Yesterday Was Everything Page #6

"I'll be walking

down this highway".

We're like "Okay man like we're

just gonna head towards you."

We were like hours away,

like driving down this highway

until we found him.

It was probably the most

stressful thing about the band

at that time was trying

to cross the border.

With members being

Canadian and American it was

just this constant thing of back

and forth, back and forth right?

We would literally pull apart

guitar cabs, take the back

panel off and stuff as many

shirts and hoodies into it as we

could and then screw

the back back on.

Like the cabs weighed like

80 pounds. It was so obvious.

Which is so ridiculous

cause if you had a guy, a border

guard who has any small

knowledge of musical equipment,

the minute that he would move

that cab he would be like

"This is full of drugs".

[laughter]

100 percent.

Stop.

You can just straighten

out a tiny little bit.

This is my hometown show.

This is the club where I first

went and saw punk rock bands

when I was 13, 14, 15 years old.

Starlite Room was sort of the

bigger club, you know it was

sort of where I hoped

we would one day get to.

Misery Signals really had good

shows here back in the day and

it's a special place.

(Adam) We're gonna

actually strike the guitars.

(man) 2 2 1 2. Check.

(Stu) When Misery Signals

started and Jesse being from the

city and going to the States and

joining this band it was a big

deal within the scene.

Especially when

"Malice" came out.

I feel like we were more of a

local band to Edmonton than we

were to Milwaukee you know?

(Jesse) It was really special

for people here, this small

Canadian city to say "Holy...

Stu Ross and Jesse are doing

something' you know. They're

having success playing in this

fairly big American band."

(Stu) You know, we were just

like this champion of the

f***in' scene for a minute.

A couple of guys from our home

town have joined this American

band and they're like touring.

And that's why I think this

show, especially tonight, it's

gonna be like ten years ago.

(B Best) We're getting

pretty close to sold out.

Look at the bins.

Even thought it was a small

Canadian city, we always

had such great shows here.

I think Misery Signals and

Compromise and 7 Angels, those

bands have been very

important to this scene.

It was a special place for us

and I think we were a special

band for a lot of

the people here.

Even though

I watched us fall,

fall away.

With determination

we all carry on,

and with determination

we all must live on.

We've all learned

things from those days,

I know that

we all have grown,

even I now feel a calm

like I have never known.

like I have never known.

(Jesse) Thank you

so much Edmonton!

It's absolutely

wonderful to be home.

(Jesse) When Compromise

started there was no scene.

There was a heavy metal scene

here, there was a punk rock

scene, there was no

such thing as hardcore.

(B Best) In our community,

they were pretty fresh.

Like there wasn't really anyone

else that sounded like them.

Like they were kinda the

first ones to do that sort

of thing in our scene.

(Stu) It was a big deal that

they were taking steps and

trying to tour and like get

down to the States and they

wanted to like be a

full time touring band.

(B Best) It was a big send off

when they were going to move to

Toronto when they went on that

tour with 7 Angels 7 Plagues.

That too was just like crazy,

cause all of us really looked up

to 7 Angels 7 Plagues.

So for them to be doing this

tour with them was just nuts.

(Jesse) Many moons ago, some

of these fellas took part in

writing what is one

of my favorite records...

Check 2, hey hello what's new?

...it's called Jhazmyne's

Lullaby by 7 Angels 7 Plagues.

(B Best) Jhazmyne's Lullaby

was such a huge deal.

(Jesse) I remember always

listening to that record so so

much every day, that's all that

was in the van. Anytime we went

and played shows in Calgary,

anytime we went anywhere.

(Junior) Is this 7 Angels?

(B Best) Dan would call home

from the road and we would just

be asking him questions

about the band and stuff.

We were just so psyched on it

like for them to be touring

with was just amazing.

(Temo) We're 7 Angels

7 Plagues from Milwaukee.

(Kyle) It was awesome meeting

those guys and getting to know

them a little bit.

(Ryan) Nine times out of ten

you don't really care about the

local bands or the bands that

open for you, but we liked

Compromise and

thought they were cool,

and I watched them

a number of times.

(Jesse) Thank you guys.

[applause]

We came a long way

to be here tonight.

We're from Edmonton,

Alberta, Canada.

(Jesse) We were getting paid

nothing, you know it was like,

young Canadian band, we got

these odd... it wasn't like some

amazing west coast or east coast

tour, it was like midwest and

into Alabama and stuff like this

and it was a long way for us to

go for shows where we were not

basically getting paid, maybe I

don't even know I can't even

remember we probably got paid a

hundred bucks a show or

something like that.

But Jordan was just like 'I got

us on these 7 Angels 7 Plagues

shows' and he was so so

happy to get on that tour.

(Braden) They had done a couple

tours out to the east coast and

a few times in the States but I

had never played music in the

States before myself,

that was great.

We were just starting out so

everything was still fresh and

innocent we hit the road, we

had a tour, it was big, we were

young kids that just couldn't

imagine doing anything more fun.

(Jesse) Slow down slow down.

(Braden) The plan was to do

about four weeks and then we

were gonna come to Toronto and

just try to make more waves

out on the east coast.

We were really looking forward

to those shows with 7 Angels.

The whole trip hinged upon

getting across the border.

(Junior) Border crossings were

always a really serious deal for

Jordo and Jesse but I remember

we got across and everything

was cool. We went into the gas

station and Jordo just walked up

to me and punched me in the back

and just started laughing.

And I remember just-

- just the sheer joy in

his face and in the punch

it was just like it wasn't...

he was so happy that

he was going to get to...

7 Angels was Jordan's Metallica,

the gods of gods to him.

(Braden) It's funny now

thinking how much of a pedestal

we put those guys on and

looked up to them now that

we're all just buds.

But it would be like playing

with Bruce Springsteen or

something, I mean, they were our

heroes and they were nice people

that were really genuine and

welcoming and were nice to us

and they lived up to

everything that we thought.

(Kyle) We met those guys

initially in Warsaw, Indiana.

My old band the Pressure Point,

we were all on tour together.

But that show ended up

getting shut down before we got

a chance to play. So then

we moved it down the road.

And it was cool cause like

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