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Our memories are shaky constructs.

We remember things wrong or forget things altogether.

But I found, and other people seem to agree with this, that if you want to start digging through

your brain to recover things that have gone missing, just start talking. And the more you talk,

the more that will come back. And if you have a group of people with a shared history and they

start talking, it's amazing what comes flooding back. It can be cathartic, therapeutic,

nostalgic, and just plain fun. Hold that thought. The longer a band exists, the more hazy the

memories become. Maybe it's just age. Maybe it's because drugs and alcohol were involved.

Maybe some members die, taking their stories with them.

In far too many instances, we're forced to piece together a group's stories from second and third-hand accounts,

friends and associates, press coverage from back on the day,

and various other imperfect recollections told either in person or documented online.

But hey, it's better than nothing, right?

But what if you could get a band with a billion of these stories together in a studio and get

them to talk things out?

What memories and feelings will emerge then?

This is exactly what I did with the headstones. Hugh Dillon, bass player Tim

White, and guitarist Trent Carr.

They were all in the same place talking about

well, how they got there.

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