At the Drive-In was a force that shot out of a small corner of Texas like a rocket. For six years, they grinded their way around the globe to play for anyone who would watch them. It was only in their last six months together that the rest of the world caught up long enough to get a fleeting glimpse. But in the end, the velocity, the attention, and the intense pressure of it all rendered them too unstable to last. They hit a brick wall at a thousand miles per hour and left behind a spectacular explosion. “Maybe it was always supposed to be that way,” says Ward. “It was just like the live show:
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