hey y'all... my sister (she thinks collective soul is wicked, to put this story into some sort of context) and i (no need for explanations, i defy them all) were driving home from our parents house tonight and i was dominating the car stereo. she asked me to play "something good....you know, like sloan or something." ok fine. when "500 Up" starts, she goes "this is a cover, right?" :) hahaha, i laughed. "no, but they rip off everything so it may as well be," i tell her.
we continue driving. (it's a 7 hour journey.) an hour later, we were listening to _the great pacific ocean_ and when "patriot" came on, she goes "now *this* is a cover, right??" and i laughed again. "well, if it's not a cover, it's a huge ripoff of someone....it's driving me crazy, who is this a ripoff of???" she begins asking over and over again. "steve miller?" i suggest, tongue in cheek. "YES!!!!" she shrieks. "they're ripping off steve miller!" I laughed again and told her the story of how thrush hermit played an all steve miller set at edgefest, so maybe it was possible (i'm proud to say my knowledge of the steve miller band is fairly limited). "oh. is this thrush hermit?" she asks. "yes. that's why i told you the steve miller story," i explain. she's smart, but only in certain ways, if you get my drift... "well, maybe it's not steve miller. it's some crappy 70s band, though, they're ripping off someone like that....maybe CCR," she continues. hmmm. well, now that i've read this story, it's actually a lot less funny than it seemed at the time. you had to be there, i guess. anyway, the new grand are here in calgary and they played last night at the night gallery. i was 7 hours away playing cards with my grandmother, and so i cannot report on sonic unyon's latest darlings. i will, however, reveal their current conditions, as reported by mike clive several moments ago.... "we're fucking TIRED." happy season and all that jazz. sloan net is not crappy. love tara lee :) :) :)
