Events

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Sons of Hermann Hall

3414 Elm St.

Dallas, TX

214-747-4422

http://www.sonsofhermann.com

The Crash That Took Me

Date/Time:Sat., November 7

All Eyes on Them

FEATURING MEMBERS OF [DARYL], BLACK TIE DYNASTY AND MACAVITY, THE CRASH THAT TOOK ME IS THE CLOSEST THING DFW HAS TO A SUPERGROUP. BUT NOW, ON ITS SECOND RELEASE, WILL ANYONE CARE?

Eric Grubbs

A few years ago, downstairs at Sons of Hermann Hall, the wooden staircases and walls started to shake as two bands played a song that sounded like something off of My Bloody Valentine's Loveless. Four guitars played one bendy riff at top volume, and drums pounded like wrecking balls. The song was called "Bloody Basin," and the two bands onstage were [DARYL] and Black Tie Dynasty. Now, in 2009, you could say this was a defining transition moment for Dylan Silvers. Silvers, who co-fronted Post From Vermont in the late '90s and led [DARYL] for half of the following decade, had wanted to start a new band for a while. Seeing that [DARYL] and Black Tie Dynasty had recorded a split EP and toured together, Silvers proposed the idea of a new band to Black Tie's drummer, Eddie Thomas--and it made perfect sense, really. "After we had done the Bloody Basin sessions, and I had played with Eddie in the studio, I knew that it felt real good," Silvers remembers now. And so the foundations for The Crash That Took Me were set. But long before there was a band called as much, the name was the title of the final song on [DARYL]'s second proper album, Ohio. Silvers was set on naming his next band that name no matter what--even if it was a mouthful and sounded, well, very emo. [DARYL] had released a half-dozen albums, toured quite a bit and had three significant lineup changes, but for the last year or so of its existence, the band seemed on autopilot. Most shows were fast run-throughs of songs the members had already played over and over. Coupled with friends of the band coming up onstage and dancing along to a cover of Operation Ivy's "Knowledge," [DARYL] seemed more like a party than a band. And Silvers wanted something different. Read the rest here.

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