto-based a cappella group the Nylons. Their third work, Music for the Hard of Considering, released in 1983, included the Canadian strike “RENDERING IT Function.” Popaganda, released in 1985, received a Canadian Academy of Arts and Sciences Award for Record of the entire year and gained the music group an prize as Band of the Year. Through the subsequent a decade, Bennett continuing to stability group actions with are a soloist. He released the single record Animato in 1986; he produced his theatrical debut in John Gray’s musical Stone; and he continued to co-produce an British translation from the long-running Quebec strike humor Brew in 1993. Bennett also set up himself being a article writer, director, and manufacturer of music movies. Furthermore to creating movies for Doug & the Slugs and Canadian rock and roll rings Trooper, Headpins, Zappacosta, and Pictures in fashion, he caused Canadian country artists including Suzanne Gitzi, Rhodes & Marshall, and Wyona Sue & the Turnpikes. Although a lot of the first Slugs have been replaced with the middle-’90s, the music group celebrated its 25th wedding anniversary in 2003 with a set of reunion displays in Vancouver. Just one single year later, nevertheless, Bennett was lifeless from cirrhosis, a sufferer to many years of alcoholic beverages misuse. By 2009, practically all of the initial Slugs started playing once again, with fresh frontman Ted Okos.