Landslide

Many years ago I was in a band called Landslide.

The Premiere of Ontario at the time was Bob Rae. He penned a little ditty called "Same Boat Now", and submitted it to Sony Music and was laughed at.

Always the opportunist, and in a band with a drummer who was then a TV reporter covering Queen's Park (now he's the Director of Communications for Finance Minister Jim Flaherty), I had the idea to do a power-pop/punk version of the song.

We had a brief media moment over it. I guess you could call it our 15 seconds of fame, and then Landslide broke up.

Now that Bob Rae could conceivably be the next Prime Minister, I thought I'd dig out the old VHS copy of a video Dan made of the song and make it available for posterity.

So after about 10+ years, here is the Landslide cover of Bob Rae's "Same Boat Now"

Where Are We Now?

• Drummer Dan Miles is currently the Communications Director for federal Finance Minister Jim Flaherty (and we're all still pissed about this income trust thing)
• Bassist Pete Dekoker is still in London, ON and still kicks out the jams with a few punk bands down there like 63 Monroe and Osterberg
• I've pretty well lost touch with lead guitarist Mark Andersen but I think he's in London too.
• Guitarist Mark Jeftovic (that's me) moved to the Big Smoke, founded easyDNS.com and plays in The Parkdale Hookers
• Project financier Sieg Pedde is still a capital-L libertarian, and is developing property in Panama
• Then premier Bob Rae, depending on when and in which parallel universe you're reading this from is 1) taking a run at the federal liberal leadership 2) an also-ran in the fedeal lib leadership race 3) Canada's newest Prime Minister!