Barenaked Ladies' Ed Robertson Gets High With Snowbirds

Those Barenaked Ladies fellas sure like to get high. Literally.

While he's done a series of odd jobs for his own television series, Barenaked Ladies' singer Ed Robertson found himself high above Toronto on Saturday when he joined The Snowbirds for a flight over the city.

"Dumbfounded. Grateful. Lucky. Insane," Robertson wrote on the band's website about the event on Sunday. "I don't even know how to describe how I feel about the day I had yesterday."

Robertson got an early morning media ride in a CT-114 Tutor with the Canadian Forces Demonstration Team and flew around various parts of Southern Ontario. "To fly in a tight formation at 300 NM/H around some beautiful scenery (Niagara Falls, and the Toronto skyline etc.) was breathtaking," he wrote.

The singer — who told the Snowbirds he thought they were a "high performance team, not the Anne Murray song" — also said the flight was extremely demanding.

"It took all of my energy to simply remain conscious, and not black out during the high G maneuvers," he said. "We pulled 6Gs A LOT, and negative 2.5 Gs too! It was simply the craziest flying I've ever experienced."

He also got to see two planes flying towards each other at 1,200 kilometres per hour, once again describing how incredible his day was.

Apparently Robertson hasn't developed a fear of flying from the plane crash he was in last August.

In almost as thrilling Barenaked Ladies news, bassist Jim Creeggan announced that he grew a beard this summer.

Barenaked Ladies are putting the finishing touches on a new studio album, which will be their first without Steven Page, who left the band earlier this year.

You can see Barenaked Ladies on Oct. 7 at the Paul Paul Theatre in Fresno, Calif. and at the Star Of The Desert Arena on Oct. 9 in Primm, Nev.