Yesterday Was Everything

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[panting]

(Ryan) Holy F***.

So like a car must have crashed

into that semi or something,

a bunch of cars.

(Kyle) I wonder if maybe

something hit that first.

(Jesse) Is there two semis?

(Kyle) I Don't know.

(Jesse) You see the one on

fire there to the left there

is a big something...

(Kyle) I can't even

see through the smoke.

(Ryan) You gotta look inside

the thing and see if it

says record or not. R-E-C.

(Jeff) Oh Okay.

(Ryan) Yeah, it's going on?

- Yeah.

- Alright cool.

We were just zooming up the

highway and like I saw this like

f***ing black billowing smoke

like coming out and we didn't

know what was happening, we

thought like there was a house

burning down or something...

(Jesse) I get panic attacks, I

get panic attacks just driving

down the road because I'm all

of a sudden back in Alabama,

it's always-

[snaps fingers]

I'm there,

it's fast, and it's so scary

because that guy

hit us from behind.

And it wasn't anything I was

doing, I was just driving good

and normal down the road, right?

I didn't make any mistakes.

That guy smashed us from behind

and forever changed everything.

I think we had

something special.

I don't think that that beauty

that we could create, that art,

would just have ended.

Holy f*** you guys,

look what we did...

and then look what we did.

We were young and mean to each

other and we just were so

focused on the art at all costs.

And it cost us a lot in the end.

[electric guitar]

(Ryan) Hey man how's

it going, it's Ryan.

(Piet) Hey Ryan,

good, how are you?

Good good, can

you hear me all right?

I can hear

you just fine.

Ok, I'm going to see if

I can make you louder here.

OK.

I'm here with Stu, who is

rejoining the band for the tour.

Oh, that's nice, yeah.

Thanks for hopping

on I appreciate it.

(Ryan) What are

the notes on the...

What's it like being back

together after all that time?

Um, It feels like no

time has passed and a lot of

time has passed.

I remember the idea coming

up a number of years ago.

And I don't think we

specifically thought like

a ten-year anniversary was the

way to go, we were just talking

about getting together and

doing some shows. Cause we never

really did like a last show with

Jesse or anything like that.

(Jesse)

I have only sang two days.

I sang the very first day and

made my voice sound like this.

So I took two days off,

and I sang yesterday,

and this is the result again.

So I'll take today

off, and tomorrow.

(Stu) I'm really enjoying it, I

think everybody else is too, and

you know, we wrote these songs

ten years ago, and we've all

been active musicians over the

last decade, so I kind of think

if anything we are playing the

songs better than we would have

ten years ago.

(Ryan) Yeah, it's nice too

cause Jesse has something about

him as a singer that's very

honest and passionate and

I don't know if I realized

how much I missed that,

but I definitely did.

(Piet) awesome so, what

happened with, why did Jesse

leave and then why

did you leave Stu?

Um, I mean, there was a

lot of differences about how we

thought the band should happen

and kind of what direction we

wanted to go and he and I rubbed

each other the wrong way a

little bit on some of our

personal stuff and it was

definitely a situation where we

weren't going to really be able

to continue working together.

But, um, yeah yeah we...

I guess that's probably all

I need to say about that.

(Jesse) Things in the past that

might have been bumps in the

road, things that might have

caused disagreements and

arguments, everybody is just

kinder and older and wiser and

knows how to deal with these

situations a lot better now.

It had to eventually

happen, if we were more mature

we probably would have done a

little bit more and made it last

a little longer, which is one

of the reasons it's good we're

doing this tour, to revisit the

record as probably the era ended

a little prematurely.

Anything unresolved about that

doesn't really apply to these

shows you know it's not about

the split, it's about the album,

and about trying to celebrate

the time when the five of us

were a band.

It's a good band, man.

There's no disputing,

they're such a good band.

(Piet) So this is a temporary

thing I take it then

or like what?

(Stu) Yeah it's

just for ten shows.

Just for the ten shows?

So after this Stu you go back to

your other stuff, and Jesse goes

back and Karl's back in and...

- Yep.

- Yep.

(Ryan) No people ask

me that question every day

that I do an interview.

But it seems like it's

never really been publicized,

or has it? Cause I thought

the whole thing was like

he just left to be a teacher?

(Ryan) I've talked openly about

it here and there, pretty much

what I said like he had

different ideas about...

he's just real stubborn about

the way he wants things to be

handled, and that turned into

being us fighting about every

single decision, so-

Do you think that will

bother him though to see that

sort of stuff publicized?

I don't think so.

I don't think so.

Like I said we're both at a

pretty good point with it.

I don't think I threw him under

the bus with that really.

Because I don't think it's more

his fault than mine, I just

think it's more a problem that

he had with everyone in the band

than I did, cause you know my

problem was just with him so,

it's like I shouldn't

leave the band you know?

I don't know.

(Ryan) Hey I just wanted to

say sorry for not doing the

interview thing today.

You seemed a touch bummed or

something so I just wanted to

make sure you knew

where I was coming from.

This whole thing is super

hard on this guy's heart.

I've had a lot of fun this

week but there have been a ton

of mixed emotions throughout.

You guys really hurt

me in the past and I

likely hurt y'all as well.

I'm just not the same person as

I was back then so whole trip

has been pretty crazy.

An interview could bring

up old garbage that

I'm trying to get over.

I think you're a great dude,

an amazing dad, and one of the

greatest guitar players ever.

However, you are also someone

who nearly destroyed me.

Doing an interview might

bring up junk I don't need

to focus on. This whole thing

is insane for me and I just

want you to know that I'm

trying my best and trying to

keep everything on the up

and up. Nothin' but love.

(Jesse) The way that the band

ended, you know, it was bad.

And it hurt me alot.

And sort of when we started

talking about this you know

there was times when I was

really excited about doing it

and then there was other

times when I was just like,

I can't do this.

I can't revisit those emotions.

I can't revisit the past

I've kind of gotten over it.

And to come back in the mix

and be with the guys and stuff-

I knew it would be this mixed

bag of emotions, you know?

And Jesse's not even coming

in the van, he's going

in his own car. It's just

him and his girlfriend.

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