Yesterday Was Everything Page #7

this hall show and it got

shut down and then it

moved to this barn.

And then they just set up in a

f***ing barn and there was like

a giant tractor behind them

and they were just rippin' in

front of this tractor.

There is a line in

"The Year Summer Ended in June"

about that night in Detroit.

And that was kind of like when

we said goodbye to Compromise

cause they were planning to

move out east after that tour.

Knowing now what happened and

everything, those goodbyes were

so emotional at the time it was

super overwhelming as it was.

We were just saying goodbye for

a few months, like they were

gonna be coming back through

town in September, and this

would have been June.

[sigh]

This might sound far-fetched but

I can like still even feel the

hug that I had with Jordan.

(Daniel) We are at some sort

of gas station right now and we

noticed something a

little weird about it.

(Kyle) Compromise continued

on with us and played a

few more shows. They

were super nice kids and

we were stoked to be on tour

with them at that point.

(Junior) They took a

liking to Jordo and they took

a liking to the band.

We just bonded.

There was this camaraderie

that was starting to develop

and we'd only been with those

guys six days or something.

(Girl) Right here.

(Kyle) I remember the last

date that we played with them

was in Birmingham, Alabama.

(Jesse) Thank you,

we're Compromise.

(Jesse) It was so good, we were

accepted by this band that we

looked up to so much, and went

out and had this wonderful

dinner with them and

everything was going very well.

Everything was going so so well.

We didn't even have a show

in Savannah, we were just all

talking and they were

like "Let's go tonight,

we'll get you on the show,

don't worry about it."

"Just come with us and we'll

put you guys on the rest of the

shows, and if they say you guys

can't play then we won't play"

It was the most validating

experience, they were going to

bat for us even though they'd

only known us for a few days.

(Kyle) The plan was for

them to caravan with us.

We drove a few hours with them

and eventually they fell behind.

(Ryan) Arriving in Savannah,

we were at this house where the

show was supposed to be and

Compromise still hadn't shown up

and it started to

become a concern.

(Stu) Compromise was carrying

so much sh*t with them cause

they were moving.

And they just had this f***ing

shitty van that they had like

ram-packed with all their gear,

all their personal belongings,

all this sh*t just ram jammed

into like one f***in' van.

So it was super heavy

and shitty as it was.

And our van just couldn't keep

up, they had brand new vans,

you know like those ones

and we had an old school van.

We just couldn't keep

up and then it...

and then stuff happened.

(Braden) We were always worried

our van was gonna die so we

drove slower than everybody else

and they got in front of us.

And at that point I think we

were all sleeping except for

Jesse who was driving.

I remember we all filled

up with gas and that was...

I mean that's the last memory

I personally have up until

like a month or two later.

(Newscast) It's been a

difficult day for fans of

Edmonton's hardcore music

scene and the families of two

up-and-coming musicians

killed in a highway crash.

Trevadore Shanko has the

latest on that tragedy.

(Voiceover) This is Compromise

performing recently on stage.

The Edmonton band's tour came

to a crashing halt Thursday

on the road in Alabama.

(Claire) I fought with them so

much cause they were leaving for

six months and I didn't want

them to leave and, you know,

six months would have been a

lot better than forever.

Claire Wyrostock's close

friend is 19-year-old

Jordan Wodehouse.

He gave her these pictures of

himself shortly before he and

the other four members of

Compromise headed out on tour.

Early thursday morning outside

of Heflin Alabama, the band's

van was struck from behind by a

Nissan Pathfinder. The van lost

control and hit a tree throwing

everyone from the vehicle.

Wodehouse and 20-year-old

Daniel Langois were killed.

19-year-old bassist Braden

Sustrik remains in intensive

care with a punctured lung

and fractured vertebrae.

23-year-old singer Jesse Zaraska

received cuts and bruises.

And 20-year-old drummer Ryan

Kittlitz broke his left wrist

and right leg.

(Carol) Yeah here we are.

This is after the accident,

and this would be Braden

in the hospital, Jesse who

stayed with them while

they recovered in Alabama.

This is I guess a

picture where it happened.

I never went down the

because I couldn't stomach it.

I get this phone call from the

officials down in Alabama saying

that there had been an accident

and that there had been some

fatalities and they

couldn't tell me who.

I think instinctively I knew

that Jesse was okay, but knowing

those boys as well as I knew

all those boys it was sick no

matter how. They got rear ended

by a drunk driver who pushed

them into this grove of trees

somehow and snapped the van

pretty much in half.

(Stu) Junior went out the front

window, Braden went out the

front window, Jesse went out the

windshield and somehow cause

he's like f***ing Iron Man,

didn't have like a f***in,

I think he broke a rib or

something you know like...

and so he went back to the van

and he just like ran around

and found everybody.

(Braden) First he found Junior,

he was awake so he picked him up

and went to look for

everyone else. But Junior

had broken his leg and

didn't know it so as soon as he

went to walk he just fell over

in pain and he was screaming.

"Jesse hang out with me"

and Jesse said

"Man I gotta find

everyone else first".

So then he looked and he saw

me next and I was laying down

and I was breathing

but I wasn't conscious.

He said it seemed like I was

alright so he left me be for a

bit and went looking and he

said at that point he saw a

semi-truck had pulled over on

the side of the highway and the

driver had got out and was

walking towards him so he

ran over. And the guy said

"I radioed for an ambulance,

they're on their way.

And I think your friend is up

there on the road and

I think he's been run over."

Jesse was just like "What

the f*** are you doing then?

Coward, what the f***

is wrong with you?"

and had to run down the

road and pick Dan up.

I guess like we found out

later that he'd fallen out

the back window of

the van when we got hit,

or like the back door opened

and he fell out and then he

got run over by

the car that hit us.

So Jesse picked him up and like

carried him off to the edge of

the road and held him.

He said he was alive but he

was in pretty rough shape and he

didn't know what to do, but he

didn't know where Jordan was.

So he kinda set Dan down and

told him he'd be back and he ran

back down and he looked around

and the last place he went to

look was the van.

(Jesse) I found him.

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