In he recorded his antiwar debut, Merry Airbrakes, an album he says is the only known record by a Vietnam vet cut during the war. 하지만 그 후 몇 년 동안 슬림은 주로 트럭 운전사로 일했습니다. He also put in time as a watermelon farmer, forklift operator, firewood salesman and sawmill worker.