On the Playlist 25JUL2018…

Best party dance band ever in my opinion Doug and the Slugs and their album "Cognac and Blogna". Yes, I know I may be opening myself to an argument about this but, whatever, I know I am right. My top two best concerts I ever went to were in Edmonton to see Doug and the Slugs. First was a show with several friends in a club with Norm MacDonald the comedian opening. We laughed our asses off! Then Doug and Slugs came on and we danced our asses off. These guys put on a show. Incidentally, my business parner Gord was at this show too. Second best concert was Doug and the Slugs at the Kinsmen fieldhouse - an indoor soccer field. The University of Alberta Mechanical Engineers had booked them cheap into this venue as they were playing somewhere else in town the next night. Word got out and this was a show to remember. A bit of a riot broke out at one point and the beer pretty much flowed non-stop - it was engineers afterall. Yes, drinking age was 18 so university parties did include drinking. Although I was only 17 in my first year of university it didn't stop me. This album is also the most expensive one in my collection. Although I have the LP vinyl version of this it is a but played out. Many years later I discovered they had released a CD double album of this album and "Wrap It" (their first two albums). It is rather rare and even rarer to find a new clean copy of it. Well I have one. It cost me well into triple digits. Doug Bennet passed way in 2004 from liver cirrhosis brought on by excessive drinking. No kidding - the guy was a party animal and put on a show!

Doug and the Slugs - Cognac and Bologna/Wrap It!