Like so many hopeful, wide-eyed, optimistic, foolish young bands, The Slugs once were once under the impression that getting signed to a major label record deal was actually about the music. What fools we were! How could we have been so silly to think that writing and performing good music was the key to success? Well, many bands start out with that fantasy only to learn a hard life lesson that is true in so many walks of life - it is who you know that counts.
The Slugs have been sitting on the bench for years watching many of their peers get called up to the majors for their turn at the plate. For various reasons, most Chicago bands signed to major labels have been hard pressed to find lasting success on a national level. It is for that reason that the Slugs can never be called "has-beens" because, in fact, the Slugs are "never-weres". Never having had the chance to strut their stuff on the national stage, they thought it would be fun to publish some of the "thank you, but no" letters from the short-sighted music business executives in charge of signing bands to recording contracts.
The Slugs hold no ill will for the industry insiders that have seen fit to dismiss them, often without even listening to their music. They do, however, relish the fact that NONE of the executives who rejected them are still employed by the record label that rejected them. In fact, many of these people are no longer in the music business at all. But the Slugs are. So I guess they have had the last word after all.
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