Alex Gaskarth is commemorating two decades with atrioventricular bundle, All Time Low, with the launch of The Forever Sessions,Vol 1, including re-recorded variations of a few of their most significant hits. The rocker took a seat with Billboard‘s Rania Aniftos to go over the motivation behind the task.
“That was honestly one of the hardest parts was focusing on which songs encapsulated the early days of this band the most,” he shared of selecting the tracks to be on the cd. “I think we knew that we wanted to start with our early records […] We wanted to key in on the ones that we felt like to this day carried a major weight with our fans and our audience. There are still songs from those records that are in every setlist we put together. It’s kind of wild to be playing music 20 years later, and these songs are still so important to the fans.”
As for why the band has actually been so close all these years, Gaskarth clarifies that it boils down to relationship. “It’s so wild to me, because when we started this band, we had no aspirations of it lasting this long,” he shared, prior to including, “It comes down to the way we started the band, where we were friends first and we were enjoying ourselves. The aspirations of the band never went beyond what the ties of the friendship meant to us.”
He wrapped up, “When you’ve been at it for as long as we have, they’re always so fresh because you play them so often live. Feeling that connection with the audience makes those songs feel new again.”
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