But when I was 13, there was nothing cooler than Patrick wearing a fuzzy hat and Andrew plugging his ears at the sound of a plane going overhead – nothing more punk than making an opening sequence that was longer than the song itself. I wouldn’t become obsessed with Spector for a few years, seeking out the Back to Mono box set and Righteous Brothers 7 inches at record sales. I didn’t know that they were referencing Easy Rider, that Jay was wearing a “Back to Mono” pin because he was playing the Phil Spector “connection” character. It was the first video from One Chord to Another, Sloan’s third album, that made me want to be a rock star. But Sloan exists in 2016, and for that we are lucky. I don’t think that “rock stars” exist in 2016. The one that made me realize that the rock I had grown up loving and consuming, the Stones, the Beach Boys, the Beatles, it was still alive and well, and being played every five minutes on Much Music. The record that made me want to be a rock star.
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