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A band is like a plant.

No, wait, wait, I need you to stay with me on this because, well, you'll see where this is going.

Like a plant, a band grows from seeds to maturity, bursts forth with new seeds and then eventually

withers and dies. It's the whole cycle of life thing, you know? But like plants or animals

or any other living thing, the lifespan of bands varies greatly. You could last as long as

one rehearsal, kind of like a dandelion. Or you might find

yourself on some kind of 50-year anniversary tour, the equivalent of, I guess, a bristlecone pine tree

that can live as long as 5,000 years. Okay, I think we've tortured this metaphor long enough.

Then we have bands that form, rise to a peak,

hit something of a downhill slope and break up, only to reform again for, well, there could be any

number of reasons. And this leads into a completely new second act. And thus things begin anew,

and maybe even under better circumstances than anyone thought possible.

So let's do a case study.

Let's have a specific band deconstruct their journey from formation to break up to reunion.

This is the history of Alexis on fire in their own words.

This is the ongoing history of new music podcast with Alan Cross.

Hello again, I'm Ellen Cross, and I'm back with another episode in an occasional

series called In Their Own Words.

This is where we get a band in the studio and get them to go through their history

themselves.

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