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pretty basic because how can you describe it? Maybe? I don’t know. Could be? It’s a constant even if you hate it. I just want to make some
It’s been a playground. Especially the stage it- trial and tribulation and it’s a test of time and kind of presence. I used to think life had to be
self, it’s been an actual, roll around, play- purpose and self and everything. like a movie. It has to be epic, it has to be
ground. It’s been other-worldly. “But, as for what life can be after death, I amazing, but nowadays I just want people to
“It’s been such a confidence-booster, I feel think that, even though that’s a pretty dark line, remember us and that we made you think a lit-
like everyone in the band now feels like we are it still implies that there can be something after tle differently or feel a little differently. And that’s
valid workers in America. We’re musicians and our deepest, darkest end. It’s not so much all I’d ask for.”
we try to make a living doing this and it is hard what is after death, it’s maybe there could be And anyone who has checked out Derek
to be an artist and be serious, so it has been something after death and let’s keep that mind- and Classless Act already, either live or on
very cool to feel this validation.” set and don’t throw that away automatically. record, is likely to have felt this impact and it’s
“I’m not hating on atheists or anything, just one they seem destined to continue making. It
he final song on the record, ‘Thoughts maybe life is beautiful and maybe we are all remains to be seen if they will become the next
TFrom A Dying Man’, is a song which beautiful stardust and amazing things and big thing which so many have predicted, but
boasts some of the album’s more darker lyrics magic. Maybe magic is real! they certainly have all the tools required to do
such as ‘Isn't life just a painful way to prepare “That line was also created out of desper- so and their story looks set to be a fascinating
us to live after death? These are the things I'd ation because we are sometimes suffering so one. In a world where sometimes ‘less’ is more,
like to think of with my last breath.’ much in life that there must be a light at the end this classless bunch are already bringing a
We ask if this is what his considers life to of this tunnel, which is the next tunnel.” touch of class to the world at large. Magic!
be and whether he has any thoughts on what While the song mentions there’s no legacy
life after death may be. “Man, that’s the real to leave, we end by asking what Derek hopes Visit www.classlessact.com for more info
question, isn’t it?”, is his initial reaction. will be his and Classless Act’s legacy that they and pick up ‘Welcome To The Show’, out now.
He continues, “Yes, in a way, if I can spec- will leave behind.
ulate on what it is but I’m only inquisiting. “Personally, I would like to just make an im- Words By Michael Coventry
Maybe life is that way, who knows what or why pact. Just to make someone feel something or
we’re here and what the purpose is. It’s just react to what we’re doing. Don’t just shove it Photos By Travis Shinn
one question isn’t it. Is it? Isn’t it? Could it be? under the rug, listen to it and feel something,

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