Sloan - Underwhelmed (live) 1992

[@elizabethjolly2335]

I love Chris Murphy's attempt to be all rock & roll destructive at the end ... handing his guitar to a guy and throwing a sofa cushion. Oh Canadians, never change.

[@gamexsimmonds3581]

Screw messing up a guitar, these guys aren't rich lol

[@QuickShepherd]

It saddens me that there isn't much footage of them from the early years

[@dynaboyjl.4220]

Patrick!!!! Long haired beautiful child Patrick, my favorite man. Even here he looks pissed half the time. What a great band.

[@HAPPYPANDA53]

love how chris gets caught up jamming and misses the next verse. the look on patricks face when he is trying to improvise until chris comes back to his mic is priceless. and i love how how jay keeps playing after the song is done. long live sloan!

[@elduderino7916]

I remember watching this when it was on tv. The show was called 'Friday Night' with Ralph Benmergui or something like that. I had no idea who Sloan was but asked my friend a couple of days later and I became a fan. I've seen them several times, including once front row at Massey Hall, where after the last song, Chris walked to the front of the stage and handed his bass to the girl I was there with, just as he did on this clip. Security (or a roadie) quickly came and grabbed it back from her. Long live Sloan. Twice Removed is one of Canada's all time great albums.

[@user-ce1uh7dt1z]

Jay wearing an Eric's Trip t-shirt. Awesome....

[@Skiptracer1981]

Loving Jay's Eric's Trip shirt. Eric's Trip are another fantastic east coast Canadian band.

[@RumbleAve]

Jay's wearing and "Eric's Trip" shirt, god I love him

[@theyrecousins]

whoever was engineering this set simply killed it. guitars are rock solid but not overbearing, vocal balance is great, and the drums sound like "nevermind" live at times. really presented an amazing performance as best was possible.

[@DocSaucy]

He is wearing an Eirc's Trip T!.....love it!

[@ilinz]

I love that he jumps the couch at the end. Excellent song from an epic band.

[@nuffaction5464]

Saw them a month ago in Parry Sound, and in June ...STILL THE BEST CANADIAN BAND.

[@michaelfranzoi285]

Seen them back in 93 in Windsor On. Eric’s Trip and local band King Kool Flipped opened for them. Oh and Hip Club Groove as well!! Amazing memories.

[@tremoo5987]

Fayze Sassine!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@ogami1972]

All you "that guy is like this guy", or "he is being derivative of (x)"...look how long Sloan has been around...granted, they weren't here before Keith Moon, but, just saying...Sloan is amazing and deserves to be judged on the same tier with the greats, not looked at as "a Canadian version of...."

[@TomHill665]

i Live near Buffalo NY, so we hear alot of Canadian Bands. They should call american bands the "american version of..." not the other way around. Canadian Music is amazing with each artist being unique!! There is only one Sloan The Tragically Hip 54-40 Matthew Good........

[@jamesm876]

Wow, the boys were channelling The Replacements here, hard.

[@drsloan]

I like it when Patrick appears to forget the words at 3:19 and just walks away from the mic. Ah the benefits of having more than one singer!

[@garyclarke9557]

I saw them on this tour in Windsor at the capital theatre with my buddies older brothers band Soyl opening for them.

[@RonPro-u1t]

A masterpiece.

[@willpumpkin]

I love this video so much! I'm sure that's the same mustang Chris still uses so he probably didn't give it away.

[@bancube7694]

Jays energy over the years has changed! He used to have so much energy!!!

[@TheMusicalElitist]

You do realise people get older?

[@adamv242]

If I had to choose only one country whose music I could listen to for the rest of my life, it would be Canada. Largely because of Sloan.

[@drhappyyy]

They became SO MUCH BETTER with their next album (Twice Removed). While TR is their all-time-top-rated album, the have a handful of gems. They are way more diverse than meets the eye - and their song writing emerges as a rich power of seduction - as their appeal is also laced with the fact that they seem so relate-able. Highly under-rated, not because so much of what they are, but what they are not, including quitters. Keep on producing great pop guys - I'm right there with ya (own their whole catalog). - signed, 30+ year drummer, recording 'artist'.

[@gamexsimmonds3581]

Twice Removed is my fave Sloan album. Some folks like their later stuff more from the late 90s

[@mikeo7221]

Twice Removed is absoutely excellent, but this is a hell of a clever, catchy song. I'm enjoying young Sloan with modulated fuzz :)

[@keithkoenig5320]

"BETWEEN THE BRIDGES" is my fave from Sloan.

[@joeunite]

I prefer one chord to another

[@ilinz]

What a wicked song. Love the token couch-jumping at the end.

[@CS-sf1rz]

My idols back then

[@hpsfl]

Geez, nice guitars! I want a Fender Bronco.. And I just realized these guys are from Halifax, "On the way to the LC" haha

[@Wasteland1000]

Sloan actualy tours with two Mustang Basses. Chris uses a Red with a white stripe and white pick plate for his role on bass but they have a second one you can see Jay play when they perform People of The SKy live. Its all Black and has the same finger rest and no stripe. You can still find the basses on Ebay with the racing stripe but they arent the cheapest. I CRAVE one....

[@redoctoberff]

this video is too good for words... particularly the end

[@baronoflivonia.3512]

In 92 I ranked Sloan right up there with Nirvana, unfortunately CBC Radio did not cover all of US. At least us in border towns got hip to Sloan early. Should have been a monster.

[@downlowknow]

They should compile, clean-up and release some of their old school live performances.

[@Keekonuts]

SLOAN!! Alltime favorite Band!!

[@BananaRama136]

I'M HERE IN 2020. I FORGOT ABOUT THIS SHIT. IT'S GREAT!

[@messrocks89]

Wow. After 25 earthquakes in the past few hours this REALLY made my day! Thanks!!!!!!! One of my favorite drummers ever, a huge influence. I want to take a time machine back to about 1986 and then get out and set it on fire.

[@dropd26]

GREAT performance on this one.

[@raineman73]

The great thing about Sloan is that these guys look like the band that plays in the garage down the street-and then they rock like this.

[@drewscottwallace35]

These guys should have been just as big as Nirvana. Seems like a crime they never broke in the US.

[@colinclayton8042]

Definitely. One of my all time favorite bands.

[@barbrabaker6579]

Drew Wallace so much better than Nirvana, I say as an American and of the target audience at the time.

[@0371998]

They were with the foo fighters Edge Fest Tour 1998

[@davea5492]

Curt Cobain was a talent-less drug addict who got into music because he didn't want to work. Proof? He's dead. These guys are MILES better and don't deserve the discourteous, yet inevitable, comparison to those hacks called Nirvana. Smeared was better than all of Nirvana's cd's combined.

[@camdencobain1460]

@@davea5492 Kurt 'got into music because he didn't want to work' - Ok, boomer.

[@0truckmafk]

So awesome! Wish I was there!

[@JebusJack]

Daaaaahahahaaaamn. OLD SCHOOL Sloan!

[@Zsmart]

So damn good.

[@kplaysminecraft895]

Sounds good 👍🏻 nice old Trace Elliot bass amp

[@twincrystals]

FOREVERxx

[@zigzagwandra]

Smeared Youth

[@didyoudie9342]

my bloody valentine esq performance

[@ttoille765]

oh, my! that's about as cool as a rock band can be!

[@drgonzo1985]

god damn, this is groovy.

[@xBaitMyScenex]

doubt he gave that bass away he's been rocking that same bass for 20 years now.

[@PolyphonicPress]

No it's not. It's from Ralph Benmurghi's late night talk show. The one you're thinking of is when they performed Everything You've Done Wrong.

[@spartan876]

this. is. fucking. insane!

[@Skiptracer1981]

You can really hear their Sonic Youth influence on that album.. Blatently ripped off Eliminator Jr. on one song. Love them.

[@TheDefeatest]

Listen to the version on the cd.

[@FloydtheBarber8384]

So grungely nice.

[@MrROTD]

Andrew Scott is amazing drummer only a Canadian would know, he was Kieth Moon of Canada.

[@sdot5389]

Settle down. Forgetting Neil Peart? Keith Moon is the Neil Peart of Britain.

[@MrROTD]

lol got me I love all of them.

[@musicallystoned7489]

Patrick's coolest look by far.

[@joshguilford7030]

Even over current "Gandalf" look?

[@nicolerizzo1314]

@@joshguilford7030 yeah, Patrick's taken a bit of a note from the J Mascis I'ma-look-like-an-old-wizard book of aging. It kinda works for him though. But baby Patrick here is good stuff too.

[@joshguilford7030]

Well he just shaved!!

[@nicolerizzo1314]

@@joshguilford7030 did he?

[@rosswoodie]

i met them when they played in peterborough right after this. I told them they acted too much like nirvana lol!!!

[@artrock101]

Sloan in their larval stage...

[@joshuagallua]

The Sonic Youth of Maritime Canada

[@JustAnotherKissFan]

Nirvana Wanna Be's? Strange as SLOAN broke at the same time as Nirvana, Sonic Youth, Eric's Trip (from NB Canada)..etc..Sloan and Eric's Trip made the scene in Canada at the time (East Coast of Canada, West Coast of the US).

[@MrROTD]

fuckin Kieth Moons soul leaped into this drummer I swear, he even looks sloppy but isnt just like Kieth

[@riseabove52]

@ttoille765 unless that band is nirvana, sonic youth, or the pixies.

[@markparker5796]

Ralph Benmuirgi show right?

[@ciggery]

March 1993 actually

[@riseabove52]

@messrocks89 you must love Dave from Nirvana then.

[@tehscott]

"yeah i fucked with your couch"

[@kengibbens5059]

Bit of a trainwreck in last verse but they were having alot more fun than they look like now

[@0truckmafk]

*whispers* "dude its: She pulled out a story about her life". I rather watch these golden "spin and wins" than watch some pos lip sinc and "dance" on stage. Long live Live rock'n roll!

[@zippodbeebilbroxen3016]

holy patrick

[@bprett]

@drsloan he was trying so hard "to read between the lines" that he completely forgot the line!

[@ggvbeer4339]

Nirvanice In Chains ??

[@mattisprettycool]

sonic youth influence? chris murphy even looks like thurston moore here.

[@Skiptracer1981]

big Sonic Youth influence on their first EP and first LP. Even so much as ripping a riff or two from Daydream Nation.

[@risboturbide9396]

Who's Tommy Daniels? Who are you? What am I?

[@MarkKusha1]

lol he forgot the words at 3:18

[@thebestofu-tubebytheresaes5189]

Ok

[@CS-sf1rz]

Lol so much exuberance frum deez yung chaps

[@kovalevisgod]

Apparently one person doesn't know what good music is.

[@42yearoldboy5]

Sloan trying to be nirvana! Very cool!

[@simonsbuddy1806]

OMG this is embarassing. "Who taught you to live like that?" File under "youthful exuberance."

[@brettherold87]

at 4:00 they look at eachother and laugh cause he forgot the words and then they both laugh next note lol

[@DocSaucy]

He is wearing an Eirc's Trip T!.....love it!

[@ilinz]

I love that he jumps the couch at the end. Excellent song from an epic band.