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…And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead: Relative Ways/Homage EP

Yancey Strickler, Neumu, 2001

...AND YOU WILL Know Us By the Trail of Dead have been playing it smart all these years, and here we were thinking they were just drunk assholes. Their infamous live set, which always resulted in destroyed gear — sometimes after the first song — was obviously just a ruse to prevent the inevitable backlash from their major-label jump. How else could they afford to keep touring except to have big money behind them?

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