I know that hindsight is 20/20, but with the new album “Floods & Fires” about to be released, I see, looking back, how much this period was influencing the writing and general direction of the band. The portraits below are in the shadows of the fire-scarred slopes of Poudre Canyon just above them. Walking around and seeing how close the flames came to the venue was a constant reminder of nature’s awesome power and our inability to stop it, a lesson that was even more ingrained on us all when the floods came later. This day did seem to mark a change in the band in other ways, too. Their demeanor, like in the portraits, was more solemn; things seemed less silly, all the sudden. A deep sense of seriousness was subconsciously setting in like the jam in the new track “Desert is Out of Tune”, seriousness the likes of the floods and fires impacting their backyard. The band was nesting its artistic embers for the recording sessions to come, like the early stages of gestation, the creative process had begun.
These portraits were shot in the Poudre River behind Mishawaka Amphitheatre.
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