Editing Sloan (band) (section)

==Songwriting, live performances==
[[Image:Sloan 2007 right.jpg|thumb|240px|right|Sloan performing at the Deep River Summerfest 2007 in [[Deep River, Ontario|Deep River]], Ontario.]]
All four members of Sloan write and sing their own songs; when they play live, they switch instruments accordingly. The band typically performs as follows: Murphy plays [[bass (guitar)|bass]], Pentland plays [[lead guitar]], Ferguson plays [[rhythm guitar]], and Scott plays [[Drum kit|drums]]. Scott plays guitar while singing his songs, while Ferguson switches to bass and Murphy switches to drums. Prior to 2006's ''[[Never Hear the End of It]]'', Ferguson and Scott would also play [[electric piano]] on songs that called for it. Multi-instrumentalist Gregory Macdonald has handled all keyboard duties live and in the studio since 2006. Murphy and Pentland would be considered the two main vocalists as they sing lead on the majority of the band's songs and contribute back-up/harmony vocals to all of them.

While Murphy has written more of the band's songs than any of the other members, particularly on the band's first two albums, Pentland is nonetheless responsible for having written a majority of Sloan's most recognizable hits. Every member of the group has contributed at least one song per album, with the lone exception being 2003's ''[[Action Pact (album)|Action Pact]]'' on which Scott has no songs. According to ''[[Eye Weekly]]'', that album's producer, [[Tom Rothrock]], essentially randomly selected tracks out of the band's submissions in the interest of creating a more streamlined sound. Also, Scott's songwriting output at that time may have been somewhat diminished because he had recently become a father.<ref>
{{cite news
 | last = Grant
 | first= Kieren
 | title = Shake some action
 | newspaper = [[Eye Weekly]]
 | url = http://www.eye.net/eye/issue/issue_08.14.03/music/sloan.html
 | date = 2003-08-14
 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20030830130037/http://www.eye.net/eye/issue/issue_08.14.03/music/sloan.html
 | archive-date = 2003-08-30
 | access-date = 2009-10-18}}</ref>