The
Slime Dogs turn 20
The ongoing history of the the slime dogs, October.04
 To
tell you the truth, we really don’t know the day or
the month or hell, even the year that the “Slime Dogs”
started, so we just picked 1984. Twenty years seems about
right. The music started much before that, way back in 1973
when Fernando and Mike started to play Alice Cooper tunes
together... a few years later Grant joined Dennis in the rhythm
section, along with a few hairy Italians on the management
side and the heavy metal steel sounds of ATTIC started to
infest the bar scene of Southern Ontario...
 College,
jobs and women put an end to that loud ass band ATTIC. After
that, there were endless rebirths and musical side projects
like “The South River Dirt Band”, “Third
Man In” and the “Life Cycle of the Phage”,
but it wasn’t until our good friend Ivar Hamilton invited
us to play one of his famous farm parties with Blue
Rodeo and Teenage
Head that we decided to give ourselves a formal name,“the
Slime Dogs from Hell” were born.“Slime”
was a term we called each other, “Dogs” cause
we’re not cat loving fags, and “from Hell”
cause we just bad... 
The band line up had changed to include JoJo Bitch on vocals
and keyboards, Bubba on vocals and harp and Jimmy Joe on vocals
with an endless (and still growing) collection of guest musicians
such as Carlo, Paul, Ivar, Alan Cross, Captain Phil, Freddie
P, Hal Harbor and humble howard just to name a few.
The Slimes went on to become the party band for CFNY
which put us into opening gigs the other bands would kill
for with some of Canada’s then and future stars: the
Tragically Hip,
the Northern Pikes, the Box and the Spirit of the West.
And then Ivar pulled some strings and before we knew it, our
recording of “I want Santa”
was into full time rotation at CFNY, and then our video was
coast to coast on Much
Music. This silly spoof song had staying power and became
a staple on the holiday airwaves for five years.
 The
partying and carrying on put us into some fun and crazy shows
in bars, arenas, Legion Halls and outdoor parties all over
Ontario. The Slime Dog halloween bash has always been an event
and the 1995 evening at the King City Arena was the ultimate
Pumpkin Pie fight in the band’s history! We are still
banned from renting facilities in most of York Region.
The band went through a major change and Mike’s little
brother Stevie took over Dennis's position on the drum kit
and Country Lenny joined in to add even more guitar. The highlight
of this lineup of the Slime was the HeartLinks Peru Benefit
Concert and CD release which had the Slimes and a classical
quartet performing songs by Sting, John Lennon and the Judds.
After a brief non-performing period the Slime Dogs burst back
on to the scene in spring of 2001, with a new look and a new
fun party rock sound that has been entertaining crowds of
all ages from Etobicoke to Stouffville to Peterborough to
South River.
The Slime Dogs at 20, hell we’re just getting started,
rock dreams never die... that’s Slime.
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