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The members of Bayside were asleep in their van on Halloween morning 2005 when the vehicle hit a patch of ice near Cheyenne, Wyoming, and skidded out of control. The driver tried to correct his steering but was unable to keep the van from rolling.
“I remember when the crash first started,” singer Anthony Raneri recalled. “I had no idea what was going on. I was jolted, and then I hit my head and passed out. And I woke up after the van fell.”
While Raneri and guitarist Jack O’Shea escaped with scrapes and bruises, drummer John Holohan was thrown from the van and killed; bassist Nick Ghanbarian broke a vertebra in his back and, after undergoing intensive surgery, was bedridden for six months.
As he lay in the road in a state of delirium, Ghanbarian heard a paramedic refer to Raneri and O’Shea as “walking wounded.” The phrase stuck with the bassist. So when Bayside were looking for a starting point for their new record, Ghanbarian brought it up as a possible title.
“It was perfect and really inspirational - we built this whole record around that title”, Raneri said. “We’ve always seen that everybody in the world is wounded in some way, and everybody is walking around as if nothing happened. So we really wanted to make a record to inspire those people by saying, ‘Look, we got through this, and anybody can get through anything’ … We wanted to take what we’ve been through in the last year and show what we turned into after that. There’s two possible outcomes of anything disastrous like that. You can either start drowning in depression or you can keep your head up and it can make you stronger.”
Forever my go to album.
One of the best. Ever.
(Source: natatouille, via thetrystbetweenheartandmind)
