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back and do that.

It hurt even more that

Stuart would be party to it

and not say anything to me.

He wrote me

some f***ing emails.

Some very very very aggressive

threatening emails. Like...

"If you come back to

Canada you're gonna get your

ass kicked"

or whatever or

"I'm gonna send

guys out to hurt you".

So we were...

you know he's friends

with some serious dudes.

I think I can speak for

everyone else in the band

when I say we were

legitimately afraid

that something was

gonna happen to us.

We were really bad

to each other at times.

The focus was always art,

art, art at all costs.

And we created fantastic art,

but it nearly destroyed me.

It put me in the worst

spot I was ever in.

I come home.

Girlfriend was gone.

Misery Signals was gone.

All of a sudden everybody that I

had aligned myself with in life

for four or five years was gone.

They were all gone.

(Karl) Let's start

this thing off right.

We are Misery Signals

from Wisconsin.

Let's have some fun.

(Jesse) I think

it hurt them too.

We were on such a

climb at that point.

Misery Signals was doing

so, so well, right?

And it was like every tour

was better, better, better...

and then they kick me out,

and it took them a while I

think, four or five years later,

where maybe they were

firing on all cylinders again.

(Ryan) It's hard. It's a speed-bump

for sure to change singers.

Our second record was

somewhat of a sophomore slump.

But I don't know, it might

have just been the same if

Jesse was in the band too.

I think for me it was

important to try and prove

that we could still do it.

Jesse had left and that record

was starting to be celebrated

and it's like, well, I'm gonna

be stubborn and I want to make

something that's as good,

and I don't need him.

Jesse is a very

passionate person and he had

some traumatic things

happen in his life.

And Misery Signals

was his outlet.

Personally I don't think

that he ever took the time to

deal with the accident.

He's got this f***ing huge

weight on his shoulders that I

don't think he ever

really spoke about.

Or even digested and

dealt with, you know?

He helped make

this band what it is.

And I think a lot of that is

evident in this anniversary tour

because I haven't seen

Misery Signals shows this

crazy in years.

And when you see Jesse on

stage he really feels

every word that he's yelling.

And don't get me wrong, fans

relate to Karl too and the band

is still obviously successful,

but who knows what could have

been if he would have, you know,

not been ousted from the band.

(Stu) In "Summary and Stinging

Rain" at Braden's place,

that's all I remember.

(Kyle) Yeah, we've

spent a lot of time here.

It's where we did a good portion

of the writing for "Malice".

(Jesse) This is for surely

where I first heard

"Worlds and Dreams"

was downstairs.

"End riff to Five Years" too.

The very final.

Morgan said "C'mere!

C'mere! C'mere!"

and I went downstairs and

he said "Check this out."

(Stu) Yeah "Victim" was here for

sure, I remember my guitar amp

was under the steps, and it was

so bass-y, so every time we

played the intro it was

like "this is sick!"

cause it was so big sounding.

(Ryan) I remember Jesse... we

would be down here and Jesse's

on his desk right at the top

of the stairs writing lyrics...

(Branden) Yeah for sure.

(Stu) That's the basement here?

I don't remember the insulation

like that, it's weird.

(Carol) It's still exposed,

it drives Jesse crazy.

Jesse won't go down there.

No.

(Ryan) Is that Stars?

(Carol) No this is

Dinnwoody Lounge.

You guys were still 7 Angels.

It wasn't even Misery Signals.

It was 7 Angels 7 Plagues

featuring Jesse Zaraska.

Featuring Jesse Zaraska.

Yeah it was featuring.

(Ryan) Damn we were f***ing

fully traveling with a car-top

carrier and no trailer.

(Carol) Do you guys remember

if this was a release party?

(Kyle) Yeah I believe

it would have been.

(Carol) It was at Megatunes on

Whyte avenue and it might have

been the release of "Malice"

The first Misery Signals

show in Edmonton, if I can

remember this correctly.

So, this is f***in insane

actually, this story is amazing.

We used to cross into

Canada to play and not have any

of the proper documentation

or work permits.

So we would always have like

back stories, like split up and

go separate ways.

When we left for that

tour Ryan had a record so he

couldn't get across the border.

(Ryan) I went to get

an ID as my brother.

So I went to the DMV

and had his passport like

"Oh I lost my driver's license,

I need to get a new one."

And so it was going

to be a picture of me.

Even though we look

exactly the same.

I don't know why I was trying

to go this far cause it's

super brutally criminal thing

to do. Got all the paperwork

filled out and was

sitting in the waiting area.

And there was like 7 other

people there and they called

them up, each one, and got their

pictures taken and sent them

off, and I was the

last one sitting there.

And I started freaking out

because it was taking longer to

do mine and I was like "Oh sh*t,

the cops are just gonna come in

here and take me away".

And then eventually they call

me up after what seemed like 3

hours, you know it was probably

10 minutes, but they called me

up and they just handed me the

driver's license like 'Oh we

just have your file picture,

it's less than 6 months old so

it's just the same picture".

(Stu) So myself, Branden

and Kyle drove in my car.

Jesse and Ryan took the van.

And Ryan got out and

got on a Greyhound.

Somewhere in like

Montana or something.

So Branden Morgan was

crossing in a van over here

and Branden Morgan was

crossing in a bus over here

in different provinces.

It was fine cause wasn't the

border crossing like some little

shack or something, and this

dude was just like "Alright."

The theory was that once

Ryan was through, the real

Branden Morgan was with us,

so there was no disputing it.

So we're like on payphones.

Like get across the border and

we're like "Yeah we did it,

we're through" and then we find

out that Jesse, because he was

Canadian and he was trying to

bring an American vehicle into

the country, they impounded the

vehicle and like held

him at the border.

You got stuck at the border,

they impounded the van and

then we had to use...

(Jesse) They taped

me to a chair.

No they handcuffed

me to a duct-taped chair.

And left me sitting

there for about an hour.

So we picked you up just walking

down the highway too, right?

So they impounded it.

They held him for a while

at the border. And then

they just said "Okay you can go"

and they sent him walking.

Like he just walked into Canada

from the border and we had to

drive like... we were getting

so close to Edmonton too,

I was psyched,

like we were almost home.

And we had to like detour

and go pick him up.

On like the side of the highway.

He just called and he's like

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