There’s a clip on The Salads DVD of drummer Grant Taylor jumping off the side of the road into a massive pile of snow. Not realizing how deep the snow lies, he finds himself buried to his neck.

The result could have been much worse. “We thought all those little trees poking out of the snow were little trees, when in fact they were the tips of gigantic trees,” says singer Darren Dumas, AKA Mista D.

Scenes like the snow leap make The Salads worthy of calling their DVD, “Band Gone Wild.”

Released at the end of December, the DVD chronicles the creation of the band through the release of their breakout album, “Fold A to B,” in a documentary full of old clips, performances, and interviews. Also included on the DVD is concert footage, music videos, and other scenes that didn’t make the documentary.

Footage dates back to the ’80s when three of the guys started a band before they were teenagers, sporting real mullets and playing gigs at local fairs and in front of their classmates at school. Mista D joined the band in 1999, but his mom was still able to donate some embarrassing footage of him singing a Christmas carol as a very young boy.

“I didn?t have a whole lot of stuff and that was the one thing I remember my mom having and showing every single family member and friend that comes into her house,” he tells andPOP. “It’s funny because in the original edit, the editor was laughing his ass off when he saw the footage and it was like three times as long.”

Everywhere the Salads went?from the recording studio to playing shows across Canada?they made sure to bring a video camera with them.

“When I joined the band, we continued to always have a camera around so we could capture stuff and take it home with our stories to show them what happened,” Dumas says.

“We collected so much footage over so many years, we decided that we had to make a movie out of this.” So much footage in fact, they didn’t even have time to watch everything they had taped.

The cover shows the band along with naked girls; some might actually mistake it for a “Girls Gone Wild” video, only to watch it and see no nudity.

Well, there is some nudity.

“Dave (Ziemba, guitarist) dropping his drawers is shocking to some people but it’s tiring to us. We’ve seen it so many times; we know what it looks like.”

The band is currently working on a new album, which they hope to release by September.

“It’s a little bit heavier, a little bit more aggressive and it’s going to be a killer record,” Dumas promises.

The band is working with Dan Brodreck, the same producer from their last album, as well as Gavin Brown (Billy Talent, Three Days Grace) and Darrin Pfeiffer, the drummer from Goldfinger.

As they begin to record, and continue touring Canada all year, they make sure to always have a video camera nearby.

“If this (DVD) goes really well and we continue to succeed, we’ll make another one down the road.”






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