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But I don’t think devotion is the right doing this if we are able to. If all the Gods way. The fact that we’re playing these
word… You’ve got to be devoted to the are aligned properly, fuck, it’d be amazing. songs 15 years later and still having peo-
band if you’ve been doing it for 20 years. So yes, I would’ve said yes.” ple sing along, that, to me, gives a new life
But yeah, it just comes out in different to the song. The song itself means some-
ways.” he band released their self-titled thing to me, not the lyrics, but the whole
The guys actually posted a Flashback Talbum in 2001 after signing to Is- body of work; the music and everything.
Friday photo on Instagram/social media in land Records. Their second major label re- When we do play ‘The Reason’ and we still
December saying ‘26 Years Of Friendship’. lease was ‘The Reason’, which came out get the reaction we do, it feels extra spe-
The photo shows Doug, Dan and drummer at the end of 2003. The title track was re- cial, ‘cause it’s like ‘Shit, man, this song
Chris Hesse (bassist Jesse Charland leased in early 2004 and reached No. 2 of came out 15 years ago and people still feel
joined the band later, in 2009). Dan says the Billboard Hot 100 as well as No. 1 on passionately about it,’ even if it’s just for
that if someone had told them back then the US and World Modern Rock Charts. In nostalgic purposes. So it makes me look
that they’d still be friends today and still in the UK, it reached No. 12, with ‘Out Of at the song with different eyes.”
the band together today he’d have be- Control’, ‘Same Direction’ and ‘Disappear’ Like most albums, only a certain num-
lieved them. “Yeah, I would’ve thought also being released as singles. The album ber of songs actually make it to the live
that. At that time, we were in that honey- was later certified gold in the UK and twice show – usually the hits, and maybe a band
moon period of a relationship, with each platinum in the USA. So it’s no wonder favourite or two. Dan says, “There are
other as friends in the band, so, of course, that 15 years later the band have decided some songs that we didn’t play as often
yeah. All we said back then, 20 years ago, to revisit the album in the live setting. through the years as we would ‘The Rea-
‘cause people would ask us, ‘Where do Doug tells us, “It’s weird because I son’, ‘Same Direction’ or ‘Out Of Control’.
you see yourselves in ten years from can’t remember the last time I sang any of Some of those songs we’ve been playing
now? Where do you see yourselves in 20 the songs, whether it’s off of ‘The Reason’ on this tour because the beginning of the
years from now?’ I remember being asked or off of the latest album, and I’ve actually tour we were doing ‘The Reason’ album
that and I feel like our answers were al- thought about the meaning of it while I’m from start to finish. There’s always been a
ways the same. We see ourselves still singing it. It doesn’t usually happen that song on that album that’s been my
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